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Even hitherto sensible anthropologists and social historians seem to have
succumbed
to this travesty of scholarship.
A large portion of the indigenous populations quickly
succumbed
to diseases and hardships brought by the European colonizers, but many survived, often in dominant numbers, as in Bolivia and much of the highlands of the Andes mountain region.
The last legal restrictions on taking interest on money were lifted only in the nineteenth century, when they
succumbed
to the economic argument that lending money was a service, for which the lender was entitled to charge whatever the market would bear.
On the contrary, Greek left-wing groups, including Syriza, have rarely, if ever,
succumbed
to such anti-German sentiments (at least officially).
Instead, America
succumbed
to the temptation of unilateralism.
Beaches, mostly in Mexico but to some extent also in the United States, were hit, and birds
succumbed
in large numbers, despite the dispersion efforts.
To be sure, history cannot be rewritten; but many of those who voted to remain in the EU now worry that May has
succumbed
to wishful thinking about the future.
Democracy is not the exception, but the rule; military regimes have
succumbed
to the power of the ballot box; and guerrilla groups have largely become a relic of the past.
Opening the BalkansNEW YORK: Yugoslavia's President Milosevic has
succumbed
to the military might of NATO and we can sigh with relief.
The ensuing bubble in Japanese housing and equity prices inflated and burst not because Japan
succumbed
to US pressure to allow the yen to appreciate, but because Japan, in the end, resisted that pressure.
Young people saw little reason to invest in their future, and their elders
succumbed
to suicide and substance abuse at alarming rates.
Unfortunately, however, Ben Ali
succumbed
to the temptations of corruption and repression, described in great detail by the former United States ambassador to Tunisia, Robert F. Godec, in cables released last month by WikiLeaks.
It appears that the IMF
succumbed
too easily to political pressures during both the boom and the bust.
Rapid withdrawal of such capital can have devastating effects, as we saw in 1997 when Asia's super-performing economies
succumbed
to financial crisis.
Those countries
succumbed
to the resulting temptation to increase government borrowing, driving the ratio of government debt to GDP to more than 100% in Greece and Italy.
Southern Europe had
succumbed
to the drug of cheap credit.
(Those who think otherwise have
succumbed
to the “this time is different” mindset that Carmen Reinhart and I have emphasized in our research on financial crises through history.)
In so quickly forgetting that the profession’s dignity requires freedom of expression, a renowned university appears to have
succumbed
to instinct.
It’s almost as if China possessed a cure for the bubonic plague in the 14th century, but decided to stand by and watch as Europe
succumbed
to the Black Death.
Other countries
succumbed
to the old orthodoxy pushed by the financial wizards who got us into this mess.
US authorities have
succumbed
to the same Japanese-like temptations.
Putin also
succumbed
to the same arrogance of power.
Fortunately, polls show that the American public has not yet
succumbed
to a hysterical portrayal of China as an enemy as strong as the Soviet Union was during the Cold War.
But, unsurprisingly, they did not; rather, they
succumbed
to the notion that unprecedentedly high rates of GDP growth were the new normal.
While the figures do reflect progress in recent decades, the tragedy is that the improvement could have been much larger, had governments not consistently
succumbed
to the temptation to focus on only one or two interventions at a time.
Speaker after speaker insisted that the movement’s weakness was brought about by the fact that its leaders
succumbed
to the temptations that come with government positions.
Once the narrative was established, even its targets
succumbed
to it.
For example, in preparation for its next congress, the French Socialist Party has
succumbed
to this reality.
Even in states that have
succumbed
to reductionist discourses, much of the population has not.
Little wonder, then, that French president Nicolas Sarkozy
succumbed
to the allure of protectionism during last year’s election campaign, as did both presidential candidates in the United States.
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