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At the G-20 summit in Turkey, however, Putin
struck
a markedly different tone, extending an open hand: “We proposed cooperation on antiterrorism; unfortunately our partners in the United States in the initial stage responded with a refusal… [But now] it seems to me that everyone is coming around to the realization that we can wage an effective fight only together… If our partners think the time has come to change our relations, then we will welcome that.”
When crisis struck, that confidence quickly faded, and investors fled.
These issues were put on hold when tragedy unexpectedly struck, in the form of the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks in the US, which brought a period of international cooperation during which solidarity against terrorism reigned.
When I listen to the grand, visionary speeches about Europe’s future put forward recently by some EU political leaders - President Chirac’s recent speech to the Bundestag being the most otherworldly - I am
struck
by the thought that these visions are worthless if designed to cover up a lack of enthusiasm to face the challenges of enlargement.
The strategy was poised for implementation when the Bank’s leadership crisis
struck.
Boris Johnson and his merry No-Deal Brexiteers are campaigning for Britain to sail away from the EU and, once outside, seek a relationship with the EU similar to that which Canada
struck
recently.
But his rebuke of the courts and judges who
struck
down his travel ban paled in comparison to Obama’s attack on the Supreme Court during his 2010 State of the Union address.
Before taking over TNK-BP – one of Russia’s major oil companies – Rosneft
struck
several multi-year investment deals.
Dangerous to the people who are fated to live in desperately poor countries, or societies at war, or overwhelmed by refugees, or
struck
down by pandemics.
But earlier this month – on the same night Xi and Trump
struck
a 90-day trade truce – Meng Wanzhou, the chief financial officer of the Chinese tech giant Huawei, was arrested in Canada at the behest of the US.
Nevertheless, Popper's analysis was penetrating, and when I read it as a student in the late 1940s, having experienced at first hand both Nazi and Communist rule in Hungary, it
struck
me with the force of revelation.
What
struck
me most during our visit was the substandard education they were receiving, with far too little support from Western aid (which amounts to only $2 per pupil annually in Nigeria and $12 per pupil across sub-Saharan Africa).
Given America’s burgeoning domestic energy supplies, Nye argues, those “bargains will be
struck
on somewhat better terms,” at least from the US perspective.
But, whatever new terms are struck, the degree of US disengagement from the Middle East will depend on how two key questions are answered.
The humanitarian aid system was constructed on the premise that, when disaster struck, a temporary helping hand would be enough for people to regain control of their lives.
Soon, three years will have passed since the catastrophic earthquake and tsunami
struck
northeastern Japan on March 11, 2011, causing the failure of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant.
One thing that has
struck
me in the course of my frequent visits to Kurdistan is that the Kurds are a multilingual people.
In January, militants
struck
across the frontier at the Indian base in Pathankot.
Turkey’s Death SpiralBISHKEK – The series of terrorist attacks that have
struck
Turkey over the last year are sending the country – once viewed as a democratic, secular model for the Middle East – into a death spiral at the very moment when its people are to vote on a new constitution next month.
I recently met with the directors of a Jewish museum in one of Germany’s major cities, and I was
struck
by the thoughtfulness with which they are approaching the anti-Semitism problem.
At first it
struck
me as a serious condition.
Soon enough, Thailand’s elites
struck
back, and the country’s politics descended into a cycle of palace-endorsed coups, elected governments, and violent street protests.
Trump’s first attempt to implement his travel ban was
struck
down by the courts, but only after creating havoc at airports, confusion within universities, and disruption of families.
He faces off against Alexander Van der Bellen, a member of the Greens, on May 22.Claims like Hofer’s may be the subject of fierce disagreement among labor economists, but they have
struck
a chord with the European electorate.
The Growler systems are located at Russia’s air base in Latakia and a naval base in Tartus, more than 46 miles (75 kilometers) and 75 miles, respectively, from the Shayrat air base that the US
struck.
But parts of the airport remained operational after the attack, and Assad’s forces bombed the same sarin-choked town of Khan Sheikhun with conventional ordnance just hours after the Tomahawks
struck.
Indeed, the world economy remains as open as it was before the crisis
struck.
There is, of course, a balance to be
struck
between tight institutional discipline and letting a hundred intellectual flowers bloom.
In April 2015, after an earthquake
struck
Kathmandu, Israel evacuated 26 babies born through surrogacy, but left their mothers – most of whom had crossed over from India – stranded in a disaster zone.
The terrorists
struck
for a third time two days later, killing a dozen people in a town near Abbottabad.
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