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When Yeltsin stepped down, he left Russia at the mercy of his handpicked successor, Putin.
The recent end of the country’s 26-year civil war has left behind a militarized society and an emboldened Rajapaksa, who has curtailed media freedom and stepped up efforts to fashion a mono-ethnic identity for a multiethnic Sri Lanka.
In that two year period, Chavez stepped on the gas for his social reforms – education, health care, etc. – and also in regard to breaking down the country’s excessive concentrations of wealth.
When these bets failed, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation stepped in.
For years, President Kuchma has been in the West's doghouse, but Europe and the United States stepped gingerly, wary of pushing him into Russia's waiting embrace.
But it was the public that really stepped up, with an outpouring of contributions to the Kerala government’s disaster relief fund that amounted to more than twice the funds so far provided by the national authorities.
The US economy during the Coolidge administration was very successful, but the boom ended badly in 1929, just after Coolidge stepped down, with the stock-market crash and the beginning of the Great Depression.
But macroeconomic reform came to a screeching halt after Koizumi stepped down in 2006.
The country has put in place strong policies and systems to manage debt; implemented new laws on financial management, procurement, and audit; stepped up spending on health centers nationwide; and sought to provide qualified and properly paid teachers in all public schools.
Germany and a few other countries have stepped up to the challenge in ways that are admirable but unsustainable.
Bear Stearns came close to failing earlier that year, before the Federal Reserve stepped in to facilitate a purchase by JPMorgan Chase.
But the regime has lately stepped up its efforts: two nuclear tests have been carried out this year, with the country’s largest-ever device detonated last month.
To be sure, some countries have already stepped up to the plate.
Where international peacekeepers stepped in they soon abandoned all hope of making Muslims and Christians, Croats and Serbs live as neighbours again even among those who had been peaceful neighbours in the past.
After a recent martial-arts match between an American and a Russian, Putin, a judo enthusiast, stepped into the ring to congratulate the Russian victor, a member of his United Russia party.
Monti is 69;Berlusconi was 75 when he stepped down in November last year; and none of the possible candidates for Prime Minister is younger than 60.
NGOs and other kinds of social movements have also stepped up.
Importantly, the World Bank, under its new president, Robert Zoellick, has now stepped forward to help finance this new approach.
Similarly, though Italy’s populists, led by the right-wing League party leader Matteo Salvini, have stepped up their propaganda against “Brussels,” they have also had to retreat from their previous position of supporting an Italian exit from the EU or the eurozone.
President Bill Clinton stepped in, and prevailed upon the two sides to work out their remaining disagreements.
And Mohyeldin can sound like Robert F. Kennedy: when the cry rose up from Tahrir Square hailing Mubarak’s abdication, he commented, “One man stepped down and eighty million people stepped up.”
Whenever the US-North Korean talks have hit a snag, Moon has stepped in to revive them, often by throwing bouquets to both Kim and Trump as encouragement to continue.
Simply put, it would be suicidal for Russia, having itself just stepped back from the brink of territorial disintegration, to build its strength on the collapse of its neighbor.
China finally stepped in to preserve the euro as an international currency.
But, in the last decade, as the US has retreated from its global leadership position, no other country has stepped in to fill the void, leaving the system vulnerable to instability.
And remember that John Boehner stepped down as Speaker of the House in 2015 in part over similar budget struggles with the right wing of his party.
On the morning of December 21, Ceausescu stepped onto the balcony of the Central Committee in the heart of Bucharest to address the people – cadres of state workers assembled, as was customary, to cheer on cue.
In recent months, President Barack Obama has stepped up his own involvement and that of senior figures in his administration in support of a peace strategy for Sudan.
Indeed, this burden has helped to fuel the current protests, which seem to mark the end of a political cycle that began with the restoration of democracy in 1990 and culminated in the election in 2010 of a rightist government for the first time since Pinochet stepped down.
In dropping that half of Wilson’s approach, they stepped on their own message, reducing its effectiveness.
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