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Many Americans can only shake their heads at the energy lobbyists who surround Bush and Vice-President Dick Cheney, and for a long time now a majority has been in favor of signing multilateral agreements, particularly in the area of climate protection.
With nothing to lose, Hamas decided that another round of fighting with Israel was the only way to shake things up.
That is enough to shake asset prices worldwide.
But global conditions this year are anything but traditional, so it seemed appropriate to wait until US President Donald Trump settled into the White House to weigh in on some of the main surprises that might shake up the world economy and financial markets on his watch.
Second, and similarly, China will try to shake up the DPP’s base by further targeting the commercial interests of Taiwanese farmers and fishermen in the south.
But staying out will produce nearly the same result and dramatically shake America’s credibility in a crisis-ridden region, with serious consequences for the future.
But John Paul II's basic intuition is correct: the postcommunist world--East and West--is in spiritual crisis, and the Pope wants to shake it into realizing the importance of higher values.
Perhaps the man to shake things up is Matteo Renzi, Italy’s dynamic 39-year-old prime minister.
Unprincipled politics, cults of violence, communal rage, and macabre killings of religious minorities have all combined to shake people's faith in the political system's viability.
It can shake the world out of its stupor; and it can safeguard against “secular stagnation.”
It is difficult to shake hands with opponents who are killing one’s families and neighbors.
In today’s world, they must be low enough for us to shake our neighbor’s hand, understand his problems as we do our own, and find feasible solutions.
With income stagnation, faltering economic opportunities, and a loss of faith in progress fueling widespread discontent, voters backed candidates who promised to return power to the “people” and to shake up systems that mainstream political leaders had “rigged” in favor of a corrupt “elite.”
WASHINGTON, DC – As corruption scandals rattle Latin America, many observers are asking if the region will ever shake off its legacy of weak institutions.
The question now is whether Northeast Asia’s Big Three leaders can overcome old positions, shake hands, and get serious about regional diplomacy.
To be sure, executives and entrepreneurs like to shake their heads over the current US fiscal deficit.
They lose votes to the populists and demagogues whose promises to shake up the system are more credible.
Personally, I cannot shake off the intuition that minds and sensibilities shaped by aesthetics, by their identification with fictions, by their enchantment with the past, may be inhibited from any active, concrete involvement in the anguish and demands of the present.
The Lockerbie tragedy is a dark chapter in Libya’s past, which all Libyans are eager to shake off.
No one knows what might pop up next to shake up the race, but it is sensible to assume that something will.
Comparisons to Nazi-era Europe do nothing to reassure a community that, despite all of the major historical differences between then and now, cannot quite shake the feeling that it is dancing on the rim of a volcano.
As pro-democracy protests shake Arab authoritarian regimes, the prospect of sustained conflict threatens a global economy still dependent on oil, while the aftermath of the Japanese earthquake and nuclear accident raises doubts about the security of nuclear energy.
But Ozawa remains combative, hinting that the two sides are engaged in a grudge match – and knowing that his faction can intervene through the ruling DPJ to shake up the personnel, budget, and operations of the prosecutor’s office.
One cannot shake the impression that the European soul of this government is devoured by angst.
Just as Lula’s 2002 election signified a sea of change in a highly class-conscious, socially stratified society, Silva’s election would shake up the racial order in a country – and indeed continent – where racism has not been eradicated.
Can the British exit threat shake Europe to its senses and make the United Kingdom’s effort to reform institutions more likely to succeed, or to make Europe a more stable polity?
“And if we do, should I shake their hands?”
“How could you welcome him and shake his hand?”
While Rousseff’s government is largely responsible for the recent bout of cyclical weakness and social upheaval, Brazil’s problems are rooted in a broader unwillingness to shake off the yoke of policies adopted during more than two decades of military rule.
Then the populist appears and promises to shake things up, to defend the interests of the “people” (though really only some of them), and offers something arguably more attractive than feasible solutions: scapegoats.
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