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The Chilean miners survived against the odds, so perhaps the rest of us will somehow get by as well.
Qaddafi’s Western FriendsVALLETTA, MALTA – With Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi’s regime in ruins and Qaddafi himself on the run, it is time to ponder just how he survived in power for so long.
After all, Qaddafi survived President Ronald Reagan’s punitive 1986 bombing raid on his compound only because former Italian Prime Minister Bettino Craxi and former Maltese Prime Minister Karmenu Mifsud Bonnici tipped him off.
One reason why the FARC has survived repeated blows to its leadership is the support that it receives from various groups, perhaps including government officials, in neighboring Ecuador and Venezuela.
Thus, a prime minister who gained massive support from voters only two and a half years ago, won mid-term elections, survived two confidence votes in Parliament, and still enjoys high approval ratings is constantly under pressure.
After France barely survived the tournament’s first round, Zidane performed at the top of his game and led the team to the brink of a second World Cup championship.
Emerging-market economies delivered solid growth during the 2000’s, and even survived the global financial crisis without a growth collapse.
During this dangerous time, we should remember how we survived another dangerous time.
The difficulties of living in such circumstances, however, are surely less daunting than the hazards David would have faced had he stayed in the orphanage – assuming that he would have survived at all.
Yet when we treated the mice with a drug dose continuously adjusted to maintain a stable tumor volume, the animals, though not cured, survived for a prolonged period of time.
For anyone who wonders how seven million Italians could still vote for Berlusconi – who survived by making impossible promises, and by being as clownishly effective as ever – this is the answer: most of them voted not for Berlusconi, but against the PD.
Historically, cease-fires have survived only when they are backed by talks that both parties believe are genuine and serious.
Had Trump not given the firm a reprieve – in exchange for a $1 billion fine and an agreement to adhere to strict compliance rules – ZTE would not have survived.
To my surprise, it was not WWII that I learned about; rather, I got my first glimpse into the emotions that my own relatives experienced, as they fought and survived the war.
Inflation targeting is survived by the gold standard, an elderly distant relative.
Throughout the post-war era, until the early 1990’s, Italian governments survived less than a year on average.
This would also affect the leg that survived, because the PTAs would increasingly take over the functions of rule-making as well.
Knowing the extent of his unpopularity in 2003, many believe that he was ready to leave power but needed a successor who would ensure that his legacy (and his wealth) survived.
Both the eurozone and the Schengen Area have survived the tough tests they have faced for one reason: They bring practical, tangible benefits to their members.
The infamous “death boats,” on which hundreds of young North African men risked their lives every year in search of employment and a better life abroad, would continue to deliver those who survived the journey onto Europe’s unwelcoming shores.
The Economic Consequences of Silvio BerlusconiMILAN – Silvio Berlusconi has survived a confidence vote, but his government is virtually dead.
The USSR could have survived only as long as Russia maintained control of the empire – and only if Gorbachev had been willing to use force to prolong that control.
Wiesel survived the obliteration of this world, and from it fashioned a second birth, devoting his life, in fear and trembling, to resurrecting those who perished.
In the interim, the NTC has largely survived on international aid and from the unfreezing of Libyan assets by foreign governments.
But, unless Israel is ready to pay an exceptionally high price in terms of its international standing by occupying Gaza and destroying its entire military hierarchy and arsenal, Hamas can still claim victory, having survived yet another onslaught by Israel’s colossal military machine.
Unfortunately, what won’t lose, in Poland and elsewhere, is nationalism – the only ideology that has survived in the post-ideological era.
Some observers express astonishment that India has flourished as a democracy; in fact, it could hardly have survived as anything else.
Latin American countries suffered a lost decade after 1982, and Japan has been stagnating for a quarter-century; both have survived.
Slumping orders devastated low-end producers, which barely survived on wafer-thin margins.
Though alarming in the short term, the eradication of small producers spells good news for those that survived the crisis.
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