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In this new contest to pass the blame, Syria is ripe for the picking.
Preparing for President TrumpLONDON – As America’s friends and allies look on in astonishment at the all-but-certain prospect of a contest between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump in November’s US presidential election, they need to do more than just wring their hands.
By contrast, government parties that have failed to think progressively about migration or that do not contest populist rhetoric adequately (or at all) are suffering the most ahead of the European Parliament election.
The contest between Clinton and Barack Obama in 2008 seemed to end amicably enough.
Though Clinton stayed in the race to the end, she toned down her rhetoric against Obama as the contest wound down.
Liberal democracy cannot be reduced to a popularity contest.
They were not serious – just part of the game, uttered in the heat of the gladiatorial contest on the field and the passionate partisan cheering in the stands.
But the next step in the argument – that the winner of an increasingly ugly contest will have the luxury of pursuing significantly different policies from his opponent – is much more uncertain.
Geostrategically, the main game is, as it has been for most of recorded time, geography rather than history, and the biggest game of all for the foreseeable future is the emerging contest for global supremacy between the US and China.
Suu Kyi’s announcement of her intention to contest a by-election to the new parliament offers a glimmer of hope that democrats could use the fledgling political process to create something resembling genuine representative government.
Indeed, Russia and the United States are circling each other like boxers before the contest actually begins, supporting different factions and trying to ensure that their allies in the multi-sided conflict are advancing, or at least holding ground.
Mugabe's challengers would have been given the upper hand in the political conflict, and it might have been taken for granted inside Zimbabwe and the SADC that Mugabe would not and should not contest this round of elections.
In lieu of judgment, we get ceaseless and frivolous commentary on the thousand and one twists and turns of the electoral contest.
“The real presidential contest” according to the magazine, pits the consensual and contractual vision of Rousseau (Hollande) against the violent “every man is a wolf to his fellow man” vision of Hobbes (Sarkozy).
Never in the history of the Fifth Republic has the same partisan majority won a presidential contest more than three times in succession.
In this regard, the contest is not so much between Hobbes and Rousseau as between Bonaparte and Clement Attlee, the famously dull post-war British prime minister (of whom Churchill once said “he has much to be modest about”).
In other words, the election may simply become a contest between rejection of Sarkozy and lack of passion for Hollande.
To cynics, APEC is a talking shop, while ASEAN is an arena for an ongoing contest between China and Japan, with India on the side.
The leadership contest has turned out differently from what many had expected.
Strong pan-European center-right and center-left political parties are likely to contest the European Parliament elections in the spring of 2009.
In advocating disestablishment of both religious and secular orthodoxies, I do not wish to trivialize the importance of their ongoing contest over the meaning of life.
He reports that, in the United Kingdom, there are ongoing efforts to contest local councils’ right to introduce “gestural” BDS motions aimed at banning procurement from Israeli businesses.
Japan was never out of the contest to shape Asia’s future economic order.
If there is a formal leadership contest, it seems likely that several rival candidates will aim to stand.
CAMBRIDGE – In the age-old contest of economic-growth models, state capitalism has seemed to be gaining the upper hand in recent years.
Peter Neumann, the director of the ICSR, has proposed a YouTube contest for videos that explain the failings of Daesh.
It is against this backdrop that the latest contest between India and China must be assessed.
In time, the US had to accept that each political contest or military battle lost was not a watershed as long as its core interests in Europe, the Far East, and Latin America were not threatened.
According to Pew Research, the last presidential election in which men and women voted the same was the 1976 contest between Jimmy Carter and Gerald Ford.
Many foreign commentators described the presidential and parliamentary elections as a contest between Turkey’s secular past and a putative Islamist future.
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