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Nor should it forget China’s fierce display of nationalism in response to Western protests of the Olympic touch relay, the extraordinary patriotism that swept the country in response to the Sichuan earthquake, and the national pride evinced by the Olympic Games.
In 2008, when global food prices skyrocketed, famine swept across Ethiopia, threatening more than 14 million people in the Horn of Africa.
His Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) had swept into power in Uttar Pradesh, India’s largest state and one of its poorest.
“We have learned from the mistakes of the past 15 years, especially the manner of which we may have, to some degree, neglected the people’s movement,” he said in April, before his African National Congress swept to victory.
How they look back on the Games once the confetti is swept from the streets is far from certain.
Then, in the closing decades of the twentieth century, a counter-revolution swept the world, pushing for just the opposite: disperse capital as widely as possible by getting everybody involved as owners.
For starters, Macron’s victory represents a break from the populist wave that has swept across Europe.
When Richard Attenborough's film Gandhi swept the Oscars in 1983, posters for the film proclaimed that “Gandhi’s triumph changed the world forever.”
But how is it that Israel, which only a few years ago was hardly touched by fraud and corruption, is now swept by them?
If Clinton wins the White House and many Republican incumbents are swept out of office, the US will have had a “wave” election.
Meanwhile, Algeria, often touted as the next country that would get swept up by the Arab Spring, seems to have taken a different tack, favoring a slightly modified status quo over full-blown revolution.
Everyone who believes in and supports the democratic tide that swept Latin America following the fall of communism in Europe must affirm their commitment to monitoring the weak state of freedom of expression and democratic governance in Venezuela.
Obviously, the election's flaws cannot be swept under the carpet.
The compelling legend is that within the space of a year, La République En Marche!, headed by a virtually unknown figure, has humiliated established leaders and swept to power on a wave of popular enthusiasm for a political outsider.
As a result, serious crimes can be swept under the rug – at Yale and at every other private US university I have ever visited (public universities are less free to conceal crime data) – in the guise of “protecting the victims.”
It is conceivable that Mayawati Kumari, the self-appointed “goddess” of the poor whose low-caste-based party, the BSP, swept to power last year with a clear majority in Uttar Pradesh, could be the biggest winner in an early election.
The former blew up from the internal pressures of poverty, inequity, and anger, and the latter was swept away in an avalanche of rejection and resentment, the tail end of which Egypt is still experiencing.
The panic about bread that swept France in 1789, and the inability of the government to guarantee supplies, destroyed the ancien regime.
Simultaneous revolutions swept Europe in 1848, in the aftermath of crop failures whose most notorious manifestation was the Irish famine.
Oppressive regimes are being swept away, as Arab people finally take their fate into their own hands.
Twenty-one years ago, after Suu Kyi’s National League for Democracy (NLD) swept a general election, the results were annulled, the party’s leaders and workers were incarcerated or exiled, and two decades of ruthless – and remarkably opaque – military rule followed.
If the fate of Kosovo – and the entire Balkan region – is to be guided by the global rule of law, these questions need to be answered, not swept under the table.
They were swept out of power by hardliners who used the country’s jittery sense of security – accentuated by the presence of tens of thousands of American troops in neighboring countries – as a pretext to rig elections, stifle dissent, and reverse political and social freedoms.
Hardliners who feel most threatened by the internet's free flow of information were the people emboldened by the nationalistic waves of anti-American sentiment that swept China.
The sixth lesson the IMF has swept aside is that bailing out countries that do not fully control their currencies carries additional risks.
But, at the same time, a wave of idealism swept across the wreckage, a collective sense of determination to build a more equal, peaceful, and safer world.
In 1732, news swept through the Continent that a dead man from a Serbian village killed others at night.
The European economic giant aspired to a global political role, but here reality swept in.
Indeed, the GCC has offered generous aid, totaling roughly $160 billion so far, to countries swept by the Arab Spring.
The PLA troops in Daulat Beg Oldie are a reminder that China has no intention of allowing unresolved border issues to be swept under the rug.
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