Seizing
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Eight years after
seizing
power and exiling his main civilian opponents, the general is moving heaven and earth to hold on to political office.
As in other countries, the very act of
seizing
territory meant a lot to protestors.
But instead of
seizing
the opportunity in front of them, German policymakers have been busy worrying about the elimination of skilled labor altogether.
In order to prevent such an outcome, Putin is trying to destabilize Ukraine, by
seizing
Crimea and fomenting ethnic conflict in the eastern part of the country.
But
seizing
today’s unique opportunity with Iran demands long-term vision from all parties.
Seizing
SarajevoLONDON – Officially, the European Union has one Balkan policy: admit the region’s six countries.
We call on all women and men to join us in making their voices heard loudly and in
seizing
this opportunity for a just and equitable future for all.
Whom would you pick: an expert who balances conflicting arguments and concludes that the likeliest outcome is more of the same, or an expert who gets viewers on the edge of their seats over radical Islamists
seizing
control and causing oil prices to soar?
With investment risks largely collectivized by the bailout measures instituted by the ECB and the eurozone’s member governments, investors are once again accepting low yields, and borrowers are
seizing
the new opportunities.
Major companies are already
seizing
on water-risk data.
Seizing
the opportunity requires that humility rather than moral supremacy prevails.
One of the true joys of my life in politics was the opportunity to have a quiet lunch with Thatcher in London some years ago, and express my gratitude to her for recognizing our chance for freedom and
seizing
the diplomatic initiative to help realize it.
But such agreements do not apply to a court-run bankruptcy process; authorities everywhere would move to protect local creditors and taxpayers by
seizing
assets in their jurisdiction.
Far from
seizing
on deregulation to improve their own profit margins, at the expense of consumers and communities, companies should be working hard to boost transparency.
People in Africa – and, indeed, throughout low- and middle-income countries – are
seizing
the opportunities that technology provides, using mobile phones for everything from making payments to issuing birth certificates, to gaining access to health care.
On the contrary, his justification for
seizing
and occupying Crimea – the need to defend ethnic kin from a nonexistent threat – was precisely Hitler’s justification for annexing the Sudetenland.
The US cannot successfully isolate Russia for not adhering to international law and
seizing
another state’s territory.
President Xi Jinping aspires to make China an attractive economic and social model for others to emulate,
seizing
the opportunity created by US President Donald Trump’s tarnishing of the American brand to boost Chinese “soft power.”
For Syria, the choice now is between
seizing
this opportunity to open its economy, or retreating back into its Baathist shell.
Turkey has been deft in
seizing
these new opportunities, with exports increasingly headed south and east to the emerging economies, rather than west to high-income markets.
Nobody wants to go to war over Crimea, and one must hope that no reasonable statesman would ignore the fundamental tenets of international relations by
seizing
control of mainland Ukrainian territory.
The focus now must be on
seizing
this disruptive opportunity to ensure that the finance system fulfills its potential to support inclusive, sustainable development.
Over the last 30 years, Chinese manufacturers have proved adept at
seizing
opportunities to emulate, adapt, and diffuse new technologies.
But there is also a risk that some politicians act solely out of self-interest,
seizing
on the economic downturn as an opportunity to get elected by promising to withdraw the country from the EMU, or by saying that they will threaten to do so if the other member countries do not agree to their proposed policy changes.
Indeed, Turkey could turn Putin’s justification for
seizing
Crimea – that he is protecting ethnic Russians there – against him, by arguing that it is protecting its Turkic Tatar kin, who, given Russia’s ill treatment of them in the past, are anxious to remain under Ukrainian rule.
But
seizing
them will demand global leadership, strategic clarity, nuance, and decisiveness – almost all of which were absent in 2013.
Yes, expatriate-invested firms produce many Chinese exports, but they often do it by
seizing
control of export-oriented businesses from indigenous Chinese.
Russia should be celebrating – and it should be
seizing
the opportunity to deepen its ties with the West.
Cash-strapped local governments began
seizing
farmland in order to sell it to commercial real-estate developers, while accumulating massive debt through off-balance-sheet loans and short-term interbank funding to finance local-government investment vehicles and real-estate investment.
The current diplomatic crisis, too, is an opportunity to ensure that transatlantic discussions about privacy and surveillance reverberate in a multilateral setting;
seizing
it would represent a small but significant contribution to the strategic vision that has been sorely lacking for the last quarter-century.
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