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The other civilian leader, Nawaz Sharif, responded by defying his exile, returning to Pakistan, and promptly being re-expelled.
While they responded to some popular demands early last year by subsidizing basic goods, they have since failed to address economic-policy shortcomings or develop and implement sound reform strategies.
The first blow was the subprime mortgage crisis in the United States, to which Europeans responded with self-satisfied reflections on the superior resilience of their social model.
I responded then (and today) that there is little prospect of such a reversal, for two reasons.
China’s people have responded.
And while the WTO prohibits member countries from conditioning market access on such mandatory technology transfers, the Chinese have responded that nothing is mandatory, because companies do not have to do business in China.
The government responded by declaring a state of emergency in several of Nigeria’s northern states.
Thirty-six of the 37 top economists who responded to the survey said that the plan had been successful in its avowed objective of reducing unemployment.
But protecting employment was not their main motivation; after all, beginning in 1727, they did allow non-religious texts to be printed, despite protests by calligraphers, who responded to the edict by putting their inkstands and pencils in coffins and marching to the High Porte in Istanbul.
When Haidt pointed out to his subjects that the reasons they had offered did not apply to the case, they often responded: “I can’t explain it, I just know it’s wrong.”
The United Nations Security Council responded by debating a resolution on strengthening sanctions against North Korea.
The Soviet Union, also recognizing the risks of continued escalation, responded by proposing a compromise.
In the 1960s, President Johnson feared the risk of a new 1930s-style Great Depression, and responded with an increase in domestic social spending ("the Great Society") at the same time as the escalation of the war in Vietnam boosted military expenditure.
Prior to his detention, Biti had responded to such allegations by stating that his only crime was to fight for democracy in Zimbabwe.
Consumers responded by buying eggs from free-ranging hens.
As aggregate demand conditions improved, firms responded by using this excess capacity, reducing capital expenditures and slowing their pace of hiring.
Both M5S and the League have been ambivalent about how far they want to push the anti-euro agenda, and both responded to the leak of the document by promising that a discussion of the euro was not on the table.
Obama responded that the US Congress would not support a major development effort for the drylands.
Banks responded with ingenious ways of repackaging and selling that debt, but the fundamental problem lay in the channeling of financial flows in an unproductive direction, owing to public pressure.
The developing countries were disappointed with the results of Europe’s EBA initiative, and Europe has responded by committing itself to dealing with at least part of the problem that arises from the rules of origin tests.
Yet the Palestinian resistance has responded with more rocket attacks.
These opportunities need to be seized with as much alacrity as the world has responded to Asia’s sorrow.
When Vladimir Putin complained during a conference in Munich last year that US unilateralism stoked conflict around the world, an offended Senator John McCain responded that confrontation was unnecessary in “today’s multipolar world.”
NATO rightly responded to Russia’s annexation of Crimea, ongoing support for separatists in eastern Ukraine, and mock attacks on Western countries with a program of political and military reassurance.
In a recent survey of nine European Union countries, 72% of the educators who responded reported that new graduates are qualified to meet prospective employers’ needs, though 43% of employers reported that candidates do not possess the required skills.
As a result, Japan’s commercial banks, hypersensitive to the risk and uncertainty associated with interest-rate fluctuations, have not responded to QE by increasing their lending activity.
Other parties to the Paris agreement have responded to Trump’s decision with strength, thus proving the resilience of the agreement itself.
Financial markets responded by demanding much higher rates on the bonds of countries with high government debt ratios and banking systems weakened by excessive mortgage debt.
When the biologists objected that not all cells are spherical, Rashevsky responded that the theory must first be applied to the simplest cases.
Thanks to such monitoring, Foshan’s municipal- and county-level governments recognized a dramatic restructuring in global supply chains and responded accordingly, such as by improving housing and health care, providing such social services even to migrant labor, and addressing excessive pollution.
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