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But if I had stepped back and given it some thought, it would have been pretty obvious that people with addictive disorders have strong incentives to seek whatever can make them feel like being hugged.
In such cases, Trump stepped on his own message.
Into that void stepped right-wing politicians and historians portraying Russians as the victims of a "false culture," with foreigners responsible for all problems.
If such an expeditionary force cannot be formed, air attacks can be stepped up, thereby at least slowing IS and buying time to develop alternative strategies.
In turn, the military stepped in from time to time – once every four years on average since 1932 – ostensibly to suppress corruption, but retarding democratic rule in the process.
France has stepped up its monitoring of China’s African activities.
As the US has prosecuted its war against Assad, Russia has stepped up its military support to his government.
And now that the US Congress has stepped in, Trump can no longer unilaterally lift sanctions on Russia.
France, the United Kingdom, the United States, China, and Israel have stepped up military and technical support, including the recent provision of helicopters and night-vision equipment for jungle warfare to fight the group, whose campaign of terror has cost 5,000 deaths in the past five years.
Perhaps most important, the United States and China – the world’s top two emitters, which together account for more than one-third of global greenhouse-gas emissions – have finally stepped up, announcing concrete climate commitments in a joint statement last year.
Yet international donors have not stepped in to pick up the slack.
It was this failure, and the quagmire into which America had once again so confidently stepped, that led voters to reject Bush.
In an extraordinary move, China’s National People’s Congress Standing Committee stepped in to “clarify” Article 104 of the Basic Law, declaring that all oaths taken by office-holders must be “solemn, accurate, complete, and sincere.”
With US President Donald Trump’s administration turning its back on internationalism, China has stepped forward to assume the mantle of global leadership.
Far from being chastened by all the attention, Mugabe’s regime has stepped up its efforts, invading homes at night, picking off local leaders and activists and taking them to cells in isolated police stations.
The gray cardinal of Rosneft had stepped too far out of line.
National and international action against the traffickers must be stepped up, and it should include targeting those who run the networks, rather than expending scarce law-enforcement resources to pursue their foot soldiers.
And it is the French, the avatars of Enlightenment and the Rights of Man, who have stepped in to provide a patina of legitimacy to his political twilight.
This would imply altering the scope, pace and composition of our measures early next year, and staff from the ECB and national central banks have stepped up technical preparations for further measures, if needed, with a view to implementing them in a timely manner.
But after the assassination of Senator Ninoy Aquino in August 1983, she stepped resolutely into his role as political leader of my country’s democratic opposition to an entrenched despotic regime.
When Tibetan demonstrators outside the Chinese Embassy in New Delhi attacked the premises, the Indian government stepped up its protection for the Chinese diplomats.
Into this vacuum has stepped President Bush.
This is why in most accession countries last year, central banks and governments stepped up co-operation on defining joint positions on adopting the euro.
The only UK political leader who quickly stepped forward with a clear and decisive strategy was Scotland’s first minister, Nicola Sturgeon.
Rather than allow the renminbi’s value to decline as fast as markets would dictate, the PBOC has stepped in to limit capital outflows and offset depreciation pressure.
Yet, in recent years, governments have also stepped up their budgetary influence.
Until the European Central Bank stepped in last August to become the central bank not just of Germany and France, but also of the distressed peripheral countries, the latter were like emerging-market economies that had borrowed in foreign currency and faced abrupt capital outflows.
With the bombing of an air base in western Syria, the Trump administration stepped into a gaping power vacuum in the Middle East.
After 12 years in office, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf stepped down as president, and former soccer star George Weah was inaugurated.
Now that the Justice Department has stepped in, we can only hope that this story will have a happy ending, and that the courts will recognize that these mergers are anticompetitive and immensely harmful to consumers.
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