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At some point, the dollar’s status as a global means of payment and reserve currency could be challenged.
Thus, he is willing to show diplomatic muscle if China is challenged on a core area of concern.
But, while centuries of struggle to end colonial rule and apartheid have not changed this much, now Western influence is being challenged by China, which likewise covets Africa’s rich reserves of minerals and resources.
Today, however, the quality of corporate-governance frameworks worldwide is challenged by the growing complexity of investment chains and the dominance of passive and short-term investment strategies.
In 2011 and 2012, the BRICS challenged the process of selecting leaders at the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank.
For starters, India could rescind its recognition of Chinese sovereignty over Tibet, while applying economic pressure through trade, as China has done to Japan and the Philippines when they have challenged its territorial claims.
In recent years, however, this characterization has been challenged, as the standing of private and public institutions with significant systemic influence has declined.
One of Chilcot’s main conclusions is surely correct: “aspects of any intervention need to be calculated, debated, and challenged with the utmost rigour.”
But creditors have challenged the move in court, with the US Supreme Court set to issue a ruling by the end of June.
The post-1945 US role was challenged first by the Soviet Union, which, for a time, posed a real technological challenge.
It is not just that several countries have seen center-left and radical parties come to power;US leadership and interests are routinely questioned, and even challenged, not only by Communist Cuba and “Bolivarian” Venezuela, but almost everywhere in the region.
But in Portugal, the traditional parties’ dominance was not challenged.
China’s non-violent terrestrial aggression has garnered less opposition than its blue-water ambition, which has been challenged by the United States and under international law (albeit with little effect).
What makes Falun Gong so threatening is that not only is it led by a very traditionalistic leader, but that its mystical doctrine and charismatic rebelliousness evoke for Chinese an ingrained sense of historical memory of past ruling dynasties that fell after being challenged by a similar internal millenarian movement.
Russia’s 2014 annexation of Crimea and intervention in Syria have challenged principles of humanitarian interventionism such as the “responsibility to protect” (R2P); and a rising China is confronting the West’s supremacy – in hard- and soft-power terms – in the post-war global order.
Of the 400 cases examined by both Supreme Courts, 120 were referred to the Constitutional Council, which has issued 102 rulings, including 22 striking down the challenged legislation.
Bucerius later challenged Thadden more directly, asking if he would have supported the attempted coup against Adolf Hitler in 1944.
Mikhail Khodorkovsky, the imprisoned ex-CEO of what was Russia’s largest oil company, is another example of a flawed, uncompromising person who challenged the flawed people in power and their unaccountability.
In his budget statement, Osborne challenged the sugary drinks industry to respond to his proposal by reformulating their products, encouraging consumers to switch to low-sugar brands, and reducing portion sizes.
Moreover, she is now being challenged within her own party by her much younger and more intellectually impressive niece, Marion Maréchal-Le Pen, who spoke just ahead of US Vice President Mike Pence at February’s Conservative Political Action Committee (CPAC) gathering in Washington, DC.
Moreover, the EU’s aging and demographically challenged member states need immigrants.
Meanwhile, the unemployment rate has remained stubbornly high among workers without a high-school diploma, and in economically challenged rural and urban areas.
Urban growth in emerging-market countries – and the corresponding concentration of poverty – has challenged and sometimes overwhelmed the capacity of their governments to provide sustainable and affordable housing, water supply and sanitation, solid-waste management services, and education – all of which directly affect urban health – as well as basic health-care services.
No surprise, then, that Republican members of Congress, wary of being challenged in party primary elections, are reluctant to take on that base, which Trump has been cultivating.
Moreover, Western corporations are hierarchical and autocratic, similar to the Chinese one-party state, so senior executives’ errors of judgment are rarely challenged directly by their underlings.
The assumption that the price of mailing a letter or shipping a package should remain constant throughout the year is ripe to be challenged.
Iran has been challenged over the years to tell the truth about its nuclear program and, more fundamentally, to be clear about its goals and objectives.
But pharmaceutical companies continue to hold assumptions about the boundaries of pre-competitive collaboration that need to be challenged.
Muhammadu Buhari, a retired general who challenged Obasanjo for the presidency in 2003 and lost, has said that he will try again in 2007 on the platform of the All Nigeria People’s Party (ANPP), the second largest party.
Another post, published in July, explicitly challenged the BoE’s “official” view that as the economy recovers, we can expect non-financial companies to begin to run down their cash balances to fund investment.
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