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The simplification of the labor code should be negotiated with social partners to mitigate or even avoid strikes and protests.
Suddenly there were no delays, no strikes, no bad manners.
Likewise, following the Israeli air strikes on Gaza in early March that killed more than 100 Palestinians, UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon was moved to “condemn the disproportionate and excessive use of force that has killed and injured so many civilians, including children.”
Notwithstanding the UN Secretary General’s statement, Israel claimed self-defense, as the air strikes followed a rocket attack from Gaza that killed an Israeli civilian in the border town of Sderot.
Unless Europeans are willing to pay an economic price, they will have little credibility in persuading the United States not to resort to military strikes.
Economists predict that strikes and unrest will escalate in Bangladesh, and also in Vietnam, with even investment bankers quoted by The Financial Times calling wages for women garment workers in these countries “unsustainably low.”
By contrast, India strikes many as maddening, chaotic, divided, and seemingly directionless as it muddles its way through the second decade of the twenty-first century.
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has resumed air strikes on his people, killing opposition fighters and civilians alike.
But peace and quiet based on tanks and the threat of air strikes cannot be enough.
Neither candidate mentioned that, by some estimates, the drone strikes have killed far more civilians than “suspected terrorists.”
The most authoritative study puts civilian deaths from drone strikes between June 2004 and mid-September 2012 at 474-881, including 176 children.
Indeed, US law cannot “authorize” drone strikes if they are carried out in countries with which the US is not at war.
This strikes me as wrongheaded for several reasons.
They are locked in battle against Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s murderous pro-Iranian regime; a few pro-Western fighting groups, supported by American and British air strikes; as well as the Kurds, the Turks, and the Russians.
And, whether it comes in the form of a capital strike by foreign bondholders, or of domestic labor strikes and wider social and political unrest, France’s leaders remain entirely unprepared for the inevitable.
When war or disaster strikes, the international community rightly mobilizes funding for food, shelter, and health care.
A wave of strikes in May and August of 1988 brought home to Poland's politburo that the strategy of repression they had pursued since the introduction of martial law in 1981 was a failure.
It strikes the ideal balance between realism and ambition, recognizing the EU’s limitations and pinpointing the improvements that are needed.
But what is extraordinary about Palin’s comment is that, despite being a strong proponent of the sanctity of human life, in criticizing Obama she did not pause to deplore the serious loss of innocent human life that American air strikes in Afghanistan have caused.
Afghanistan’s president, Hamid Karzai, has repeatedly expressed outrage at American air strikes that have killed civilians – most recently in August, when he said that 95 Afghans, including 50 children, were killed in the bombing of a village.
They, too, will have to act before the next flood or drought strikes.
In addition to providing their families at home with a much-needed source of stable income, expatriate migrant workers send home even more money when catastrophe strikes.
When disaster strikes, it is the experience of all health professionals that they are often overwhelmed with offers of help.
Strikes were mounting.
They gathered momentum after a summer of labor strikes, when Poland’s communist chief, General Wojciech Jaruzelski, concluded that the country’s economic troubles were too grim to face alone.
Unless the risks emanating from high public debt are systematically reduced, eurozone countries will be heavily exposed when the next crisis strikes.
According to Weil, between 2006 and 2015 the Office of the UK Home Secretary stripped 53 British citizens of their nationality; at least two were subsequently killed by American drone strikes.
But neither a nuclear-armed Iran nor air strikes against it are wise options, certainly not for this region.
Without doubt, NATO air strikes and the subsequent administration of Kosovo as a protectorate improved the political situation for Albanian Kosovars.
The real issue extends beyond the use of algorithmic decision-making in corporate and political governance, and strikes at the ethical foundations of our societies.
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