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Likewise, empathy with a handful of children who are, or are believed to be, harmed by vaccines largely drives popular resistance to vaccinating children against dangerous diseases.
Tea Party candidates have even hinted that armed resistance to the US government may soon be justifiable.
Other players include the son of King Idris and the son of Omar Mukhtar, the hero who led the resistance movement against Italy long ago.
Of course, there is vast domestic resistance to Turkey’s accession to the EU.
They point to Abe’s ability to overcome resistance from small rice farmers, part of the LDP’s electoral base, to Japan’s participation in negotiations on the Trans-Pacific Partnership, which would open Japan’s economy to increased global competition.
Likewise, by committing itself to the Palestinian “Islamic Resistance Forces,” Hezbollah’s patron, Iran, is simply recycling a policy that it has pursued since long before that declaration, with the goal of advancing its regional hegemonic designs.
The need for a resistance economy had seemed to disappear with the JCPOA.
Through those retellings, her self-immolation (jauhar) became a noble act of resistance against the lustful Muslim, making her an exemplar of unsullied Hindu womanhood.
When they are breached, the typical result is a sense of unfairness, followed by resistance and, ultimately, political choices that address the inequality, though sometimes in counter-productive, growth-impeding ways.
In the 1980s, US President Ronald Reagan used Islam as an ideological tool to spur armed resistance to the Soviet occupation.
Still, mounting challenges such as drug and insecticide resistance threaten to reverse the progress we have made.
One of the study’s clearest takeaways is that we need to arm ourselves against the rising threat of drug and insecticide resistance by investing in research and development for next-generation antimalarial treatments.
Malaria-bearing mosquitoes have developed a resistance to commonly used insecticides in 61 countries around the world.
And in Southeast Asia, some strains of the malaria parasite itself have begun to develop a resistance to artemisinin, the basic component in standard treatments.
And, again despite US resistance, it seems inevitable that the renminbi will join the International Monetary Fund’s reserve-currency basket.
With world trade shifting to a decidedly lower trajectory, political resistance to globalization has only intensified.
Stronger regulations of antibiotics prescriptions in these countries, like those implemented in Finland several decades ago, could help to mitigate resistance.
Established powers’ resistance to their rising counterparts’ demands for a larger role in setting the global agenda fuel tensions and disrupt the existing world order.
To counter the rising resistance, Putin turned to patriotic nationalism, which reached its apotheosis with the 2014 annexation of Crimea.
Indeed, here Chinese Twitter users lead the world, using it for everything from social resistance, civic investigation, and monitoring public opinion, to creating black satire, “organizing without organizations” in the Guangdong anti-incineration movement, and mailing postcards to prisoners of conscience.
After initial resistance, Bush began to change his rhetoric by suggesting that a troop drawdown would occur sooner than previously expected.
As the political scientist Robert Pape has shown in a careful study, resistance to foreign occupation is a prime motivation for suicide bombers.
The EU countries are finally accelerating their implementation of structural reforms, but the starting point has become less favorable and political resistance too entrenched, as illustrated by the recent conflicts over reforms of French pensions and the German labor market.
Because most jobs will be automated in whole or in part, resistance is futile, and adaptation (“mitigation”) is the only option.
One consequence has been a rise in antimicrobial resistance (AMR), which is now a top global health threat.
China viewed America’s strong resistance to the AIIB – which it considered a clear challenge to the US- and Japan-led international financial institutions – as an overreaction, reflecting America’s tendency to view nearly all China-related policies through the lens of strategic competition.
It offered asylum to fleeing students, allowed them to operate their resistance movement within India (with some financial help), and supported a pro-democratic newspaper and a radio station.
The increasingly forlorn resistance operations based on Indian territory were shut down.
Predictably, the Senate’s bill encountered stiff resistance from the dominant rating agencies.
One strategy that combines rationality with the gradualism needed to overcome political resistance would be to increase the EU budget steadily, so that it can ultimately play a macroeconomic role, promoting stability and reinforcing cohesion within the eurozone.
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