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Broadly speaking, on economics and foreign policy, the candidates often would be in accord, with Republicans more inclined to favor the interests of big business and Democrats defending the interests of labor.
The Security Council might agree to recommend several candidates from which the General Assembly would select one.
Alternatively, the General Assembly might propose several candidates to the Security Council, from which the Council would choose one to refer back to the Assembly for approval.
For example, the General Assembly should hold public hearings in which candidates are interviewed, thereby greatly enhancing the stature of the candidate who is eventually selected.
While the US presidential candidates have adopted protectionist rhetoric, so, too, did Obama as a candidate in 2008.
In other words, one-third of French voters are now attracted to candidates with extreme ideologies that share an anti-liberal rejection of the euro, capitalism, and globalization.
Because the US and Japan have neither territorial claims in the South China Sea nor an interest in the natural resources – including oil, gas, and fisheries – that it contains, they are the ideal candidates to deliver this message and, one hopes, convince China to negotiate a multilateral security agreement.
Brazil, Chile, Ecuador, Nicaragua, and Venezuela elected socialist or populist/reformist presidential candidates in 2006, while Bolivia elected a populist indigenous president in 2005, Uruguay a socialist president the same year, and Argentina a leftist-centrist president in 2003.
In the summer of 1997, Nato will announce the three or four East European candidates for membership, most likely Poland, Hungary and the Czech Republic.
Preferably, the Nato Summit will both formally invite the first candidates for Nato membership and announce, with President Yeltsin present, a Charter of Russia-Nato relations.
Likewise, China has identified three of its universities as candidates to join the world’s top 10 in the near future.
It was the summer of 2000 when I began asking Republicans I know – generally people who might be natural candidates for various sub-cabinet policy positions in a Republican administration – how worried they were that the Republican presidential candidate, George W. Bush, was clearly not up to the job.
And America’s quiet instructions to all candidates to avoid nationalist provocation undoubtedly also played a role in dampening tension with China – another factor that probably benefited Ma.
He used that approach during the Republican primary to dominate attention among a crowded field of 17 candidates.
The US has long insisted that the Bank’s president be a US national, and yet it has repeatedly nominated unsuitable candidates to run the institution.
In Iran, much of the middle class backed the most moderate of the candidates acceptable to the country’s Islamic guardians in June’s presidential elections.
(Fortunately, of the candidates Trump was considering for the Fed post, Powell is the one least likely to repeat this mistake.)
Today, liberal candidates cannot even get into the Duma.
It seems evident that this principle will be effectively binding on all member states, and all candidates for membership.
Blame will be placed on the weather, the bridges, the media, the bitterness of spurned leaders, and the unknown quantities represented by the new faces of the president’s army of candidates.
Aside from the poor, war-ravaged Balkan states--Albania, Bosnia, Croatia, Macedonia, and whatever Serbia and Montenegro end up deciding to call themselves--the only imaginable additional candidates, assuming that they are classified as "European," are Russia, Belarus and Ukraine.
Yet nowadays divisions between candidates for office are deeper than ever – and are even sharper among party activists.
The threat to globalism seems to have waned in Europe, with populist candidates having lost elections in Austria, the Netherlands, and now Germany.
But the execution was consistent with something that happened just two weeks earlier, at one of the debates between Republican candidates for their party’s nomination to challenge President Barack Obama next year.
A rather broad term, resistance could refer to everything from supporting opposition candidates to the life-threatening work of those who went underground to sabotage Nazi occupations during World War II.
Nonetheless, we cannot simply ignore candidates’ policy promises.
The question of whether Trump’s tax policies would benefit him directly remains unanswered, because, unlike all other presidential candidates since Richard Nixon, he has refused to release his income-tax records.
It’s a simple equation, but one that Republican presidential candidates, including Trump, have seemingly had trouble understanding since 1980.
Perhaps it is inevitable for candidates to ignore the real-world constraints of domestic politics or international circumstances as they try to sell themselves to voters.
CAMBRIDGE – Seven candidates are standing in the 2017 French Socialist Party presidential primary, which includes the Socialist Party and a number of smaller pro-government Green parties, formally known as the “Popular Alliance.”
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