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As investors sought the higher yields on land, property, equities, bonds, and bank deposits that were attainable in emerging markets after 2008, capital inflows to Latin America tripled, boosting asset prices, credit, and aggregate demand.
That is why Putin has sought to create his own international order.
French governments have sought it in the only way they know – by ever more regulation.
Governance is about setting priorities, and US foreign policy toward China has too often sought a broad array of goals, without stopping to ask if some objectives might be more important than others.
In recent years, spontaneous demonstrations like the one just completed have not delivered the reforms participants have sought.
Meanwhile, Labour leaders, who had also sought the Murdochs’ favor, have vowed to block News Corporation’s bid for full ownership of Britain’s largest pay-television broadcaster.
Last year, for example, when C. Glenn Begley and Lee Ellis sought to reproduce 53 “landmark” preclinical cancer studies, they discovered that nearly 90% of the findings could not be reproduced.
The struggle to secure the victory of Viktor Yushchenko, the true winner in last Sunday’s presidential election, as Ukraine’s new president is not one that we sought.
The draft differed in many respects from Hazare’s, but it retained what most people sought – an independent agency with its own investigative resources and prosecutorial powers.
The Kim regime has always sought such vindication above everything else.
Nigel Farage, UKIP’s charismatic leader, was denied the parliamentary seat he so desperately sought, and the party’s bandwagon appears to be slowing and perhaps going into reverse.
This requires the immediate establishment of a judicial body, whose legitimacy would be based on the same multilateral process that was sought prior to the war.
Board approval was sought, but only after the key decisions were already made.
This followed two visits he made to Haiti over the past 18 months and a donor’s conference he sponsored in April that sought to raise $300 million in aid and investment.
That is why Kazakhstan sought the chairmanship of the Organization for Security and Cooperation (OSCE) in Europe, which it obtained in 2010, and pursued a difficult but ultimately successful campaign to become a non-permanent UN Security Council member in 2017-2018.
China has sought to step into the breach of global leadership – and has been met with surprisingly strong approval from the rest of the world.
Among the changes sought by Clinton’s national security adviser, Anthony Lake, was an end to the unfettered White House access that Saudi Arabian Ambassador Bandar bin Sultan enjoyed during the Reagan and Bush presidencies.
It is a role America has long sought to avoid.
While it is impossible to say exactly what the EU that emerges will look like, it seems clear that it will look nothing like the Brussels-centric, deeply integrated Shangri-La long sought by many at the Commission.
After Chiang Kai-shek retreated to Taiwan in 1949 to form the Republic of China in opposition to Mao's People's Republic, he sought to maintain his dictatorial regime but was made to recognize the importance of building Taiwan's economy so as to strengthen the island.
Since its launch in 2000, the GAVI Alliance has sought to increase access to life-saving vaccines for the world’s poorest children.
While the authorities have sought to quell the protests – cordoning off central New Delhi and subjecting the rest of the city to traffic restrictions – violence has escalated.
The Assembly sought to fill this policy vacuum by outlining steps that her government must take to jump-start the economy.
Fifty years ago, if you sought to read about India in the West, you would mostly find books about spirituality.
He had sought to take advantage of the Beijing Olympics to give the foreign media unprecedented freedom, but the bureaucrats succeeded in reversing his decision.
But he never sought such a role.
Significantly, whereas the regime previously sought to downplay the challenge posed by the opposition, Syrian state television has covered the fighting in Damascus extensively.
Some 38,000 Somalis have sought refuge in Uganda as well, fleeing a war that is also partly of Uganda’s making.
As planners recognized the shortcomings of twentieth-century remedies, they sought to reverse the equation: how can nature be returned to the city?
A few Christian thinkers have sought to reinterpret “dominion” as “stewardship,” suggesting that God entrusted humanity to care for his creation.
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