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In the end, it was the ECB that stepped into the breach, drowning eurozone banks with liquidity to make sure that they purchased every government bond that moved – and then some.
To reduce elders’ interference, Hu stepped down as head of the military and Jiang Zemin promised to step back.
In the general election in March 2004 – the first since Mahathir stepped down after 22 years in power – moderate Muslims helped Abdullah Badawi to a landslide victory.
China’s government then stepped in with measures to stabilize equity prices.
As Zimbabwe plunged into economic chaos and Mugabe stepped up his repression, circulation, once around 100,000 a day, fell by roughly a third.
It feels as if we’ve all stepped into a time machine and none of the past couple of years of governance lessons – including the failures of boards in the banking-sector crisis – ever happened.”
Since the Brexit vote, the British press has not, for the most part, stepped up to try to save our democracy from being swamped by majoritarian sentiment.
By attempting to create a quick fix for the eurozone’s deep-rooted problems, the ECB has stepped into a political quagmire.
The weakening of the Iran-Syria-Hezbollah axis would directly benefit Israel, which has stepped up its not-so-veiled threats to launch a unilateral military strike against Iran’s nuclear installations.
Any number of developing countries, from China to India to Brazil, could easily step up if the US foolishly stepped down.
Consider how the US government stepped in to ensure financial and economic stability during the global financial crisis of 2008-2009.
But a better example may be Wim Kok, who stepped down last year after eight years as Dutch Prime Minister.
When she stepped down 11 years later (the country’s longest-serving prime minister since Lord Liverpool left office in 1827) Britain was among Europe’s – and the world’s – most dynamic economies.
In 2014, facing re-election, Rousseff stepped up the practice of running overdrafts in public commercial banks in order to pay for social programs.
The prize is given to a recently retired African head of state or government who was democratically elected, stepped down at the end of his or her constitutionally mandated term, and demonstrated exceptional leadership.
Not surprisingly, less regulated intermediaries in the shadow banking system have stepped in to seize much of their business.
What must follow for Europe to become dynamic will be much harder because a lot of toes need to be stepped on as an inefficient status quo is jettisoned.
Then Molina himself stepped down and was arrested immediately.
His teacher thought that he was drawing an image of Palmyra, a historic city so devastated that UNESCO has stepped in to preserve it before nothing is left.
The newly constructed homes built for families that could not afford them get trashed and gutted as millions of families are forced out of their homes, in some communities, government has finally stepped in – to remove the remains.
America never really stepped out of the spotlight, and it will continue to play a leading role.
But trade restrictions were largely avoided, because the WTO and G20 stepped in to facilitate multilateral cooperation.
Finding the means to nourish the fading “associations or duties or ties” that are so essential for individuals to flourish is the unsolved problem of the developed world, and it is looming for the billions who have just stepped on to the growth ladder.
When the FIS seemed headed to victory, Algeria's army stepped in to prevent continuation of the vote.
Person-to-person exchanges should also be encouraged, and the support that countries like Poland give to the Belarusian opposition should be stepped up.
Likewise, as China has stepped up efforts to upend the regional status quo – both territorial and riparian – the US has dithered, doing little to reassure its jittery Asian allies.
Ever since, whenever governments largely stepped back and let financial markets work their way out of a panic out by themselves – 1873 and 1929 in the United States come to mind – things turned out badly.
But whenever government stepped in or deputized a private investment bank to support the market, things appear to have gone far less badly.
Put succinctly, the Dragon stepped in to rebalance the West when the Minotaur no longer could.
Naming China among a handful of countries that have stepped up Internet censorship, Clinton warned that “a new information curtain is descending across much of the world.”
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