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To be sure, Navalny’s backers could emigrate comfortably; but, invigorated by their candidate’s campaign, they are willing to see whether he can make a difference.
Cap and trade was originally supposed to be a Republican idea in the US: its backers were those who considered themselves pro-market, not those who considered themselves pro-regulation.
In a sense, the UN, Annan, and the human-rights activists who have been perhaps his biggest backers, are caught in the crossfire.
Backers of a socialist model have gone the way of the Soviet Union.
His financial backers clearly benefited from his unexpected discovery, as he claimed parts of America for the Spanish Empire.
Female voters powered Sirleaf to victory; the Women of Liberia Mass Action for Peace movement, which helped end Liberia’s second civil war in 2003, was among her strongest political backers.
Even its backers concede that achieving this target won’t be easy – and they are right.
But now, with the fight against ISIS largely over, our international backers have grown quieter – just as Turkey’s rockets have gotten louder.
Nothing less than a united position against the despot of Belarus is necessary if Lukashenka – and his Russian backers – are to be forced to change their ways.
So the British, under Tony Blair’s current presidency of the EU Council of Ministers, have gotten their way for now, and the Americans – keen backers of Turkey’s EU aspirations – have once again succeeded in acting as a “European power.”
The agenda appears straightforward, but “Paris III” has acquired a barely concealed political purpose: to bolster the government of Lebanese Prime Minister Fouad Siniora in the face of a powerful domestic challenge led by Hezbollah, and by extension to curb the influence of Hezbollah’s regional backers, Syria and Iran.
Backers of the stimulus plan now claim that things would have been much worse without ARRA.
Theranos boasted reputable financial backers, partnerships with a large number of pharmacies, and a board that seemed very impressive on paper.
And it seems quite likely that, as we found for Tea Partiers in 2011, Trump backers approve of social-welfare benefits that go to “real Americans” like themselves, while opposing public spending on minorities and low-income people.
The Afghan Taliban, removed from power and routed from the country by the end of 2001, needed only a few years to revive itself, owing to the failure of the Afghan government and its international backers to rebuild and stabilize the country.
In 2009, Saleh sacked al-Ahmar’s key backers, including Central Command Chief General al-Thahiri al-Shadadi and Lieutenant General Haydar al-Sanhani, from power.
But the Yes backers could never articulate clearly why people should vote in favor of the Treaty.
Third, there are new types of local strategic investors that can be highly effective at mobilizing private capital, including from institutional backers.
Many patients are benefiting today because a few scientists and their financial backers took a chance on reconsidering a failed drug.
In order to defeat them, the opposition needs more sophisticated weapons – and its backers are ready to oblige.
Indeed, she was elected with a curious blend of support: right-wing backers of her father, Park Chung-hee, who ruled the country with an iron fist from 1961 to 1979, and many other Koreans, including some on the left, who wanted someone different from the usual blue-suited, white-shirted Korean politician.
This September, the lesson of the conference was that Yanukovych has isolated himself not only from the West and Russia, but also from his main backers at home.
Backers of the reform make two arguments – neither of which is convincing.
His Tea Party backers, who were critical in mobilizing electoral support for him, urge him to go further and withdraw from the World Trade Organization.
It is irrelevant that the provincials’ political leaders (and their backers) are sometimes wealthier than the resented metropolitan elites.
When some of Trump’s backers at a campaign rally last November in Birmingham, Alabama, were beating up a black protester, Trump encouraged them to hit the man harder, shouting, “Get him outta here.”
Support for the euro will weaken as well, because the government and its backers will blame the EU and its most visible achievement, the euro, for frustrating their best-laid plans.
It has powerful and well-funded backers, including the billionaire brothers Charles and David Koch.
The Tea Party in the US would have been relatively marginal without powerful backers and demagogues.
High-level bureaucrats quickly discovered that licenses could be bartered for favors, while politicians saw in the system the means to help important financial backers.
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