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“We” French were not only on top of the world, we were overcome by a sense of pride, probably similar to what many Americans felt after Barack Obama’s presidential victory.
In order to overcome the no-bailout clause, Sarkozy and other European leaders dramatized the decline of southern European governments’ bonds and the corresponding increase in interest-rate spreads.
And Secretary of State James Baker used it to overcome the recalcitrance of Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir during the 1991 Madrid Peace Conference.
But it also needs a Germany that can overcome its narrow obsessions and provide leadership.
Fortunately, China’s 12th Five-Year Plan (2011-2015) recognizes the need to deepen market-oriented reform, change the country’s development model, and focus on the quality of growth, structural reforms, and social inclusion to overcome the rural-urban divide and stem the rise in income inequality.
Undermined by a lack of policy flexibility, it will take a long time for countries like Cyprus to overcome the immediate shock of crisis and revamp their growth models.
But bold, export-ready African countries have managed to overcome these hurdles.
No one seriously believes that individual member states – particularly Italy and Greece, the two countries most affected – can overcome the long-term challenges posed by large-scale migration on their own.
Santos has overcome formidable challenges, and the next one is a forthcoming plebiscite, where the Colombian people, one hopes, will recognize that their country has furnished a conflict-ridden world with a new model for peace.
And when there are challenges or obstacles (mostly in the more recent movies), these are quickly overcome (and with humor).
Yes, there may have been some bumps along the way, but they have been overcome quickly.
Since the 2008 global financial crisis, the romance has become particularly intense, especially as the Fed has been compelled to use a range of unconventional measures to overcome the capital-market disruptions that almost tipped the world economy into a deep depression.
As a result Argentina, once a thriving gas exporter, had to seek imports to overcome domestic shortages.
Similarly, NATO would agree immediately to keep Scotland in the Alliance (though the Scottish National Party’s pledge to close US and British nuclear-submarine bases would be a complication to be overcome).
Which country achieves this goal first will depend not only on revenue, but also on the political will to overcome vested interests.
Taxpayer-funded bank rescues, higher bank capital requirements, and ultra-easy monetary policy have all been vital to overcome credit supply constraints.
While there are huge problems that must still be overcome, there is also a clear sense on the ground that the economy has passed a turning point, roughly at the start of this year.
America, too, will almost certainly overcome.
The challenge now is to overcome the divisions that remain within the population – no easy task in a vast country with a sparsely inhabited interior populated mostly by ethnic minorities and reclusive tribes.
A state can threaten death, but, as many totalitarian regimes have learned, no one is stronger - and possibly more dangerous - than those who have overcome the fear of death.
It would drive member states to consolidate the EU, thereby enabling it to overcome the challenges it faces and help preserve the international order.
No one knows better than Europe the consequences of extremism and nationalism – or how to overcome them.
The international community can help overcome this reticence by establishing a global reinsurance mechanism.
The reunification of Europe was to overcome the legacy of Yalta and ensure peace, security, democracy and development.
But we cannot assume that getting the diagnosis right will be sufficient to overcome political gridlock.
Restoring public trust will require a deep and sustained commitment, and a new consensus that is broad enough to overcome the political and social divides that are now legion across advanced economies.
The rich countries should help the poor countries to overcome the burdens of their geography by helping to fund a major fight against as AIDS, malaria, and other tropical infectious diseases.
The most efficient way to overcome these costly electricity imbalances would be through a common energy market.
Just as Deng’s status and forcefulness enabled him to face down his opponents and keep China’s economic modernization on course, President Xi Jinping’s determined leadership can overcome vested interests and implement the needed reforms.
Unless and until China’s top leaders overcome such resistance, progress on reform will remain sluggish.
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