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But he also hired old friends and political allies – many of whom did not have experience in development – and sealed himself off from his staff, alienating the very people whose support he needed.
Indeed, the International Energy Agency estimates that the additional precautions needed to ensure shale-gas wells’ environmental safety – including careful attention to seismic conditions, properly sealed shafts, and appropriate waste-water management – add only about 7% to the cost.
By then, it will be too late, and our fate will be sealed.
With AI/machine learning quickly evolving into a “black box” technology, the symbol of Pandora’s sealed jar has taken on new meaning.
The significance of the merger’s collapse is now becoming clear to observers across Europe, especially in Germany, where the media have been extremely critical of how “negative politics” sealed the proposed merger’s fate.
Before expansion is contemplated, Russian rapprochement with key European institutions must be sealed.
It was his ambition to subject the country to truly far-reaching social and political reforms that sealed his downfall and also brought about this new trial, which appears intended to silence him for good.
Meanwhile, the Communists took whatever food they could find, as one peasant remembered, “down to the last little grain,” and in early 1933 the borders of Soviet Ukraine were sealed so that the starving could not seek help.
What sealed Nokia’s fate was a series of decisions made by Stephen Elop in his position as CEO, which he assumed in October 2010.
But it was his recent series of secret meetings with Russian President Vladimir Putin that sealed the fate of the agreement with the EU.
A peasant village raided a hospital dumpster to reclaim discarded surgical equipment, wash it in a nearby canal, re-package it in sealed plastic saying “sterilized,” and sell it back to the hospital at cut-rate prices.
That strategy sealed the government’s fate, though the end came sooner and more dramatically than expected.
Following Chinese political tradition, the country’s new leadership had to wait for the Third Plenum of the Chinese Communist Party’s 18th Central Committee – held 3-4 quarters after the First Plenum, where the succession was sealed – to unveil its economic-policy priorities.
The bottle could still be sealed before the genie escapes.
Life in North Korea, however, is hermetically sealed.
For example, if a Muslim decided to renounce his faith, the matter would be handled outside the legal system, or conversion records would be sealed.
Large parts of the northern hemisphere continue to struggle with the legacies of the great European empires – Habsburg, Russian, and Ottoman – that collapsed in WWI’s wake, or whose decline, like that of the British Empire, was initiated by the war and sealed by its even bloodier sequel a generation later.
For whatever reason, Bush bonded with the two, which sealed his fate.
Berlusconi carefully followed all of Machiavelli’s teachings on how to obtain and maintain power – all but one, and that lapse sealed his fate.
Until recently, their rulers had a common interest in keeping this Pandora’s Box of borders tightly sealed.
It is difficult to think of a single instance in which the deterioration of public security sealed a governing party’s fate in Latin America.
Containment, it should be recalled, was organized against a Soviet totalitarian regime that was not only ideologically aggressive and in the process of consolidating its colonization of Eastern Europe (as well as Japan’s Northern Territories), but also deliberately sealed off from the wider world economy.
The international sanctions imposed on Iran have grown tighter, of course, as their leaks have been sealed.
Although West Antarctica’s fate is sealed, we may still be able to prevent the collapse of East Antarctica’s marine ice sheet.
Yemen’s Regime Change Gets PersonalSANAA – When Yemen’s President Ali Abdullah Saleh ordered his military on March 18 to fire on peaceful protesters calling for his resignation, he sealed his fate.
Before Burma’s fate is sealed in a new-model dictatorship, the United Nations must immediately and vigorously embark on a fresh process designed to deliver national reconciliation and democracy to that troubled country.
Japan’s fate was sealed by its reluctance to abandon a dysfunctional growth model.
In each settlement, the investigations are stopped, and whatever has been found is sealed.
No Time for NostalgiaFrance and Germany have every reason to celebrate the miracle of their friendship, sealed forty years ago by the Elysée Treaty.
Now that its post-imperial decline is complete, the most important lesson to take away from the “Brexit” referendum that sealed its fate is that one cannot defeat nationalism by pandering to nationalists.
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