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In recent years, however, US politics has had a strong anti-immigration slant, and the issue played an important role in the Republican Party’s presidential nomination battle in 2012.
Ultimately, the battle against chronic disease will be won or lost at home.
But even as commitments are made and declarations signed, we must remember that in Africa, the battle is far from over.
No sooner was the controversy over the creation of a Human Rights Council satisfactorily resolved than a new battle has erupted.
Although the responsibility of industrialized countries and emerging economies in the battle against carbon emissions is now well known, Africa’s place in the climate agenda has been largely neglected.
He faces an uphill battle.
Other European countries are considering similar measures to compel Internet companies to battle misinformation and extremism.
The EU Commissioner for Competition Policy, Mario Monti, cannot loose this battle: he needs the support of those who believe in markets and equal treatment for all.
To be fair, central banks are not immune to manipulation, and fighting off political pressures is an endless battle.
For that battle, there is still no leadership in sight.
In their view, Europe has already lost the battle for innovation and economic development, and is gradually becoming an “industrial museum.”
Until then, the United States had led a lonely battle to isolate Libya by severing diplomatic relations and imposing economic sanctions and embargos on oil imports and arms exports.
They were brutally suppressed, but the sanctions nonetheless provoked an internal battle within Qadaffi’s coterie that pitted hard liners committed to the anti-Western crusade against pragmatists who promoted integration into the global economy.
And Grillo despises all of his party rivals: “Surrender, you are overwhelmed” was his battle cry.
Perhaps worried that Bo’s defiant behavior was winning the public-relations battle, the official media also launched a media blitz savaging Bo’s character and all but pronouncing him guilty.
A full-scale invasion might well provoke Iraq’s own Kurdish guerrillas into a prolonged and bloody battle with Turkish forces that can only undermine support for Erdogan’s government at home and abroad.
The central issue in Russian politics is not the battle for votes.
Barely discernible most of the time, only brief flashes illuminate the battle, as when Mikhail Khodorkovsky was arrested.
Instead, the battle with corruption should aim at removing its root causes: the scope of the discretionary public sector and the suppression of market forces.
But growth prospects could be undermined by another bruising political battle over the federal budget, resulting in deep spending cuts.
The greenback’s worldwide popularity enables the US to project power around the globe – to maintain military bases and facilities in over 100 countries, to keep naval battle groups afloat from the Mediterranean to the Pacific, and to help defend allies from Europe and the Middle East to Japan and Korea.
Would-be democrats, freedom fighters, jihadists, Sunni extremists, and Al Qaeda elements – all supported by Sunni Arab countries and groups, now man one side of the battle lines.
Today, Sunnis in Iraq’s Anbar province, inspired by their brethren in neighboring Syria, are organizing “tribal armies” to do battle with the Iraq national army – a challenge to central authority that no leader could ignore.
In The Road to Somewhere: The Populist Revolt and the Future of Politics, British journalist David Goodhart argues that today’s politics is no longer a battle between left and right.
Israel’s victories on the battlefield guaranteed its survival and independence, but they did not win the battle for peace.
Indeed, growing cynicism in this regard is a dangerous trend,because this is the one issue that still appeals to the people of the Middle East and can help immensely in the Western powers’ battle to win hearts and minds in our region.
The battle to keep the world's cities – and thus the global economy – both dynamic and sustainable can be won by developing innovative ways to consume our limited resources, without diminishing them or degrading the delicate ecological systems on which they depend.
The Soviet and other top-heavy regimes increasingly found themselves losing the battle of ideas and, as a result, the support of their own citizens.
But the political struggle needs to be conducted along new battle lines.
The world would stand up and cheer if the US called upon the October donor meeting to address truly life-and-death issues like the battle against AIDS and hunger.
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