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The negative effect of the US financial setbacks on Indian stock markets, therefore, made little sense, since they bore no relation to the real value of Indian companies.

Grave as these setbacks may be, the scale of Germany’s difficulties can be comprehended only once their causal link with developments in Italy is grasped.

The US-Saudi relationship has been a rocky one, and its setbacks and scandals have mostly played out away from the public eye.

Obama’s Difficult Fiscal SummerPALO ALTO – Barack Obama’s administration suffered a string of fiscal setbacks this summer.

Turkey itself emerged from the ruins of the Ottoman Empire, and Turkish political life has often been tumultuous, marked by competing visions and aspirations, successes and setbacks.

But they must also recognize that political backlashes and setbacks are inevitable – and thus that the road from vision to reality may be longer than expected.

But such modest gains are more than offset by the security setbacks that China has suffered as a result of its assertiveness in regional territorial disputes.

Despite setbacks in Libya, Yemen, and Syria, the democratic wave has already begun to change the Middle East’s political landscape.

Likewise, the collapse of peace processes in Angola and Haiti and the various setbacks in Cambodia and Nicaragua during the 1990’s reflect a failure to demobilize and integrate.

For half a century, the process of European integration proceeded – sometimes with setbacks, sometimes with giant steps forward – joining formerly separate markets by creating very close trade relations.

Advanced democracies have built – and retain (despite recent setbacks) – extensive social safety nets in the form of unemployment insurance, retirement pensions, and family benefits.

Countries suffering temporary setbacks and in need of dollars to buy imports could turn to the IMF for "balance of payment support," thus saving them from devaluation.

German foreign policy from 1890 to 1914, for which the Kaiser bore formal and intermittently actual responsibility, comprised a series of failures and setbacks.

It was also a realpolitik acknowledgement of the setbacks to be expected along the way (the “slog,” as then Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld put it).

The recent series of setbacks that ISIS has suffered in Iraq and Syria should not be interpreted as a sign of its impending demise.

As the worst recession since the1930’s continues, both the American and Chinese economies are bound to suffer further setbacks.

In the US, however, such developments are perceived as geopolitical setbacks.

With Trump surrounded by hawkish advisers – like Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and National Security Adviser John Bolton – the odds are good that efforts to denuclearize will suffer setbacks before the month is out.

It will feature pioneers and naysayers, victories and setbacks.

That mini-crisis was followed by a series of policy setbacks that reflected China’s scant regard for India’s sensitivities on various issues.

Political Islam’s Loss of Democratic LegitimacyDURHAM – This year, Islamist politics has faced massive setbacks in two major predominantly Muslim countries: Egypt and Turkey.

Despite some setbacks, NATO’s extra-regional campaigns can serve as convincing evidence that the Alliance is the only multinational security institution capable of conducting sustained, high-intensity combat operations worldwide.

Despite some setbacks, the process has raised hope of a permanent end to the 50-year conflict, which has displaced at least five million people and led to more than 200,000 deaths (an estimated 85% of them civilians), with 23,161 selective killings, 25,007 forced disappearances, 27,023 kidnappings, and 1,982 massacres.

Some speculative assets, such as cyber currencies, have already reached this point, and shares in even the best public companies are bound to experience temporary setbacks if they run up too fast.

Brazil is similarly paralyzed, partly because of its presidential election campaign, which is currently in full swing and will conclude only at the end of the year, and partly because of recent diplomatic setbacks.

In the long run, the growing expectation gap would aggravate the inevitable setbacks, and political leaders who championed closer relations could even be replaced by hard-liners.

Despite various setbacks, during the last academic year we opened 1,000 public schools to non-Lebanese students.

To be sure, there have been some setbacks: Japan’s GDP shrank in the second and third quarters of 2014.

It was Major's complete inability to deal with the unexpected, his capacity to turn small political setbacks into major crises, which incited public contempt for his government.

These setbacks are hardly a coincidence.

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