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Claims that the TTIP would benefit primarily the wealthy have thus struck a chord with labor unions and others.
But, before millions of people are submerged, many will be struck by extreme weather events.
Europeans, too, know a new balance that needs to be struck.
But Trump has not just struck a blow against open multilateral trade.
In the meantime, the agreement has become obsolete;China's economy has nearly doubled in size since the deal was struck.
It was under Prime Minister John Major’s Conservative government that 1992’s “Black Wednesday” struck, with the pound being forced out of the European Exchange Rate Mechanism, the precursor to the euro.
When its terrorists struck America in 2001, they seemed to confirm the Western world's worst fears about Islam.
Already, the state-controlled oil company Rosneft has struck deals in Egypt, Iraqi Kurdistan, and Libya, while its counterpart Zarubezhneft has been pursuing oil and gas development projects in Iran.
The attack by Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev has invariably elicited comparisons to the Saudi-born terrorists who struck the United States on September 11, 2001, or to the Pakistani immigrant Faisal Shahzad, who attempted to set off a car bomb in Times Square in 2010.
They struck at symbols of the prosperity that have made the Indian model so attractive to the globalizing world, a magnet for investors and tourists alike.
Only time – and the market – will tell if Trump has struck the right balance.
In the 1990’s, military-backed secularist governments struck back, attempting to purge religious bureaucrats and military leaders: those who did not consume alcohol, or whose family members wore headscarves, were immediately suspected.
The crisis struck domestic demand, and the tradable sector was incapacitated, because the rapid rise in relative unit labor costs, combined with an over-valued euro, had undermined competitiveness.
Any visitor to Berlin nowadays is struck by the number, prominence, and powerful character of memorials to victims of the Holocaust.
This struck more than a few people as bizarre.
This struck me last week when I listened to one of Egypt’s new online generation talking enthusiastically about the future.
Paradoxically, when the crisis struck, the EU was criticized for its lack of integration.
Obviously, such appeals have struck a chord with electorates throughout the West.
When I was Director of the London School of Economics, I was struck by the fact that in a school offering a wide range of social sciences and humanities, not simply finance and economics, in some years more than 30% of the graduating class took financial jobs.
When Ebola struck, Liberia had only 120 doctors for its four million citizens.
Northern governors oppose a third term for Obasanjo because they believe it is now their turn to choose Nigeria’s president under a deal, struck with their southern counterparts when democracy was introduced in 1999, for regional rotation of the presidency.
Republicans may be politically handicapped for years, as they are forced to reckon with the Faustian bargain they struck for the sake of political power.
The peace deal struck in Naivasha, Kenya in 2005 between Sudan’s government and rebels from the Sudanese People’s Liberation Movement (SPLM) committed both sides, at war for most of the previous 50 years, to work for unity.
Horrific terror attacks struck many countries.
Against all expectations, it struck a morally advantageous posture by offering to surrender some part of its budget rebate, but only if the rest of the European Union (i.e.
When I meet with my colleagues at the Global Military Advisory Council on Climate Change – generals and admirals from around the world, all with career-long experience in military planning and operations – I am struck by the similarity of our concerns.
Given all of this, when the crisis struck, it was deep and far-reaching, and today’s strengthening economic recovery has not overcome the understandable but devastating loss of trust in the financial system that followed.
The hazard struck after 1996, when foreign private investors fled emerging markets even faster than they had flooded them.
Seven years earlier, Hurricane Katrina struck the coast of the Gulf of Mexico in the US as a Category 3 storm.
In 1989, Hurricane Hugo struck near Charleston, South Carolina, with a surge height of nearly four meters.
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