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With the exception of two tabloids, coverage by the establishment press of his “Rivers of Blood” speech ranged from skeptical to outright hostile.
The law banned Arab and Asian immigration outright, and made immigration from Africa close to impossible.
During the period of the so-called Yellow Peril in the late nineteenth century, the US enacted a raft of anti-Asian legislation, including an 1882 law banning immigration from China outright.
Amid this global rollback of statist and socialist economics, some state-owned enterprises (SOEs) were privatized outright.
BUCHAREST: Romania is facing a fundamental question that many thought buried alongside Nicolae Ceausescu: Is it right to achieve just political ends by suspect or outright undemocratic means?
Romania’s 1991 constitution does not allow outright presidential decrees.
To strengthen its position further, China has encouraged its companies to bid for outright purchase of strategic ports, where possible.
In his book Lombard Street, Walter Bagehot quoted Jeremiah Harman, the governor of the Bank of England in the 1825-1826 crisis:“We lent...by every possible means and in modes we had never adopted before; we took in stock on security, we purchased exchequer bills, we made advances on exchequer bills, we not only discounted outright, but we made advances on the deposit of bills of exchange to an immense amount, in short, by every possible means consistent with the safety of the Bank, and we were not on some cases over-nice.
The Truth about RwandaKILGALI – Ongoing unrest between rival military factions in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has triggered a predictable barrage of innuendo, fabricated leaks, and outright lies regarding Rwanda’s role.
Hun Sen has hardly been shy about his slide toward what the Cambodia Daily, on its last day of publishing, termed a “descent into outright dictatorship.”
Part of the West Bank has been annexed outright by Israel or seized by Israeli settlers.
In some cases, outright nativist, racist parties support such government or provide an even deeper authoritarian and anti-democratic streak.
This will be necessary if the two sides are to arrive at a good bargain, rather than a bad one – or even an outright failure to cooperate, so that Greece effectively drops out of the euro.
Yet innovations frequently face high barriers to implementation, with governments sometimes banning new technologies outright – even those that could bring far-reaching benefits.
In 1886, a Wisconsin congressman declared outright his “intent to destroy the manufacture of the noxious compound by taxing it out of existence.”
The history of drugs, and drug control, at the Olympics is discouraging - a farrago of ill-informed rules, outright state-sponsored cheating, and half-hearted and erratic attempts at enforcement.
Though the crisis may be over in the sense that outright collapse has been avoided, the economy remains vulnerable.
And in the race for Georgia’s 6th district seat, Jon Ossoff, a Democrat, gained more votes than any other candidate, falling just short of the 50% threshold that he needed to win outright.
No terrorist group more richly deserves to be destroyed outright than these marauding, genocidal jihadists.
The risk that Israel’s threat to attack Iran’s nuclear installations will, in fact, lead to an outright military conflict may still be low, but it is growing.
If the drums of war grow louder this summer, oil prices could rise in a way that will most likely cause a US and global growth slowdown, and even an outright recession if a military conflict erupts and sends oil prices soaring.
But, although Madoff was only the tip of the iceberg of rampant financial malfeasance, most suspect financiers need not fear arrest, either because their behavior merely skirted the law, or because financial impropriety more subtle than outright fraud is often difficult to prove.
A Thai fund of 10 billion baht was established to provide outright aid and soft loans to the ECS members.
If we were to judge that the economy is in need of further stimulus, one option could be to extend the ECB’s outright asset purchases to other asset classes.
If that happens, the risk of stall speed or an outright double-dip recession would rise sharply in many advanced economies.
And, in the meantime, the resurgence of xenophobia and outright racism is shredding the social fabric that Europe will need to prevent threats to peace and order.
Indeed, results are often not reproducible – badly conceived, poorly conducted, or outright fraudulent.
Germany, in particular, would also need to pursue a looser fiscal policy, while adopting a more conciliatory attitude toward outright debt reduction for beleaguered Greece.
The big intellectual change has come from the International Monetary Fund, once an outright enemy of capital controls.
But Iran – which, like Russia, had lost considerable market share as a result of Western sanctions – refused to cut production outright.
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