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In fact, the relatively weak support for populist parties in German elections obscures an undercurrent of dissatisfaction in German society that bears striking similarities to the anger that has fueled the rise of anti-establishment parties in Europe and beyond.
By that point, exiting the EU would be as absurd as California striking out on its own today.
But, while the presence and pressure of English has a striking impact on the vocabulary of the home language, it leaves the syntax, grammar, and pronunciation almost entirely unaffected.
It is striking that, when asked which country in Asia is the most unequal according to the Gini coefficient (the most commonly used measure of income inequality), students at Chulalongkorn University’s Sasin Graduate Institute of Business Administration in Thailand identified India, Vietnam, and Pakistan.
The evidence is striking.
Likewise, in last year's ruling striking down a Texas prohibition on same-sex sodomy, the Court cited a 1967 Act of the English Parliament and a 1981 ruling of the European Court of Human Rights.
What makes this desolate economic landscape even gloomier is the striking inability of European leaders to explain what has happened and is happening to their citizens.
And, indeed, as this exchange of rhetorical fire has unfolded, the US has reportedly been preparing revised military options for striking North Korea.
The transformation in investors’ beliefs is striking.
And it has spurred large-scale corruption, with local officials striking special deals with businesses to provide, say, tax breaks, cheap credit, or land at below-market prices.
French leaders often like to be seen resisting American pressure before striking a compromise and cooperating in a manner that serves both French and American interests.
Indeed, one of the more striking features of the tsunami disaster was that it caught some of the most glamorous vacation resorts completely unprepared.
An even more striking pattern is that Americans are overly optimistic about social mobility in parts of the country where actual mobility is low – including the southeastern states of Georgia, Alabama, Virginia, North Carolina, and South Carolina.
The responses from the Chinese and Indian participants were striking.
Though he has a lot on his plate – from North Korea’s nuclear brazenness to Russia’s encroachment on Western spheres of influence – and the odds of success are desperately slim, the prospect of striking a “big deal” where all his predecessors have failed is simply too tempting to pass up.
With Turkey and the Kurds at each other’s throats, striking that balance will be more difficult than ever.
At least in the near term, the chance that the US will not service its debt is vanishingly small – perhaps in the same order of probability as a large meteor striking the earth.
With the United States now in recession (and the possibility of a deep recession not that remote), it is striking how positive ECB officials sound about the European economy: Europe’s “economic fundamentals are sound,” the economy is “robust,” economic performance is “just below potential,” and so on.
That is a striking result – all the more so because it comes from the IMF, an institution hardly known for heterodox or radical ideas.
Cancer epidemiologist Geoffrey Kabat identifies several factors, including “the success of the environmental movement; a deep-seated distrust of industry; the public’s insatiable appetite for stories related to health, which the media duly cater to; and – not least – the striking expansion of the fields of epidemiology and environmental health sciences and their burgeoning literature.”
Striking a balance between the short- and long-term approaches will prove to be a major challenge for China’s leadership.
The New Nuclear ThingWASHINGTON, D.C.: For half a century, nuclear war was avoided thanks to deterrence and the notion that striking first held little attraction because the other party could and would retaliate with devastating consequences.
Three “secondary contradictions” are especially striking on the economic front.
But the discrepancy between the scale and seriousness of the problem and the attention it has received is striking.
Technology companies cannot achieve success simply by pleasing their board of directors or even striking multi-million-dollar deals with partners.
And the persistence at the top is striking across the board.
The failure to include Indonesia, which has almost twice as many Muslims as the entire Middle East, is striking not only because of its size: Whereas most countries in the alliance are ruled by despots or autocrats, Indonesia is a robust democracy.
Adapting to Climate ChangeCOPENHAGEN – Striking the right balance between preventing global warming and adapting to its effects is one of the most important – and most vexing – policy questions of our age.
The World Economy In 1996CAMBRIDGE: The end of decades of inflation and the onset of major long term fiscal restraints are the most striking features of the world economy today.
This round of fighting was preceded by a negotiated calm, as the government sought to quell militants in Pakistan’s tribal areas by striking a deal with the Taliban leader, Sufi Mohammad.
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