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The War Against Iraq’s ChildrenIraq’s children have suffered more than just successive wars and economic sanctions.
But its bridge-building agenda foundered on growing Chinese assertiveness, leading successive DPJ governments to bolster Japan’s security ties with the US.
Israel is closer to Nicosia than to Berlin, not only in geographic but also in political terms, because successive Israeli and Palestinian leaders have likewise failed to demonstrate qualities of vision and imagination.
Successive French governments have let this situation fester.
Successive governments, not companies, are responsible for the most damaging outsourcing in France – that of responsibility.
Indeed, each successive generation of falling prices appears to produce new uses for computers and communications equipment, thus increasing demand and increasing their salience in the economy as a whole.
Here, successive US governments have compounded South Asia’s problems by pursuing only their own national interests, at an incalculable cost to the natural, organic growth of the region’s countries.
Successive governments staffed with unqualified politicians have failed dismally to carry out the core governmental functions of maintaining law and order, providing the basic services expected of modern societies, and promoting economic growth.
Successive European and American governments share an atavistic fear of the “Islamic alternative” to Arab secular nationalists like Fatah, and so have defended the status quo.
Since 1990, successive mayors promised to tackle the problem of these hundreds of thousands of feral dogs.
Some observers will blame successive US presidents, pointing to a lack of economic support extended to a struggling Russia, and even more to NATO enlargement, which, by treating Russia as a potential adversary, increased the odds it would become one.
At the same time, we can expect a growing Atlantic community as successive rounds of trade liberalization make it easier to develop a free-trade area between the EU and the United States.
Successive stimulus packages failed, leaving behind a massive build-up of public debt.
Like them, it suffered through a brutal and protracted civil war; unlike them, however, successive governments have built institutions capable of supporting a reasonable level of territorial control and domestic security.
Doing so, moreover, makes geo-strategic sense as well, with successive Japanese governments increasingly regarding India as a vital diplomatic and political partner.
Successive waves of QE would amount to debasing the value of the dollar, and thus inflating away massive US debts.
But all successive waves of enlargement were motivated mostly, if not exclusively, by political reasons.
Successive G-20 summits have asked its chairman, Mario Draghi (now a favorite to succeed Jean-Claude Trichet as President of the European Central Bank), for updates on progress in reforming regulation, but the FSB has no authority over the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision, or any of the other standard setters.
Successive Israeli governments have shown that they can meet and contain explosions of Palestinian frustration and rage.
But that does not mean that successive generations must be condemned to second-class citizenship.
After it was revealed that successive governments had misled their way to mammoth fiscal deficits and macroeconomic imbalances, Greece lost access to international bond markets.
Successive US presidents, from Richard Nixon to Obama, aided China’s economic rise.
In retrospect, three successive British prime ministers – Tony Blair, Gordon Brown, and David Cameron – were on overly familiar terms with a manipulative business leader.
Successive Italian governments since the financial crisis have gradually laid the foundations for pension, labor market, and banking reforms.
Successive IMF programs have required that Pakistan adopt more withholding taxes (never to be refunded), surcharges, and levies on essential goods such as oil and electricity, even though these measures hurt employment and investment growth.
Since independence in 1948, successive governments have denied even the most basic rights to the Rohingya, refusing to grant them so much as citizenship.
Since the advent of army rule in 1958, successive regimes have terrorized Iraqis into submission and bled the country white through their military misadventures.
The Inevitable Re-Birth of European IntegrationATHENS – European integration implies successive transfers of national sovereignty to the Union.
Successive Afghan governments have refused to recognize the frontier with Pakistan known as the Durand line, a British-colonial invention that split the large ethnic Pashtun population.
For nearly 60 years, universal suffrage has made successive French presidents the modern equivalents of elected monarchs, men who have concentrated in their hands more power than their counterparts in any other democratic country.
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