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Yet what appealed to the outside world was not always an asset in the rough and tumble of Israeli politics.
But we need this wall to tumble if we do not want to miss today’s revolution, which is delivering societies based on knowledge, technology, and information.
Of course, there is no glee in seeing stock prices tumble as a result of soaring mortgage defaults.
Europe is on the edge of an abyss, and will surely tumble into it unless Germany – and France – alters course.
It all began with the announcement of the euro’s introduction at the 1995 EU Summit in Madrid, which caused interest rates to tumble.
In today’s inter-connected global economy, uncertainty about the US economic outlook increases one day, and Dutch consumer confidence, for example, takes a tumble the next.
Finally, and ironically, because so many Palestinians have worked in Israel, spent time in Israeli prisons, often speak and read Hebrew, and are regularly exposed to the Israeli media and the rough and tumble of Israeli politics, Palestine has more young citizens than any other Arab country who have observed life in a democracy at first hand.
It may be no coincidence that Lebanon, one of the first countries in the region to boost literacy rates, was also the first to tumble into civil war.
Yet beneath Iraq’s chaos and the rubble, a rough and tumble private sector has been expanding since the US invasion, benefiting from higher oil revenues and more liberal economic policies.
Indications that the US Federal Reserve might “taper” its quantitative easing (QE) drove investors to reduce their exposure to emerging markets, sharply weakening their currencies and causing their equity prices to tumble.
The question for Japan is whether or not the country will continue to tumble down the list of the world’s great economies, or whether its politicians will return to a path of reform that can revive growth.
Just one stroke of bad fortune – a drought, a flood, or an illness – is enough for them to tumble deeper into poverty and hunger.
Let The Post-Soviet State StarveKIEV: The new post-communist nations have turned out to be rough and tumble societies.
Similarly, near the beginning of the May stock market tumble, Ahmadinejad visited Indonesia, the world’s most populous country with a Muslim majority, and newspapers reported on May 13 that he had received a standing ovation from students at two of the country’s top universities.
If South Vietnam was to fall to the Communists, other countries in South-East Asia would tumble before Communist insurgency.
Urged on by the banks’ over-eager financial advisers, citizens rushed to take out loans in euros, dollars, and even yen, and suddenly found themselves with crushing debts when the crisis caused domestic currencies to tumble.
Another girl given a tumble on a pile of stones?
Twice he saw them on his approach tumble down in the midst of a field, where the motionless stalks afterwards remained dead.
Beneath the garlands of painted paper the dancers could no longer see each other, they perspired so much; this encouraged the trammers to tumble the putters over, catching them at random by the hips.
And Zacharie joked, with his chaffing indifference for politics; it would be fine to tumble down over there in the midst of the mates.
Why could he not seat them at his table and stuff them with his pheasant, while he went to fornicate behind the hedges, to tumble the girls over, making fun of those who had tumbled them over before him!
He simply placed himself before the fireplace, for fear lest they should tumble over into it.
More than once I took a tumble at the expense of my backside.
George made no answer, and we found, on going over, that he had been asleep for some time; so we placed the bath where he could tumble into it on getting out in the morning, and went to bed ourselves.
And after brandy, taken in sufficient quantity, it says, "Now, come, fool, grin and tumble, that your fellow-men may laugh - drivel in folly, and splutter in senseless sounds, and show what a helpless ninny is poor man whose wit and will are drowned, like kittens, side by side, in half an inch of alcohol."
"Zounds!" muttered the sleepy cornet in the rear, as he was nodding on his horse, "there is life in the captain, notwithstanding his tumble."
Sancho strove to comfort him, and among other things he said to him, "Hold up your head, senor, and be of good cheer if you can, and give thanks to heaven that if you have had a tumble to the ground you have not come off with a broken rib; and, as you know that 'where they give they take,' and that 'there are not always fletches where there are pegs,' a fig for the doctor, for there's no need of him to cure this ailment.
I put a few shillings in his hand, and as I turned away I heard the roar of laughter which followed his first tumble on the stage.
'Bless you, Bella!''There,' said Arabella, bending forward to kiss her brother; 'don't take hold of me again, Ben, dear, because you tumble me so.'
From time to time, a steeper path appeared; our naiad then began to tumble before us with a hoarser murmur, and we went down with her to a greater depth.
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