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Russia’s Lost Opportunity with JapanTOKYO – President Dmitri A. Medvedev visit to the south Kuril Islands, which the Soviet Red Army seized from Japan in the closing days of World War II, has demonstrated in unmistakable terms that Russia has no intention of returning the mineral-rich islands.
From ping-pong diplomacy with China to the united German Olympic team that competed in 1990 before actual reunification, sport has prefigured political developments, and politicians everywhere have seized on the importance of the World Cup.
The king seized the estates, and sometimes the person, of wealthy lords or merchants and demanded hefty payments for their release.
Through pension funds, investment funds, and arbitrage (or hedge) funds, shareholders became well organized and seized power in developed countries’ firms.
In short, we seized the momentum of the crisis to provide a structural response to the challenges we faced, in particular by establishing a European banking union.
In 1999, Ozawa seized control of the DPJ, which Hatoyama and Naoto Kan, the new prime minister, had founded.
Though the resulting thaw has involved no substantive policy decisions, Singh has nonetheless changed the narrative of the countries’ relations, and seized control of a stalemated process.
They had to realize that they need a plan – revolutionary moments are moments to be seized.
For most Westerners and many Russians, his finest hour came on August 19th that year, when he stood on a tank outside the Russian parliament and defied the hardliners who had seized power.
Seized by the CIA in Macedonia, he was taken to Afghanistan and interrogated for five months before being released without charge.
Trade negotiators struggled to make headway, while anti-globalization groups seized control of the public discourse, presenting the TTIP as a threat to everything from Europe’s democracy to its health.
Russia had simply seized the opportunity presented to it by Lukashenko’s bizarre post-election crackdown, in which he used disproportionate force to clear the streets and imprisoned hundreds of activists, including seven of the presidential candidates who had run against him.
Annexed by Tsarist Russia in 1812, joined to Romania in 1918, and re-annexed by the Soviet Union in 1940, it seized its independence from Moscow in 1991.
Park is the daughter of former president, General Park Chung-hee, who seized power in a military coup in 1961.
Saving the EU will require it to relinquish some of the power it has seized from its member states.
Soon after, the Chinese Navy temporarily seized an American submersible drone in international waters.
Today, the KGB’s successor, the Federal Security Service (FSB), has seized complete control over Russia’s security apparatus, including by arresting high-level generals in other law-enforcement agencies.
The Chinese have seized an opportunity to address several challenges at once – to create jobs, conserve energy, and combat climate change.
It is a golden opportunity to make progress in the effort to combat global warming, but it can be seized only with the involvement of all stakeholders.
When Lithuania and then the other Baltic States – Estonia and Latvia – which were occupied by Stalin early in WWII, seized their opportunity for freedom in 1990-91, the Kremlin did not sit on its hands.
The traditions of law were, therefore, very shallow in Russia when the Bolsheviks seized power.
To strengthen the second circle of his power, Putin seized control over the state corporations one by one, beginning with Gazprom in May 2001, by appointing loyalists as chief executives and chairmen.
But, in blaming leaders who have seized on popular anger, many overlook the power of that anger itself, which is aimed at elites whose wealth has skyrocketed in the last 30 years, while that of the middle and working classes has remained stagnant.
He even seized the relic of the tooth of Buddha, a symbol of Sri Lankan political sovereignty.
In the year since the terrorist attacks of September 11th, questions about Islam - its nature, its distinctive identity, its potential threat to the West - have seized center stage in intellectual and political debates.
Yet Deng seized the moment at a critical juncture that is strikingly reminiscent of the one now faced by Xi and Li.
At the end of 2014, Russia was seized by financial panic.
Twenty years later, when I became Australia’s foreign minister, I seized the opportunity to help initiate the United Nations peace plan for Cambodia.
In September 2016, Syrian journalist Zaina Erhaim had her passport seized by British border authorities at London’s Heathrow Airport after it was falsely reported stolen in the Interpol system.
In early modernity, however, with the systematic expulsion of Muslims from Spain in 1492, and later from lands seized by other colonial empires, hijra acquired a more violent meaning that anticipated its later association with jihad.
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