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Much like you talked about being a smaller movie, we're very much a challenger brand.
Then monarchy had seen off its big challenger, mass democracy, which was seen as a well-intentioned but doomed experiment, just as capitalism has seen off socialism.
Why stick with a white Challenger?
It kicks off with a rousing boxing match in which carnival champ "One Round" Jack loses to a challenger from the audience who happens to be a professional prizefighter.
The other, the challenger, is a Lithuanian, political exile that is refugee in another country.
Pusser term as Sheriff is coming to an end and now he has a new challenger.
Though there was no serious challenger to his authority, Nehru never forgot that he derived his power from India’s people, to whom he remained astonishingly accessible.
Thus, the current conflict is essentially a pre-emptive war by Hamas – aggravated by lawlessness and banditry, clashing free-lance militias, tribes, and families, and a spiral of senseless massacres – to prevent Fatah from being turned by the international community into a formidable challenger to its democratic right to govern.
India is unlikely to develop the power to become a global challenger to the US in the first half of this century.
America’s Election and the Global EconomySTANFORD – As America’s elections approach, with President Barack Obama slightly in front of his Republican challenger, former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney, pollsters still rate the races for control of the presidency and the United States Senate too close to call, with the House of Representatives likely to remain in Republican hands.
Had the SPD remained in opposition, as it vowed to do after its poor election result, it could have spent the next four years renewing its platform and membership, while acting as a strong challenger to both Merkel and the right- and left-wing populists.
The devaluation advanced China’s strategic goal of turning the renminbi into an international reserve currency – and, in the long term, into a credible global challenger to the US dollar.
Yes, he admits, China is growing in strength, but US dominance is still overwhelming;American military might can still “make right” against any challenger.
We are told that the debates this month between President Barack Obama and the Republican challenger, Mitt Romney, might decide the election.
If Schroeder gave way to the Christian Democrats, indeed even if President Bush lost to his Democrat challenger, this would not imply the dawn of a new age.
During US President Richard Nixon’s 1972 re-election campaign, he sternly lectured Fed chair Arthur Burns on the need for pump-priming the economy to help him defeat his Democratic challenger, George McGovern.
What made Zambia’s election so important is that the challenger won.
Last December, President Laurent Gbagbo lost an election to his challenger, Allasane Outtara.
It is no surprise that he backed out of the race, leaving Mousavi, a technocrat and a revolutionary, as the only viable challenger to Ahmadinejad.
While President Barack Obama outpolls the Republican challenger, Mitt Romney, on foreign policy, slow economic growth and high unemployment – issues that are far more salient in US elections – favor Romney.
Overwhelmingly, non-US citizens favor Barack Obama’s re-election over a victory for his challenger, Mitt Romney.
The issues facing the United States – the turmoil in Syria and the Middle East, Russia’s military assertiveness, and China’s emergence as both economic (and environmental) partner and strategic challenger – are simply too important to be ignored.
If Europe overcame its internal differences and tried to become a global challenger to the US, these assets might partly balance American power, but would not equal it.
(Terrorism also kept Iraqi oil from becoming a serious challenger to Saudi Arabia.)
The next challenger will be the Chinese renminbi; but who wants to bet heavily on economic and financial stability in China over the next two decades?
China was cited as the main challenger to “American power, influence, and interests,” an adversary that is “attempting to erode American security and prosperity.”
This game is not about the enforcement of trade rules, or their design, but about the sheer geopolitical rivalry between the incumbent superpower and a rising challenger.
Nowhere is that more evident than in the fixation on China – singled out by both President Barack Obama and his Republican challenger, Mitt Romney, as a major source of pressure bearing down on American workers and their families.
But the members of Congress also became fearful of Trump’s “base,” which may represent only about a third of the electorate but is very strong in Republican congressional districts and could back a more right-leaning challenger in the party primary.
Having been targeted first by Trump, and then by former White House Chief Strategist and current Breitbart News Executive Chairman Steve Bannon, Flake might not even have defeated a Republican primary challenger.
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