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The Syrian Game ChangerWASHINGTON, DC – Reports that Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s government may be preparing chemical weapons for deployment, presumably against its citizens or neighbors, have triggered alarm bells worldwide, and thrust Syria’s civil war into a new, more dangerous phase.
Since coming to power in January, Syriza has struggled to balance the need to strike a deal on Greece’s debt with its campaign promise not to sign any agreement that would thrust the country deeper into recession.
So, could being thrust into a formal role of responsibility have at least some of the same effects as jury duty?
America’s Supply-Side ScamNEW HAVEN – Tax cuts masquerading as tax reform are the best way to describe the thrust of Washington’s latest policy gambit.
Uprooted from their homes and livelihoods, and traumatized by the violence or sudden disaster that forced them to flee, the displaced are often thrust into an extremely precarious future with few resources.
But I did agree with the thrust of this well-reasoned essay.
Its thrust must be to integrate the 53 million people in the various political entities of the Balkan peninsula into a dynamic regional economy that is open and prosperous.
Nearly half of the country has expressed its rejection of the model that is being thrust on it.
A second major policy thrust is a cap-and-trade system to reduce carbon emissions.
The basic thrust of Confucianism has changed little since Confucius’s disciples recorded his aphorisms a generation before Socrates.
But willy-nilly Germany has been thrust into a position of leadership.
Strong public institutions that operate above the cut and thrust of the political fray are vital to any democracy.
This is the thrust of McCain’s message.
September 11 th has thrust those of us who consider ourselves progressives - who believe in democracy, feminism, human rights and socialism - into a 1956-type crisis.
The end of Communism removed one important reason: the Soviet Union’s expansionist thrust and the Western democracies’ determination to resist it.
The nationalist thrust of Trump’s inaugural address echoed the isolationism championed by the racist aviator Charles Lindbergh, who, as a spokesman for the America First Committee, lobbied to keep the US out of World War II.
It requires ambition, purpose and thrust.
But, as it turned out, the mutualization model – used again in 1813 during the second war against the British – fueled a credit bubble, which collapsed in 1837 and thrust nine of the 29 US states and territories into bankruptcy.
Taiwan's young democracy must now cope with the balancing act that President Chen Shui-bian's re-election has thrust upon it.
These two long-standing areas of persistent weakness have constituted a major drag on the type of cyclical dynamics that traditionally thrust the US out of its periodic economic slowdowns.
The thrust of Obama’s Middle East policy – reconciling America with the Arab and Muslim world – clashes with Netanyahu’s strategy.
The spectacular growth of coastal China -- 15% per year for over a decade -- is a reflection of this thrust.
In all of these places, an overstretched and under-resourced humanitarian sector has been thrust into the front line, salving some of the worst wounds of the record-breaking number of people displaced from their homes by conflict and disaster.
The general thrust of these reforms was to increase the economy’s market orientation and external openness.
Japan’s military thrust into Southeast Asia led President Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s administration to impose sanctions.
There, credit tightening does not follow from determined action by an independent central bank; rather, it reflects an important shift in the basic thrust of the state’s economic policies.
Putin is widely known to be a martial-arts enthusiast, and his action in Syria is entirely consistent with many of the discipline’s principles, including the importance of the decisive thrust that neutralizes the opponent’s strengths and exploits his weaknesses.
Without wishing to claim first authorship let alone originality, some of the “third way” ideas are not at all dissimilar from the thrust of the Report of a Committee which I chaired in 1995-96, entitled, Wealth Creation and Social Cohesion in a Free Society.
Moreover, even if the renminbi did experience a double-digit depreciation, China would not be thrust into financial crisis.
It was the regime’s last great thrust into the Far East.
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