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But these conditions also prevailed more than a century ago, during the Progressive Era of the early 1900s.
It did not herald a new era of international relations in which terrorists with a global agenda prevailed, or in which such spectacular terrorist attacks became commonplace.
In effect, the House Republicans can be forced to sign onto a deal that both supports the economy and restores revenue to the level that prevailed before the disastrous experiment of Bushonomics.
This is the regime that prevailed in East Asian countries other than Japan.
The severance of those ties was painful for our dairy and other industries, but for Britain hard-headed self-interest understandably prevailed.
Instead, an atmosphere of constructive negotiation prevailed.
In Western Europe the civic concept prevailed and the integration of Europe stands in stark contrast with the disintegration of Yugoslavia.
Unsurprisingly, White’s scheme, founded on the United States’ post-war trade surplus, which it deployed to dollarize Europe and Japan in exchange for their acquiescence to full monetary-policy discretion for the US, prevailed.
Or is it a Russian invitation to the West to reshape the global status quo that has prevailed since the end of Cold War I?Russia’s military is certainly not fit for a global confrontation with the West.
Global supply networks shifted again, accommodating fragmentation and dispersion on both the supply and demand sides of their structure, a process sometimes called technologically enabled atomization: the division of supply networks into finer and finer parts, breaking the bonds of proximity and the resulting transaction-cost constraints that previously prevailed.
Though the United States and the IMF privately sided with Greece, Germany prevailed, as creditors usually do.
German fiscal policy could soon look very different from the zero-deficit bias that prevailed under the grand coalition that governed from 2005 until 2009.
During the Cold War, successive US presidents were perfectly happy to send in troops, directly or indirectly, to ensure that friendly governments prevailed in the Americas (and beyond).
Most experts agree, and Deaton concurs, that at least a billion people on the planet live in desperate circumstances resembling conditions that prevailed hundreds of years ago.
The Arab revolts, unthinkable a year ago, now challenge a regional order that has prevailed for more than a half-century.
Thaksin recognized this urban-rural divide and shrewdly exploited it, upending the elite consensus that had long prevailed.
Had American forces not expelled the British from US territory in the first, and had Abraham Lincoln and the Union not prevailed in the second, the country would have been balkanized and unable to become the dominant power of the twentieth century.
Through trial and error – backed by a durable political and economic system – the US prevailed and the Soviet Union disintegrated.
Though political constraints prevailed, the euro’s architects were however not naive.
But the partnerships that prevailed in the Cold War – between the US, Western Europe, and several Asian countries, including Japan, South Korea, and Australia – are no longer adequate.
If Brexit still prevailed, at least we could know it was not just a one-time snapshot of a fragment of the population.
Democracy had prevailed.
In the Western zones, a different set of expectations soon prevailed.
Whatever goodwill towards the US prevailed after September 11 was quickly squandered.
The US prevailed in Addis, but it also showed itself to be on the wrong side of history.
But the combination of laissez-faire ideas, social Darwinism, and geopolitical realism that prevailed in the United States and the United Kingdom stood in the way of any hope for such assistance.
But Azerbaijani pressure prevailed, and Turkish policy did not change.
It is an arresting assertion, given the tax-cut mania that has prevailed in these societies for the past 30 years, but Diamond and Saez’s logic is clear.
When it comes to intervention nowadays, respect for legality has overcome the concern for legitimacy that prevailed a decade ago.
Indeed, whatever resemblance events on Cairo’s Tahrir Square bear to May 1968 in Paris and the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, it would be premature to proclaim that freedom has prevailed.
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