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After all, the British seized one of the richest countries in the world – accounting for 27% of global GDP in 1700 – and, over 200 years of colonial rule, reduced it to one of the world’s poorest.
Last year, the Kingdom seized almost 14 tons of amphetamine, mostly in the form known as Captagon (probably manufactured in Southeast Europe).
That’s one-quarter of all amphetamines seized in the world.
In South Africa, the number of seized meth laboratories has consistently gone up for the past five years, while domestic consumption has increased.
In 2007 alone, 75 ATS laboratories were seized in China.
Likewise, China has seized the opportunity afforded by Trump’s ill-conceived plan to build a wall on the US border with Mexico to reach out to America’s southern neighbor.
In dismissing such a recount, Frazer told Kenyans that they shouldn’t expect their vote to be tallied accurately, and that power can be seized or perhaps even negotiated in a backroom.
Having to choose between Russia and Poland, Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu did not hesitate – even though Russia now considers World War II to have started in 1941 instead of 1939, when the Soviet Union seized Polish territory under the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact with Nazi Germany.
As a result, political leaders who had long refused any kind of compromise or concession now give the impression of being seized by panic.
Too often, developing countries have seized on new technologies – “Distribute tablets to schoolchildren!” – without giving enough thought to how they will be used in specific national contexts.
There is much to build on, but the opportunity must be seized.
Russia Is a Strategist, Not a SpoilerMADRID – On October 1, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky announced his government’s support for an agreement that would lead to elections in the eastern provinces of Luhansk and Donetsk – large parts of which were seized by Russian-backed separatists in 2014 – with the ultimate goal of granting them special self-governing status.
The principle was included in the preamble of United Nations Security Council Resolution 242 following the 1967 Six-Day War in the Middle East, during which Israel seized the Golan Heights from Syria.
The Polish trade union Solidarity has already set a shining example by donating money and food for Belarusian strikers (though most provisions have so far been seized at the border).
Embattled autocrats quickly seized upon these tensions to weaken the opposition and reassert their authority.
China has gleefully seized on this statement to deny that it has encroached on over a thousand square kilometers (386 square miles) of land.
Trump’s Failed Iran PolicyCANBERRA – In response to US President Donald Trump’s policy of maximum pressure, Iran has just seized a second foreign oil tanker.
Now, markets are down 35%, credit markets have seized up, and credit spreads (like those for junk bonds) have spiked to 2008 levels.
To be sure, some of these dollar claims were due to the fact that foreign banks and institutional investors needed greenbacks to cover their funding needs after interbank and other wholesale short-term markets seized up.
About 30 armed police, brandishing an additional warrant, later raided Chin’ono’s home and seized his camera.
The Saudi-initiated Arab Peace Initiative – which was passed unanimously in 2002 and later adopted by the Organization of Islamic Cooperation – offers diplomatic normalization in exchange for Israel’s withdrawal from the areas it seized in 1967.
This dramatic event seized the imagination of India and the world.
The jihadists who seized North Mali in 2012 were forced out by a French-led military intervention.
In fact, at the Soviet command post just south of Berlin (which had served as command center for the German Army during World War II, and which had been seized from Hitler decades earlier), Red Army marshals were awaiting orders to march in and save the empire by whatever means necessary.
Too often, powerful elites have seized control of economic liberalization attempts, weakening popular support for change.
The United Kingdom has released the Iranian tanker (Grace 1) that it seized in Gibraltar.
When the COVID-19 pandemic first seized the world’s attention, it wasn’t clear to me whether it would help or hinder the fight against AMR.
In recent months, it has seized multiple foreign oil tankers.
Israel seized the territory from Syria in the 1967 Six-Day War, then formally annexed it in 1981, in both cases defying unanimous resolutions by the United Nations Security Council.
(China seized Aksai Chin in the 1950s, after gobbling up Tibet, which had previously served as a buffer with India.)
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