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Robson's direction, apart from the brilliant scare moments, may seem little more than adequate but successive viewings suggest a gradual and intentional turning of the screw with only one or two really pedestrian scenes required to move the plot and characters forward.
minorities in Punjab, eastern states, Kashmir have suffered thru successive Indian governments and continue to do so.
Despite the fractured nature of India’s coalition politics and the country’s arcane regulatory framework, successive governments have launched and expanded myriad programs to improve educational opportunities for children.
One background paper for the summit highlights the failure of successive governments in Pakistan, which now has the world’s second-largest out-of-school population, to invest in education.
Since then, successive Polish governments of varied orientations have taken turns.
It hid economic distortions, allowing successive governments to postpone needed structural reform as it financed the status quo.
But, despite very aggressive monetary policy by many central banks – successive rounds of “quantitative easing” have doubled, or even tripled, the money supply in most advanced economies – global inflation is actually low and falling further.
Fourth, gold prices rose sharply when real (inflation-adjusted) interest rates became increasingly negative after successive rounds of quantitative easing.
Too Muslim for the West; too secular for the Muslims: over time, this dichotomy has been a source of weakness for Turkey, bringing successive national identity crises.
Colombia’s Gift to the WorldMADRID – After four long years of talks in Havana, Cuba, Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos has negotiated an end to successive governments’ armed conflict with the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), the most resilient insurgent group in Latin America.
The full extent of the French system’s pathology becomes fully clear in the light of successive governments’ attempts at reform, with piecemeal measures the norm – and thus proving counter-productive on balance, or failing altogether.
Having vetoed much-needed EU reforms, Merkel’s successive governments guaranteed Europe’s fragmentation.
The tech sector seems to follow a classic pattern of Schumpeterian creative destruction, whereby successive waves of monopoly ascension give way to displacement: cell phones replaced landlines; email displaced postal mail; and social media and texting are supplanting phone calls.
Successive German governments have maintained that the alliance should be, or even is, the place to discuss and decide on key security challenges.
This cost-benefit calculation is probably why successive US administrations were happy to run trade deficits with China, even if they pretended otherwise.
The discovery is the result of a strategic policy maintained through successive Brazilian administrations, something unusual in Latin America.
Third, successive governments widened the ethnic divide through catastrophically predatory governance.
While it helped stop the slide into another Great Depression, successive injections of money have yielded diminishing returns.
The operation involved two Turkish divisions whose three successive assaults failed to penetrate the fortifications.
In fact, although the US extols the virtues of its partnership with Japan, successive American presidents have been vague about the details.
Since then, through successive wars and revolutions, one truth has remained paramount: The Ottoman mosaic provided no clear dividing lines that would permit a smooth reordering of the region into states or entities with homogenous ethnic, national, or religious identities.
Of course, Europe has also moved away from France through successive enlargements, but the main roots of the estrangement lie in France itself.
At the same time, successive EU enlargements over the decades have brought in other powerful contenders, chiefly Spain and the UK, as well as smaller countries who are unwilling to bow before French-German leadership.
Despite the meltdown in their relationship over Crimea, the US and Russia have continued to work together to negotiate a diplomatic solution to the Iran nuclear issue, and (with China) develop collective Security Council responses to successive crises in Africa.
Having faced successive contamination crises in recent years--first BSE and then hoof and mouth disease--we feel particularly insecure about food.
Despite improved ties in the 1990s, successive Indian governments were unable – or unwilling – to risk their political capital by legitimizing the territorial transfer and settling the dispute.
But political parties advocating for implementation of Sharia have lost ground in successive elections from 1955 to 2009.
After all, the United States would not have become the leading world power in less than two centuries without the successive waves of migrants that landed on its shores.
And with the hype this month over eight successive records for the Dow Jones index (and many other records around the world), excitement induces more investors to enter riskier asset markets.
So, rather than repudiate them as dangerous cults, successive governments rushed to embrace them.
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