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For example, Dag Hammarskjold seized the opportunity of the Suez Crisis created by Britain and France’s invasion of Egypt in 1956 to persuade governments to create peacekeeping forces – an institution that is not mentioned in the UN original charter.
Vampire panic seized the European public repeatedly in the eighteenth century.
The Conventions require that, where there is any doubt, a hearing must be held before an impartial tribunal to determine whether a prisoner seized during an armed conflict is entitled to prisoner-of-war status.
After all, the only conflict so far in which authorities have lost control of sensitive nuclear materials was the Georgia-Abkhazia War in the 1990s, when unknown forces seized a small amount of highly enriched uranium from a research institute.
Today, the payments have become so large that the government has seized them and channeled revenues exceeding the regulator’s enforcement costs to veterans’ charities.
Retirees can sue if their homes are seized for urban renewal, but not if the Fed’s financial suppression deprives them of a return on their savings.
The paradox here is that the open-minded reformism they espoused helped stir conservative trends among Islamic thinkers, who seized on the reformists' revival of Islamic norms to urge a return to the "purity" of the first Islamic societies.
The authorities released two American journalists and a South Korean worker whom they had seized in August 2009 on charges of violating North Korean law.
In response, North Korean leader Kim Jong-un seized all South Korean assets in the region, giving the 248 managers living there only a few hours to pack their personal belongings and leave.
Toward North Korea, on the other hand, continuity will prevail, with Abe re-emphasizing the principle that normalization of relations requires resolution of abduction cases – some dating to the 1970’s – involving Japanese citizens who were seized from coastal towns.
But once Putin saw the opportunity to hasten the EU’s disintegration, he seized it.
After he seized power, America welcomed Musharraf’s willingness to fight al-Qaeda and the Taliban on his territory in exchange for large infusions of military aid.
In successive wars, Israel seized all the land allocated to Palestine, mainly the West Bank of the Jordan River and Gaza, now swarming with millions of Palestinian refugees.
Part of the West Bank has been annexed outright by Israel or seized by Israeli settlers.
In the first scenario, SCAF – which, aside from dissolving the parliament, stripped the presidency of most powers in order to weaken its rivals – continues to rule the country under the military system introduced in 1952 when Mohamed Naguib and then Gamel Abdel Nasser seized power.
Only when the Kremlin was seized by panic at the level of the disturbances that Nashi had initiated, did it demand that the police take control of events.
Populist parties, which had already gained a foothold by playing on people’s fears of and frustrations with globalization, seized on this notion.
With a new government in power, the chief's enemies seized the opportunity to redress the wrong, providing a reminder of the perils of prior efforts to de-tribalize Africa.
Highly motivated minorities can and do overwhelm the general interests of majorities who are not seized with an issue.
The situation in the Kremlin appears reminiscent of the spring of 1996, when a group of KGB men, led by President Boris Yeltsin's chief bodyguard, General Alexander Korzhakov, almost seized power.
Many elites in these countries, because they seized power and became rich rapidly, feel insecure.
Military strongmen controlled different regions, while foreign powers, through bribes and bullying, seized large swaths of China’s territory.
Fascist Hindus seized upon these grievances, mobilizing people by using the lowest common denominator - religion.
Might Krenz and the Communist reformers who had seized power just weeks earlier have been able to channel popular unrest, or even defuse it?
Once the door to Asia was open, however, Russian companies seized the opportunity to enter the downstream markets of India and Indonesia – two countries that are critical to the Saudis’ own strategy.
These opportunities need to be seized with as much alacrity as the world has responded to Asia’s sorrow.
Sunni Islamist jihadists seized the opportunity to expand their ranks by targeting an angry, desperate, and relatively young population, largely from rural areas, for recruitment.
Obama’s election – the success of a member of a non-white minority in the world’s oldest democratic polity – has seized the imagination of many Indians.
Insuring ImmigrationNEW YORK – Almost immediately after the suspects in the Boston Marathon bombings were revealed to be immigrants, opponents of immigration reform in the United States seized on the case to highlight the danger of adopting a more open approach to the issue.
But the stubborn truth revealed by the US diplomat emerges every day, despite the impact of drug kingpins who are arrested, the number of weapons discovered, or the amount of cocaine seized.
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