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Trade sanctions foster smuggling and smugglers are usually in cahoots with authorities, so that sanctions strengthen the governments they are supposed to topple.
As a former finance minister, deputy prime minister, and the product of a grass-roots civil-society movement, Prime Minister Kan has his work cut out for him, particularly as it is rumored that Ozawa intends to topple him in the autumn.
It may not topple the dictatorship, but it will offer some solace to those who are forced to live in it.
There is not just one wall to topple, but many.
In 2011, the Obama administration determined that, like in Tunisia and Egypt, the “Arab Spring” uprising in Syria – widely viewed as a broad-based democratic movement – would topple Assad.
Intrinsic vulnerability made for heightened exposure to political shocks, and disputes about a Central European customs union and about war reparations was enough to topple a house of cards.
The hope was that isolation and sanctions would topple Kim Jong Il’s dictatorship.
It has gone on to topple dozens of governments, in all regions of the world, with no accountability there or at home.
And US-led international sanctions, imposed from the 1990s onward, have aimed to impoverish, destabilize, and ultimately topple the Islamist regime.
The country is at a stalemate: the opposition is unable to topple President Bashar al-Assad’s regime, and Assad’s forces are unable to quash the resistance.
Despite obvious differences between Pearl Harbor and recent Islamist terrorist tactics, they show the common desire of self-proclaimed Davids to topple their Goliaths in a clearly lop-sided battle.
Mostly comprising electoral losers and remnants of Mubarak’s regime, some aim to topple Morsi, not just get him to backtrack on his decree.
Munich has been invoked over and over – to fight Communism, to topple Saddam Hussein, to stop Iran, and to wage a “war on terror.”
In the case of Italy, the short leash would dissuade former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi from seeking to topple Mario Monti’s new government (which has only a fragile majority), because if Berlusconi precipitated an election, the electorate would punish him.
In moving to topple Saddam Hussein's regime, the Bush administration stakes its case on two critical arguments.
For starters, nearly 40% of all accidents involving these vehicles cause them to topple.
On the domestic front, both parties have promised to tackle corruption and topple what they see as a self-serving political establishment, while introducing radical policies to reduce unemployment and redistribute incomes.
But Fatah has not accepted defeat, while Hamas is convinced that elements within Fatah agree with Israeli and American plans to topple the Hamas government.
The plague triggered a demographic crisis that helped to topple the Romans’ “eternal empire.”
At some point – and we are nearing it – bridges to nowhere become a standalone risk: they can topple over.
NATO’s actions in Libya in 2011 to topple Muammar el-Qaddafi constituted another such violation of international law.
Assad ended up using the shock caused by his chemical-weapons attack as a bargaining chip in a disarmament deal – still to be executed and verified – that bought him a valuable pause in the efforts to topple him, if not salvation.
Meanwhile, in the civil war in Syria, the Saudis (and the Qataris) have backed several unsavory Islamist groups, but still have not managed to topple Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s regime.
Likewise, it is now launching a war in Iraq and Syria against the offspring of Bush’s forced regime change in Baghdad and Obama’s ill-conceived plan to topple Assad.
The Bush Administration has been pursuing policies likely to topple Aristide since 2001.
Castro’s revolution to topple Batista aimed to create a modern, diversified economy.
When Castro turned to the Soviet Union to fill the gap, President Dwight Eisenhower issued a secret order to the CIA to topple the new regime, leading to the disastrous Bay of Pigs invasion in 1961, in the first months of John F. Kennedy’s administration.
But just as US-led sanctions on Iraq in the 1990s failed to topple Saddam Hussein, sanctions are unlikely to lead to regime change in Iran now.
Measuring the Revolutionary WaveNEW YORK – A prediction three months ago that popular protests would soon topple a dictatorship in Tunisia, sweep Hosni Mubarak from power in Egypt, provoke civil war in Muammar el-Qaddafi’s Libya, and rattle regimes from Morocco to Yemen would have drawn serious skepticism.
As in the Middle East, each of these upheavals reflected the willingness of many people to risk their lives and livelihoods to topple a corrupt government that could or would not generate opportunity and prosperity for them.
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