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For US President Barack Obama, the breakthrough is a chance to cement his legacy as a transformative president, like his models Abraham Lincoln and Franklin D. Roosevelt – even if, in ending nearly six decades of failed policy, he more closely resembles Richard Nixon, who presided over the opening to China.
Indeed, public virtue made federal finance what he called “the powerful cement of our union.”
In fact, much investment has been wasted: Huge new apartment blocks in some third-tier cities will never be occupied, and heavy-industry sectors such as steel and cement now suffer from severe overcapacity.
Building the India-US PartnershipWASHINGTON, DC – President Barack Obama’s first presidential visit to India offers a unique opportunity to cement a global partnership with a rapidly emerging power.
Maduro, who recently gained a second six-year term as president in what most observers judged to be a sham election, has created a new constituent assembly (to bypass the opposition-controlled National Assembly) that is writing a new constitution that would further cement dictatorship.
Some, such as the Mexican cement company Cemex, the Indian IT outsourcing firm Infosys, and the Chinese battery manufacturer BYD, are already leaders in their sectors.
China, as usual, is the most extreme example, now accounting for more than one-half of global cement consumption.
With Chinese steel and cement firms suffering from overcapacity, Chinese construction firms will profit from the new investment.
One casualty is truth: the prize goes to arguments that cement group identity, not to arguments that stick to the facts.
At an ostentatious gathering of 50 Arab Sunni leaders in Riyadh, Trump was told that an Israeli-Palestine peace agreement would cement a grand pro-American Arab-Israeli alliance against Islamist terrorism and a resurgent Iran.
Now is the time for Britain to cement itself as a leader in this field.
The West’s effort to cement its Cold War victory was no less predictable than Russia’s effort to reverse it.
Indeed, a key goal for his successor should be to cement this approach as a new institutional tradition.
The military owns airlines and freight companies, petrochemical factories, power generation plants, sugar mills, cement and fertilizer plants, construction firms, banks and insurance companies, advertising agencies, and more.
But in the world's most advanced countries, the promise of material prosperity that freedom made possible has long since replaced attention to and defense of fundamental democratic values as the cement of society.
The conventional wisdom is, however, wrong; worse, it is dangerous, for we have all seen how quickly it can take hold, distort reality, and then harden like cement.
What remains to be seen is whether Modi is able to cement these gains.
Africa even imports 15% of the cement it uses, despite having abundant raw materials to make it at home.
He now wants to shred the liberal values that he once championed as a young centrist politician, and cement his control over Hungary’s political process.
He linked the various strands of popular myth with historically frightful characters to cement the association of Eastern Europe with obscurantism and darkness in the popular imagination of the West.
Politically, it embodies solidarity and thus helps cement the union.
But what has really allowed Hezbollah (and Hamas, for that matter) to win elections and cement support is their ability to provide education, health, and other social services, particularly to the poor.
Some analysts believe the president is attempting to cement power for the ruling Chama Cha Mapinduzi party.
They are particularly difficult if we see culture as the cement of Europe’s future.
The key insight is that roughly 75% of our fossil fuel use goes for just a few purposes: to produce electricity and heat at power plants, to drive automobiles, to heat buildings, and to power a few key industries such as refineries, petrochemicals, cement, and steel.
Just like the many other “protective” measures taken during the crisis, this distortion of market processes will help to cement the sub-optimal allocation of European investment capital, hampering economic growth for years to come.
When Alexander Hamilton, the first US finance minister, mutualised state debts in 1791, he thought this would cement the new American nation.
The incoming funds, and the subsequent growth and job creation, would undergird the consolidation of democracy – and thus help cement the impressive gains that Tunisia has made so far.
But nothing has done as much to cement the QPC’s standing as the recent motion submitted by a lawyer in the ongoing criminal proceedings against former President Jacques Chirac, who is charged with having created fictitious jobs at the Paris City Council when he was mayor.
On each front separately, he might manage to muddle through; together, they look likely to cement France’s loss of competitiveness.
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