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To use Obama’s own baseball metaphor, aiming for achievable singles and doubles is often a more effective strategy than swinging wildly in an effort to hit a home run, only to strike out.
The fight against terror turns on who will strike first; so far, the terrorists have been faster and more professional than the Russian state.
Indeed, that component’s absence was behind this summer’s spreading financial crisis, which moved beyond small, peripheral countries like Greece, Ireland, and Portugal to strike systemically important countries like Italy and Spain.
Is it not in the interest of the West to maintain observers in the most populous nation of the Gulf, to convey western views directly, and to have communications in place should Iran be prepared to strike a deal?
Israelis believe that Iran is galloping into the nuclear club, and will shrewdly use the prospect of talks with the US to pre-empt tougher sanctions or a military strike.
Terrorism, for bin Laden and his allies, is the only method available to strike at the West effectively.
So what is to be achieved by a US strike on Syrian targets, which Obama has already assured the world is not meant to change the Syrian regime?
Recently, as a “final” draft was circulated for discussion, another political crisis erupted over a last-minute modification – in the absence of any consultation – of provisions dealing with the right to strike and freedom of expression.
After months without pay, the government, headed by Hamas’s Ismael Haniyeh, was confronted with a serious challenge in September, when civil servants went on strike, demanding to be paid.
As computers are often more reliable than people -- they don't take vacations, get sick or strike -- they are seen as having an extra edge.
(Bolivia may, of course, not want to bear the risk of a fall in the price, so it may strike a deal to transfer some of the downside risk to foreign companies, giving them in exchange more of the upside potential.)
The bishop, then, does not strike one as an attractive man.
Without healthy public debate that focuses on projects’ costs and benefits, on collective responsibilities and individual rights, and on the trade-offs that the different choices imply, infrastructure hits the headline only when disasters strike, triggering a cascade of accusations, recrimination, and political opportunism.
While his promises to strike “the ultimate deal” are not backed by much detail, they remain appealing to Palestinians, who have grown frustrated with a peace process that has had little impact beyond allowing Israel to expand and consolidate its occupation of Palestinian land.
5.Democratization in the work place - Powerful trade unions -- a general strike was called just before 1996 ended -- brings to an end a time where firms could allow wages to lag behind productivity by years.
It will be difficult to strike a harmonious balance between a French president at the dawn of his power and German Chancellor Angela Merkel, who seems to be in the twilight of hers.
This is why German and French critiques of the EU generally focus on the bloc’s performance, whereas the British often strike at the European project itself.
Whatever deal the May government manages to strike with the EU will suit them just fine.
For example, Cameron wanted to strike a “red line” through the proposal to subject the planned Deposit Guarantee Scheme Directive to the Qualified Majority Voting procedure (meaning that no member state would have veto power).
Similarly, many company bosses know that pretending that climate problems do not exist is bad for shareholders, because reality will one day strike.
A successful strike on Dimona, however, would be another matter.
Still, the plant – along with its spent nuclear fuel, extracted plutonium, and nuclear reprocessing waste – poses significant radiological hazards that a military strike could disperse into the environment.
For decades, Israel dealt with this risk through effective air defenses and disdain for its adversaries’ ability to strike Dimona.
This may strike some as an abdication to impunity.
One explanation is that he was preoccupied by the impending US missile strike on Syria.
A surgical strike against North Korea’s nuclear facilities would most likely not succeed, while a massive attack would provoke devastating retaliation against South Korea.
For Morsi, the dilemma was that the Constitutional Court could strike down the law, rendering the effort meaningless.
The FARC’s record in previous peace talks reveals a penchant for manipulating negotiations to gain national and international legitimacy without actually being willing to strike a deal.
But bankers and businesses, viewing these measures as desperate responses to self-fulfilling deflationary expectations, went on an investment strike, while using the central-bank money to inflate the prices of their own assets (stocks, art, real estate, and so forth).
Also, we are sorry for Trump’s apparent indifference to North Korea’s ability to strike you (and South Korea) militarily.
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