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Successive French presidents have declared that France will not accept a United States of Europe as even a remote goal of European politics.
But many internet programs suggest that a story is enriched by successive contributions.
And in geographical terms, the EU’s successive enlargements have allowed it to reflect, far more closely than ever before, the full expanse of the European continent.
It marks a stark contrast with the seven decades following Japan’s defeat in 1945 in the Pacific War, when successive governments mostly outsourced foreign policy to the United States.
Because successive Japanese governments badly underestimated its consequences, the rise of China has been the third and final shock to Japan’s policy of neo-isolationism.
And yet such assessments overlook the record of the past few years, during which successive governments have taken some fairly radical measures to strengthen Greece’s fiscal position and scale back the public payroll.
From Richard Nixon to Barack Obama, successive US presidents regarded aiding China’s economic rise as a matter of national interest; indeed, Jimmy Carter once issued a presidential memo declaring as much.
They have been a persistent thorn in the side of successive British governments, but at long last Prime Minister David Cameron’s coalition government seems to be seeking to conclude this matter in a fair, humane, and just way.
But maybe, just for once, they should acknowledge that, with the successive APEC, East Asia, and G-20 summits, pessimism has had a bad month.
Founded on the stability of the Cold War era’s bipolar international order, the EU had the luxury of time as it deliberated on each successive building block of its growing edifice.
Successive speakers have pleaded helplessness in the face of such determined obstructionism by the principal opposition party.
The first fortnight in September saw successive meetings of two major Russian political groups, the Valdai Discussion Club and the Global Policy Forum.
During the heyday of Irish terrorism in the UK, successive British governments went out of their way not to concede to the IRA the notion that a war was being waged.
The key to scaling up investment in natural infrastructure will be to ensure that at every successive stage of growth, there is a sufficient amount of capital available to support the risks involved.
It has so far been in vain that left and right wing governments have tried, by force or negotiations, to find a solution: the great majority of the population prefers to remain French, while the various nationalistic "families" are violently opposed, and one no longer really knows which of the successive act of violence are related to political revindications or to the Mafia.
Strategic patience, the approach toward North Korea that has characterized successive US administrations since the early 1990s, has run its course.
Successive governments stuck with the convertibility law for fear of losing credibility, but aggravated the economy’s competitiveness crisis as a result.
America is no longer the “shining city upon the hill” that successive presidents have proclaimed it to be.
By pursuing successive rounds of trade liberalization, the logic goes, leaders in the US and Europe “hollowed out” the domestic manufacturing base, reducing the availability of high-paying jobs for low-skill workers, who now have to choose between protracted unemployment and menial service-sector jobs.
At that time, successive rounds of negotiations failed, owing to an all-or-nothing mentality, based largely on the mistaken assumption that Assad, like Tunisia's Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali and Egypt's Hosni Mubarak, would be ousted relatively quickly.
Still, America does play a large role on the world stage; and in many parts of the Muslim world, particularly in the Arab world, successive US administrations--Republican and Democratic alike--have not made democratization a priority.
Instead, two successive quarters of negative growth have had a dispiriting psychological impact.
By the late 1920’s, though, Strong was dying of tuberculosis and Norman was experiencing successive nervous breakdowns.
Germany’s Economic MirageLONDON – For 60 years, successive German governments sought a more European Germany.
Of course, not all economists, or even a majority, are wedded to this view, as evidenced by the fact that both Thaler and I have been elected president, in successive years, of the American Economic Association, the main professional body for economists in the United States.
The prospect of genuine European integration on foreign affairs and defense issues was denied time and again, at each step of the successive negotiations for the Treaties of Amsterdam, Nice, the aborted constitutional project, and Lisbon.
But successive crises have shown that finance can have long-lasting effects.
For example, as you travel on the London Underground just six miles (or 14 stops) east from the heart of government at Westminster to Canning Town, the life expectancy of the inhabitants at each successive stop falls by six months.
Banks and other financial institutions have enacted it repeatedly, even as successive scandals continued to erode confidence in the entire industry.
Dr. Khan's export of centrifuge technology was unknown to successive governments in Pakistan, says the country's leader, General Pervez Musharraf.
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