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For those who threw in their lot with Facebook, watching CEO Mark Zuckerberg testify before the US Congress in early April – following the revelation that nearly 90 million users’ personal data was harvested by the political consultancy Cambridge Analytica – must have been a rude awakening.
The Republicans magnified their economic quackery by frantically trying to minimize public perceptions of the long-run fiscal problems of America's social-insurance system, largely to deflect attention from the fact that Bush threw away the budget surpluses President Clinton had bequeathed him - and with them what may have been the country's last best chance to fix things in this regard short of some form of disaster.
If China threw a handful of sand in the gears of these chains, it could disrupt entire production networks, doing serious damage to the US (and, indeed, all the countries participating in such networks).
Indeed, looking at the agenda they produced – more than 15,000 words and a headache-inducing 169 development targets – one might conclude that they simply threw everything they had heard into the document.
In deciding that her People’s Party would participate in the January parliamentary election, Bhutto threw a lifeline to Musharraf, who has been beset by multiple insurgencies, a nationwide terrorist threat, and rock-bottom legitimacy.
At the beginning of the year, the conventional wisdom was that if Jeb Bush threw his hat into the ring, he would be the odds-on favorite.
The captain, struck with revulsion, grabbed her, dragged her up to the deck of the ship, and threw her overboard.
Regrettably, the US Treasury immediately threw cold water on the proposals.
They sodomized them with glass bottles, beat them up with clubs, and threw their bodies around a room.
The same article then threw Tibet into the stew of accusations.
Just Growing PainsLONDON: Is the world economy on the brink of another recession like the sudden slump of 1990, which threw 20 million workers out of their jobs even in western Europe, pushed commodity prices to their lowest level since the 1940s, shattered stock markets and currencies the world over and unseated apparently invincible politicians like Margaret Thatcher and George Bush?
So, when an ideologically implacable Republican opposition, in his very first days in office, threw the vision back in his face, adopting a policy of scorched-earth opposition, the rejection was about more than policy – it affected his very being.
As 60 others scrambled to escape, the human traffickers carrying them to Europe stabbed them and threw them into the sea off the coast of Lampedusa.
The decision, by the European Court of Justice (ECJ), threw into legal uncertainty the collection, handling, transfer, and storage of user data by about 4,500 US companies.
In response, the hitherto careful and pragmatic Rouhani threw caution to the wind and unabashedly embraced the reform movement’s criticisms of the status quo.
In 2001, Irish voters rejected the Nice Treaty, which threw the EU into a protracted period of crisis and introspection, which ended only with agreement on the so-called Constitutional Treaty in 2005.
Something to Smile AboutLONDON – As I put pen to paper, my wife threw out a seasonal challenge: “Christmas is approaching – the time for peace and joy and all that.
France is big enough that if it threw its support fully behind the peripheral countries, Germany would be isolated and would need to respond.
At the beginning of this century, President George W. Bush threw away the large fiscal surpluses that he had inherited from Bill Clinton, enacting large tax cuts and rapid spending increases even from 2003 to 2007, as the economy neared its peak.
Before he was shamed into giving it up, he rented a triplex penthouse for his retirement, leased to him at below-market rates by a wealthy businessman, who reportedly threw in a couple of million dollars worth of interior decoration.
Life was clearly worse during the Dirty War of the 1970s, when an army with no honor threw women out of helicopters into the South Atlantic, and urban guerrillas shot people because... because... well, just because!
But the scare Jean-Marie Le Pen threw into French politics will be for nought if the political class in Britain slips back into its old hauteur and complacency.
Moreover, a series of disastrous economic decisions – notably demonetization and the botched implementation of a nationwide Goods and Services Tax – put many small entrepreneurs out of business and threw millions of people out of work, further convulsing Indian society.
Meanwhile, Kapnias, the teenage menial, threw his lot in with the other side: he joined a paramilitary unit assembled by the local Gestapo and was sent to Crete for training in the dark arts of interrogation and counter-subversion.
The COVID-19 crisis threw a wrench into plans to engineer such an overhaul with Europe.
In the 2013 and 2017 elections, Iranians threw their support behind the moderate Zarif and President Hassan Rouhani, because they believed that a nuclear agreement would usher in a new era of peace and economic security.
When the magistrate eventually threw out the treason charges brought against Mawarire for peacefully rallying people against corruption, a street party broke out.
The populist revolt equated knowledge with privilege and threw it out the window.
The trade war threw this lesson into sharp relief.
It was also an unprecedented step, coming at a moment when Europe is suffering from a dangerous surge of COVID-19 cases, and it threw the other EU countries’ representatives into confusion.
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