Both had resisted capital market liberalization.

But Israel s government, using all kinds of pretexts, stubbornly resisted.

Iraq s political elites have resisted Maliki s desire for a second term for two reasons.

They withstood forces 38 times the normal pull of gravity and were weightless for about 9 minutes.

But she fights back, accidentally killing him. She faces a death sentence until attorney Meaza Ashenafi steps in to fight for her.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel resisted all proposals to provide relief to Spain and Italy from the excessive risk premiums that both countries are now confronting.

In the present report, I have resisted the temptation to include all areas in which progress is important or desirable.

It appears also as a fortress of importance in the Civil War, though it resisted Caesar's attack for a week (49 BC).

The crisis was confined to Latin America, Africa and the Middle East and there were also countries in each that bucked the wider trend.

Having agreed to delegate responsibility for monetary policy to the European Central Bank, most governments put up fierce resistance to any further transfer of sovereignty.

Germany discovered this during the 1960 s and 1970 s, and resisted the Deutschemark s trend toward becoming an international reserve currency.

Colombia recently bucked this trend, and it now appears that the leftist candidate in Mexico s presidential election, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, was narrowly defeated.

The American administration was absolutely right to resist the call to turn Iraq over to a caudillo, as some wanted.

The Commission has previously resisted the effort of compiling a catalogue of norms of jus cogens and decided to leave the full content of this rule to be worked out in State practice and in the jurisprudence of international tribunals .

While Serbia has resisted partition of Kosovo, Russia would also support a Serbian proposal to partition the Serb populated north, an effort that would open up a Pandora s box of possible partition of Serbia, Bosnia, and Macedonia.

Although some countries have resisted the trend, inequality has been increasing over the last 30 40 years in the world as a whole.

When Estonia resisted, Russia imposed sanctions and cut off gas supplies. The few Estonian products allowed into Russia were heavily taxed, and Russia even threatened military intervention.

Turkey, a responsible regional power, has so far resisted being drawn into the Syrian quagmire, but its effects can be seen in the rising tensions between the country s Sunni majority and the Shia Alevi sect.

Bush s subordinates authorized methods of interrogation that led to torture, and his administration adamantly resisted legislation that would ban its use.

African colonial inheritance persists today as a reality for the peoples of the continent, subject directly or indirectly to intervention by the former colonial Powers, which have resisted abandoning their past practices.

Had emerging economies resisted the temptation of excessive private sector credit growth, raising interest rates in order to stabilize currencies would not pose a severe threat to economic performance.

Before the FFP was launched in November 2010, Florida s powerful tomato industry had long resisted increasing the per bucket rate or signing on to codes of conduct to safeguard workers against abuses.

The Armenian militia of Hunchaks (Social Democrat Hunchakian Party) of the city Zeitun (Süleymanlı) had resisted on two armed conflicts, first from August 30 to December 1, 1914, and second on March 25, 1915, to the Ottoman Empire.

A similar scenario is already unfolding in Iraq. Turkey, a responsible regional power, has so far resisted being drawn into the Syrian quagmire, but its effects can be seen in the rising tensions between the country s Sunni majority and the Shia Alevi sect.

European governments have resisted genuine opening of their national defense markets for a host of reasons, including an obsession with meeting national defense requirements, concerns over sovereignty, and a desire to protect jobs and local high technology capabilities.

Turkey can be a model for Middle Eastern countries if, while promoting its regional strategic and economic interests, it resists the authoritarian temptation and continues to show that Islam and democracy are fully compatible.

Europe, together with the US, has already resisted Chinese (and Russian) demands for greater Internet censorship. And European countries like Norway and Germany have willingly taken economic hits in the name of human rights.

Germany resisted the euro, arguing that full political union should come first. Since there was no chance that the other countries would accept political union, Germany s position seemed like a technical maneuver to prevent the establishment of the single currency.

No one has succeeded in the modern American political game like the biggest banks on Wall Street, which lobbied for deregulation during the three decades prior to the crisis of 2008, and then pushed back effectively against almost all dimensions of financial reform.

For months, wise and responsible people had exhorted Israel to accept the ceasefire that the Hamas leadership in Gaza had proposed. But Israel s government, using all kinds of pretexts, stubbornly resisted.

By contrast, the countries in East and South Asia that bucked this trend in the 1980s were able to maintain a fast and reasonably stable pace of capital accumulation for most of the 1990s (UNCTAD, 2003 65 73).

Likewise, China s property law was debated for years, as conservative forces, with the support of various media outlets, resisted marketization and privatization in defense of older citizens whose livelihoods continued to depend on the iron rice bowl of state ownership.

She insisted, and arranged to take orders at first in Lebanon, until the approval came and she was requested by the Vatican to begin her journey as a nun in Jerusalem. This was in the early nineties.

So, too, are signs of newfound policy discipline such as a central bank that seems determined to wean China off excessive credit creation and fiscal authorities that have resisted the timeworn temptation of yet another massive round of spending initiatives to counter a slowdown.

In fact, China knows full well that currency wars are self defeating. During the 1997 Asian financial crisis, China s economic situation was much worse than it is today, but the government still resisted the temptation to devalue the renminbi and the country managed to emerge from the crisis virtually unscathed.