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Earlier this year, Daniel Schwammenthal, writing in The Wall Street Journal, explained why in the starkest possible terms: “Screaming ‘Sieg Heil’ and ‘Hitler, Hitler,’ a mostly Muslim mob threw bottles and stones at a small group of Jews peacefully demonstrating for Israel at this town’s central square last year.
It’s hard to connect canned tuna with an individual fish, let alone to think of that fish as a person, but the writer Sean Thomason recently tweeted about “the tuna who died to get put in a can that wound up in the back of my cabinet until past expiration and which I just threw away.”
But Mohammed seized the opportunity to learn, and threw himself into his studies.
When the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991, the end of reliable trade and financial backing threw the Cuban economy into a severe recession, which abated only after the government relaxed some restrictions on private enterprise.
Floods in Thailand last year threw 700,000 people out of work and had knock-on economic effects around the world.
A general strike was called, and militant students threw up barricades in the center of Algiers.
But Hollande lacked charisma, and his foreign-policy activism threw into sharp relief France’s faltering economy, which has weakened its standing on the world stage.
But it was only around 1990 that most emerging markets threw caution to the wind and removed controls on private portfolio and bank flows.
India’s independence marked the dawn of the era of decolonization, but many nations threw off the yoke of empire only after bloody and violent struggles.
It took the post-Lehman panic for Congress to authorize the Troubled Asset Relief Program, which threw a financial lifeline to banks and the auto industry, among others.
Indeed, deficit cuts would court a reprise of 1937, when Franklin D. Roosevelt prematurely reduced the New Deal stimulus and thereby threw the United States back into recession.
With that speech, Mukherjee threw down the gauntlet to the right-wing BJP government.
The lesson of the 2004 election, when poorer voters, fed up with the previous BJP-led government’s “India Shining” policies and slogans, threw it out of office, has not been forgotten.
Last month, at a European Parliament plenary session in Strasbourg, the European Commission threw its support behind my plan to put the private sector front and center in development projects.
TRT candidates threw money around during the campaign as effectively as their opponents.
The ICC had indicated that it would investigate, and possibly indict, government officials after Burundian President Pierre Nkurunziza threw his country into turmoil by pursuing a third term, in violation of the constitution.
The Exchange threw a party and no one came.
Her party accused Serra's of orchestrating the attack and, in revenge, her party -- the Liberal Front -- threw its support to Ciro Gomes.
That same month, a lottery scandal threw the BMW brand into the limelight once again.
Post-Growth Growth ModelsAMSTERDAM – Since the 2008 financial crisis threw the world economy into a tailspin, there has been much talk about the need to pursue inclusive, sustainable prosperity.
As David Hume put it in discussing suicide, “no man ever threw away life, while it was worth living.
But in April and May 2009, they threw diplomatic caution to the wind, launching a long-range rocket (as well as various missiles) and conducting a second nuclear test – all in the space of several weeks.
At first, governments threw everything at it.
Eventually, the plan threw the country on its back.
Throw in any number of financial scams by BJP politicians and it is no surprise that an angry electorate threw the government out.
Of course, from the Saudis’ perspective, they are merely picking up the gauntlet that Iran already threw down by interfering in Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Bahrain, Qatar, Yemen, and other countries.
But, in the event, many Russians pitied the prisoners, and some even threw bread to them.
Many Western feminists cling to the belief that socialism's fall harmed women, or at least "threw them back" into the past.
Here, at long last, was Poland’s long-awaited popular uprising, revenge for December 1980, when Jaruzelski declared martial law, banned Solidarity, and threw its leaders in jail.
Moreover, the recent election – in which the Conservatives’ 20-point lead disappeared seemingly overnight, as voters, especially young people, threw their support behind Labour – suggests that British voters are up for grabs.
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