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Should this awful possibility materialize, it would be a tragedy in more ways than one.
Boris Johnson the Counter-RevolutionaryLONDON – If history repeats itself – first tragedy, then farce – what comes next is Boris Johnson, a shape-shifting politician who embodies the contradictions of our age.
After World War II, during which Germany had invaded France for the third time in 70 years, the French leader Jean Monnet decided that revenge upon a defeated Germany would produce yet another tragedy.
But as the initial shock of the British referendum wears off, something unexpected is happening: the tragedy no longer looks like a fait accompli.
That is a huge tragedy for individuals and for the future of our already very heavily populated planet.
Behind these statistics are individual stories of personal tragedy, self-doubt, despair, and lost faith in society.
Laura Plummer’s smuggling of painkillers was doubtless foolish; her experience in an Egyptian jail will be a personal tragedy.
Our responsibility here is twofold: to put growth back on track, but also to respond immediately to the human tragedy that has hit our youth.
He made known his position on the USSR’s disintegration in 2005, when he called it “a major geopolitical tragedy of the twentieth century.”
This outside control is the principle cause of the present tragedy, which essentially constitutes a “proxy war.”
This is a great tragedy, not just for obvious humanitarian reasons, but also because R2P introduced an important principle: that sovereignty entails obligations as well as rights, and that when these obligations go unmet, governments forfeit some of their sovereign rights.
The investors are "rational" individually, but their collective action leads to tragedy.
In the case of Greece, history might turn out more like a much larger version of Argentina’s tragedy.
The tragedy is that these deaths are almost entirely preventable.
There is only one way out of the Gaza tragedy that can provide justice to its many victims: The parties to the conflict and the regional actors now vying to act as mediators must leverage the ongoing calamity into a grand peace agenda.
The lesson to be drawn from this tragedy is that climate change has forced us to change fundamentally the way we analyze disaster risk management.
A UK that cuts itself adrift would be at risk of tragedy.
The Chennai tragedy is a wake-up call to India.
The Cold War was a tragedy; a repeat can only be a farce because it is unnecessary.
To lose out in this way, however, will only repeat the tragedy of the Russia/NATO Founding Act when, by signing and ratifying that treaty, Russia legitimized NATO's eastward expansion.
In the Dutch case, Euroskeptics, seeking to drive a wedge between the Netherlands and the EU, exploited the 2014 tragedy of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17, which departed from Amsterdam and was shot down over Ukraine by Russian-backed separatists, leaving a deep wound in the Dutch public psyche.
For those of us who have been following the Greek economic tragedy for many years, much of the European view continues to defy economic logic – and for a simple reason: European politicians worry about the domestic political consequences of granting Greece debt relief, especially ahead of Germany’s federal election in September.
The Balkans on TrialSerbia’s long tragedy looks like it is coming to an end.
Though Maria was a tragedy, it also created an opportunity to rewrite a flawed fiscal plan that had been certified by the oversight board in March 2017.
While his brash style undermined outcomes, it would be a real tragedy to lose sight of his arguments (which have been made by many others as well).
It will be a tragedy for Russia if it spends the next 20 years believing it to be the case.
Syria’s Continuing Chemical FalloutTHE HAGUE – The international community’s failure to bring the Syrian civil war to an end is a tragedy – especially for the country’s long-suffering people.
The use of nuclear weapons by terrorists would not only result in a major humanitarian tragedy, but also would most likely move the world beyond the threshold for actually waging a nuclear war.
In death, Vemula has achieved something he could not have imagined: He has become a national hero, his tragedy emblematic of the toxic durability of caste in India’s development narrative.
Vemula’s death sparked a wave of public protests, with leading politicians flocking to Hyderabad to add their voices to the growing clamor against not just the university, but also the government – especially Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who remained silent for nearly a week after the tragedy.
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