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At the time, I wanted to believe that these reverses would be temporary, and there were too many like me.
Unless the North reverses this position, President Kim's efforts to stick to the "Sunshine Policy" will look increasingly weak in the eyes of South Korea's public.
Second, the European Commission and EU member states should take action to revoke the Polish government’s voting rights until it reverses its illiberal policies.
One influential technique – which Republican pollster Frank Luntz says that he learned from 1984 - simply reverses meanings and turns reality on its head.
Similarly, the social mobility once fostered by the welfare state has suffered serious reverses.
But when the dollar begins to strengthen, the cycle reverses.
The Halappanavar case thus reverses the Western stereotype of Eastern societies as preserves of superstition and religious extremism.
The program now being finalized reverses the order of priorities, putting competitiveness and growth ahead of completion of budgetary consolidation.
A protracted US-China trade war would weaken global economic growth and asset prices, as the combination of higher prices and lower trade volumes effectively reverses economies of scale, producing a self-reinforcing cycle of declining profits and investment.
To be sure, the recent pullback only partly reverses the nearly 7% surge from February to April.
The biggest threat to Trump, then, is an economic downturn that reverses the recent job and wage gains and triggers a stock-market selloff; but forecasters see low odds for this scenario.
Only two outcomes should be acceptable to it: a customs-union arrangement with the UK, or a People’s Vote that convincingly reverses the 2016 referendum result.
Conversely, a rise in government spending, or tax cuts, increases expectations of sales and so reverses the downturn.
To be sure, a recent influential paper by Markus K. Brunnermeier and Yann Koby of Princeton University contends that there may be an “interest rate … at which accommodative monetary policy reverses and becomes contractionary for [bank] lending.”
That is the point when the central bank reverses its policy and starts to raise interest rates.
"That Cervantes has been for many years a great friend of mine, and to my knowledge he has had more experience in reverses than in verses.
"Know, friend Sancho," answered Don Quixote, "that the life of knights-errant is subject to a thousand dangers and reverses, and neither more nor less is it within immediate possibility for knights-errant to become kings and emperors, as experience has shown in the case of many different knights with whose histories I am thoroughly acquainted; and I could tell thee now, if the pain would let me, of some who simply by might of arm have risen to the high stations I have mentioned; and those same, both before and after, experienced divers misfortunes and miseries; for the valiant Amadis of Gaul found himself in the power of his mortal enemy Arcalaus the magician, who, it is positively asserted, holding him captive, gave him more than two hundred lashes with the reins of his horse while tied to one of the pillars of a court; and moreover there is a certain recondite author of no small authority who says that the Knight of Phoebus, being caught in a certain pitfall, which opened under his feet in a certain castle, on falling found himself bound hand and foot in a deep pit underground, where they administered to him one of those things they call clysters, of sand and snow-water, that well-nigh finished him; and if he had not been succoured in that sore extremity by a sage, a great friend of his, it would have gone very hard with the poor knight; so I may well suffer in company with such worthy folk, for greater were the indignities which they had to suffer than those which we suffer.
Don Quixote gave the promise for himself and the others, and with this assurance he began as follows:"My name is Cardenio, my birthplace one of the best cities of this Andalusia, my family noble, my parents rich, my misfortune so great that my parents must have wept and my family grieved over it without being able by their wealth to lighten it; for the gifts of fortune can do little to relieve reverses sent by Heaven.
Cardenio hung the buckler on one side of the bow of Rocinante's saddle and the basin on the other, and by signs commanded Sancho to mount his ass and take Rocinante's bridle, and at each side of the cart he placed two officers with their muskets; but before the cart was put in motion, out came the landlady and her daughter and Maritornes to bid Don Quixote farewell, pretending to weep with grief at his misfortune; and to them Don Quixote said:"Weep not, good ladies, for all these mishaps are the lot of those who follow the profession I profess; and if these reverses did not befall me I should not esteem myself a famous knight-errant; for such things never happen to knights of little renown and fame, because nobody in the world thinks about them; to valiant knights they do, for these are envied for their virtue and valour by many princes and other knights who compass the destruction of the worthy by base means.
A gentleman must expect reverses,' said Smangle.
What consequence can the reverses of fortune be to you?Have you not, happy rogue that you are--have you not your duchess, who cannot fail to come to your aid?""Well, you see, my dear d’Artagnan, with what ill luck I play," replied Porthos, with the most careless air in the world.
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