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Vietnam differed from Korea and Malaya, where containment and counterinsurgency prevailed, because the communists could outflank allied forces in South Vietnam by using “neutral” territory in Cambodia and Laos.
Disappointment, if not disbelief, prevailed among the JCPOA’s other parties – the European Union countries, Russia, and China – whose leaders were quick to reaffirm their strong commitment to the agreement.
Similar reckless lending practices prevailed in the leveraged buyout market, where private equity firms take over public companies and finance the deals with high debt ratios; the leveraged loan market, where banks provide financing to private equity firms; and the asset-backed commercial paper market, where banks use off-balance sheet schemes to borrow very short term.
Google prevailed because it provided a better service than anyone else, and it did so early.
Since the end of 2012, a sort of armistice has prevailed.
The Crisis of European DemocracyLONDON – The success of mainstream parties in the Greek and French elections – New Democracy in Greece and the Socialists in France – has encouraged many to hope that the political status quo has prevailed in the face of populist temptations.
As it happened, the protagonists of the first view were sidelined and the proponents of democratization prevailed.
American Pie in the SkyNEW YORK – While the risk of a disorderly crisis in the eurozone is well recognized, a more sanguine view of the United States has prevailed.
Under the conditions that prevailed then, and that prevail again now (high unemployment, low inflation, and near-zero interest rates), monetary expansion is relatively less effective, because it cannot push interest rates below zero.
The same view prevailed under the prior ten-year leadership of Hu Jintao.
Germany, however, insisted that the IMF remain on board – and, with the latest deal, it seems to have prevailed, in exchange for agreeing to debt relief that it opposed.
To achieve that, Ukraine needs a transitional government of experts and a new constitution that returns the country to the system that prevailed until a decade ago, with power divided between Parliament and the president.
With these narratives deeply etched into American public consciousness, it is no wonder that Trump’s dystopian vision has prevailed over internationalism, which has become a byword for the endless use of force and condescension toward allies.
This meant that collective production was dissolved early in the reform process and private farming prevailed.
In the end, however, logic prevailed over escapism and hesitation, a ceasefire was signed, and we can only regret all the time that was lost and the unnecessary suffering on both sides.
The fact that a government has been democratically elected does not mean that the cause of freedom has prevailed.
All of this speaks to a radically different world than that which prevailed prior to the Great Financial Crisis – a world that raises profound questions about the efficacy of monetary policy, development strategies, and the role of China.
Fifth, in the political environment that prevailed in 2009, it would have been difficult or impossible to get more money for the Troubled Asset Relief Program.
In the early 1990s, the World Bank prevailed on Mozambique to liberalize the cashew sector and to lift the remaining restrictions on exports of raw cashews.
One might plead on their behalf that, in contrast to Wilson, they were at least no worse than the standards that prevailed in their time.
The question is what can be done about this state of affairs, which contrasts starkly with the encouraging outlook that prevailed just a few years back.
And over the next five years, around half of all Sub-Saharan economies will expand at an average rate similar to or higher than that which prevailed during the “Africa rising” heyday.
That task cannot be left to investors, contrary to the diktats of the market fundamentalist dogma that prevailed until recently.
The financial requirements could be met by replicating the arrangements that prevailed in the global economy in the 1980’s and dividing the eurozone into a center and periphery; but that could not be reconciled with the principles of an open society.
In the heady days after the fall of communism, a kind of democratic ecstasy prevailed (at least in the West).
The new service economy extends market relations to areas of life in which, previously, informal assistance and guidance within family units prevailed.
For starters, to avoid the kind of obstructionism that prevailed in the last eight years, the next president must engage Congress directly and actively.
The United States, however, persisted, and China prevailed upon its allies allies to vote the US off the UN Human Rights Commission.
The legitimacy of hereditary monarchies, a principle established by Metternich, the architect of the post-Napoleonic order, eventually prevailed in the 1848 European Spring.
In two crucial areas, macroeconomics and global economic development, the emerging economies’ view prevailed.
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