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Opportunities exist, but they cannot be seized or realized.
It is as if France were now seized by a kind of nostalgic generosity toward a presidency that had been marked by suspicion and derision.
Having begrudgingly purged the reformers in 1989, Deng in 1992 seized the opportunity to sideline the central planners, bringing in China’s neo-liberal hero, Zhu Rongji, to re-fire the engines of the economy.
The opposition seized on the ruling and called on Obasanjo to resign.
Russia’s annexation of Crimea in March 2014 seized 4% of Ukraine’s GDP.
Instead, on the Night of the Long Knives, the Nazis hunted and executed Papen’s trusted associates, Herbert von Bose and Erich Klausener, and seized control of the government.
It has, for example, eagerly launched large-scale operations to mine precious minerals like gold and silver in a disputed area of the eastern Himalayas that it seized from India in a 1959 armed clash.
The first such signal came in the form of Obama’s silence when China seized the disputed Scarborough Shoal from the Philippines in July 2012.
In 1979, after an uprising against Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi and his dreaded SAVAK secret police, Iranian mobs seized the American embassy.
Some people see in Chavez an innovative statesman who has seized an almost magical moment – the windfall Venezuela has received from today’s sky high oil prices -- to change the rules of the game in his country.
A small band of fiery Imams seized upon this youthful discontent.
Newspapers have carried pictures of grand bonfires made with seized cassettes and CD’s.
After more than a month of fighting, China declared a unilateral ceasefire from a position of strength, having seized Indian territory.
The Chinese simultaneously announced that they would begin withdrawing their forces on December 1, 1962, vacating their territorial gains in the eastern sector (where the borders of India, Myanmar, Tibet, and Bhutan converge) but retaining the areas seized in the western sector (in the original princely state of Jammu and Kashmir).
M5S and the League both openly question the benefits of eurozone membership, though neither party made leaving the euro a specific commitment of their governing program in the election campaign, a failure that Italian President Sergio Mattarella seized upon in vetoing key cabinet pick.
The Kremlin has maintained Russia’s illegal occupation of Japanese islands – our “Northern Territories” – seized by Stalin after Japan’s surrender in the Pacific War.
Within the wider party, a powerful constituency is growing that would support Li and Zeng if they seized the banner of reform while Hu dithered.
Putin has now lost the initiative that he seized in Crimea by turning the bloody battle over Donbas into an unresolvable stalemate.
As a result, China seized de facto control of a highly strategic sea corridor through which one-third of global maritime trade passes – all without incurring any international costs.
But neither side seized the opportunity to build on this common ground, and today US-Iran relations are as antagonistic as they have been in years.
It is easy to see where Obiang – who seized power in Equatorial Guinea after killing his predecessor – gets the money that he tosses around.
Later on, the Soviet model became popular among nationalist and leftist movements fighting for independence when they seized power in Syria, Iraq, and South Yemen.
On the Spratley and Paracel islands -- seized from Vietnam and the Philippines respectively -- China is building port facilities to moor large surface ships and runways large enough to handle long-range bombers.
But the moment for bold actions – the creation of a Mediterranean Marshall Plan, for instance, or massive investments into immigrant integration – passed without being seized.
But, in these times of economic uncertainty, EU governments should view a common energy policy as an opportunity to be seized.
After years of sclerotic negotiations, domestic developments in Iran – namely, the 2013 election of the more moderate Iranian President Hassan Rouhani – provided a critical diplomatic opening, which Obama seized.
While inside, they seized documents and set others alight, and took six embassy employees hostage.
For example, when Hamas forces seized the Shati refugee camp, they deliberately executed three women – two teenagers and a 75-year-old – because they were relatives of Fatah officials.
Eight years and many billions of dollars later, the Pakistani Taliban seized control of the Swat region, terrorizing the adjoining district of Buner and raising alarm and consternation through the rest of Pakistan.
Is it any wonder that the valuation of securitized investments has become so challenging, that mark-to-market valuation on securitized assets has become meaningless, depressed, or both, and that the securitization market itself has seized up?
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