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It is enough to make even the cynical shake their heads in disbelief.
Without these steps, continued bouts of social unrest may well shake investor confidence more than unwelcome policies do.
After presidential debates in the United States or Britain, the contenders, who may have been accusing each other of the most unforgivable of sins, shake hands vigorously and give each other genial and encouraging smiles.
Governments must shake off the delusion that full recovery is just a matter of pushing buttons.
The announcement was supposed to cause speculators to shake in their boots.
These previously Democratic voters were attracted by Trump’s promises to shake things up and bring back manufacturing jobs.
US policymakers in particular wanted to take advantage of the ongoing surge in NATO combat forces in Afghanistan – which reached 150,000 in August, of which some two-thirds were American – to shake Taliban commanders’ conviction that they were winning the war.
The problem is that it has been difficult to shake the conviction that innovation flows only one way: from North to South.
The Brexit RevoltLONDON – With its vote to leave the European Union, the United Kingdom has staged a revolt so forceful that it will shake – and potentially even destroy – the European project.
You can only shake your head at the decline in Germans’ historical awareness, given that neither Thatcher nor Bismarck has ever been a role model for Germany’s European policy, and for good reason!
Russians remember that when Stalin felt that things were getting too quiet, he would shake people up with a purge.
The Jewish Hungarian Nobel laureate Imre Kertész spoke for many in the region when he admitted an inability to shake off his emotional attachment to the United States, which liberated him from Buchenwald and later helped to free Hungary from Soviet Communism.
The investment loans and massive debts among local financing platforms, together with the off-record credit channeled through the “shadow” banking system, are increasing the risk that non-performing loans will soon shake the banking sector.
The time has not yet come to shake hands and part company.
By contrast, nearly everything that George W. Bush's economic policy team has touched has turned to, well, if not lead, at least to a state that inspires observers, both inside and outside the administration, to shake their heads and mutter about a horribly wasted opportunity.
But for such a Damascene conversion to happen, the country would have to experience a political or economic crisis large enough to shake public opinion out of its fatalistic complacency.
She did not fully shake the National Front’s anti-Semitic past, and in 2017, her party’s bigotry took more of an anti-Muslim form.
But many more have remained indifferent to his promise to shake up the status quo.
They will gradually reorient their growth models to make them more sustainable – an effort that occasional bouts of global financial-market instability will shake, but not derail.
The DPJ has vowed to shake up the cozy relations between Japan’s bureaucrats, politicians, and big business.
Enron bosses will be humiliated; other bosses will (in private) shake their heads at the scale of these purges.
What Chinese officials desire is a capitalist stock market without the possibility of large losses that can shake confidence in the CCP’s credibility and control.
Kim, no doubt, will be interested, and he might even agree to shake hands on something along the lines of “denuclearization” in exchange for US troop withdrawals.
Hamas’s offensive is not an attempt to draw Israel into a costly invasion that might shake its regime.
The sense of failure, loss of trust, and the damage inflicted on so many if two or three countries had to leave would shake the entire Union.
The truth is that it is impossible at this point to know how post-Brexit UK-EU trade relations would shake out.
His arrest did, however, shake international confidence in Putin, as well as arouse Russia's other oligarchs and democratic reformers to seriously fear for their freedoms.
Such an outcome would not only shake up Belarus; it also would give Russian President Vladimir Putin serious cause for concern.
The crisis should have been a powerful reality check, yet it failed to shake mainstream economists and policymakers out of their self-imposed intellectual isolation.
If our societies are to survive at all, something will have to shake us from our complacency.
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