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Putin’s assessment of US unilateralism (if
stripped
of its overheated rhetoric) may be correct; the trouble is that he lacks credibility to extol moderation in foreign policy.
Theresa May’s Other Citizens of NowhereVIENNA– British Prime Minister Theresa May has, of her own volition,
stripped
her Conservative Party of its governing parliamentary majority by calling an early election.
During the twentieth century, totalitarian states set records in denationalization: 1.5 million people in the Soviet Union alone were
stripped
of their citizenship.
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.
When May was Home Secretary between 2010 and 2016, she usually
stripped
Britons’ citizenship while they were out of the country, leaving them with no way to challenge the grounds of the decision.
Were Bitcoin
stripped
of its near-anonymity, it would be hard to justify its current price.
Similarly, we hear concern that tropical forests are being
stripped.
We were citizens of a country where we were
stripped
of any freedoms.
So we were
stripped
of any sense of responsibility for our country.
Although the parliament was not completely
stripped
of its ability to control the executive, it lost most of its influence and became a stronghold of the opposition to the existing system of power and statehood.
These catastrophes
stripped
NASA of its appetite for risk.
Before its reunification with mainland China, many people expected the former British colony to grab headlines as Beijing progressively
stripped
its freedoms.
They believe that, if Kosovo is
stripped
from Serbia, Transylvania could one day leave Romania.
After all, once Russia's richest man can be
stripped
of his assets at any moment, ordinary Russian businessmen may be forgiven for concluding that operating in the open is risky.
The ongoing euro crisis has
stripped
away the rationale that undergirded the integration process for decades.
Although Putin's reforms to the upper house of the Duma have already
stripped
the governors of their status as federal power brokers as well as of their parliamentary immunity, governorships retain wide powers in their regions.
Tying a person to a board and bringing him to the point of drowning, over and over, or forcing a prisoner –
stripped
naked and covered in his own excrement – to stand with his hands shackled to the ceiling for days, until his legs swell to twice their normal size, may not have constituted torture in memos prepared by government lawyers, but such practices are surely cruel, inhuman, and degrading.
In the realm of reality, the latest of many “grand” summits in Brussels has left a yawning gap between Europe and a fiscal union, as heads of state
stripped
much of the substance from the blueprint proposed by Herman Van Rompuy, the president of the European Council, and developed by the European Commission.
By inserting into a country’s constitution restrictions on, say, the ability of governments to run deficits, or suspend currency convertibility, these decisions are effectively
stripped
from the normal horse-trading of politics.
But any international corporation that participates in exploiting the assets
stripped
from Repsol would face serious legal problems.
A landslide YES will demonstrate strong support for President Chavez, a resounding NO may bring chaos as it will restore the powers of Parliament recently
stripped
by President Chavez.
The clearest case of this comes from Hungary, where Prime Minister Viktor Orban demanded an abrogation of President Edvard Benes' decrees of 1945 (which confiscated the assets of and
stripped
citizenship from the German and Hungarian populations deported from Czechoslovakia at that time) as part of a re-election campaign that failed narrowly.
Lucrative business opportunities can be allocated to soothe the successor’s political adversaries, while renegades can be targeted to discourage others – for example, by being
stripped
of property or dismissed from positions of influence.
By 1944, the Vichy regime had
stripped
15,000 citizens of their nationality, including 7,000 Jews, and excluded from citizenship some 110,000 Jews living in Algeria, then a French territory.
In 1998, France adjusted its civil code to allow for citizenship to be
stripped
only from dual nationals, thereby reconciling French law with the UDHR.
To achieve this end, however, the state must be
stripped
of its ability to impose divisive dogmas, traditions, and stereotypes.
Before that, McCotter led Utah's corrections department, but was forced to resign after the death of a schizophrenic inmate who had been
stripped
naked and strapped to a restraining chair for 16 hours.
Even as America has
stripped
away its safety net for people, it has strengthened the safety net for firms, evidenced so clearly in the Great Recession with the bailouts of AIG, Goldman Sachs, and other banks.
Otherwise, consumers will have to pay many times over for their temporary gains as private firms,
stripped
of the profit motive, prove themselves as capable of inefficiency as their nationalized predecessors.
Delta stood by its decision, and Georgia’s lawmakers approved a bill that
stripped
out a tax break proposal that would have saved the company $50 million.
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