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In the 1990s, when US President Bill Clinton’s administration was considering how to respond to China’s increasing economic might, some urged a policy of containment.
Many of Kennedy’s advisers, as well as US military leaders, urged an air strike and invasion, which we now know might have led Soviet field commanders to use their tactical nuclear weapons.
Crowds of pro-European well-wishers urged them on.
Those provisions were withdrawn only in 1993, after Nelson Mandela urged foreign investors to return.
On the one hand, he has urged India to play a greater role in Afghanistan as part of the American exit strategy from that conflict.
World Bank President Jim Yong Kim has urged donor countries to step up their support of IDA during this year’s triennial replenishment round, arguing that additional funding “will be essential for us to work on our goals to end extreme poverty and boost shared prosperity.”
Only a few hours after the demonstrations began, government authorities sent a mass text message that urged the protesters to return to their homes, adding that “the Rafallah al-Sahati Brigade, the February 17 Brigade, and the Libya Shield Force are legal, and are subject to the authority of the [military] general staff.”
Although the Irish Farmers Association (IFA) has belatedly urged its 85,000 members to support the Treaty, opinion polls show farmers are opposed to Lisbon by a two to one majority.
Mir Hossein Moussavi saw the green symbols of the demonstrators as representing the color of the House of the Prophet, and urged his supporters to continue their nightly rooftop chants of “God is Great!”
He urged bank boards and senior executives to preempt such bans by firing highly problematic managers publicly, rather than sending them quietly out the back door.
Richard Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, and Paul Wolfowitz wanted war with Saddam all through the 1990's, and urged "regime change" as a policy for President Clinton, who wisely rejected such irresponsible advice.
I have urged the CD to adopt an agenda based either on the consensus that was forged in 2009, or on an alternative arrangement.
Russian politicians urged him to haggle, arguing that President Bush would give him anything: money, debt forgiveness, and technology.
And, over the past year, I have urged states to define how we can better protect migrants affected by humanitarian crises such as civil conflicts and natural and manmade disasters.
In a letter addressed to Obama, South Korea’s opposition parties urged him to reconsider the free-trade pact.
When the Taliban ruled Afghanistan, from 1996 to 2001, it supported the vaccination effort, and indeed it continues to do so; a recent Taliban statement urged its Mujahedeen to provide polio workers with “all necessary support.”
In the months leading up to the decision, the IMF urged Cyprus to take all necessary steps to ensure a favorable outcome.
They were urged to allow the Real to weaken slightly and gradually, according to market forces, in order to restore export profitability.
In the first round on February 26, voters showed a higher level of trust in their electoral institutions than did many political actors, who urged postponement of the election, or a boycott, on the grounds that Wade’s control of the state apparatus made a free and fair election impossible.
For newspapers and magazines, circulation was guaranteed by the government, which urged people to “study the Party newspapers” and forced work units to buy them.
He was seconded by the Iraq’s powerful Shia leader, Mukhtada el-Sadr, and by its supreme Shia cleric, Ayatollah Ali Sistani, who urged Bahrain to get rid of the “foreign forces.”
We urged that the parties involved settle the disputes peacefully.
The same Commission, on which I served, urged the new President, George W. Bush, on January 31, 2001, to prepare the nation for these attacks by consolidating dispersed federal government agencies into a new national homeland security agency.
A number of neoconservative members of the administration had urged regime change in Iraq well before taking office, but were unable to turn it into policy during the first eight months of the administration.
In an extreme attempt to address his country’s job shortage, Portuguese Prime Minister Pedro Passos Coelho recently urged his country’s young unemployed to emigrate to Portugal’s former colonies, such as Brazil or Angola.
The Chief Prosecutor of the ICC, Luis Moreno Ocampo, should be urged to accelerate his investigations and, once the evidence is sufficient, bring charges against those who have committed these crimes or failed to discipline or prosecute the perpetrators.
It lobbied regulatory agencies and Congress to delay or weaken reforms after they were enacted; urged Congress to block key nominees and withhold essential funding; and launched aggressive lawsuits to stymie implementation of important rules.
These critics have urged the Obama administration to go further in naming and shaming, by providing a fuller public description of what US intelligence knows about Russia’s behavior, and by imposing financial and travel sanctions against high-level Russian officials who are identified.
In order not to “lose Russia,” world leaders urged the United States to lead a huge bailout, including the delivery of a large quantity of US government surplus wheat.
Kristalina Georgieva, the managing director of the International Monetary Fund, has urged policymakers to “spend but keep the receipts.”
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