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These are some of the capabilities that will maintain our forces’ ability to project power should our access and freedom of action be challenged.
The failed G7 summit dealt a very public blow to a once-powerful grouping that had already been challenged by global economic re-alignment, the emergence of the more representative G20, and new forms of regionalism.
He challenged the prosecution vigorously, defending himself with a feistiness that surprised nearly all who read the transcripts released by the court in real time on the trial’s first day.
Under his leadership, Russia has shrugged off sanctions, forged a new alliance with China, and annoyed – but not openly challenged – the West in Syria.
Hence the third dynamic: the West is being challenged to deliver not just growth, but “inclusive growth,” which, most critically, involves greater “social justice.”
While the 1968 protests challenged the French Republican model to live up to its finest aspirations, today’s crisis challenges the French Revolution’s model of citizenship and integration itself.
Such attacks on immigration might offer some instant political gratification, but their net result is to cleave societies whose cohesion is already seriously challenged by the economic crisis.
They have every reason to be concerned: There have also been calls to outlaw ritual circumcision in the Netherlands and Scandinavia; doctors in the United Kingdom are under pressure to support a ban as well; and few have forgotten that the practice’s legality was challenged in Germany in 2012.
Despite its flaws, the banking union helped to keep financial markets calm in the first half of 2015, even as Greece’s new government, led by Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras, challenged a basic feature of Europe’s approach to national financial crises: that recipients of support must engage in belt-tightening.
Indeed, obstreperous critics are being challenged as a result of another, rather surprising development: while customers may express an opinion about a service, the service provider can also rate its customers, as Uber has demonstrated.
Germany will not be challenged to break out of its increasing introversion, no longer obliged to demonstrate its democratic post-war credentials by embracing the European cause at every turn.
For more than three decades, no one really challenged the consequences of turning political power over to the highest bidders.
Today, however, the values that have made the US a paragon of diversity and entrepreneurship are being challenged.
So I challenged the audience to consider the following: For much of human history, there was no economy based on trade and fungible goods.
At that previous meeting, a panel of the world’s leading economic thinkers was challenged to answer this question: if an extra $50 billion were spent improving the state of the world, how could the money be allocated to achieve the most good possible?
Croatia's opposition was for a long time limited to NGO's such as the Helsinki Committee, which challenged the government on the slippery terrain of human and minority rights, an area where the parliamentary opposition kept its collective mouths shut.
Yanukovych’s record of violence and disdain for democratic norms is too entrenched to think that, should he win, he will ever allow his position to be challenged again.
The Muslim Brotherhood, by contrast, was systematically changing the constitution and taking control of the commanding heights of the state in order to make it impossible for its rule to be challenged.
His election is being challenged in court by other candidates, and Western backing could play a role in stabilizing his government.
He and his allies were challenged by four parties or electoral lists – Labor, Yesh Atid, Hatnuah, and Meretz – though their leaders (three of them women) were not perceived to be running for Prime Minister.
So it does nothing, even as Europe's borders are challenged, Ukrainian citizens are bombed in their homes by Russian troops, and a violent, bandit army ravages the greater Middle East, from the beaches of Libya to the borders of Iran.
He will be challenged not only by the now shell-shocked Democrats, but also by Republicans who opposed his candidacy, whether openly or covertly.
Naturally, you would have to be in a position to explain – if challenged – what an eclipse is and how you know that.
Terms used for members of racial minorities, and for people with disabilities, have also been challenged, to such an extent that it can be hard to keep up with the terms preferred by those in these categories.
If challenged, all three would undoubtedly do what they must to preserve their security.
At long last the dollar would be challenged; perhaps even dethroned.
The Bosman ruling, named after a Belgian player who successfully challenged the rule’s application to players from other European Union countries, eroded the limit, which collapsed altogether under the onslaught of the richest European clubs’ demand for a free hand in hiring the best players, wherever they might be found.
As with the Church or the divine right of kings, the system cannot be challenged without undermining the infallibility of its perfect leaders.
This year also marks the 50th anniversary of the Great Leap Forward, when 20-40 million Chinese died of starvation, as well as the tenth anniversary of the government’s ban on Falun gong, an organization of self-claimed religious and meditation practitioners that has challenged the Communist Party’s legitimacy.
This is not to say that the currency re-alignment that is currently underway is necessarily a problematic development; on the contrary, it has the potential to boost the global economy by supporting the recovery of some of its most challenged components.
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