China s Stability Gambit

Colombia s Peace Gambit

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The last such maneuver, Caucasus 2008, was followed by the invasion of Georgia.

And here you can see this parasite in action, like in an acrobatic maneuver.

Eleven Iraqi combat units were employed as independent manoeuvre elements during that operation.

Singapore hosted a maritime interdiction exercise, code named Exercise Deep Sabre, from 15 to 19 August 2005, which involved a number of PSI countries as participants and observers.

The Third Plenum s use of decisive to anchor a market based approach is a similar gambit.

Lawyer Gamal Eid said he believed her release was part of a government maneuver to improve its image.

In any case, a temperature limit is obviously a political rather than a scientific statement.

His emergency technocratic government, supported by the left and right, was a masterstroke of outgoing President Giorgio Napolitano.

Caucasus 2012 will take place in North Caucasus region, and will involve 8,000 troops, as well as heavy machinery, artillery, navy, and air force.

After congratulating Mahinour, I believe that her release from prison is a political ploy by an oppressive regime. Mahinour will receive an international award next month.

The gravity assist maneuver was first used in 1959 when the Soviet probe Luna 3 photographed the far side of Earth's Moon.

China s opening gambit to compel the international community to recognize the existence of a dispute has been successful, and portends further disturbance of the status quo.

This summer, for example, China and Russia conducted their first ever grand scale joint military exercise.

The science spacecraft, called Sancho, would arrive at the asteroid first and, after a rendezvous manoeuvre, would observe and measure the target asteroid over a period of several months.

The desire of Republicans to defeat the Democrats could lead them to use every maneuver to block votes and slow legislative reforms.

A Hayes maneuver (pressure applied below the umbilicus in cephalad and dorsal direction) elevates the root of the SMA, also slightly easing the constriction.

Recently, in anticipation of a hypothetical confrontation with Iran, a major military maneuver the Juniper Cobra exercise was conducted to test Israel s integration into US ballistic missile defenses.

Little by little, you learn the names of the owners of the generators which supply your friends' homes, as you can't help but hear their screaming as they and their neighbours yell across the balconies every time the electricity goes off, or when there's a problem with the supply.

In the de Stalinization era, which sought to undermine any achievements made during Stalin's regime, it was declared that the Stakhanovite movement was Stalin's propaganda maneuver.

The German Soviet non aggression treaty, the so called Hitler Stalin pact, concluded in August 1939, had been supplemented by a secret appendix dividing the border states Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland and Romania into spheres of interest for the two parties.

After mitigating the downturn, central bankers must withdraw the immense infusion of liquidity before inflation takes off, a tricky maneuver.

The submarine that Putin was on resembled the Kursk, which exploded during a similar military exercise in 2000, killing 118 sailors.

As a result, its ability to maintain services and the military capacity to respond to any maneuver by the Khartoum government aimed against the peace agreement is seriously compromised.

The deal was a transparent political maneuver to take pressure off EU leaders seen as doing little to manage or, more accurately, stop the continued refugee influx from Turkey into Greece.

A further exercise is planned for early May to focus on detailed operational command, including the establishment of a joint police and armed forces operations centre.

To be sure, if this new truce is merely technical, if efforts are not made to stabilize and consolidate it, it could become just one another in a long string of bitter episodes.

India s former ambassador to Afghanistan, Vivek Katju, is confident that Afghan President Hamid Karzai s anger at the Taliban s gambit in Qatar will not delay negotiations for long.

On the other hand, taking this historic initiative would, relative to fainthearted tactical maneuvering, substantially increase politicians chances of re election later.

A Greek revolutionary maneuver and occupation under Alexander Ypsilanti (Αλέξανδρος Υψηλάντης) and the Filiki Eteria (Φιλική Εταιρία) (1821, at the beginning of the Greek War of Independence) led to the storming of the city by the Turks in 1822.

Russia, not wanting to be left out of the act, has recently staged the largest nuclear exercises in decades to remind everyone that it remains a serious nuclear player, too.

As if demonstrating its intention to ignore the protest, on April 21 Chinese Navy vessels sailed northward, between Okinawa and the Miyako islands, and conducted a large scale exercise.

Russia, not wanting to be left out of the act, has recently staged the largest nuclear exercises in decades to remind everyone that it remains a serious nuclear player, too.

When overseeing military exercises from aboard a nuclear submarine near Scandinavia, Vladimir Putin announced that Russia had developed a new missile system, the finest in the world.

On 21 April, the Abkhaz side conducted a military exercise involving heavy weapons in the Ochamchira training area adjacent to the Gali sector restricted weapons zone, but avoided violations of the ceasefire arrangements.

In 2013, we will engage for the first time in multilateral military exercises led by ASEAN, while China has been invited to send ships to RIMPAC 2014.

Vietnam differed from Korea and Malaya, where containment and counterinsurgency prevailed, because the communists could outflank allied forces in South Vietnam by using neutral territory in Cambodia and Laos.

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.

Putin s initiative turned out to be a diplomatic lifeline, as Obama s gambit of seeking Congressional approval for an attack on Syria looked certain to fail, which would have dented his authority as America s commander in chief.

As if demonstrating its intention to ignore the protest, on April 21 Chinese Navy vessels sailed northward, between Okinawa and the Miyako islands, and conducted a large scale exercise. Once again, a Chinese military helicopter circled a Japanese escort ship.

For example, the Rim of the Pacific (RIMPAC) exercise was the largest ever, including more than 42 ships and 25,000 personnel from 22 countries, while the US and China staged their first ever maritime counter piracy exercise near the Horn of Africa.

Obasanjo is also shaking up the oil industry in a double maneuver interpreted as a rap on the knuckles for his Western allies and a last ditch effort to secure a legacy as the one Nigerian leader who tamed corruption in that sector.

But although Prime Minister Ehud Olmert might seek to regain his popular credibility by a major new peace demarche, the two headed Palestinian Authority, always a dubious partner in the eyes of the Israelis, is now more suspect than ever.