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The main reason for this is that the lion’s share of the productivity gains achieved over the last 30 years has been seized by the well-off.
The collapse of the Soviet Union at the beginning of the 1990’s was caused not by the West, but by a wave of secession, as nationalities and minorities, seeing the party-state weakened, seized the opportunity to break free.
With 59 million primary school-age children and 65 million adolescents out of school, that opportunity should be seized with both hands.
Similarly, in 2004, hundreds of schoolchildren in Beslan, North Ossetia, were seized by an armed group.
In 2005, armed Islamists seized Nalchik, a regional capital in the North Caucasus, and held it for a day.
He also wants Russia to return its southernmost Kuril Islands – a resource-rich area known as the Northern Territories in Japan – which the Soviet Union seized just after the United States dropped nuclear bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945.
Proclaiming a systemic crisis of the euro, Sarkozy seized the opportunity and took Germany by surprise.
In the short term, the strategic vacuum would be filled partly by Russia, which has already seized on America’s gradual withdrawal from the region to strengthen its foothold there.
Predictably, the text of the more than 3,000 purloined emails have been seized on by skeptics of man-made climate change as “proof” that global warming is nothing more than a hoax cooked up by a bunch of pointy-headed intellectuals.
The government has managed television broadcasters – Russians’ main source of news – since the early 2000s, when ORT and NTV were seized from the moguls Boris Berezovsky and Vladimir Gusinsky, respectively.
After he seized power, Che put to death five hundred “enemies” of the revolution without trial, or even much discrimination.
From de Gaulle to PutinPARIS – Fifty years ago, General Charles de Gaulle seized power in France in what was, in essence, a legal coup d’etat.
Russian diplomats, whose outlook also remains largely shaped by the Cold War, seized on the proposal.
The Spratlys are to the south of the Paracel Islands, which China seized in 1974, capitalizing on American forces’ departure from South Vietnam.
First, in June 2012, China seized the disputed Scarborough Shoal from the Philippines, without eliciting a tangible international response.
Shortly after General Ibrahim Babangida seized power in a coup in 1985, the military government signed a "Memorandum of Understanding" with Shell and other oil companies.
Indeed, a heated national debate about how to improve education has seized Chile for much of the past year.
Xi seized the opportunity to drive a wedge between America’s two main Asian allies, and built a memorial to Ahn.
The fact that Saudi Arabia intervened thus highlights the severity of the threat it faced once the Houthis had overthrown Yemen’s legitimate government and seized control of Sana’a.
First, unlike tried and tested post-coup arrangements from the past, the junta that seized power last May, the National Council for Peace and Order, chose to rule directly, with the coup’s leader, General Prayut Chan-ocha, assuming the premiership, rather than appointing a recognized and capable figure to the position.
A Greek petrochemical carrier was seized, and another attacked, as was an Iranian oil tanker.
It was at the peak of this unprecedentedly intense scrutiny that Secretary-General Kofi Annan seized the moment.
Victory Day celebrations commemorating the Soviet Union’s defeat of Nazi Germany now surpass the bombast of the Soviet period; and state propaganda constantly fuels anti-Western sentiment with claims that parts of “historical Russia” were illegally seized – hence the need to “reclaim” Crimea by force in March 2014.
Upon his return to Nigeria, security officials seized his passport and detained him briefly.
He recently told the Los Angeles Times that such safeguards – earlier versions of which he helped to design – may only delay terrorists in using seized nuclear weapons.
In one instance, they killed 30 people and seized the Justice Ministry in downtown Baghdad, and have attacked Kurdish interests in Kirkuk and Mosul for good measure.
Europeans should have seized on that proposal and insisted on the rapid completion of an initial agreement on G7 tariff levels.
She seized that opportunity by bravely traveling throughout the country, despite serious threats to her life, arguing for a democratic and pluralistic Pakistan.
For example, it is unlikely to turn the Scarborough Shoal, which it seized from the Philippines in 2012, into another artificial island in the foreseeable future.
Why wasn’t the idea of contingent capital seized upon in earlier crises?
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