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In El Salvador, both sides that withdrew from their civil war took moves that had been proven to mirror a prisoner's dilemma strategy.
But then the Roman Empire began to crumble, and the Romans withdrew from Britain.
A few days later, relations to his wife and her family's companies were also discovered in the Panama Papers, and so he withdrew from the race again.
The company was so offended, they literally withdrew the offer and my brother was left with nothing.
When they reached the refugee camp and she knew they were finally in some kind of safety, she completely withdrew to acting like her old childhood self.
With nothing to eat, people no longer gathered over heaped bowls of rice, but withdrew and shrank from the darkening world.
They told him of a great hero called Achilles, who, when he participated in battle, victory was assured, but when he withdrew from the battle, defeat was inevitable.
NATO forces went in, and the Serbian army withdrew.
Missouri never withdrew from the Union and the Union Army was not an invading force.
Somewhat oddly, lesbians were not regarded as a threat to the Nazi party, and many lesbians either left Germany or simply withdrew from public life, thus escaping with their lives.
She served in Bataan and Corrigedor during the time when McArthur withdrew to Australia.
As was said before in another comment: no body in Anderson was interviewed, Ed did not run for Mayor, he had filed in the primary and then Saundra was found dead and he withdrew.
Bogart's part was originally intended for Marlon Brando, but Brando withdrew after the death of producer Mark Hellinger.
Last May, Obama declared that the US had “turned the tide of war” in Afghanistan, an eerie echo of Richard Nixon’s rhetoric as he withdrew US forces from Vietnam.
But the bond between the US and Pakistan weakened when Soviet forces withdrew from Afghanistan in 1989.
Instead, the decline in Indian stocks reflected foreign investors’ liquidity problems: they withdrew from holdings in India because they needed their money back home, not because it wasn’t growing for them.
Ever since Mao’s Communists won the civil war (which the last meeting between the parties, in 1945, had been called to try to avert) and Chiang Kai-shek’s Kuomintang forces withdrew to Taiwan, relations between the two sides have smoldered without ever really catching fire.
Kolakowski, modern Poland’s most acclaimed philosopher, quickly learned that mendacity was the true building block of Communism, and he withdrew from it in horror.
Israel, India, and Pakistan have never signed, while North Korea signed and then withdrew.
Although President Bill Clinton signed the treaty establishing the ICC, the Bush administration withdrew that signature, and the US is still not a party to the treaty.
Although Israel formally withdrew from Gaza, its complete control over the borders, infrastructure, transport, and taxation, together with its regular military incursions in response to shelling from Gaza and its killings and capture of senior Hamas officials, left Palestinians there desperate.
Israel, having withdrawn from Lebanon in 2000, withdrew from Gaza in 2005.
His sectarian, authoritarian behavior polarized his country to such a degree that even the army’s chief, General Abdul Fattah al-Sisi, known for his Islamist sympathies, withdrew his support from the man who had appointed him.
For them, and for Trump, Obama is to blame: he doesn’t stand up to foreign leaders (Binyamin Netanyahu might disagree); he withdrew from Iraq too soon (though the timetable was set by his Republican predecessor); he even “apologizes” for America.
Nicolas Sarkozy’s just completed trip to Washington may be an exception, because the French President may be preparing to bring NATO a highly valued present for its 60th anniversary in the spring of 2009: France’s return to NATO’s integrated military structure, from which Charles de Gaulle withdrew in 1966.
Indeed, Russia, France, and Germany, which confronted the US and Britain at the UN over the Iraq war, and the UN itself, which withdrew early in the occupation, are all now searching for a way to assist in Iraq's rehabilitation.
But, after the Philippines withdrew, China occupied the shoal – and, despite a mutual-defense treaty between the US and the Philippines, the US did little in response.
The day after the Durban conference, Canada officially withdrew from the Kyoto Protocol, which Russia and Japan have already declined to extend, leaving only the EU’s member states and a few other countries committed to further reductions.
Alexander II sold Alaska;Lenin withdrew from Ukraine in exchange for peace with Germany; and Gorbachev pulled back from central Europe in an effort to end the Cold War.
Similarly, at this June’s G7 Summit in Quebec, Trump withdrew US support for the final communiqué, following a personal spat with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.
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