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With his widely documented history of fraud in the 2008 municipal elections, Ortega is on his way to becoming Latin America’s Robert Mugabe.
On this view, if America is determined to use force to prevent Iran from becoming a nuclear weapons state, it would have to establish a quasi-permanent empire in the Middle East.
Voters across Latin America are becoming skeptical of market-oriented policies and globalization, making it more likely that in coming years, and under new leadership, economic policies in the region will be less friendly to foreign investment in general, and to US economic interests in particular.
Is dynastic succession becoming the norm throughout Asia?
As a result, the creation of saints is becoming an important way of retaining the faithful.
I was also right to say that all but a tiny and unbalanced fringe of economists approve of central-bank guarantees of system stability, in order to prevent the risk of a collapse of the payments system from becoming a first-order consideration boosting the demand for cash to unnatural levels.
National sovereignty is becoming an ever more elusive concept.
As the fog of leftist celebration and the chorus of rightwing laments dissipate, the outlines of what Lula can and cannot do are becoming more clear.
The economy is escaping the zero-interest-rate trap not because savings are declining, but because investment is becoming more appealing, owing to improved expectations.
But those who spend hours watching it each evening, with less and less control over their attention, and deriving progressively less enjoyment from what they watch, risk becoming as besotted as an alcoholic who only feels alive when he blots out reality.
This motto helped catalyze China into becoming what it is today: an increasingly materialistic, money-worshipping society that has lost touch with traditional ethics.
Worse, the war in Ukraine appears to be on its way to becoming a “frozen conflict,” with the Donbas maintained as a pseudo-state run by Russian-backed insurgents and mafias.
The fact is, the BP oil spill is on the cusp of becoming a political game-changer of historic proportions.
Instead, issues of personal independence, retaining control and not becoming a burden to family, friends, or caregivers turned out to be the main reasons.
They are becoming more educated and aware of how companies operate, and they are more proactive and outspoken when they believe a company has crossed the line.
The Strategic Imperative of TTIPBRUSSELS – As negotiations between the European Union and the United States over the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) move toward a final agreement, opponents of the proposed pact are becoming more vocal.
As a result, marine ecosystems are at risk of unraveling and becoming less stable and less productive.
I felt that a historical circle was being closed: the ideas of the Polish March and the Prague Spring, the ideas of our mountain meetings, were becoming political facts.
Despite Tymoshenko’s leading role in Ukraine, it would be surprising to see Russian President Vladimir Putin replaced by a woman, and, while there is a female vice-president in China, there is no sign of a woman becoming Japanese prime minister soon.
The Chinese authorities are well aware of how much their country has benefited from becoming deeply integrated into the global economy.
The policy response, however, required preventing these shocks from becoming entrenched in medium to long-term inflation expectations.
Moreover, nuclear brinkmanship is a particularly poor tactic, since Kim’s behavior is now becoming fused in American minds with arguably the most serious strategic threat on the US agenda: Iran’s push to secure nuclear weapons of its own.
The paper's tone began to change, becoming increasingly deferential toward China's rulers.
Religious groups responded to this opportunity, emerging first as social welfare agencies, and then becoming the equivalent of local politicians.
Moreover, the fact that business travel is growing faster than the global economy suggests that output is becoming more intensive in know-how and that know-how is diffusing through brain mobility.
With the rapid development of global value chains, our economies are becoming increasingly dependent on the free flow of data across political borders.
It would be as close to becoming President as Romney would get, and he apparently wanted to enjoy it while he could, however prematurely.
While China is far more urbanized than India, it, too, is still trying to bring ten million people a year into its cities.Between jobs lost to automation and to lower-wage competitors such as Vietnam and Sri Lanka, integrating new workers is becoming increasingly difficult.
The traditional drivers of its economy – a vast pool of surplus labor and massive investments in infrastructure, housing, and industrial capacity – are becoming exhausted.
So, once again, Mahathir felt pressure to adopt a strategy aimed at preventing Islam from becoming a tool of opposition.
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