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He confused the public with the private, and regularly forced the parliament to attend to his personal, business, and legal
affairs.
Poland's Jacquerie"Bless... the peasant who is born, eats, and dies without anyone bothering about his affairs."
In Poland, for example, peasants not only want to shout news of their
affairs
to the world, but they want to shape Poland in their own image.
In a dramatic reversal, Musharraf’s minister of religious affairs, the son of former dictator General Zia ul-Haq, promised to rebuild damaged mosques and even symbolically laid the first stone at one construction site.
Reinvigorated by two decades of rapid economic growth and a broad-based opening to the outside world, Vietnam is now an emerging player in regional economic and security
affairs.
Vietnam’s emergence as a central player in Asian
affairs
should not be surprising, for the country was the catalyst of perhaps the key turning point in modern Asian history.
China is much less likely to interfere in the internal
affairs
of sovereign states.
Those who pursue such interests -- not superficially and only verbally, but sincerely -- are pushed to the margins of society as idealists standing apart from the real state of
affairs.
Afghans themselves are not solely to blame for this state of
affairs.
In short, EU membership entails having to accept incisive measures that deeply affect a state’s internal
affairs.
Otherwise, although Russia’s objective strengths remain unchanged, our influence in international
affairs
has declined.
Moreover, responsibility for foreign
affairs
is often given to whichever “commissioner” happens to turn up.
This approach accounts for the failure of Dmitri Kozak’s plan for resolving the situation in Moldova’s breakaway Trans-Dniester region, as well as for the ludicrous state of
affairs
that has arisen in Georgia’s separatist Abkhazia region.
The Indian ExceptionNEW DELHI – The ratification by the United States Congress of the historic India-US Nuclear Agreement marks a remarkable new development in world
affairs.
The larger issue at stake is whether Europe is prepared to establish the common political space that is needed to manage the monetary union and strengthen the European Union’s influence in world
affairs.
The EU should not fret about interfering in Ukraine's domestic
affairs.
This state of
affairs
was anything but inevitable.
I find it hard to understand how Sheik Rageh can miss (or ignore) the clear verses in the Koran, which order us to do the very opposite:“Let there be no compulsion in religion”;“Thou art not one to manage their affairs”;“We have not sent thee to be disposer of their
affairs
for them”; and“Say, ‘The truth is from your Lord,’ let him who will, believe, and let him who will, reject.”
Pointing the finger at the US for the state of
affairs
in Iraq may have some validity (although the alternative of leaving in place a Ba’athist state under Saddam Hussein was not particularly appealing, either).
At the same time, the increasing emphasis in party journals on the proposition that China’s armed forces must be viewed as servants of the Communist Party, and not simply of the nation, seems to suggest concern that the military may be developing its own view of Chinese domestic affairs, in addition to proclaiming with increasing assertiveness its responsibility for national security.
The countries along Zheng’s route therefore recall his adventures not just as initiatives to promote trade and establish commercial links, but also as direct military intervention in their affairs, under the pretext of ushering in a harmonious world order under China’s emperor.
"Operation Clean Hands"--what some are calling the investigations into Khodorkovsky and his associates--will not increase tax revenue, but only spur growth in the informal economy, as businessmen try to conceal their
affairs
even more completely from the government.
Yet, while the US spends only about 1% of its federal budget on foreign affairs, an effective counter-terrorism strategy cannot be divorced from all the dimensions of foreign policy.
Fortunately, after decades of mostly staying out of the region’s affairs, the US appears ready to get involved again, this time in a positive way.
After all, the current Administration’s denigration of “old Europe” was not just a rhetorical aside, but a centerpiece of its reckless approach to foreign
affairs.
The Death Toll of a Dying OrderNEW YORK – Ukraine's crisis should not blind us to the main conundrum of global
affairs
today: while the world is more peaceful than it has been for 300 years, when measured by the number of wars between states, the level of disorder is rising.
One can assume that next year’s total spending on military
affairs
will be even bigger.
While the West is losing its appetite for intervention – particularly involving ground troops – countries like Russia, China, Iran, and Saudi Arabia are increasingly intervening in their neighbors’
affairs.
When that order was threatened, Western leaders felt authorized to intervene in the
affairs
of whatever “rogue state” was causing the problem.
One can argue that such is state of
affairs
elsewhere, but I do not think so.
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