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No one in our delegation was sure what to expect, given the uneasy relations between our two countries at the time.
In fact, the leaders are terribly uneasy about the situation and discuss it frequently.
The uneasy challenge for Turkey is to secure its newfound regional role without betraying Ataturk’s democratic legacy.
Most EU citizens are uneasy today over the prospect of Turkish membership.
And yet, an uneasy coalition government seems unlikely to address the concerns that drove voters to reject the entrenched ruling elite in the last election.
But all of this has come at a price: accidents, congestion, pollution, and an uneasy dependence on oil, among other costs.
In India, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, who once enjoyed a strong reputation for integrity and intelligence, has been similarly paralyzed, acting erratically in the face of an equally demagogic populist movement – the anti-graft crusade led by a fasting activist, Anna Hazare – which just ended in a frantic and uneasy compromise.
The prime minister’s predicament is that his political strength depends on his ability to stretch the Conservative Party’s blanket over its uneasy bedfellows of flag-waving nationalists and free-market fundamentalists; but the European question pits one side against the other.
Moreover, unlike America, Western Europe must live with the uneasy conscience stirred by immigrants whose very presence serves as a reminder of a history of colonialism.
Yet it is also true that the US is uneasy about China’s not-too-hidden aim to dominate Asia – an objective that runs counter to US security and commercial interests and to the larger goal of securing a balance in power in Asia.
All this will be especially important now given the status of the US, the most powerful country in the world, but one with an often uneasy relationship with the UN.
But Germany also appears to be increasingly uneasy about having to continue supporting Israel even when its policies are clearly reproachable.
The revelations and resulting debates in recent months have shown that many US politicians are also uneasy about the liberties taken by the secret services.
The uneasy partnership of Prime Minister Tony Blair and Chancellor of the Exchequer Gordon Brown is a good example of this tactic.
Relations between Kosovo’s Albanian majority and Serb minority remain uneasy.
In Nigeria, the Ibo--who fought Africa's first post-independence war of secession in the name of tribalism--remain an uneasy, defiant minority.
The Hollow Heart of Medical ScienceWhy are neuroscientists, molecular biologists, geneticists, and developmental biologists – men and women whose discoveries have forever changed the way we understand ourselves – so uneasy about their futures?
Tempting ScienceScientists everywhere are increasingly uneasy at the rising influence of business upon university research.
It is difficult to know where this uneasy transatlantic détente of 2008 will lead.
The defensiveness of Jews and the uneasy silence of their friends mean that the stage of public debate is open for those who actually are anti-Semitic, though they confine themselves to anti-Israel language.
The second category of recessions arise by chance, for example when consumer confidence dips, or businesses become uneasy and cut back on investment and/or inventory.
Pakistan is now at a crossroads, facing an uneasy moment of truth.
But it is an uneasy calm that probably will not last.
After all, there are plenty of reasons – many of which are secondary effects of the Enlightenment – for people to feel uneasy about the future.
That July, after an uneasy period of sharing power with Prince Norodom Ranariddh’s royalist party, Hun Sen launched a bloody coup in which his opponents were exiled, arrested, tortured, and in some cases summarily executed.
Unless Obama reaches an uneasy understanding with Russia – which would require revising post-Cold War strategic agreements – the chances of imposing a tight sanctions regime on Iran are slim.
A president seemingly out of control makes any thoughtful citizen uneasy at best.
In Asia today, uneasy lies the head that wears the crown.
I only became uneasy when the British editor (Jonathan Fenby) was fired and replaced.
This latter role is particularly important, given the constitutional ambiguity created by the reversion back to a parliamentary system and the uneasy co-habitation of President Petro Poroshenko and Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk in government.
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