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He cannot find enough spending to cut (the magic asterisk has disappeared up the conjurer’s sleeve); the acceleration in GDP is nowhere to be seen (the rosy scenario having vanished); and tax revenues have not grown (no rabbit in the Laffer hat).
With the demise of the Soviet Union, according to this argument, the bi-polar balance of power vanished and America became the world's only superpower, engendering resentment and envy - and hence a difficult time for US-European relations.
Once the potential “military threat” posed by the Soviet Union had vanished into thin air, successive waves of NATO enlargement served neither a military nor an ideological purpose.
But at most 15,000 died in battle; the rest vanished.
Yesterday’s leader of the vanished Soviet Union, it seems, is an unwelcome ghost in today’s Russia.
The assurance that tomorrow will be much like today has vanished.
Back then, most of the country was not governed at all, half of the economy’s productive capacity vanished, the Kremlin could not get a single reform law through the Communist Duma, and only lazy people were not talking about the country’s disintegration.
Political fervor, it seems, has not vanished in the land of Rousseau and Danton.
But when armed men stopped the convoy on the road, the Uruguayan peacekeepers from MONUC simply turned around and vanished, leaving the aid workers to their fate.
Likewise, in the referendum that ended his 16-year rule in Chile in 1990, General Augusto Pinochet, with thousands of tortured and vanished victims in his grisly cupboard, ran on a law-and-order platform and received 44% of the vote.
In the last 20 years, that curmudgeonly attitude has vanished.
Then, suddenly,“the party vanished, overnight, as if all of a sudden a giant sponge had drained the entire sea, Adriatic and Austral, leaving litter and clots of mud, and all the boats stranded.
Given Syria’s bloody civil war, the rise to power of Islamist forces through free elections, the ever-deepening political and economic crises in Egypt and Tunisia, increasing instability in Iraq, uncertainty about the future of Jordan and Lebanon, and the threat of war over Iran’s nuclear program, the bright hope of a new Middle East has vanished.
Then, last week, Jamal Khashoggi, an exiled Saudi journalist, vanished after entering Saudi Arabia’s consulate in Istanbul to obtain a document confirming his divorce, so that he could marry a Turkish woman the next day.
By mid-2002, those projected surpluses had vanished.
It arrived suddenly in 2008, and, after roughly 18 months, vanished almost as quickly as it had come.
It was built for a vanished world in which workers often had the same employer for most of their career.
Traditional socialism, with its promise of the benevolent power of the state, has vanished beyond recall; and so has the infinite reassurance of the welfare state, which was supposed to protect against all adversity; and so has the paradigm of Keynesian demand management, with its promise of guaranteed employment and prosperity.
The market for such securities has now vanished.
Today, we can see the force of this ideology, but it would be a mistake to assume that the spirit of the original Muslim reformists has vanished.
Chile was hit hard by the 2008-2009 financial crisis: foreign loans vanished and the price of copper, Chile’s main export, collapsed.
They just might find that their worst nighttime fears have vanished by the light of day.
As the crackdown following those heady weeks of free expression and assembly came to its apocalyptic end on the night of June 3-4, Zhao vanished, sucked down the Party’s memory hole into which so many other leaders have vanished since China’s “socialist liberation.”
So many hopes have vanished in the bitter failure of so many negotiations.
There were three reasons, all of which vanished by the end of WWII.
All three of these factors vanished between the world wars.
The deficit was to have vanished by 2015, then by 2017, then by 2020-2021.
But if Iran’s hardliners were frustrated by previous negotiations, their disappointment vanished yesterday.
In 1998, however, prosperity vanished.
Attacks on Jews have sparked outrage from the many Germans who thought such scenes had vanished forever from their country’s streets.
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