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The internal battle within the Obama administration seemed to have been won by Paul Volcker, the impressive and outspoken former Federal Reserve chairman who has long been a critic of financial innovation.
For any politician, the battle against political apathy in a media-glutted society is as difficult as the battle against the rival candidate.
More broadly, the larger ideological battle for a rules-based international system must be fought using a strong dose of global civics as an antidote to neo-nationalism.
The tactical defeats currently suffered can be reversed if the ideological battle is won.
More significant disruption is likely to occur across industries, as privileged access to proprietary data redraws competitive battle lines.
This has been a losing battle, but has dramatically increased violence and corruption in Mexico by ensuring that drug trafficking is a lucrative business.
For Muslim-majority Bangladesh, this struggle within Islam amounts to a battle for the soul of the country.
But it is not an entirely new battle.
The battle lines are now drawn, and McHenry’s letter shows the arguments that will be deployed in Congress by some Republicans close to the president.
And yet, the battle between the “party of reason” and the “party of emotion” – progressives versus populists – is far from over.
Sun’s core belief is that the “ultimate excellence lies not in winning every battle but in defeating the enemy without ever fighting.”
A fierce diplomatic battle is being fought over who should run these local elections, and under what conditions they should take place.
And if he wins this battle, his country will be far worse off than Thebes, and the repercussions will be felt by the entire world.
In fact, with a second and larger aircraft carrier currently under construction, it may not be long before China displays its naval capabilities by dispatching a carrier battle group to the Indian Ocean – if not basing one at Gwadar.
Those two countries are now the main theaters in the battle for a post-Sykes-Picot Middle East order.
In the late 1970s, however, a sectarian battle of identities flared up.
No one who is not well versed in financial legerdemain can make much sense of this battle of the bonds.
These two moral attitudes confront each other today in the battle of the bonds.
We are seeing again and again that a foreign army, whether NATO’s in Afghanistan, America’s in Iraq, Israel’s in occupied Palestine, or Ethiopia’s in Somalia, may win a battle, or even a war, but never the peace.
A terrifying nuclear arms race in South Asia is likely, with the distinct danger of "nuclear battle" between India and Pakistan.
The battle lines are drawn between those governments that regard the free flow of information, and the ability to access it, as a matter of fundamental human rights, and those that regard official control of information as a fundamental sovereign prerogative.
The first shots in this battle have already been fired.
But these two prominent, national membership organizations may succeed in dampening Islamic militancy where the government, afraid of waging the battle it must fight, has failed dismally.
This battle for the hearts and minds of believers will be fought on two fronts: the first is theological and educational, while the second concerns socioeconomic issues and the civil society agenda.
It is truly unconscionable, however, that they must go into battle without the support of those who claim to have their backs.
Constitutional guarantees of these rights are the great achievement of the long battle for citizenship that marked the last two centuries.
Traders did not win every battle, of course.
The battle over Turkish membership in the EU will be fought on many fronts: in the country itself, where the government is currently undertaking major reforms in order to qualify for candidate status; at the negotiating table once the European Council in December 2004 authorizes the Commission to enter into formal accession talks; and among the public within the existing member countries.
This is why the battle over Turkish membership has already begun, and the bombers of Istanbul seem to have understood this.
With the blurring of the old battle lines, politics is gradually being reshaped into a contest between advocates of open, globalized societies and defenders of inward-looking tribalism.
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