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Though, unlike his predecessors, he has resisted the temptation to announce any new trains, his plans for India's railways remain inadequate.
Likewise, China’s property law was debated for years, as conservative forces, with the support of various media outlets, resisted marketization and privatization in defense of older citizens whose livelihoods continued to depend on the “iron rice bowl” of state ownership.
In those years when we, as so-called dissidents, resisted totalitarian rule, we all probably agreed that one objective was dissolution of the Warsaw Pact, that instrument of Soviet imperial power.
In Khamenei’s eyes, it was Ahmadinejad who kept Khamenei’s reformist opponents at bay and resisted President George W. Bush’s attempt to “dominate” Iran and the Middle East.
So, too, are signs of newfound policy discipline – such as a central bank that seems determined to wean China off excessive credit creation and fiscal authorities that have resisted the timeworn temptation of yet another massive round of spending initiatives to counter a slowdown.
Obama has consistently resisted the temptation to unleash more wars.
To take another African example, when the people of eastern Nigeria decided to secede and form the state of Biafra in the 1960s, other Nigerians resisted, in part because Biafra included most of Nigeria’s oil.
So far, President George W. Bush has resisted Prime Minister Tony Blair’s call for a doubling of aid to Africa by 2010.
One example is the Glorious Revolution of 1688, which produced a two-party system comprising Whigs, who supported the new settlement, and Tories, who resisted it.
To this end, Putin has always resisted Ukraine’s historic turn to the West, about which the EU itself has been standoffish in the past.
But they successfully resisted the creation of a political union, which is predicated on a central state with a joint army and monopoly on the use of military force.
That is why Eisenhower prudently resisted direct intervention on the French side in Vietnam in 1954.
The ECB can do nothing about the overhang, and it has rightly resisted assuming responsibility for debt problems that are ultimately fiscal in nature.
In doing so, they would prove that the current wave of right-wing populism can be resisted.
But it must be resisted, because domestic peace depends on mutual respect for cultural plurality, because Europe's changing demographic profile demands more open borders, not a gated continent, and because the new right's inherent chauvinism is irreconcilable with the EU's survival and success.
While all manifestations of intolerance against Muslims must be firmly resisted, it is also vital to recognize the danger that some Muslim immigrants have brought with them from their home cultures: extreme forms of bigotry against Jews and Israel.
But he resisted ever setting such a “target.”
Pakistan resisted.
The judicial branch, however, has resisted Trump’s bullying.
But, like most temptations, the urge to gloat at America’s imperfections and struggles ought to be resisted.
Six of the G7 countries worked overtime last week to bring Trump around on climate change, but Trump resisted.
Yet Soviet citizens resisted in large numbers;Kazakh nomads fled to China, Ukrainian farmers to Poland.
The welfare state resisted its critics and the pain of stagnating economies by making collaborators of the middle class.
But Europe’s stronger economies have resisted pressure to undertake more expansionary fiscal policies, which would lift demand for its weaker economies’ exports.
France resisted German pressure because it was extremely suspicious of political federalism.
But it is instructive to recall that many of those now-universally-admired rules were fiercely resisted when first proposed.
As a result, the authorities in Germany and France (as well as Japan) have consistently resisted increasing capital requirements, despite widespread agreement that doing so is an essential part of effective re-regulation.
Nokia’s board resisted change, making it impossible for the company to adapt to rapid shifts in the industry.
In many cases, American demands and desires are contrary to Latin interests, and should be resisted.
While Serbia has resisted partition of Kosovo, Russia would also support a Serbian proposal to partition the Serb-populated north, an effort that would open up a Pandora’s box of possible partition of Serbia, Bosnia, and Macedonia.
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