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Even countries with much longer democratic traditions have struggled to come to terms with their histories of collaboration in the Holocaust.
For years after the war ended, the Netherlands propagated a narrative in which the Dutch nation struggled heroically to save its Jews from the Nazi extermination machine.
And yet host countries, which are often near war zones, have struggled to integrate refugee children into their education systems.
In a nutshell, Keynes struggled against the notion that if only countries would cut their deficits, "confidence" would be restored, investment would return, and the economy would again attain full employment.
The Return of TuberculosisGenerations of doctors, politicians, and public health officials have struggled to defeat tuberculosis.
Animal advocates have long struggled against the convention of reserving “who” for people, and using “that” or “which” for animals.
In May, when Maduro announced his plan to establish a constituent assembly, he presented it as a way to restore confidence in his government, which has struggled to recover from economic decline amid collapsing oil prices.
Of course, cooperatives have sometimes struggled to live up to the ideal.
Even when US funding has been restored under Democratic administrations, women in South Africa have struggled to access abortion services.
Brazil should have been downgraded below investment grade last year, as the economy struggled with a widening fiscal deficit, a growing economy-wide debt burden, and a weak and worsening business environment.
Having also struggled to reclaim the narrative thereafter, there is great interest in understanding what led the Fed to act in such an uncharacteristic manner.
Pessimists would immediately point out that Europe has struggled to come together even on far less complex and more controllable issues, such as the protracted economic and financial crisis in Greece.
Yet, despite their shared contempt for expressions of the popular will, China’s President Xi Jinping and Putin struggled, during Putin’s two-day visit to Shanghai, to agree on a new gas deal that the Kremlin desperately needs.
They might also benefit from knowing that successive Conservative prime ministers, from Edward Heath to Margaret Thatcher to John Major, struggled and failed to resolve the issue before it was put to rest by the 1998 Good Friday Agreement.
Among the most appalled were those who had recently struggled to achieve democracy, and were continuing to fight for human rights.
Second, vast geographic differences across ethnic homelands in many African countries, together with these countries’ sprawling size and inadequate infrastructure left by the colonial powers, has meant that national governments have struggled to govern effectively beyond the metropoles.
This is certainly a promising development for these countries, all of which have struggled to achieve stability since the Soviet Union’s dissolution.
This comes after years of declarations by prominent economists, including Berkeley’s Brad DeLong and former US Federal Reserve Chair Ben Bernanke, that helicopter money offers a way to overcome deflation (with which Japan has struggled for decades).
Since coming to power in January, Syriza has struggled to balance the need to strike a deal on Greece’s debt with its campaign promise not to sign any agreement that would thrust the country deeper into recession.
Some of the ruling classes in various Korean kingdoms cooperated with the foreign powers, and some struggled against them.
With the US trade deficit the major global imbalance, attention should focus on how to increase its national savings – a question that US governments have struggled with for decades, and one that was frequently debated when I was chair of President Clinton’s Council of Economic Advisers.
Of course, Islam is not the only religion that has struggled with modernity.
In the 1990s, as ordinary Hungarians struggled with the transition from communism to a market economy, the foundation funded free milk for elementary school children in Budapest and supplied the first sonogram machines for Hungarian hospitals.
The latest International Monetary Fund forecast projects 1.7% growth for the eurozone as a whole in 2017, and 1.6% growth in 2018 – a remarkable improvement from a few years ago, when the region struggled to break 1%.
But suits and countersuits are not how we imagined the EU working when we struggled to join it.
High-income countries such as Canada have also struggled to recruit and fund enough midwives to meet demand.
Upon assuming office in 2004, the UPA frittered away the positive national-security and foreign-policy position that the previous BJP government had achieved, neglecting key partnerships as it struggled to work effectively in the face of chronic infighting.
Iran’s economy has struggled ever since the Islamic Revolution, partly because of the economic embargo imposed by the United States three decades ago.
Admittedly, such progress is difficult; in Nigeria, we saw an opportunity in raising non-oil tax revenues, but struggled to seize it.
They are pathetic, deranged, and often have struggled with mental instability for much of their lives.
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