Sarkozy s Secret Rupture

Both sides want to prevent any serious rupture.

Slovakia offers a positive example of such a rupture.

The market has, they claim, already priced in such a rupture.

For Sarkozy, rupture reflects both mundanely tactical and deeply personal choices.

For Sarkozy, rupture reflects both mundanely tactical and deeply personal choices.

Senior leaders from both sides sought to save the relationship from total rupture.

So far, few French people can see the sort of rupture that Sarkozy promised.

Perhaps too much uncontrolled rupture in style can ultimately lead to paralysis in substance.

Indeed, all left wing parties denounce Sarkozy s rupture with the Fifth Republic s military diplomatic heritage.

In the case of Royal, the meaning of rupture is both more obvious and more visible.

If we continue to claim that they are transparent, we are going to create a rupture.

Indeed, the proposal amounted to a rupture with the near universal agreement that small depositors should be considered sacrosanct.

Instead, the party long defended the theory of a revolutionary rupture with capitalism, never clearly acknowledging its reformist nature.

The country will descend deeper into authoritarianism, political divisions will become irreconcilable, and yet another political rupture may become inevitable.

Eight months into his presidency, is Nicolas Sarkozy delivering the rupture from 30 years of French immobility that he promised?

PARIS A year ago, when Nicolas Sarkozy was campaigning for the French presidency, he promised a rupture with the past.

PARIS A year ago, when Nicolas Sarkozy was campaigning for the French presidency, he promised a rupture with the past.

A radioactive leak, the rupture of an undersea oil well and, above all, CO2 emissions do not threaten just one country.

The country will descend deeper into authoritarianism, political divisions will become irreconcilable, and yet another political rupture may become inevitable. 160

Indeed, Erdoğan s has warned of a diplomatic rupture with the EU if Cyprus accedes to the Union s rotating presidency in 2012.

In terms of values, Royal, too, seems to represent a rupture with May 1968, with her emphasis on discipline and family.

Moreover, both candidates embody continuity with Chirac s Gaullist side for Sarkozy and with François Mitterrand for Royal as much as rupture.

The destruction of the mosque was seen as the most serious rupture between Hindus and Muslims since India became independent in 1947.

Any open rupture will weaken the hands of the reformers who want to have close ties with the West and the US.

For it was on a Turkish flagged ship that Israeli forces killed nine people, causing a near rupture in Israeli Turkish relations.

As a result, he has produced a rupture between the two pillars of the revolutionary regime the clerical elite and military security structure.

Hu and Obama will work hard to present an image of unity during the summit. Both sides want to prevent any serious rupture.

Russian aid would probably be complementary to European aid, and undoubtedly there would not be any actual rupture between Cyprus and the Eurozone.

The gas may bloat the body to twice its normal size and slow circulation, but tissues are elastic and porous enough to prevent rupture.

In fact, they have more in common than meets the eye, for each speaks of a rupture with the past while incarnating a form of continuity.

It's time for a pause in European integration efforts if only to avoid a complete, irreparable rupture of relations between nations that are supposed to be uniting.

Sarkozy has, in fact, brought about a rupture, albeit in an unexpected area the foreign policy consensus that has prevailed since the days of Charles de Gaulle.

This is inevitable, because that rupture is being fueled by the simple acknowledgement that responsible governments must place national interests ahead of nostalgia, grandstanding rhetoric, and strident ideology.

But it would also likely de legitimize the next government before it comes into power, rupture Pakistan s largest political party, and create a nationalist backlash against the US.

One comforting reflection about her conduct had come to her in the first moment of the rupture, and when she now remembered the past she also recalled that reflection.

In the case of Royal, the meaning of rupture is both more obvious and more visible. She is seeking to become the first woman President of the French Republic.

Bad as this would be, it would be preferable to a complete rupture, which would place her in a hopeless and shameful position, and deprive him of all he loved.

Park, who lost her first bid for the GNP s nomination to Lee in 2007, needs to ensure that no rupture with her erstwhile rival knocks her off the path to victory in 2012.

Thus, in Scotland today there are none of the conditions that fomented rebellion in Ireland and led to Irish independence in 1922, the last great rupture in the political union of the British Isles.

The West, as well as Israel and Turkey themselves, most certainly cannot afford a permanent rupture between the two states, unless the desired outcome is for the region to continue on its path to lasting destabilization.

While Karzai has been fickle, to say the least, about cooperation with the Americans (indeed, he has since backed away from participation in the Doha talks), the rupture of his political alliance with non Pashtun leaders has also fueled ethnic polarization.

What is known is that Bin Laden s demise came at a moment when relations between the CIA and Inter Services Intelligence, Pakistan s intelligence agency, had sunk to an all time low. Senior leaders from both sides sought to save the relationship from total rupture.

While admission to the European Union appeared to draw a line under the post communist period (at least in Central and Eastern Europe), the rupture of 1989 did not mark the beginning of an era of perfect cooperation by the people and for the people.

But two candidates have emerged as clear and constant favorites in opinion polls Nicolas Sarkozy on the right and Ségolène Royal on the left. In fact, they have more in common than meets the eye, for each speaks of a rupture with the past while incarnating a form of continuity.