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The same day, Secretary of Defense Robert Gates criticized China for unexpectedly curtailing American ship visits to Chinese ports because of American arms sales to Taiwan.
US President Barack Obama has become one of the most prominent global advocates of abolishing nuclear weapons, a position for which he unexpectedly received a Noble Peace Prize last year.
The Growing Divide Within Developing EconomiesPRINCETON – When researchers at the McKinsey Global Institute (MGI) recently dug into the details of Mexico’s lagging economic performance, they made a remarkable discovery: an unexpectedly large gap in productivity growth between large and small firms.
It was smooth sailing for China, until Rajapaksa was unexpectedly defeated in the early 2015 election by Maithripala Sirisena, who had campaigned on the promise to extricate Sri Lanka from the Chinese debt trap.
These issues were put on hold when tragedy unexpectedly struck, in the form of the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks in the US, which brought a period of international cooperation during which solidarity against terrorism reigned.
As a rule, they die unexpectedly from some internal disease – from irresistible existential disgust at themselves, from their own exhaustion.
This week, former French President Nicolas Sarkozy called unexpectedly for a new European treaty and a second British referendum on its EU membership.
Ukraine’s new prime minister, Mykola Azarov, was stunned when Putin unexpectedly confronted him during a joint press conference with a suggestion to merge the Ukrainian and Russian gas companies.
The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), for example, has unexpectedly demonstrated both the will and the capacity to raise a fighting force to intervene in regional conflicts, such as the awful civil war in Sierra Leone.
I’ve been awarded the Nobel Prize for something I seem to have said, or done, or thought, in 1934!”Discoveries can come from unforeseen directions, as seemingly unrelated and obscure research areas intersect unexpectedly.
In June 2013, when the PBOC unexpectedly tightened monetary policy, domestic interbank interest rates shot up to 25%.
May unexpectedly assumed her position last year after the Brexit vote, when her predecessor, David Cameron, resigned.
In a media landscape saturated with sensational science stories, end-times Hollywood productions, and Mayan warnings of apocalypse, it may be hard to persuade the public that potential catastrophes could arise as unexpectedly as the 2008 financial crisis did – and with a far greater impact.
Regulators see how well financial firms are doing, become convinced that they themselves are regulating effectively, that the regulated can at last run their banks well, and that policy tools can save the financial system and spare the real economy if a crisis unexpectedly occurs.
In the US, the result has been a significant shift away from establishment politics, including the unanticipated emergence of Donald Trump as the presumptive Republican candidate and Bernie Sanders’s unexpectedly powerful challenge to Hillary Clinton on the Democratic side.
A small number of babies who collapse and die unexpectedly in their first year are found to have one or more of the following three symptoms in common: bleeding just outside the brain (subdural hemorrhage); bleeding at the back of the eye (retinal hemorrhage); and brain swelling.
The New Trudeau’s New CanadaTORONTO – This week marks Canada’s first change of government in nearly a decade, following the unexpectedly large victory of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s Liberal Party in mid-October’s general election.
Then, despite massive US pressure, Turkey's parliament unexpectedly rejected the government's proposal to allow US troops in Turkey to launch an invasion from Turkish territory.
Paradoxically, but not unexpectedly, Mao Zedong’s struggle against the Kuomintang was inspired by anti-Japanese nationalism as well.
The trend began, somewhat unexpectedly, in Western Europe and is moving eastward.
But then the RMB fell unexpectedly, hitting the bottom of the daily trading band set by the Peoples’ Bank of China (PBoC) for 11 sessions in a row.
Both have now combined, somewhat unexpectedly, to break the momentum carrying the United States, and possibly other Western powers, toward a disastrous military intervention in Syria.
A quarter-century after the end of the Cold War, we unexpectedly find ourselves in a second one.
Popular equity investments, such as shares in Safaricom, are already trading at unexpectedly low levels.
Unexpectedly, a modified version of the third option – whereby 104 Palestinian prisoners will be released in phases over the course of the negotiations – ultimately facilitated the resumption of talks.
Moreover, one could argue that easy money itself has contributed to the unexpectedly strong disinflationary forces seen in recent years.
Unexpectedly, we find ourselves once again staring down the barrel of Malthus’ gun.
Some countries experienced unexpectedly intense economic shocks.
European integration, is felt to have, somehow met its Waterloo in 2005, when Dutch and French referendums unexpectedly torpedoed the draft EU constitution.
But this case is not about oligarchs trying to interfere in politics; it is about a group of artists and curators whose professional activities have unexpectedly turned into a political hot potato.
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