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The vacuum that the PA left elsewhere, including the social sphere, was filled by Hamas.
The Assembly sought to fill this policy vacuum by outlining steps that her government must take to jump-start the economy.
If the US were to give up its leadership role too quickly, chaos might follow and less benign powers might jump into the vacuum.
After the supply-side shocks of the 1970s dissolved the Keynesian consensus of the postwar era, and progressive taxation and the European welfare state had gone out of fashion, the vacuum was filled by market fundamentalism (also called neoliberalism) of the type championed by Reagan and Margaret Thatcher.
Moreover, George W. Bush seems to be far weaker than any normal “lame duck” president, creating a global power vacuum that has been filled vigorously by French President Nicolas Sarkozy, who is also the current president of the European Council.
Democrats, for their part, face a broad leadership vacuum and a lack of political vision, owing to their now-internalized fear of being labeled “big spenders.”
America's economy became - and remains - a giant vacuum cleaner, soaking up the world's spare investment cash.
What is certain is that the vacuum left by Sharon’s departure from politics is all the more striking in view of the images of chaos emerging from the Gaza that Israel has vacated, and the collapse of the Palestinian authority before our eyes.
The new silent majority is the best defense against the radical and suicidal undercurrents that have filled the political vacuum created by the collapse of the old order.
China might well step in to fill that vacuum, but that is quite different from being able to elbow America aside.
If there is a vacuum in information after an event, others will rush in to fill it.
The pioneers of microelectronics tried many strategies to supplant vacuum tubes, and they delivered a host of semiconductors and chip designs: germanium, silicon, aluminum, gallium arsenide, PNP, NPN, CMOS, and so on.
Finally, confidence-building does not happen in a vacuum, but within a specific regional and global geopolitical context.
But they do not operate in a vacuum.
This left a vacuum in both countries, with Russia’s government struggling to justify an elected autocracy, and China’s one-party dictatorship seeking a new source of legitimacy.
The Islamic State has exploited long-standing Sunni grievances to challenge the territorial integrity of Iraq and Syria, creating a strategic vacuum in which Russia, Iran, the United States, Turkey, and Saudi Arabia now vie for power, sometimes through proxies, but increasingly through direct military intervention.
The failure of moderate establishment forces to grasp and respond to the forces now moving the world, from digitization to globalization, led to a governance vacuum, which has now given way to a moral and intellectual vacuum.
At the same time, new media models are being developed to fill the vacuum left by the erosion of local journalism.
This kind of virulent populism thrives in Europe’s political vacuum.
The fact that Monti’s government is unelected should not prevent him from filling that vacuum with a determined, reform-minded program.
But religion does not operate in a vacuum.
But we also need to understand that Iran’s nuclear aspirations do not exist in a vacuum.
We will be left with a leadership vacuum, and nowhere is this more dangerous than with respect to nuclear proliferation.
The civil war has enabled the extremist Islamic State to build up its capacity to the point that, if the Syrian regime were to collapse entirely, the group would likely be able to take advantage of the power vacuum to seize control of the entire country.
The power vacuum that this approach produced was filled by Sunni militias and, ultimately, the Islamic State.
Western proponents of NATO expansion contend that, in addition to bolstering Central European democracy and containing Russia, extension of the Atlantic Alliance to Central Europe is desirable because, there is a "security vacuum" between Russia and Germany.
This vacuum, proponents say, will ultimately be filled by something, and so should be filled as soon as possible by something benign, namely NATO.
There is, however, no security vacuum in Europe.
Moroever, the Green Fund would help fill the vacuum between the Fast Track Funding for 2010-12 that was pledged in Copenhagen and the target date of 2020.
China and Europe might find common cause in the vacuum left as America’s domestic energy revolution weakens its commitment to the region.
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