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In effect, such feelings of national betrayal served to transform China's cult of national shame from a useful tool of government propaganda into a two-edged sword wielded against the government itself.
Indeed, the looming US debate underscores a more general point: since time immemorial, war has been a double-edged sword.
Using and Abusing the Hague TribunalThe International Tribunal in The Hague was intended as a Sword of Damocles for human rights violators in the Balkans.
The defection of the governors, however, may be a double-edged sword for Primakov, who announced in his first campaign address on August 30 that what his presidency would offer Russia was a strong central state with renewed controls on parts of the economy.
The years since 2005 have shown globalization to be a double-edged sword, and even conservative politicians worldwide have stopped cheerleading for it.
But establishing their father’s awareness could be a double-edged sword, since it could also mean that keeping him alive is pointless torture, and it is in his best interests to be allowed to die peacefully.
People do not live wholly by the word, but neither do they live solely by the sword.
Salafi support for Aboul Fotouh, a moderate former MB leader, proved to be a double-edged sword, because it repelled many liberals and socialists who would have voted for him otherwise.
But, despite the huge FCA fine, no top executive was forced to fall on his or her sword, and investors did little more than shrug.
Aided by systems developed by western intelligence agencies, China has forged a virtual sword that threatens to block the path to democracy.
In Asia’s booming Internet market, digital technologies could be a double-edged sword: If the gender gap is not closed, women will be left on the sidelines of the technology-driven revolution sweeping the region.
When it came time to defend the nation, the sword has always been close to the plow.
The announcement was welcomed by ordinary Nigerians, but incited jitters in the industry, prompting anxious questions about how deep Obasanjo’s angry sword will cut, and how smooth the political succession is likely to be.
The Great Escape from ChinaCAMBRIDGE – Since 2016 began, the prospect of a major devaluation of China’s renminbi has been hanging over global markets like the Sword of Damocles.
Hamas believes that the deal vindicated the teachings of Hezbollah’s leader, Hassan Nassrallah, who has defined Israel as nothing but a “spider’s web” that can be destroyed with the whisper of a sword.
Live by the sword, die by the sword.
Instead of suppressing the memory of the refugees, Israel needs to recognize that in 1948 the land was bisected by the sword, and that the Jewish state came into being partly because of the massive uprooting and dispossession of Palestinian communities.
The pen, at last mightier than the sword, became a weapon of glorious retribution, wielded with style.
As Netanyahu put it last month in a closed meeting of the Knesset’s Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee, Israel must continue “controlling all the territory,” adding that the country “will forever live by the sword.”
But a well-honed narrative can be mightier than the sword.
But, with the financial crisis hanging over Davos participants’ heads like the sword of Damocles, the question is becoming, “Can states and international institutions save business?”
Israel was born in war and has lived by the sword ever since.
A recent Nobel laureate in economics, Douglas North, describes the type of state the postcommunist countries now require as a double-edged sword.
Promoting a society’s capacity to create wealth requires that only the guardian side of the sword be sharp and its underside dull.
Globalization is also a two-edged sword.
It may not wield the power of the sword or the power of the purse.
We can now see the utility of a more flexible toolkit to respond to excessive credit expansion, or asset-price bubbles, where the manipulation of short-term interest rates can be a blunt instrument or, worse, a double-edged sword.
BRUSSELS – Technology, the saying goes, is a double-edged sword.
US leadership in Asia is a double-edged sword.
This tactic has proven to be a two-edged sword.
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