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Is Iraq Safe Yet?WASHINGTON, DC – The Obama administration’s decision to withdraw the bulk of United Sates troops from Iraq over the next 19 months has sparked fears that Iraq will once again plunge into the wide-scale and debilitating violence that it endured from 2004 to 2007.
In the US and elsewhere, the Doha round has sparked widespread opposition from workers and trade unions, and has elicited only tepid support from the wider public.
Attacks on Jews have sparked outrage from the many Germans who thought such scenes had vanished forever from their country’s streets.
These eye-popping statistics have sparked a widespread, sometimes rancorous debate about whether people are taking far more medication than is needed for problems that may not even be mental disorders.
Lessons for the AIIBFREETOWN – China’s decision to establish the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank has sparked a lively debate among governments, global finance experts, and development specialists.
More importantly, Cory sparked the momentum for the Philippines to regain a position of respect, dignity and even admiration in the community of nations.
Field Marshal (and SCAF leader) Hussein Tantawy retained his post as Defense Minister, and General Ahmed Gamal al-Din was appointed to head the interior ministry, whose brutal behavior sparked the revolution.
While massive liquidity injections were effective in unfreezing credit markets and arrested the worst of the crisis – witness the role of the Fed’s first round of QE in 2009-2010 – subsequent efforts have not sparked anything close to a normal cyclical recovery.
Unlike the vast majority of conflicts, its civil war was sparked by an international war.
But, though ketamine’s promise has stirred excitement among clinicians and neuroscientists, it has also sparked controversy, owing to the drug’s potentially harmful side effects.
Given the huge public protests sparked by that move, the official’s statement seems eminently believable.
Discussion will be sparked by on-line appearances by top military, political, and civil-society leaders, who will debate with participants.
Capital flight is most likely to be sparked by uncertainty regarding good governance, political stability, civil liberties, accountability, property rights, and corruption.
Just this month, one of Netanyahu’s shamelessly incendiary statements – the claim that Haj Amin al-Husseini, the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, gave Adolf Hitler the idea of annihilating Europe’s Jews during World War II – sparked a media firestorm.
The film actually sparked a noisy protest along La Croisette, with French veterans defensively and aggressively singing “La Marseillaise,” even as couples dressed in black tie and gowns swept in a parallel path to the evening's festivities.
The period of fiscal restructuring – during which the deficit was cut from 9.9% of GDP in 2008 to 8.9% in 2012 – already sparked considerable civil unrest.
(According to one measure, the 2011 debt-ceiling crisis and the 2013 government shutdown caused uncertainty comparable to that sparked by the September 2001 terrorist attacks and the 2008 collapse of Lehman Brothers.)
But for many emerging markets, external conditions began to worsen around 2012, when China’s growth slowed, commodity prices plummeted, and capital flows dried up – developments that sparked a spate of currency crashes spanning nearly every region.
The rise of the Islamic State over the last year has sparked even more violence against minorities.
Add to this slow global economic growth and rising geopolitical tensions, and it is easy to conclude that the world is headed down the same path of nationalism and protectionism that sparked World War I.
Why Musharraf SurvivesRecent threats by the Bush administration to cut off billions of dollars in aid to Pakistan have sparked panic in government circles.
His death – the first political assassination in Tunisia since independence in 1956 – sparked major protests across the country.
Vague in wording and unnecessarily broad in scope, the new laws sparked widespread fear that Article 23 will lead to curtailment of basic rights.
There is much speculation about the reasoning behind the government’s decisions in May to dismiss the pro-Hezbollah chief of airport security and investigate Hezbollah’s private telecommunications network, which sparked the confrontations.
Historically, such clashes have often sparked civil war (for example, Spain in 1936 or Tajikistan in 1992) or brutal military coups (as in Indonesia in 1965 and Turkey in 1980).
The bonfire was sparked by the collapse of the Thai baht in the summer of 1997.
This past summer, the American basketball player Kevin Durant sparked a row with his graphic descriptions of the monument’s surroundings.
Adityanath’s attacks on the Taj, however, have sparked national outrage powerful enough to force him to visit Agra to assure an anxious public that his government is committed to protecting the monument.
The adoption of voluntary measures has already sparked progress, most notably the coordinated commitments by the US and China.
In other words, the export miracle was sparked not by state-sponsored Chinese companies but by offshore efficiency solutions crafted in the West.
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