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And, lying in wait, guided by the Eumenides (the Greek deities of vengeance whose name is synonymous with fury as well as justice), a figure is taking shape as if, in classical terms, in fulfillment of a dreadful fate: Marine Le Pen.
They carry vengeance in their hearts from generation to generation, until a measure of justice is done, nursing their enmity in frozen conflicts that block economic growth, prevent the formation of social capital, and paralyze political institutions.
Instead, it marks the return of a practice that had seemed to have been consigned to history’s dustbin which has now returned with a vengeance.
Meltdowns and FalloutsBRUSSELS – The metaphors used during the financial crisis of 2008-2009 – earthquake, tsunami, meltdown, black swan, and fallout – are back with a vengeance, but now they are being recycled literally.
Indeed, the old socialist economic birdcage has now been largely burst by China's capitalist reforms, releasing with a vengeance a mutant "people's republic" into the global marketplace of consumerism.
Of course, that did not happen, and when Sunni and Shia alike came to understand de-Baathification as vengeance against the Sunni, the insurgency was on.
Unsurprisingly, stock prices plummeted and the bank run returned with a vengeance, bleeding €45 billion of deposits out of the system over the next few months.
Holding Back Europe’s Economic NationalistsPARIS – The German and French governments have been scrambling to save their automobile and truck industries though big fiscal injections, making it clear that, within much of the European Union, industrial policy has returned with a vengeance.
The US has embraced flexibility and competition with a vengeance.
That sour sense of rejection, felt by many confused youths, turns for some into a fierce desire for vengeance.
But violent passion and the desire to wreak vengeance cannot be the only, or perhaps even the main, reason.
Whatever the cost, we must stop the massive, random, indiscriminate bombings – and, worst of all, the discriminate ones aimed chiefly at civilians, humanitarian convoys, and hospitals – that the forces of Bashar al-Assad and Russia have resumed with a vengeance in and around what was once Syria’s most populous city.
So the “resource curse” has hit Russia with a vengeance.
All Stimulus Roads Lead to ChinaBEIJING – Now that the “green shoots” of recovery have withered, the debate over fiscal stimulus is back with a vengeance.
Indeed, in the new global balance, where football has become much more than sport, Europe is back with a vengeance.
The Rise of Drug-Resistant TuberculosisBALTIMORE -- Tuberculosis, one of the most deadly infectious diseases, is back with a vengeance, especially in Africa.
In a world where, for many Israelis and non-Israeli Jews, Israel is becoming to the community of nations what Jews once were in the community of peoples – a pariah state, if not an eternal scapegoat – the memory of the Shoah resounds with a vengeance.
The greatest play about the tension between law and justice is Aeschylus’s The Eumenides, a story of murder and vengeance in which the furies represent justice.
So it is that the furies help Orestes to wreak vengeance on his mother, Clytaemnestra, for killing his father, Agamemnon.
The Trouble with Emerging MarketsLAGOS – The financial turmoil that hit emerging-market economies last spring, following the US Federal Reserve’s “taper tantrum” over its quantitative-easing (QE) policy, has returned with a vengeance.
Today, history appears to be repeating itself with a vengeance.
First, worries about a hard landing in China and its likely impact on the stock market and the value of the renminbi have returned with a vengeance.
If Macron fails during the next five years, Le Pen will be back with a vengeance, and nativist populists will gain strength in Europe and elsewhere.
When the end of ideology was celebrated – first in the 1950’s and then, more emphatically still, in the 1990’s – no one foresaw that religion, the bane of politics in the first half of the twentieth century, would return to that role with a vengeance.
Today, with Donald Trump leading the United States, the madman doctrine is back with a vengeance.
On Friday night, reality struck us with a vengeance.
The thirst for vengeance after the Beslan school massacre makes confrontation between Chechens and Ingushis increasingly possible.
Three decades later, History is back with a vengeance.
While the politics of frustration was thus controlled in the postcommunist world, it broke out with a vengeance in the Islamic world.
Deficit hawks – especially among the bankers who laid low during the government bailout of their institutions, but who have now come back with a vengeance – use worries about the growing deficit to justify cutbacks in spending.
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