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Investors who struck Faustian bargains with kleptocrats should not benefit from international protection.
Europe’s challenge now is to show that a balance can be struck between individual freedom and mutual responsibility.
They therefore face a deadly choice: go to work and risk being struck down by the disease, or stay home and risk being condemned to starvation.
Even before COVID-19 struck, many developing economies had been looking for ways to make a sustainable shift from aid dependency to self-reliance.
By their very nature, global cities were particularly vulnerable to the virus, and when it struck, their leaders and national authorities began blaming one another.
How to Respond to IranPRINCETON – Early on the morning of September 14, drones struck two major oil facilities in Saudi Arabia, affecting close to half of the output of the world’s top oil exporter – 5% of the global supply.
Sharing Private Data for Public GoodNEW YORK – After Hurricane Katrina struck New Orleans in 2005, the direct-mail marketing company Valassis shared its database with emergency agencies and volunteers to help improve aid delivery.
The risks are compounded by natural disasters like Cyclone Amphan, which struck Bangladesh (and eastern India) in May.
Health care and sanitation – critical to protecting large refugee populations living in camps – were already inadequate before COVID-19 struck.
Second, a balance obviously needs to be struck between public and private (profit-seeking) efforts.
The flood struck a country that, like China today, had developed an unshakeable faith in its ability to control nature.
Europe’s Faustian BargainNEW YORK – The second wave of COVID-19 infections has struck Europe harder than many expected.
But Hong Kong, Singapore, and Taiwan all seem to have struck a better balance between protecting public health and sustaining economic activity.
Africa may be among the last places on Earth to be struck by COVID-19, but the disease remains as potent and deadly as ever.
It is even conceivable that the deal struck between German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Emmanuel Macron might one day be remembered as the European Union’s “Hamiltonian moment,” comparable to the 1790 agreement between Alexander Hamilton and Thomas Jefferson on public borrowing, which helped to turn the United States, a confederation with little central government, into a genuine political federation.
Then the global financial crisis struck, causing growth to plummet from 9.7% in the third quarter of 2008 to 6.6% in the second quarter of 2009.
In fact, when the 2008 crisis struck, some countries, such as Germany, already had enough robots to minimize the importance of labor costs in production.
In the continuous evolution of cultural norms, therefore, a new balance needs to be struck between the urge to overthrow prejudice and the need to preserve social cohesion.
Levin listened to the words and was struck by them.
Levin glanced round at her, was struck by the joyous radiance of her face, and was involuntarily infected by her feeling.
He had never met Anna before and was struck by her beauty, and still more by the simplicity with which she accepted her position.
With rapid steps he approached the door of his studio, and in spite of his excitement was struck by the soft light on Anna's figure as she stood in the shadow of the porch listening to something Golenishchev was vehemently saying, and at the same time evidently wishing to look at the approaching artist.
Noticing, however, that Mikhaylov was waiting to hear his criticism of the picture, he said:'Your picture has progressed very much since I last saw it, and now, as then, I am specially struck by the figure of Pilate.
After the fifth sitting the portrait struck every one not only by its likeness but also by its beauty.
During their engagement he had been struck by the definiteness with which she declined a trip abroad and decided to go to the country, as if she knew of something that was necessary, and could think of something besides their love.
It struck him as very charming, but strange, and he thought it would have been better without all that.
He had expected to find him in that state of self-deception which, he had heard, was frequent in consumptive cases and which had so struck him at the time of his brother's visit to him in the autumn.
Dreadful as it seemed to Levin to put his arms round that terrible body, to grasp those parts under the blanket which he did not wish to remember, yet submitting to his wife, with that determined expression which she knew, he thrust his arms under the blanket, and despite his great strength was struck by the strange heaviness of those emaciated limbs.
As he made this gesture he struck the little table on which the seltzer and a decanter of brandy were standing and almost knocked it over.
The door opened to let an attendant slip through, and the nearly completed phrase struck Vronsky's ears distinctly.
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