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The results were striking.
In this context, Germany’s new austerity package is the latest and most striking element in a sequence of ill-advised responses.
Equally striking is the impunity with which lawmakers flout the rules that they are sworn to uphold.
On both counts, the disconnects are striking, adding a new dimension of risk to the impact of the “China factor” on a fragile world.
Second, Russia needs to make immediate and striking progress on deficit reduction.
The young feel the old have hijacked their future, while the old feel that their accumulated wisdom and legitimate concerns are being ignored by insiders striking bad deals behind closed doors on behalf of vested interests.
Since then, the so-called productivity paradox has become ever more striking.
Look around the economy, and it’s striking how much high-talent manpower is devoted to activities that cannot possibly increase human welfare, but entail competition for the available economic pie.
It is virtually certain that many of the MDGs will not have been met by the end of 2015, but there have been striking successes in some areas.
This capital flight is striking.
One striking example of such éngrenage is Economic and Monetary Union.
Of the 400 cases examined by both Supreme Courts, 120 were referred to the Constitutional Council, which has issued 102 rulings, including 22 striking down the challenged legislation.
Indeed, striking such a bargain would have nothing to do with realpolitik, because the war in Syria cannot be ended with either ISIS or Assad still in the picture.
Striking research by the Stanford History Education Group, based on tests of thousands of students across the US, described as “bleak” their findings about young people’s ability to evaluate information they encounter online.
Whatever the result of the election, the most striking phenomenon will be the rise of regionalism, most notably a surge in support for the pro-independence Scottish National Party (SNP).
Consider South Africa, where the police recently killed 34 striking miners.
Striking the right balance among these different viewpoints is no easy task – but much depends on getting it right.
But one striking feature of the modern economy is how few skilled people are needed to drive crucial areas of economic activity.
India presents an even more striking case: Manufacturing employment there peaked at a meager 13% in 2002, and has since trended down.
Indeed, what is striking is that even East Asian countries are subject to early-onset deindustrialization.
Within a year, Polish workers were striking for the right to establish independent trade unions, staging two weeks of sit-ins at state-owned factories to achieve their goal.
A Wiser AmericaNEW YORK – When America absorbed the bombings at the Boston Marathon, what was striking was what did not happen.
The parallel with Europe's integration is striking.
Both the 1914 and the 1933 analogies point to the most striking characteristic of the current debate: the key role of security worries in justifying protectionism.
Hanson Robotics has a demonstration model called Albert, whose face bears a striking resemblance to that of Albert Einstein.
And while Trump’s communication style remains striking, particularly in comparison to Xi’s, it becomes far less appealing when one is the target of his blunt comments on touchy topics.
In what is arguably the most striking change since the fall of Ben Ali, Tunisia has witnessed the swift rise of an Islamist movement that was banned from the country for decades.
The British newspaper The Observer published, in response, a striking cartoon showing Putin sitting on a throne of outward-pointing daggers, turning off the Ukraine gas tap while saying, “Winter is coming.”
The similarities between the variety show, the evangelical meeting, and the party convention are striking.
There were some ups and downs along the way, but the overall trend has been downward, and the magnitude of the decline – nearly five percentage points – is striking.
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