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That means a country where government institutions quietly do their work, presidents neither threaten citizens nor give three-hour speeches that television stations are forced to carry, people can walk down the street without fear, and the economy is not perennially teetering on the brink of financial collapse.
He raised it again the following week, also quietly, but by then Monnet and others had lined up support from key ministers and the prime minister.
So far, Musharraf has accepted his diminishing stature quietly – though he has few other options.
Too often, however, his is a lone voice; his fellow defenders of Europe nod quietly in agreement, but are unwilling to take political risks of their own.
In Brasilia, 45,000 protesters simply walked into the capital’s legislative district and stood quietly.
The big BMW story of late 2003 resurfaced quietly, before being buried again forever.
But, fearing a backlash, the Obama administration tried to gain Congressional backing only at the last minute – and as quietly as possible.
Sheikh Ahmad Yasin, a paraplegic refugee from the village of Jora (now on Israel’s southern coast), worked quietly to build a grass-root movement with the tacit assent of the Israeli army, which sought to encourage an alternative to the PLO.
It is somewhat ironic that, as the world gears up to commemorate the 70th anniversary of Japan’s defeat in World War II, the governments of the US and almost every major Asian country are quietly cheering for Abe.
In African medicine, Chinese herbs and pharmaceuticals are quietly gaining share.
While experts spent the last two years propounding this thesis the market quietly restored an older, more common-sense rule: prosperity is good for profits and therefore good for shares.
Iraq’s militias will not go quietly, yet their dissolution is essential for long-term stability, itself a sine qua non for stability in the region.
In today's global economy small countries can prosper quietly trading with the rest of the world: there does not exist any advantage in terms of the size of the domestic market.
But, after a few months and some muted apologies, they were quietly reinstated.
The Soviet Union and its empire quietly disappeared, and with them the Cold War international order.
This, too, has been accepted reasonably calmly, if not always quietly, by China, and has not undermined the continuing growth in bilateral economic relationships that every country in the region is developing with China.
Instead, regions and countries are quietly finding their own ways to manage finance, create pooled emergency funds, and strengthen development finance – an outcome that heralds a more fragmented and decentralized set of regulatory regimes and a modest de-globalization of finance and aid.
Also, the more advanced reformers are quietly or not so quietly nudging their more resistant neighbors to become more forthcoming in economic reforms and sound management.
Contrary to Bolton’s cartoonish retelling, former Libyan leader Muammar el-Qaddafi actually negotiated quietly with the Europeans and the United States for years before surrendering his weapons in 2003, and he received security commitments and assistance in exchange.
As a result, eurozone countries’ appetite for borrowing remains unbridled, while at the same time the sanction mechanisms included in the European Union’s “fiscal compact” are quietly set aside.
Google, which is quietly testing the car-insurance waters, holds a banking license.
Nevertheless, the traditional doors separating academia from industry are being quietly dismantled - sometimes even smashed down.
But while the world’s economic giants have been withdrawing from multilateralism, Africa has been quietly moving in the opposite direction.
So the world must now ponder that old Latin maxim qui tacet consentere videtur – silence means consent – and ask itself if it is wise to quietly consent to Putin’s construction of a lawless energy superpower.
Nowadays, an increasing number of Europeans are combing that grass, quietly looking for those keys.
The FSB, along with the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision, has been quietly considering new mechanisms for monitoring implementation of standards, particularly in the context of Basel III rules.
Meanwhile, a strategic alliance that supports peace in the Indian and Pacific Ocean region – for example, among India, the US, Japan, South Korea, Australia, and Vietnam – could be shaped quietly and calmly, without impeding any of the partners’ ability to establish economic ties with third parties, including China.
How to Save the World BankOXFORD – The World Bank is quietly sliding into insignificance, as its core fee-paying clients increasingly seek other lenders.
This is a worthy aim, but it is not clear that the main actors in Central Asia – including China, which reportedly is quietly but firmly backing Karimov – are playing on the same team.
But, from the end of 1964, when Khrushchev was deposed, things got better, with Russians living quietly and happily.
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