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At first, however, they struggled to identify their own often-remarkable achievements in publicly making a case for themselves.
In the 1960s, centrist politicians of different stripes – many of them Christian Democrats – struggled to find an alternative to the threat of armed revolution and the totalitarian politics of Fidel Castro’s Cuba.
Unlike most countries, China has not struggled to get public-sector investment up to levels that support sustained high growth.
And as the global financial crisis starkly demonstrated, regulators have struggled to keep pace with financial innovation.
As recently as 2012, the United States was the top choice, as it struggled to regain its footing in the aftermath of the Great Financial Crisis of 2008.
Last fall, Italy's bold Mare Nostrum sea-rescue operation, which had saved thousands of lives, was replaced by a far feebler EU initiative that has struggled to carry out its mission.
The most successful of these economies, having based their growth on exports, continued to expand in the wake of the financial crisis, even as their export markets struggled.
His father, Kim Jong-il, struggled mightily to fill Kim Il-sung’s shoes.
Indeed, while the Chinese in recent years struggled to restart the so-called six-party talks, the North Koreans quietly informed them, “No, thanks.”
Even with the benefit of hindsight, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has struggled to explain recent developments.
But access to cheap credit remains a privilege reserved for a select group, which has amassed property and real estate, while new entrants to the labor market and small and medium-size enterprises have struggled to acquire credit at reasonable rates.
And because Trump has been able to pick new fights so fast, other countries have struggled to keep up, let alone form effective alliances against him.
It would be a major blow to those around the world who have struggled to put an end to impunity for perpetrators of humanity’s most terrible crimes.
Finally, the business community’s reaction has underscored the long-term advantages of migration, something that politicians in fear of (or in thrall to) xenophobic currents have struggled to accomplish.
After the German federal election in September 2017, Merkel struggled for six months to form a government.
At the very outset of industrialization, Watt struggled financially and did not successfully commercialize his steam engine until he formed a partnership with the English manufacturer Matthew Boulton.
As these developments unfolded, Tillerson and McMaster struggled.
Charities struggled to find ways to invest their money without inadvertently contributing to the very problems they were trying to solve.
They point out that, for advanced and developing economies alike, “paying for global public goods has become all the more unappealing,” given that “both democratic and authoritarian governance” have struggled to deliver “equitable development.”
The difference is that scientists have struggled to institutionalize a process that involves extensive observation, experimentation, and independent review that, in the long run, provides a firmer purchase on the world than intuition and political posturing.
Three respectable, if uninspiring, former ministers vied for the position, but struggled to find a compelling message that connected the party of the left with modern Britain.
For decades they have struggled to find common ground for Armenians and Turks to begin a dialogue.
The Soviet Union struggled to capitalize on these factors, owing to communism’s weak incentive structure.
For the last, post-imperial half-century, Britain has struggled to find a role that suits our sense of destiny.
The result was a minority government that struggled for support and legitimacy, and in the end offered only policies that provided no real answer to the country’s underlying problems.
His “America first” posture, standing aloof from Western allies, is exactly the kind of attitude against which Churchill and Franklin D. Roosevelt struggled in order to successfully resist Hitler’s Third Reich.
Having made the mistake of restoring parity with gold at a level that left the economy desperately uncompetitive, Britain struggled for several years with deflation and rising unemployment.
For the rest of 2015, the PBOC struggled to prevent the renminbi from weakening.
Similarly, the roughly one million children affected by the 2015 earthquake in Nepal and five million students who were shut out of school when the Ebola crisis gripped West Africa have struggled to continue their studies.
For many years, African human-rights activists, aided by Human Rights Watch, struggled to hold him accountable.
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