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What passes for American political debate is a contest between the parties to give bigger promises to the middle class, mainly in the form of budget-busting tax cuts at a time when the fiscal deficit is already more than 10% of GDP.
But despite these restrictions, there is a fierce contest between various groups and interpretations;Women can vote and participate actively and publicly in political life.
When there are competing technological approaches, such as the famous contest in the 1970s between the Betamax and VHS standards for videotape, consumers are better served if these contests between similar standards are settled promptly and decisively, to preclude the risk of spending money on a losing technology.
Nonetheless, their contest in 1974 marked the start of 21 years of fierce rivalry, mitigated by cooperation.
But it will not contest the dollar’s supremacy unless China’s leaders align the country’s political and legal institutions with its economic reforms.
This is the best reason why in most cases it is best to contest elections, even in unpromising circumstances.
Ordinarily, there would be no contest here.
In December, South Koreans will go to the polls to choose President Lee Myung-bak’s successor in what is currently a three-way contest.
They rightly contest the degradation of their ancestors, but also idealize their rural, communitarian nature.
Even from afar, people perceive the forthcoming US election as a contest between two contending world views, two opposite visions, two ways of viewing reality and dealing with it.
As the Green and feminist movements have shown, a movement can contest traditional forms of politics without claiming to represent “the real people” or the “silent majority.”
In the case of Yaser Hamdi, the court renounced the Administration's claim that military authorities could indefinitely hold a U.S. citizen as an "enemy combatant" without ever providing him with an opportunity to contest the basis for his detention before a neutral decision maker.
The first major contest, in Iowa on February 1, is usually tricky to forecast, because the outcome relies more on organizational prowess than on popularity.
Similarly, the term “cyber war” is used loosely to cover a wide range of behaviors, reflecting dictionary definitions of war that range from armed conflict to any hostile contest (for example, “war between the sexes” or “war on drugs”).
I have announced that I intend to contest this upcoming presidential election as a way of opening debate on these essential reforms.
This makes the discipline China game very different from the third contest, the roll back China game.
France is preparing for its presidential elections this May, and as that battle for the presidency heats up, so, too, does the contest to forge new ties with Africa.
Wars cannot be won from the air alone, and the US will not start a nuclear contest.
In February, the real contest begins.
A contest for global leadership might serve that purpose as well.
The contest is being waged institutionally in organizations like the International Telecommunications Union (ITU) and daily in countries like Syria.
Once an application is received, it is made public for 30 days so that domestic producers can contest it.
Many remain confident that she will be defeated in the runoff: Macron is projected to win 63% of the vote in a head-to-head contest against Le Pen.
In the view of many Chinese, the US is an exponent of interventionism and imperialism, and the Trump administration’s trade war is merely the opening shot in a larger economic, military, and ideological contest for supremacy.
In any contest of ideas, the extreme will usually triumph over the moderate.
The situation is particularly interesting in Italy, where Monti, having decided to contest the upcoming general election, has had to position himself on the right (which he signaled by attending a gathering of the leaders of Europe’s center-right parties).
Then there is the matter of a host country’s unconscionable laws, which can make an international sporting contest appear unseemly.
With the blurring of the old battle lines, politics is gradually being reshaped into a contest between advocates of open, globalized societies and defenders of inward-looking tribalism.
Marco himself was elected deputy on the Socialist ticket, but he defected when the party denied him the chance to contest Frei’s nomination in a primary.
The South China Sea has been and will remain central to the contest for influence in the larger Indo-Pacific region.
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