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This kind of thinking is common among economists, particularly the generation swept up by the “rational expectations” revolution in macroeconomics.
Of course, Europe is not alone in being swept up by populism.
It was a tragic paradox that the political movement that so peacefully swept China in 1989 ended up arresting the process of broad-based, evolutionary reform to which Zhao consecrated his life.
The hugely unpopular Shah they installed was swept away in the Islamic revolution in 1979.
Like Chirac – who faced Le Pen’s father, Jean-Marie, in the second round in 2002 – Macron won the runoff by a landslide not because he swept French voters off their feet, but because many could not bring themselves to vote for the National Front.
Starting with Japan, this modernizing wave has swept through the four “Asian Tigers” (South Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Singapore), some ASEAN countries (Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand, and Vietnam), and then to China and India.
Anti-austerity anger swept away the reform agenda of Mario Monti’s previous technocratic government, leaving Italy, its future uncertain, to continue muddling through.
But, since the late 1990s – and especially after 2000, when the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), which had ruled for 70 years, was swept from power – Mexico has made significant inroads in combating the practice, at least at the federal level.
To be sure, photographic and video images relayed by the media have shown trees swept away by waves and water-drenched lands.
Worse still, Italy’s establishment parties have all been swept away.
But that will change, when Trump, sooner or later, is swept into the ashbin of history.
Clearly, one reason she swept to power this year were her ties to her brother, exiled former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, who controls the country’s strongest political party.
For these reasons, I believe very deeply that, in this stormy region, swept by so many ill winds, threatened by the worst of ideologies and by the violence that accompanies them, the rebirth of an independent Kurdish nation and state will mark an advance.
Across Europe, parties opposed to the European Union, mostly on the far right, were swept into the European Parliament by a wave of voter discontent.
Spitfire pilots were replaced as vigorous symbols of liberty by the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, and the Kinks, whose music swept across Europe and the United States like a gust of fresh air.
He and his “White Revolution” were eventually swept away by Iran’s Islamic Revolution in 1979.
Suffering continues even in parts of the country where peace has been restored, manifested in the epidemic of sexual violence, much of it committed by former combatants, that has swept the country.
Arab States of UncertaintyMADRID – The revolutions that swept the Arab world during the last two years have exposed the extraordinary fragility of key Arab states.
Originally, this was a project of the centre-right; it was part of the privatisation wave which swept the United States and Europe in the Reagan-Thatcher years.
Like outright default or the restructuring of debts to official creditors, such arrears are often swept under the rug, possibly because they tend to involve low-income debtors and relatively small dollar amounts.
Totalitarian and authoritarian regimes have been swept away.
As world leaders prepare to meet at the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Paris, the country is reeling from the aftereffects of devastating floods that damaged buildings, destroyed crops, swept away bridges, and killed 238 people.
This was part of a wave of deregulation that swept away Franklin Roosevelt’s promise to “chase the money changers from the temple.”
Not only must they contend with the prospect of falling exports and confidence; they also are the latest victims of a financial crisis that started in the United States, traveled to Europe, and now has swept across their borders.
This may happen when old structures are swept away, and are not replaced with new ones in a prudent way.
The fly, first detected in 2004 in Mombasa on the Kenyan coast, has since swept across the continent, decimating mangoes and other crops and devastating livelihoods.
His Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) had governed Mexico for 70 years, until it was swept out of power in 2000.
The Nazi-Soviet pact, which carved up Poland and Romania between the Soviet Union and Germany, has been swept under the rug.
Employment protections and social rights will be swept aside.
But when analyzed collectively, the data reveal a troubling truth: without changes to how wealth is generated and distributed, the political convulsions that have swept the world in recent years will only intensify.
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