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Although recent officials US statements have been directed primarily at China and Russia, they have motivated governments worldwide to build their own offensive cyber capabilities.
News outlets that did not provide ample coverage of government statements were fined, as were outlets that did not recirculate foreign press reports that were favorable to the government or critical of opposition figures.
On some occasions, news outlets were even forced to print or air lengthy dissenting statements from government officials who disliked their treatment in the media.
And in some cases, governments have interrupted programming on privately owned television stations to issue political statements.
Yes, I realize that my simple statements are not precisely correct, but are surely 99%-plus correct.
The Hungarian Government’s Failed Campaign of LiesNEW YORK – In October, Hungary’s government mailed questionnaires to all four million of the country’s households asking for peoples’ views on seven statements describing my alleged plan to flood Europe, and Hungary in particular, with Muslim migrants and refugees.
I rebutted each and every one based on my published statements or the lack of any published statements that could substantiate them.
Trump had not, as many had feared, issued unsubstantiated statements or destabilized further the brittle regional status quo.
But such statements have yet to coalesce into a coherent pro-European story – not least because, with the exception of German Chancellor Angela Merkel, Renzi is the only winning representative of mainstream orthodoxy in a debate bedeviled by xenophobic and “anti-systemic” movements.
The demonstrations that will rock European cities the day Iraq is attacked must be counteracted in advance by unequivocal European statements to that effect.
Its financial statements underestimate the true value of public assets, reporting total assets worth $3.8 billion, of which $1.4 billion is real estate.
The taciturn statesman not only refused to bring reporters along on his plane (breaking with decades of precedent); he provided only brief public statements that do not paint a particularly detailed or comprehensive picture.
While Abe has not acted on these campaign statements, some observers remain convinced that he will visit Yasukuni at some point, further straining Japan’s relations with South Korea and China.
All along Trump’s march to becoming the Republican Party’s presidential nominee, partisan commentators spun and re-spun his countless outrageous statements, sometimes with just a tut-tut of disapproval, while other on-air pundits all too often treated his malignant demagoguery as worthy of serious analysis.
The Campaign for Plain English, a lobbying group, has described the Bank’s statements as “worthless, impenetrable waffle.”
Moreover, even congressional Republicans who have distanced themselves from Trump’s more extreme statements – some even before his inadequate response to the violence at a white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia – still support his main policy proposals, and are relying on him to sign conservative legislation that Obama vetoed.
Many observers were shocked by his statements, and took the speech as evidence of his insecurity or irrationality.
Despite Trump’s tweets and statements, denuclearization is neither a fact nor a certainty.
This holds promise of progress, but despite the brief fanfare and positive statements at the peace conference last November in Annapolis, Maryland, a retrogression has occurred in the process.
But it would also make a grand statement, and Putin thrives on grand statements.
Exponents of the Northern League, such as MEP Mario Borghezio, MP Roberto Cota, and Senator Federico Bricolo, are well known for their xenophobic statements in Parliament, particularly against those from non-EU countries.
President Donald Trump tweeted that ABC had never apologized for the “horrible statements made and said” about him on the network, and that another comedian, Samantha Bee, should be fired for using offensive language about his daughter Ivanka.
In the grip of “panic panic,” officials issue over-reassuring statements, suppress or delay alarming news, and speak contemptuously about how the public is “irrational,” “hysterical,” or “panicking.”
If I could ban one phrase from official statements, my first choice would be “Everything is under control.”
But international support for basic R2P principles remains strong, with the Council itself continuing to use “responsibility to protect” terminology in its resolutions and statements (26 times, at last count, since Libya).
It is everyone’s task to counter extremism actively and speak out about radical statements, in public and in private.
Indeed, on February 10, 2004, he woke up to an unpleasant news story in the Washington Post: ”President Bush’s top economist yesterday said the outsourcing of US service jobs to workers overseas is good for the nation’s economy....Mankiw’s comments come as the president struggles to shore up support in manufacturing states that have lost millions of jobs....Mankiw’s conclusions may prove discordant during an election year...”It happened again on February 11: “Democrats...lit into President Bush’s chief economist yesterday for his laudatory statements on the movement of U.S. jobs abroad....Rep. Donald Manzullo (R-Ill.)
Such joint and several liability, the plaintiffs assert, contradicts the Court’s previous statements that Germany should not accept any financial commitments stemming from other states’ behavior.
On Saturday, two senior journalists were detained for issuing statements critical of the crackdowns.
In assessing Clinton’s statements on this topic, the fact-checkers make much of the finding by Blinder and Watson that, contrary to widespread assumptions, fiscal and monetary policies are not more “pro-growth” or expansionary under Democrats than under Republican presidents, and therefore cannot explain the performance differential.
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