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Why would Russell Crow's character kill all his guys who risked life and limb for him?
Still, it's men like this, who risked and often gave their lives on the fields of Europe and Africa and in the waters and islands of the pacific, that we have to thank for the Freedoms we enjoy in the United States today.
Then once this character had given up everything and risked his life in nearly every scene, lets FINALLY give him the opportunity to hand over the dirty cop and set things straight.
By contributing to a shutdown of federal-government operations and repeatedly raising the threat of a technical default, it risked undermining an already-fragile US economic recovery.
The people who poured into the streets and risked their lives were fed up with the repression and the poverty that these regimes caused.
A former Al Qaeda member, for example, recently stated that the UK authorities’ failure to explain properly why it had not intervened in Syria’s civil war risked radicalizing more Muslims.
If the local administration or the scientists knew the real impact of the disaster, they would not have risked doing this.
The dollar weakened, in this view, because the Fed fell behind the curve and risked losing control of the inflation process.
Who now remotely understands – let alone takes the trouble to try to understand – the great political dramas of intellectuals like Arthur Koestler and Victor Serge, people who risked their lives for and then against communism?
As the World Bank’s Chief Economist under Wolfensohn, I had argued that failing to deal with corruption risked undermining growth and poverty alleviation.
The infamous “death boats,” on which hundreds of young North African men risked their lives every year in search of employment and a better life abroad, would continue to deliver those who survived the journey onto Europe’s unwelcoming shores.
Will it embrace a new Islamic authoritarianism, or build the democracy that Egyptians have risked their lives to secure?
But both versions then immediately go on to “remember heroic acts of numerous Poles, especially the Righteous Among the Nations, who risked their lives to save Jewish people.”
M5S goes out of its way to insult and threaten critical journalists, and the League disparages immigrants and badgers local governments that show hospitality toward asylum seekers who have risked their lives crossing the Mediterranean.
With the collapse of the housing bubble, many people lost their jobs and health insurance, risked losing their homes, and suddenly had little reason for economic optimism.
Israel, for its part, risked a diplomatic crisis with Australia last month by abruptly canceling an official visit by President Reuven Rivlin, who instead headed to Moscow for an urgent meeting with Putin.
Five years ago, Taylor and his intellectual allies wrote an “Open Letter to Ben Bernanke,” warning that the quantitative easing planned by the Federal Reserve’s then-chairman risked “currency debasement and inflation.”
Perhaps the most prominent example from 2008 is the way that the failure of the investment bank Lehman Brothers risked brining about the imminent collapse of the insurer AIG, while also leading to intense pressure on money-market mutual funds.
Just as the Buddhists risked their lives to stand up for democracy in Burma, Christians have done so in other countries.
More than a million people risked their lives crossing the Mediterranean last year, and then endured grueling journeys through the Balkans.
Would British voters still have risked saying “no” to Europe had Trump already won?
Men and women had not risked their lives simply to return to the old days of class privilege and social deprivation.
In fact, those concerned about labor rights and the environment risked hurting their own cause.
Without urgent action, there is a good chance that those who took to the streets – indeed, risked their lives – in the struggle for dignity and opportunity will have done so in vain.
Last week, Trump risked precisely that, as he demonstrated to intelligence services around the world that he hasn’t got a clue what trust means.
Neither side achieved total victory, but neither risked total destruction, either.
He risked everything to live in truth, as he called it – honest to himself and heroically honest to the authoritarian power that repressed his society and crushed the freedoms of hundreds of millions.
And Gorbachev could triumph in part because of the sheer power of honesty of his countryman, Andrei Sakharov, the great and fearless nuclear physicist who also risked all to speak truth in the very heart of the Soviet empire – and who paid for it with years of internal exile.
Many brave people have risked – or lost – their lives in defense of this freedom.
Without it, her family might have risked going hungry.
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