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Traditional allies, not accustomed to dealing with US leaders with severe mental defects, are clearly shaken, while adversaries appear to be taking advantage.
So far, none of this has shaken democracy, but when enough people become vexed at several things simultaneously, one has the makings of a toxic political brew.
While scientific evidence over the last three decades has undermined the shaken baby hypothesis, no new evidence has emerged to support it.
By contrast, since the 2008 global financial crisis, that belief has been badly shaken in Italy and other EU-countries.
The bank collapses in 1931, and in September 2008, have shaken the confidence of the international creditor: then the US, now China.
The opening of Hungary's borders that autumn and the seeking of refuge by East German citizens in the German embassies of Prague and Warsaw already had shaken communist and Stasi rule to its their foundations.
Noise about these risks has occasionally (but only briefly) shaken investors’ confidence, and modest market corrections have tended to reverse themselves.
Once the security of the familiar world is challenged, and its inner sanctums have been invaded and shaken, a space may be cleared for occupation.
Eventually, even the almighty American consumer will be shaken and realize that he is poorer today than three years ago and that he better start putting money away for his retirement, especially given Bush's proposed risky experiments with the social security system.
The Council has recently been shaken up, with its membership reduced from 50 to 10 and each member's role clarified.
NEW DELHI – The fallout from the terror attacks in Mumbai last week has already shaken India.
As they dominated the world’s media for three gruesome days, the killers achieved a startling success for their cause, one that must have shaken anti-terrorist experts around the world, who now realize how easy it would be for ten men unafraid of death to hold any city in the world hostage.
Trump’s Train WreckWASHINGTON, DC – Donald Trump, the US Republican Party’s presidential nominee, has again shaken up his campaign organization.
Even ExxonMobil appears shaken.
Europe and the Global Food CrisisPARIS – The world has been shaken by unprecedented spikes in food prices, by hunger riots, and by social tensions that demonstrate that food supplies have returned as a source of insecurity – to which global warming and declining natural resources are adding unprecedented urgency.
Cambridge – You know that American self-confidence is shaken when even the President starts expressing fear that the financial crisis may turn out worse than the Great Depression of the 1930’s.
Even before Pakistan’s ruling elite was shaken by the killings in Pakistan’s streets and the turmoil in Tunisia and Egypt, it had begun to plan measures aimed at mollifying an increasingly restive citizenry.
Moreover, the US has not shaken off its dependence on oil.
Meanwhile, China’s domestic political system is being shaken up by President Xi Jinping’s anti-corruption campaign – an effort that is essential to boosting the government’s accountability and legitimacy as it pursues deep systemic reforms.
I have only shaken hands with Clinton once, early one Sunday morning in a synagogue in New York City several years ago.
As that belief is shaken – say, by the poisoning earlier this year of the former Russian double agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter on British soil – the global order is damaged, perhaps beyond repair.
Prospects for US-China Relations in 2019NEW YORK – Throughout 2018, much of Asia has been shaken by the new and increasingly unpredictable dynamics in Sino-American relations.
But recently confidence recently has been shaken: by soaring oil prices, natural disasters like Hurricane Katrina, and growing global imbalances—large surpluses in some countries offset by large deficits in others.
Likewise, if the perceived creditworthiness of the government is shaken, then intervention from some outside lender of last resort might be essential for either the second or third cure to work.
That is what has happened to the European Union over the last three years, because the global financial crisis has not only shaken Europe to its foundations; it has assumed life-threatening proportions.
So our confidence is not shaken, yet.
These and other developments have shaken Germany’s once-firm foreign-policy footing.
While the City of London was shaken by the collapse of Lehman Brothers and the run on HBOS, Sotheby’s staged a record-breaking auction for the works of the artist Damien Hirst, which produced a gross take of around $200 million.
An Assassination in BelgradeNot since Archduke Franz Ferdinand's assassination has a murder shaken Belgrade as much as the killing of Serbian Premier Zoran Djindjic.
Not surprisingly, the confidence of Italian households and firms has been shaken, and capital flight has ensued.
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