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The Right Way to Finance Disaster RecoveryTOKYO – In mid-October, as Japan was being battered by Typhoon Hagibis – the most powerful typhoon to hit the country in over six decades – it was also shaken by a magnitude 5.7 earthquake.
Even if COVID-19 has shaken us from our complacency, we have yet to grapple with the dangers still facing us.
These twin shocks – the abrupt shift from rules to power, and from Europe to Asia – have shaken Europe’s conception of order.
The UK general election in December, and the country’s formal withdrawal from the EU on January 31, have shaken things loose.
A Grassroots Antidote to PopulismPARIS – The political parties that once dominated Western democracies have been shaken to the core.
The advanced economies, for their part, are grappling with a backlash against globalization that has not only weakened their support for trade liberalization and international cooperation, but also shaken their democracies.
And even in contexts where they have not yet achieved their goals, protests have shaken entrenched power structures.
US President Donald Trump’s trade war has shaken confidence, but this is only a downward shove to an economy that was already slowing as it makes the transition from export- and investment-led growth to more sustainable domestic consumption-led growth.
The COVID-19 crisis has shaken the belief that economic prosperity can compensate for social well-being.
Moreover, having shaken up global trade, the US needs to ensure that it will remain the anchor of the rules-based international system.
His administration and its “America First” policies have shaken the UN’s foundations and plunged it into one of its deepest crises to date.
At the same time, the Greens have shaken off much of the ideology that still encumbers the old political parties of the conventional left and right.
The memory of the evil done to her husband aroused in her a feeling akin to repulsion, such as a man might feel who when in danger of drowning had shaken off another who clung to him.
CHAPTER XVIII'NOW THERE'S ANOTHER MATTER; you know what it is... about Anna,' said Oblonsky after a short pause, when he had shaken off the unpleasant recollection.
In Petersburg he always felt that he had shaken off ten years.
And this gross good-natured joke increased the laughter of the men, who expanded their shoulders, half cooked by the stove, while she herself, shaken by laughter, was displaying in the midst of them the indecency of her costume, embarrasingly comical, with her masses of flesh exaggerated almost to disease.
Maheu was shaken but remained full of doubts.
At the word "justice" the crowd, shaken by a long shudder, broke out into applause which rolled along with the sound of dry leaves.
The women were delirious; Maheude, losing her calmness, was seized with the vertigo of hunger, the Levaque woman shouted, old Brulé, carried out of herself, was brandishing her witch-like arms, Philoméne was shaken by a spasm of coughing, and Mouquette was so excited that she cried out words of tenderness to the orator.
The water that filtered from the shaft was falling in great drops, and the floor of the pit-eye, shaken by this tramping, was trembling over the sump, the muddy cesspool ten metres deep.
A sound of thunder came near, the earth was shaken, and Jeanlin galloped up first, blowing into his horn.
The pallor of his face alone revealed the grief which had shaken him.
Never had he reflected so much; he asked himself the why of his disgust on the morrow of that furious course among the pits; and he did not dare to reply to himself, his recollections were repulsive to him, the ignoble desires, the coarse instincts, the odour of all that wretchedness shaken out to the wind.
Usually the tubbings resisted the enormous pressure; the only thing to be dreaded was the piling up of the neighbouring soil, shaken by the constant movement of the old galleries which were filling up.
The colliers who had rushed to the Deux-Cent-Quarante settlement, as though pursued by the cracking tubbing, had frightened the families; and bands of women, old men, and little ones came running up, shaken by cries and sobs.
The chimney alone, thirty metres high, still remained standing, though shaken, like a mast in the tempest.
Many of them, sick with fright after the accident, shaken by nervous tremors, soaked in cold sweats, and the prey of continual nightmares, got up in spite of everything, and were as eager as any in their desire to fight against the earth, as though they had a revenge to take on it.
But Bonnemort was shaken by some agitation, a deep scraping which seemed to arise from his belly, and he expectorated into the plate a thick black expectoration.
The whole mine was shaken, and its distended bowels burst with the enormous flood which gorged them.
And Catherine, shaken and dazed by this continuous downfall, joined her hands, stammering the same words without cessation:"I don't want to die!
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