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It will be a shame that so much effort and political capital is about to be poured into a deal that could have been much larger.
A tube was inserted into my anus and water poured inside.”
They poured this money into a fragile state whose fiscal credibility ultimately rested on being bailed out by other euro members.
Billions of dollars of aid has been poured into developing countries, but it has not been enough, and the results have been disappointing.
The more tons of steel produced, slabs of concrete poured, and gallons of crude oil pumped out of the ground the better.
Almost from the moment of Saddam’s fall, Saudi/Wahhabi jihadis poured into Iraq almost unimpeded.
Hundreds of thousands of people poured into the streets of Moscow and other big cities to demand a fair vote and real choices in the subsequent presidential election.
When the cost of conventional energy rises, new suppliers see an opportunity; thus, before June 2014, when oil prices were high, investors poured resources into developing shale oil and gas in the United States.
During this period, the US government also stepped up research support and poured money into programs to strengthen American students’ skills in math and science.
The anger that has poured onto the streets of Delhi and many other Indian cities was fueled by a great accumulated discontent – at the bestial rape and murder of that still-unnamed woman, yes, but also at pervasive public and private corruption, the absence of governance and accountability, and much more.
The Nobel laureate economist Paul Krugman has poured scorn on what he calls the “confidence fairy,” the claim that fiscal policy must command the support of the bond markets.
In response, millions of protesters poured into the streets of Moscow and towns across the Soviet Union.
Some 400,000 refugees – many of them Sunni Muslims, including fugitive rebels – have poured over the border from Syria, exacerbating sectarian tensions and threatening to disrupt Lebanon’s delicate social and political balance.
So billions of dollars were poured into new developments in remote locations where nobody wants to live.
The Clinton campaign has poured money into several Senate, House of Representatives, gubernatorial, and even state-legislature races, and Clinton field workers and volunteers have been encouraged to help down-ballot candidates in contentious races.
Much of the money provided in the United Kingdom poured into the housing market rather than being lent to small and medium-sized businesses.
The most striking aspect of Italy’s recent turmoil is what has not happened: citizens have not poured into the streets demanding reform.
At noon on July 5, Colombians throughout the country poured into the streets to show their outrage at the news that 11 provincial politicians had been killed while being held by leftist rebels.
Investment in these projects doubled in 2010, to $59.6 billion globally, with most poured into the EU – and more than half into Germany alone.
These investors were therefore stampeding out of Russia just one year after they had poured large sums into Russia.
Since 2011, the CIA and US allies have poured in weapons, finance, and training in an attempt to topple President Bashar al-Assad.
In a country where freedom of expression has been off limits for half a century, the Internet had at first proven to be a godsend: people poured their enthusiasm into it by building Web sites and personal homepages.
Similarly, most of the 500,000 South Sudanese refugee children who have poured across the border into Uganda are unable to receive an education – despite the Ugandan government’s generous plan to provide them with places in schools – owing to a lack of funding.
And yet, despite the billions of dollars and all the hopes poured into it, we have no new treatments for patients with addictions.
A wounded America appreciated the spontaneous demonstrations of sympathy and solidarity that poured across the Atlantic after September 11 th .
Nonetheless, a year ago, Western investors poured billions of dollars into Russia's stock market, which appeared sound, and Russian shares sky-rocketed in 1996 and 1997.
For years, Cyprus had an immense banking bubble, with the sector’s assets estimated at roughly seven times the country’s GDP, as foreign money poured into a tax haven within the eurozone’s secure environment.
French Socialists should recall their school physics lesson about communicating vessels: when a homogeneous liquid is poured into a set of connected containers, it settles at the same level in all of them, regardless of their shape and volume.
The BJP’s upper-caste leadership has poured scorn on those they deem to be their social inferiors, including the Dalits (the former “untouchables”) and the Adivasis, or aboriginals.
Consider Tunisia, where Mouheb Ben Garoui, a 24 year-old activist, writes in our book about how fellow citizens from all walks of life and no definite political affiliation poured out of their homes to occupy squares and demand a say in the country’s future.
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