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For years human rights activists and scholars suspected the obvious: the emergence of an enormous, vicious, well-armed, and well-trained parallel army to fight the guerillas was not some spontaneous act.
But uncoordinated action could result in a vicious cycle of retaliation, turning the currency war into a full-blown trade showdown, with serious consequences for all parties involved.
Some South Africans called for Nuremberg-type trials, especially for perpetrators of those atrocities that were designed to maintain the vicious apartheid system.
The third lesson that the IMF was unable to apply in Greece is that austerity often leads to a vicious cycle, as spending cuts cause the economy to contract far more than it would have otherwise.
With local governments and companies struggling to make interest payments, they are forced into a vicious cycle, borrowing from the shadow banking sector to meet their obligations, thereby raising the risk-free interest rate further.
The propaganda campaign against Vlad succeeded brilliantly, satisfying the public's appetite for sensation with graphic images of the vicious, impaling prince.
In 1992, John Major ran for re-election in the midst of an economic slump, a vicious monetary squeeze and the aftermath of a rapid inflation.
Europe needs, first and foremost, to break the vicious circle of recession, unemployment, and austerity that now has it in its grip.
No need to explain what was behind the act of women and children fleeing in their villages in tractors; there was a vicious force from which these people were escaping.
In order to cope with these demographic shifts, the vicious cycle of making older people unproductive by labeling them so must be broken.
Only a coordinated policy response covering all of the G-20 economies can break this vicious cycle of low confidence and slow trade growth.
The result is a vicious cycle of poor health.
And the damage to their credibility risks further undermining their effectiveness and perpetuating a vicious circle set in motion by their failure to generate high and inclusive growth.
It became clear only later that China’s real objectives were commercial penetration and strategic leverage; by then, it was too late, and countries were trapped in a vicious cycle.
The downturn deepens, and a vicious circle of despair takes hold.
As these processes fuel climate variability, they reduce water availability and boost energy demand even further, producing a vicious cycle that will be hard to break.
This virtuous circle is still seen by globalization’s enemies as in fact a vicious one, encouraging exploitation of the poor and vulnerable.
A vicious circle, it seems, is at work.
So here, too, the logic points to a vicious circle: Slower growth leads to artificial remedies and further erosion of long-term growth potential.
This vicious cycle particularly affects recent college graduates and low skilled workers.
It is up to Italy to break the vicious cycle of inaction and take the bold steps needed to repair Italian banks (and avert a real crisis), which would also provide a blueprint for redressing the inadequacies of the European resolution framework.
The vicious jockeying for power that the party faces during its leadership succession this year, and the public rift that has resulted from Bo’s humiliating fall, must have gravely undermined mutual trust among the party’s top leaders.
Providing refugees with the opportunity to earn a livelihood would help break the vicious cycle of underfunded humanitarian appeals and help create and maintain the skills needed for eventual rebuilding back home.
Moreover, it would end the vicious cycle – now threatening all of the eurozone’s deficit countries – whereby austerity weakens their growth prospects, leading investors to demand prohibitively high interest rates and thus forcing their governments to cut spending further.
Quite simply, the vast majority of Israelis agree with Netanyahu in a fundamental respect: A small country surrounded by enemies, in a chaotic region of failing states and vicious non-state actors like Hamas, Hezbollah, and now the Islamic State, cannot afford to run elections on socioeconomic platforms as if it were a peaceful West European duchy.
Anatomy of a Financial MeltdownNEW YORK – A vicious circle is currently underway in the United States, and its reach could broaden to the global economy.
These outcomes will reinforce each other, producing a vicious cycle that will be difficult to halt.
The result will be chain reactions similar to those seen in Europe’s sovereign-debt crisis, with a vicious circle of sovereign and bank debt leading to credit-rating downgrades and a sharp increase in bond yields.
, EU governments are stuck in a vicious circle: “The universities will get no more money unless they reform, and they cannot reform without more money”.
The Danish government has sought to break free from this vicious circle by introducing reforms before pledging to increase budgets.
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