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Shocks, whether traceable to weather, geopolitical disturbances, strikes, or natural disasters, are the rule, not the exception.
All of the US strikes have occurred farther north, in Pakistan’s tribal Waziristan region, although the leadership of the Afghan Taliban and of its allied groups, like the Haqqani network and the Hekmatyar band, is not holed up there.
Inter-war corporatism undermined labor unions, even outlawing strikes.
Last year, the Education Cannot Wait (ECW) fund was created to close the financing gap and ensure that education is protected when disaster strikes.
Banning the light bulb because candle makers would lose their jobs strikes almost everyone as a silly idea.
At the same time, a surge of extra-parliamentary mobilization occurs: more and longer strikes and more and larger demonstrations.
The average number of anti-government demonstrations triples, the frequency of violent riots doubles, and general strikes increase by at least a third.
One is its concern to avoid preemptive strikes by Israel, and a war that it does not believe that it could win.
But it is economics, not culture, that strikes at the heart of legitimacy.
Oil prices are low, but they will not remain so if Saudi Arabia experiences terrorist strikes or instability.
The US has spent billions of dollars on arms, training, special operations forces, air strikes, and logistical support for the rebel forces, including international mercenaries.
The Last Pagans of IraqSINGAPORE – With US President Barack Obama belatedly ordering air strikes and humanitarian airdrops of food and relief supplies to refugees in northern Iraq, the world is finally taking action against the Islamic State.
To be sure, India still strikes many as maddening, chaotic, divided, and even desultory, muddling its way through the first decade of the twenty-first century.
Based on estimates by Chinese sociologists, 500 riots, collective protests, and strikes occur each day, up almost four-fold from a decade ago.
A recent editorial in a Chinese state-run newspaper asserted that while China would stay neutral if North Korea attacked first, US strikes aimed at regime change would cause China to intervene.
Of course, from Israeli leaders’ perspective, the status quo, with its absence of terror and missile strikes, is anything but negative.
When disaster strikes, non-governmental organizations (NGOs) are among the first on the scene.
Preventing Assad from using his killing machine by any means, including targeted strikes on his air force and command-and-control centers, is the only way to end the bloodshed in Syria.
Mergers with other organizations are viewed as a way to lessen the risk of eradication by drone strikes or ground attacks from rival forces.
As premiums rise, even more relatively healthy individuals will be encouraged to forego insurance until illness strikes, causing average costs and premiums to rise further.
Illness and deaths from malaria can be reduced sharply by using insecticide-treated bed nets to stop the mosquitoes that transmit malaria, and by effective medicines when the illness strikes.
The Bush administration proclaimed a national security policy that insists that America provides the only sustainable model for national success, and asserted its right to engage in unilateral, preemptive military strikes.
Underground unions – which mount demonstrations and strikes to protect workers’ rights, while refusing to cooperate with the regime’s official unions – have also criticized the election.
But such research is inconclusive for several reasons, not least that public schools face incentive problems of their own, leading to low effort, absenteeism, and frequent strikes.
With little recourse to legal means, an increasing number of frustrated victims of graft resort to extra-legal measures such as strikes, demonstrations, and sit-ins in order to gain media and public attention.
In the eurozone, where there is no single Treasury, a DIF and RA should be financed with levies on banks, with a backstop agreed among the governments before a crisis strikes.
If it launched military strikes on Iran’s nuclear installations, Hezbollah would likely join the fray and Israel would have to engage Hezbollah at the same time.
Add to that continued strikes against ISIS sanctuaries, and the dream of the caliphate will soon be dead.
But this predictable and repetitive pattern of India-Pakistan relations was suddenly disrupted on September 29, when India’s Director-General of Military Operations (DGMO), Lieutenant-General Ranbir Singh, announced that Indian commandos had conducted “surgical strikes” across the Line of Control (LoC) in Kashmir, the de facto international border between the two countries.
The DGMO stated that the strikes, in the early hours of that morning, had destroyed terrorist “launch pads” and eliminated significant numbers of militants poised to cross over for attacks on the Indian side, as well as some who were protecting them (presumably a reference to Pakistani soldiers).
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