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Nevertheless, Khrushchev regretted his lack of courage and wished he had used his time to push his "thaw" ahead, so that even political death would be optional.
Its two major banks had attracted huge deposits from abroad, largely from Russia, and presumably mostly from individuals who wished to escape scrutiny at home or elsewhere.
WARSAW/MELBOURNE – Have you ever wished you could add extra memory to your brain?
That can happen with anyone, but it is still no reason for revolution, which is always better wished on someone else than on yourself.
When Shere Hite published The Hite Report: A Nationwide Study of Female Sexuality in 1976, about one-third of the US women surveyed reported that they did not have orgasms during sex when they wished to.
The economic and political obstacles that block deep integration cannot be wished away by exhortations.
He wished to establish the kind of democratic politics that could support and nurture a healthy market economy.
But they are a fact of life that cannot just be wished or regulated away.
Denmark would opt out of certain cooperative arrangements envisaged by the treaty in a way that didn’t hinder the rest of the EU from proceeding as it wished.
But then Hwang’s collaborators began questioning the validity of the experiment itself, and Hwang notified Science that he wished to withdraw the paper.
If Germany had wished to constrain its governor’s authority in this way, it should have informed the other signatory states prior to doing so.
If the lobbyists had simply wished to point out that Western critics often consider Israel more harshly than its Middle Eastern enemies, they would be right.
Cameron no doubt wished to reassure those in his Conservative Party who doubt his euroskeptic zeal.
There the European Central Bank has also used up its gunpowder and cannot create inflation even if it wished to do so (which it cannot, because the Maastricht Treaty defines preservation of price stability as the ECB’s only goal.)
Second, even if all of the capital dynamics that so concern Piketty could be wished away, the distribution of income in Latin America would still be appallingly skewed.
That said, Soros’s suggestion that a sub-group of euro countries could issue joint Eurobonds if they wished to do so is good.
He wished the enterprise well; but he did not intend that Britain would be part of it.
Almost one might think the world wished to suffer.
A Londoner, as Keynes put it, could send his servant to fetch any amount of foreign currency, and he could invest his sterling wherever he wished.
In fact, it now seems clear that it marks the moment when the British government seriously wished to be in the single currency.
The paradox is that at Cardiff Tony Blair talked more positively about the single currency than he has ever done before; he even sounded almost wistful, as if he wished Britain could have opted to join the other 11 member states in the first wave.
Those who wished to hold government jobs had to declare Arab ethnicity.
Whereas the Central Asian republics’ rulers wished to keep the Soviet structure, it was Yeltsin and the Russian government which wanted to put an end to the Soviet Union and create an independent Russian Federation.
The government of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (FRY) could seize and extradite them - if it wished to.
At that point, the problem of how to divide the eventual bill when things became costly was not addressed, and the problem of excessive debt was wished away by the establishment of convergence criteria (which were not fully implemented anyway).
An official of the National Alliance, America’s premier neo-Nazi group, said that he wished his own members had “half as much testicular fortitude.”
The transcendent reality of life on the subcontinent is that it has always been India that wished to live in peace.
In the regulatory school where I was trained – the Bank of England – we were told never to use that fatal phrase, for fear of generating precisely the moral hazard we wished to avoid.
For the only time that long night, I addressed Karadzic directly, telling him that we worked only for President Bill Clinton and that he could call Carter if he wished but that we would leave and that the bombing would intensify.
I wished I could believe in their optimism.
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