Or were there outside forces that conspired to knock them back down the economic ladder?
There clearly was concealment and collusion to perpetrate a fraud within the bank and from outside forces.
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This cohort, moreover, is increasingly alienated and politically disaffected, making it vulnerable to exploitation by outside forces.
"You actually don't feel like you're doing that much because it's all these outside forces acting upon you, " she said.
Referring to the anti-Taliban Northern Alliance, he warned against outside forces responding favorably to requests from Afghan groups for military assistance.
As far as Livni is concerned, there is no vital interest that Israel cannot trust outside forces to secure for it.
If that failed, there would be pressure to bring in outside forces.
The council needs to show independent strength if it is not to be perceived by Iraqis as a puppet of outside forces.
Southeast Asia should never again let itself fall prey to outside forces seeking to bully its countries and rope them into contending blocs.
China can be a modern, fairly rich and self sufficient country able to defend itself against outside forces be they military or economic.
President Alexander Lukashenko did not say what caused the explosion at the Oktyabrskaya subway station, but suggested outside forces could be behind it.
The authoritarian leader, under strong pressure from the West over his suppression of the opposition, has frequently alleged outside forces seek to destabilize his regime.
Both today and during her tenure in power, she has advocated a national security strategy based on subcontracting vital national security interests to outside forces.
And the opposition is in large part incoherent and hysterical, and may well be financed or even organised by outside forces that wish the country ill.
But to suggest, as the Obama campaign ad does, that Bain shuttered GST simply to make a profit betrays a total misunderstanding of the outside forces affecting all U.S. steel production.
The Iranian government has long accused other countries, especially Britain, of "meddling" in its affairs, but has offered no proof any outside forces have been involved in the unrest since the election.
The US, Israel and other outside forces should be actively cultivating, supporting and organizing an alternative leadership that can take charge and move Iran in a new moral and ideological direction after the regime falls.
There's no official term for milder forms of "nervous breakdown, " though some patients and clinicians wish there was still a name for a temporary state of being overwhelmed by outside forces without an underlying mental illness.
This failure has bred a political culture of reform by stealth, in which change is carried out with one hand and blamed on outside forces usually globalisation, the European Union or America while soothing words about protecting the French way are issued on the other.
But it may be that outside forces are more important: for example, a European Union that forbids cosy cartels, American pension funds that demand open accounts for their investments in France, or even the influence of the euro in promoting competition and cross-border mergers.
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Under the ASEAN Free Trade Area, members have to adopt tariff cuts and other liberalization measures, on pain of exclusion from AFTA. However, if intervention is done not in pursuit of the grouping's goals, but at the behest of outside forces, then ASEAN appears to be an instrument of, rather than a bulwark against, big-power bullying.
The United States and the United Kingdom historically steadfast allies in earlier world conflicts together with our other democratic allies, today face the global threat posed by Islamofascism on two fronts, both from outside forces and homegrown terror, as we were once again starkly reminded in the foiled plot to bring down ten airliners bound for the United States from Heathrow in August of this year.
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The market is supported by bullish outside market forces that include a weaker U.S. dollar index and firmer crude oil prices.
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However, a stronger U.S. dollar index and lower crude oil prices are bearish outside market forces working against the precious metals Friday morning.
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The U.S. dollar index and crude oil will remain two important outside market forces that will have a daily impact on the precious metals markets.
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Gold is under mild selling pressure Wednesday on the bearish outside market forces of a firmer U.S. dollar index and steady to weaker crude oil prices.
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Outside market forces were also in a bullish posture for gold and silver Wednesday, as the U.S. dollar index was weaker and crude oil prices were sharply higher.
The confederation is made up of both Afghan and Pakistani-based groups with the shared goals of expelling outside military forces and the "imposition of a religiously conservative Pashtun-led government, " it said.
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