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How Americans Became Vulnerable to Russian DisinformationATLANTA – As the United States marks the first anniversary of President Donald Trump’s election, the question of how Trump won still commands attention, with Russia’s role moving increasingly to center stage.
Of course, the Nehru family name still commands loyalty among India's masses, but that is a shallow political foundation in a democracy.
September 11, 2002 commands an authority that was unimaginable a year ago.
Until recently, this topic was taboo in Saudi Arabia, where the regime doesn’t allow any margin for political debate, and commands people to listen, obey, and leave matters of government to their rulers.
Opinion polls conducted in recent weeks indicate that the Yes side commands a strong majority of 62% to 23%, with 15% of the electorate undecided.
His logic was that political choices can be made freely by a government that commands a parliamentary majority, and that the president has no right to question such choices.
For retirees and other people who need to spend soon, the year-to-year variability of the stock market commands caution.
Yet he remains electorally viable; indeed, he commands a large and often virulently loyal following.
Indeed, today the Secretary General commands great diplomatic legitimacy, and even greater media visibility, but less political power than the language of the UN Charter suggests.
With weeks left before the UK leaves the EU by default, none of the three main options on offer – a no-deal Brexit, Prime Minister Theresa May’s withdrawal agreement with the EU, and rescinding Article 50 in order to remain in the EU – commands a majority in Parliament or among the population.
China’s auto industry, for example, commands just 8% of global revenue, which largely reflects limited learning opportunities.
Command-and-control regulation, which can generate more pushback by its targets as the regulatory commands get stronger, is by now well developed for banks and finance.
Last month, the military forces that this same president commands aimed a missile at a house in Damadola, a Pakistani village near the Afghanistan border.
The Next American LeaderCambridge -- The American presidential race commands attention around the world.
New cricketing heroes have emerged from small towns, none more popular than India’s swashbuckling captain, M.S. Dhoni, the son of a peon in the dusty town of Ranchi, who now commands millions in endorsement fees to tout products that his family could never have aspired to own.
But the problem then arises of how the votes should be counted if none of these options commands a clear majority.
Although his Thai Rak Thai (TRT) party commands a 75% majority in the assembly, Thaksin is embattled.
Thus not until the next century will Japan have a government that commands respect at home and speaks with authority abroad.
And a united Europe that commands access to the world’s largest market is not a trivial player.
Accordingly, companies need to learn how to give customers the attention that they crave, rather than demanding customers’ attention and then charging them extra for the attention that their brand commands.
Equally importantly, the Fed Chairman also commands the US economic stage.
As a result, America’s Fed chairman today commands super-normal influence.
For example, while China commands 11% of global merchandise trade, it accounts for only 6% of global trade in services.
This is because the military has held power all along: while it may be happy to trade one figurehead for another, it has no real interest in upending the political and economic structures it commands.
The Electoral College and the Senate both increasingly over-represent rural areas, owing to the US population’s gradual shift toward cities (Wyoming, with a population of about 600,000, commands the same number of seats as California, with 40 million).
Other crucial priorities for the WTO include enhanced transparency, in the form of timely notifications of countries’ trade measures, and an effective dispute-settlement system that commands the confidence of all members.
Instead, counterterrorism efforts should target the fount of jihadist terrorism: the militaristic Wahhabi theology, which justifies and commands the use of violence against “infidels.”
And so, in the final analysis, responsibility for the attack on Saudi Arabia almost certainly lies with Qassem Suleimani, the general who commands the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps’ foreign operations unit.
As no feasible alternative coalition commands a majority, however, it will merely imply a broadening of the current alliance, to include ALDE or both it and the Greens.
Lukashenko understands that insofar as power in Belarus relies on force, it lies with whoever commands the most bayonets.
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