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Now is the moment for South Asia to revert to its “natural balance,” gain breathing space, and recover its shattered peace.
The interwar economy, shattered by the Great Depression of the early 1930’s, offers a whole series of painful, but important, lessons for the present.
The Twentieth Congress shattered the world Communist movement, and it turned out to be impossible to cement the cracks.
In the advanced countries, the fall in asset values and, more generally, fear of what comes next has shattered consumer and business confidence.
For my part, I would not have chosen to accept a one in three – or even a one in six – chance of a disaster that would have killed hundreds of millions and shattered our cities, even if the alternative were a Soviet invasion of Western Europe.
His victory shattered a century-and-a-half of cozy bipartisan misrule.
Obama’s Middle EastJERUSALEM – President-elect Barack Obama’s plans for the Middle East, the region where his predecessor’s policies shattered America’s standing around the world as a benign superpower, represent a welcome departure from President Bush’s grand design to redress the region’s ills through “constructive chaos.”
Finally, the crisis has shattered the ideological dominance of the West.
The communist dogma was shattered, but so was the pretense that we were all equals in a homogenous society.
The old people shattered by a burglary.
The rise of the nation state and the rise of government as economic actor shattered the old liberal world.
Showdown in TibetOn March 14, the otherworldly calm of Lhasa, Tibet’s holy city, was shattered by riots and gunfire.
The revelation that Trump and President Tsai Ing-wen of Taiwan spoke by telephone has probably now shattered any residual hope that the incoming US administration will be anything but a bull in a China shop.
We are being driven slowly but ineluctably to the realization that the people whom we are fighting will, to a significant extent, inherit the shattered countries that we leave behind.
The people of Abyei have the right to choose to rebuild their shattered community under the newly independent Government of South Sudan, rather than being forced by diplomatic indecision to remain under the boot of Bashir’s army.
An oppressed tribe of Ostjuden, destitute immigrants from the shattered communities of Eastern Europe, was transformed in just two generations from God-fearing shoemakers, tailors, and wandering peddlers into a community of writers, philosophers, scientists, and tycoons.
Animal spirits are not always shattered by extraordinary economic events.
Brazilians’ belief that their country was headed toward long-term prosperity has been shattered – and they are taking it out on Rousseff.
However, the assault from Japan, a speck of dust in its own backyard, shattered this self-assurance and was experienced as a shocking and intolerable humiliation.
Palestinians were once reputed to be among the best-educated people in the Middle East; today, after years of violence, isolation, and poverty, their proud tradition of educational excellence has been shattered.
Three days later, Nagasaki was shattered by a plutonium bomb that matched the design of a bomb that the United States had tested in the New Mexico desert three weeks earlier.
Propaganda, streets lined with cheering Iraqis, amazement over the prowess of US smart bombs, would not distract us from an awful truth-that Bush and Blair shattered world peace, engaged in massive premeditated killing, and did so against overwhelming global opinion.
Egypt retains the strongest sense of nation-statehood in the region; nonetheless, it has become a shattered and divided society, and it will take many years to recover.
The internet and computer-based trading have shattered geographic boundaries and revolutionized investment, not only by opening up new avenues for trading, but by democratizing access to information that was once the exclusive preserve of professional investors.
For we face a choice, one that we must make collectively: Should we spend more now on education in emergencies, or pay the price of a lost generation of poorly educated children who will someday be inadequately equipped to rebuild their shattered societies?
Since coming onto the political scene, Trump has shattered expectations about how a US presidential candidate – and, subsequently, a US president – should behave.
This is not only because Pinochet’s 17 years in power, from 1973 to 1990, dramatically shattered the country’s democracy, with thousands of people executed, missing, or tortured – among them Bachelet’s own father, an air force general who died under torture because he opposed the coup.
Two years ago, on January 12, 2010, Haiti was struck by a devastating earthquake that killed more than 220,000 people and shattered the country’s prospects.
A regime in Tehran that must demonstrate external strength to survive its shattered legitimacy at home would therefore make the comprehensive, negotiated settlement that the West seeks much more difficult and risky, if not impossible, to achieve.
Together with these considerations, policymakers should take into account the tremendous human and economic costs of high unemployment, ranging from the millions of shattered lives, skills erosion, and disappearance of opportunities for an entire generation, to the dead-weight loss of idle human resources.
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