Further eastward expansion of NATO, however, will be possible only against fierce Russian resistance.

This, in turn, creates the need for more internal devaluation, further heightening the debt burden, and so on, in a vicious spiral downward into depression.

PRINCETON An information war has erupted around the world.

This fit the ideology of a brand of capitalism that was red in tooth and claw.

Towards the Government building, Iraqi armour encountered heavy resistance in the surrounding streets and neighbourhoods.

When Wolfowitz was finally pushed out after a bruising battle, Bank staff were beside themselves with joy.

After finally seizing Grozny amid fierce resistance, Russian troops moved on to other Chechen strongholds.

In parliamentary debates, fierce ideological battles may be the order of the day, but ad hominem attacks are off limits.

But inflation has its own adverse distributional and efficiency implications, and would be fiercely resisted.

Moreover, massive economic dislocation could destroy the cohesion of the ruling elites and make them more vulnerable politically. Indeed, members of the ruling elite will be the most immediately affected by financial deleveraging.

Both the EU and Russia have advantages to offer, so competition between them could be fierce.

In an aggressive campaign of naming and shaming, the paper showed how MPs had been exploiting loose regulation to their advantage.

His attacks on ECB President Jean Claude Trichet were often vicious and quite personal.

But it is a cruel, vicious, absolutely conscienceless I'll be all right, keep your seats game that these people play.

The Chinese government has also begun a ferocious crackdown on social media, arresting prominent activists on dubious charges.

It was ruled by the Indonesian army, which fought a brutal civil war against the separatist Free Aceh Movement.

Observing the relationship between her father and stepmother, and their affection toward her half brothers, she is said to have become embittered and developed a fierce personality.

The Tamil Tigers led a ruthless campaign for an independent territory against Sri Lanka s government for most of the past three decades.

The Chinese leadership seems to be aware of this dilemma and is not, in fact, eager to be dragged into fierce competition with the West or its neighbors.

Part of the problem is the emergence of China, whose ultra low wages provide tough competition for Mexico, where wages are merely very low.

Warfare on the North American frontier was brutal, and the killing of prisoners, the targeting of civilians, and other atrocities were widespread.

Kazakhstan had lobbied for years for this opportunity in the face of fierce opposition from Britain and other EU countries.

But there is fierce resistance to this by those who say they are fighting grave mental disorders, for which medication is the only viable treatment.

We need a robust third party force from outside to stop a ruthless third force from within.

In the absence of Communist Party control, these security officers betrayed their corporate ethic and engaged in horse trading, applying force when a trade did not go well.

Although this may seem mundane outside France, Sarkozy s foreign policy revolution has incited fierce opposition at home.

Indirectly, the very rich, some of them outside the US, lent to the other income groups, with the financial sector intermediating in aggressive ways.

Suzuki chose an untapped market while Japan s bigger automakers Toyota, Nissan, and Honda engaged in fierce competition within Japan.

The following day, an operation undertaken by MINUSTAH and the national police to arrest the main gang leaders in Cité Soleil met with strong resistance from gang members.

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It requires more schools and fewer guns more universities and fewer aircraft carriers.

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We must enhance our capacity and mobilize more and more domestic resources.

The means of this denial were the annihilation of offending populations the Jews foremost among them in a merciless attempt at social purification.

There is more in Hyman Minsky, and perhaps more still in Charles Kindleberger.

In the US, President Mitt Romney has just taken office, following a hard fought campaign in which he derided Barack Obama for being too soft on China s economic policies.

Most of our local authorities, when they sit down to plan for the next five, 10, 15, 20 years of a community, still start by assuming that there will be more energy, more cars, more housing, more jobs, more growth, and so on.

Israeli settlers and their supporters then gather even more energy to expand onto more Palestinian land, build more exclusively Jewish settlements, and destroy more Arab homes before the so called freeze comes into effect.

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More bombings.

Chris Michael has more here.

The 2006 Mexican elections had a fierce competition, the electoral results showed a minimal difference between the two most voted candidates and such difference was just about the 0.58 of the total vote.