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The government
succumbed
and removed the chief minister and his cabinet, placing the troubled province under the care of the provincial governor.
But 26 other people, who had come very close to the same coastline,
succumbed
to the smoke and flames before they could reach the water.
Another group also
succumbed
to this delusion.
Many
succumbed
to mental illness, drug addiction, and alcoholism.
Twenty-nine men, women, and children fleeing crisis-torn countries
succumbed
to engine fumes in the vessel’s hold.
Areas of research as esoteric and fundamental as fruit fly genetics have even
succumbed.
I think the Obama administration has
succumbed
to political pressure and scare-mongering by the big banks.
Faced with political, economic, geostrategic, and social uncertainty, policymakers have increasingly
succumbed
to the allure of nostalgia, promising a return to what they portray as the familiar and complete rules and practices of the past.
Ennahda, the ruling Islamist party, may once have been committed to moderation, but it has gradually
succumbed
to the will of its radical wing and is narrowing the space for political opposition.
The brave Baltic countries – the “legality” of whose independence is reportedly being reviewed by Russian President Vladimir Putin, another unsavory pal of Tsipras – have not yielded to panic or
succumbed
to the temptation to burden others with their misfortune.
Mandelstam
succumbed
to the pressure, but he was not broken.
China and India, it seems, have also
succumbed
to economic hubris.
Likewise, though Ronald Reagan portrayed himself as a staunch supporter of free trade, his administration
succumbed
to protectionist political pressure.
A quarter of Cambodia's population of eight million was executed, starved to death, or
succumbed
to disease during the Khmer Rouge's rule from 1975-79.
But, if China is building an empire, it seems already to have
succumbed
to what the historian Paul Kennedy famously called “imperial overstretch.”
Before long, Sweden had
succumbed
to deflation, from which it is still struggling to recover.
The task...was to create a new...conservative...Republican majority – so political effectiveness was the priority, not the accounting deficiencies of government...”Now it has become clear that John McCain – who once criticized George W. Bush’s tax cuts as imprudent and refused to vote for them – has
succumbed
to this potion.
More to the point, Argentinian authorities
succumbed
to the same temptation that tripped up their predecessors.
Rather than acting on clear economic signals, the major central banks once again
succumbed
to pressure from financial markets.
This holds a crucial lesson for center-left and center-right political parties in Europe, which have at times
succumbed
to the populist temptation – such as by echoing their socially conservative, anti-immigrant views – to try to win votes.
Brazil
succumbed
to the comfort of rigid rules.
No social science has
succumbed
to this temptation more than economics.
Even Facebook – whose chief executive, Mark Zuckerberg, has vocally opposed fact-checking political speech – has
succumbed
to pressure, including an advertiser boycott, to take action.
You either created and exploited fear, or you
succumbed
to it – as he thought his elder brother had.”
Medieval Italy’s democratic institutions
succumbed
to what we might now call populism: an anti-elitist, anti-pluralistic, and exclusionary strategy for building a coalition of the discontented.
If only they hadn’t
succumbed
to a fit of positive-feedback trading.
Simply put, COVID-19 is not the only contagion threatening Europe: While Italy and Spain struggle to contain the pandemic, the Eurogroup
succumbed
to the same “my-country-first” virus that infected the Greek debt crisis a few years ago.
After welcoming ten new members, mostly from Central and Eastern Europe, in 2004, the EU
succumbed
to a sort of “enlargement fatigue” that was aggravated by the 2008 global financial crisis (only Croatia has since joined the EU).
In the late 1990s, when China’s economic miracle was becoming evident, it could easily have
succumbed
to the prevailing orthodoxy on financial globalization.
Despite the intense economic pain – indeed calamity – inflicted on North Korea, Venezuela, and Iran, none of them has
succumbed
to US demands.
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