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In the case of Kosovo, after the Milosevic regime’s brutal behavior in the 1990’s – including repression, massive human rights violations, and large-scale expulsions of Kosovo Albanians – prompted NATO to intervene and the UN to take over the country’s administration, return to Serbian rule became unthinkable.
The report, prompted by the 2013 Rana Plaza collapse, in which more than 1,100 people died and over 2,000 were injured, highlighted poor working conditions, inadequate building inspections, weak labor laws, and the need for fairer wage practices and legal benefits.
The deep price cuts and improved service ushered in by these regulatory changes prompted other countries to adopt the American model.
That experience has prompted efforts to make the financial system safer.
Fear of “Talibanization” of the Caucasus prompted the Kremlin’s recent announcement that Russian Muslims should be protected from extremist propaganda from abroad, and that Russian Muslim education and spiritual life should be controlled in order to direct them away from extremism.
Then, as now, failure at the top prompted voters to demand a new direction.
But it was not until 1934 that the assassination of King Alexander I of Yugoslavia and French Foreign Minister Louis Barthou prompted the League of Nations to make the first attempt to create international judicial mechanisms to confront terrorism.
Churchill was also for free immigration, and firmly opposed the proposed Aliens Bill of 1904 (partly because he saw traces of anti-Semitism in the fear, prompted by an influx of East European Jewish immigrants, of an “alien invasion”).
In 2013, the extension of Greece’s loan maturities prompted Ireland and Portugal to demand – and receive – comparable extensions, despite their less obvious need.
It would be naive to believe that Trump’s show-and-tell hasn’t already prompted its share of risk assessments in capitals around the world, including cost-benefit analyses of the provision of sensitive intelligence to US partners.
The e-book mentioned above, which prompted this column, is available to you, the reader, for free (as is this column).
The Kremlin’s annexation of Crimea and its support for violent separatists in eastern Ukraine prompted the United States and Europe to impose increasingly stringent economic sanctions against Russia.
Some recent reports indicate that Hamas’s rising political clout in the Palestinian territories has prompted the Bush administration to consider easing its hard-line approach.
This has prompted an examination of all aspects of the biomedical research and development process, as companies try to cut costs and improve efficiency and productivity.
The tests were seen as credible; indeed, their results prompted US officials to force several major banks to increase their capital.
Not surprisingly, therefore, the fallout from the global economic crisis that erupted in 2008 – the worst since the Great Depression of the 1930’s – has prompted experts, policymakers, and the international financial institutions to rethink poverty.
This prompted the moderate Federation of Korean Trade Unions to follow it into the wilderness.
Although the threatened indictment of al-Bashir has prompted protest in Khartoum, no one expects him to appear in court soon.
On the contrary, it may have prompted the arrest of a lower-level indictee for crimes in Darfur.
The truth is that, in many places in Eastern Europe, the arrival of German troops during World War II prompted an immediate outbreak of homicidal anti-Semitism.
Europe needs to recover the mentality of 1989, when the movement of large numbers of people across borders – initially, the Hungarian-Austrian frontier – prompted reform and openness, rather than a silo mentality.
The global crisis has prompted China’s government to push ahead with its social-reform program.
This has prompted some scientists to begin investigating new models of energy from the perspective of “intelligence and information,” in which order is equivalent to information.
As the world was watching the football games in Germany, North Korea was testing long-range missiles and Palestinians in the governing Hamas launched attacks on Israel that prompted a bloody invasion of Gaza.
The French Death RattlePARIS – Moody’s announcement in November that it had downgraded France’s sovereign-credit rating by one notch from its AAA rating prompted one blogger to poke fun at rating agencies’ tendency either to get things completely wrong or to recognize suddenly a crisis that had long been staring them in the face.
State authorities said they were prompted to take decisive action by a spate of suicides by borrowers who were unable to pay their debts.
It is this de facto debt mutualization that has prompted creditors to accept lower interest rates, and it is only lower interest rates that have permitted Renzi, Samaras, Valls, and the others to distance themselves from austerity policies.
This threat, together with terrorist attacks in Kenya, Tanzania, Tunisia, and Morocco, has prompted the Bush administration to install military bases in the region.
If that happens, the Bank can still do justice to the bold vision of a world of shared prosperity that prompted its creation after World War II.
This has prompted many urban residents to go on a buying spree, pushing prices higher.
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