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In recent years, China has vigorously sought to recast its bilateral diplomatic and economic ties to the region.
If the authorities adopted common-sense policies and sought support from the International Monetary Fund and other multilateral lenders, as most troubled countries tend to do, they would rightly be told to default on the country’s debts.
The region’s dictators have sought to dismiss the “Jasmine Revolution,” but the spark that started in Tunisia could spread – perhaps in a matter of months or years – to the entire Arab world.
At the same time, it has left Japan’s long sought transcendence of its war guilt and quasi-pariah status incomplete.
Both rich and poor countries in transition to democracy have sought to emulate its examples of sexual equality and socio-economic rights.
With Japan’s high saving rate (a function of Japan’s aging population) and with investments held down by rates of return that diminished as Japan invested heavily during the postwar period, Japan’s excess savings naturally sought outlets abroad.
His government then sought to pin the blame on the local prosecutor who had formally arrested the captain.
When he sought a lawyer to defend his rights, his mother, who had been made his legal guardian, had him locked up in a psychiatric hospital for seven months.
The so-called "Clinton Parameters," which were presented just before the end of Clinton's second term, sought to preclude Israeli annexation of parts of the occupied territories by conditioning any border changes on "territorial swaps and other arrangements."
Seven Asia-Pacific economies (Japan, Australia, New Zealand, Brunei, Malaysia, Singapore, and Vietnam) have already signed onto the pact, which accounts for a combined 13.5% of global GDP, and more members are being sought.
In the end, it came down to a fight among five members of the Politburo Standing Committee: Li Peng and Yao Yiling sought to deploy the military.
No surprise, then, that governments have sought to manage our expectations carefully.
And, like de Gaulle, Putin has sought to rescue his country from humiliation and defeat by carving out a role consonant with popular feelings of national mission and pride, with national interest interpreted as “sovereignty.”
Even before the election, Thaksin sought control of the media.
But BNP continued the banned transactions and knowingly sought to cover its tracks.
And those who already are its members can now no longer delay what they have sought to avoid for too long: to make enlargement possible without isolating Russia.
Bush and the American people sought glory in Iraq.
Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, who became Iran’s president after Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini’s death in 1989, sought such an outcome.
An important salary increase is decided, although it was never sought.
Yanukovych was the man who sought to falsify the result of the presidential election of 2004, inciting the Orange Revolution.
Alongside its myriad distortions and inadequacies there were nevertheless institutions and regulations that sought to decrease the social disadvantages of women.
It is as if Mexico and Canada sought a Chinese alliance to balance the US in North America.
But American culture is far more entrepreneurial and decentralized than was that of Britain, where industrialists’ sons sought aristocratic titles and honors in London.
The Nazis forced treaties on weaker neighbors and seized others, then sought to depopulate Slavic lands to make way for Teutonic settlers.
Finally, much as Austria-Hungary formed an alliance with Germany to fill a strategic need for military security, EU members have sought, through their intake of Russian gas, to meet a strategic need for energy security.
This clash of legitimacy is what the Greek government initially failed to understand last spring when it sought to ease austerity measures: Syriza had received a mandate for change from Greek voters, but other countries’ representatives had not received such a mandate.
While Russia and China asserted that signing an agreement would render any kind of sanction legally unjustifiable, the US sought to allay the fears of Iran’s neighbors as much as possible.
With some 22,000 members, competition is a way of life in the world’s largest ruling family – a dynamic set in motion by the Kingdom’s founder, Abdul Aziz Al Saud, as he sought to secure the role of his 43 sons as future rulers, and sustained today by King Abdullah’s succession strategy.
In Italy, Prime Minister Matteo Renzi sought to take advantage of post-Brexit instability to use public funds to recapitalize Italy’s zombie banks, without imposing losses on their creditors, thereby bypassing the EU’s new “bail-in” rules for banks.
Each has been Prime Minister, and both have sought, while in office, to use the courts to keep the other out of power, even out of politics altogether – seemingly without regard to the cost.
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