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Without such a capacity, a nuclear-armed country has a much greater incentive than the US and the Soviet Union did to launch a first strike if it suspects that it will be attacked.
A country-wide strike called by opposition parties on September 20 brought many cities and towns to a halt.
To strike the right balance with TB, the international community must recommit to R&D initiatives by showing the financial leadership agreed upon in September.
Terrorist attacks have struck Moscow, Beslan, Ankara, Istanbul, Paris, Nice, Munich, Brussels, London, Boston, New York, Washington, and other cities – and those responsible for carrying them out are determined to strike again.
True, the majority of strike sorties were carried out by non-US aircraft, with particular credit going to Denmark, Norway, and Belgium, which flew a disproportionate share of the missions.
The somewhat smaller strike undertaken a year ago failed to change Syrian behavior, and the latest attack is no more likely to do so.
They will need to strike a better balance between openness and protection, innovation and regulation; and they will need to do so without falling into a regressive populist trap.
Recent scientific insights have made us better equipped than ever to strike that balance.
This was sure to kick up a political storm, and French trade unions have already responded by threatening a general strike for the second week in September.
North Korea immediately did just that, threatening to carry out an “enveloping” strike on the US territory of Guam.
A strike designed to destroy Assad’s air force and prevent him from dropping bombs full of nails on his people would concentrate his mind on a diplomatic solution.
The Northern industrial world was not yet ready to recognize the new weight of the emerging powers and the need to strike a new balance between North and South, East and West.
If illicit deals are what it takes to gain access to the resources and markets they needed, private firms have been more than willing to strike them, offering cash or other payments to officials who bent or broke rules on their behalf.
If Russia attempted a conventional incursion into NATO territory, and was defeated, it might consider launching a nuclear first strike in Europe.
But if the US retaliated against a Russian nuclear strike, it would risk facing a Russian counterstrike on its own territories or forces.
Several participants at the CARe symposium highlighted this problem, noting that to implement drug-resistance strategies successfully, governments must strike a balance between global medical responsibility and local public good.
And his undeniable success in implementing his labor laws, exemplified by sparse street demonstrations, has been undermined by his irrepressible will to provocation, reflected in his gratuitous remark that “today when there is a strike in France, no one notices it!”
A general strike was called, and militant students threw up barricades in the center of Algiers.
Trade unions held a symbolic one-hour strike to back the government.
The costs usually strike in the prime of women’s economically productive lives, devaluing their future contributions to society.
Given the evident rapport between Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin, it is plausible that they could strike a deal to end the fighting in that devastated country.
What, then, can strike a balance between the opposing forces operating on the euro-dollar exchange rate?
One option is a “preventive” military strike.
But if you are a law-abiding person who is already too ill to buy a gun, or to use one, or if shooting yourself doesn’t strike you as a peaceful and dignified way to end your life, or if you just don’t want to leave a mess for others to clean up, what are you to do?
Even though the country’s second-largest union has called a general strike, indications are that Macron will have the political support he needs.
That simple phrase neatly encapsulates Liu’s peaceful 20-year-resistance to China’s government, which began with a hunger strike in Tiananmen Square.
To be sure, the US can strike a severe blow against terrorist organizations and drug kingpins by preventing them from transacting in dollars, and legitimate banks’ managers turn pale at the mere thought of losing dollar access.
Eight of the prisoners are now entering the second month of a hunger strike.
A modern nation whose military information is corrupted or disarmed - its satellites flying out of their orbits, its computer screens foaming with nonsense, its missiles curving back to strike its own cities - could be as thoroughly humbled as one smashed by physical bombs.
Latin America is truly at a crossroads: 2006 may well determine whether the continent lapses back into the sad days of chaotic past, who finds a new maturity to strike out on its own path to growth and stability.
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