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Under a regime of universal individual rights, it becomes difficult to grant trade unions the legal status and privileges of a collectivity distinct from and superior to its members.
Yes, permanent membership of the United Nations Security Council gives China and Russia distinct advantages over most other countries.
Having dominated Iraq under Saddam Hussein, and despite numbering less than a quarter of the overall population, Sunnis, it is said, are fighting to prevent their communal interests from being overwhelmed by the majority Shi’ites and the Kurds, a distinct ethnic group concentrated in the north.
Indeed, to restore these economies to health, three distinct types of adjustment are needed: between the eurozone and the world, between the eurozone’s periphery and core, and between debt and income in the heavily indebted peripheral countries, particularly Greece.
Only if Nexus (like the Nexus-6 replicants in the 1982 film Blade Runner) achieves that leap will “he” have earned the “right” to be thought of as distinct from the harvester he operates.
Alas, referenda are not designed to sift through five distinct alternatives and to separate the logical repercussions of each from wishful thinking.
The needs of export activities are often quite distinct.
For another, they will have to make their own, distinct contribution.
What this distinct contribution could be is not difficult to define.
There is little except national inertia, complacency and opportunism that stands in the way of beginning to formulate and implement a distinct EU policy to bolster the coalition against terrorism.
In classical nineteenth-century capitalism, politics and economics were idealized as distinct spheres, with interactions between government and business confined to the (necessary) raising of taxes for military adventures and the (harmful) protection of powerful vested interests.
Governed by minority Alawites (a Shia sect), Syria harbors a kaleidoscope of distinct groups: Arabs, Armenians, Christians, Kurds, Druze, Ismailis, and Bedouin.
Although a real breakthrough in the Arab-Israeli peace process appears unlikely, United States envoy George Mitchell is still talking of Arab-Israeli peace as a distinct possibility in 2011.
In general, there are two distinct approaches to achieving freer trade.
At the same time, the European banking system would have to be recapitalized and put under European, as distinct from national, supervision.
But what Europe actually faces is three distinct challenges: protecting refugees, as required by European and international law; developing an effective and sustainable immigration policy that will benefit the EU; and responding to the discontent of second- and third-generation immigrant communities in Europe.
A more precise understanding of the distinct problems facing Europe is vital to resolving them.
For its part, France has experienced a distinct reversal in its relationship with Russia.
Liberal democracy rests on three distinct sets of rights: property rights, political rights, and civil rights.
Whichever path Europe’s universities take, maintaining a distinct identity in the face of global change and education reform will become increasingly difficult.
Two related but distinct political processes – the Democratic and Republican parties’ nominating contests – will play out over the next year.
General de Gaulle was famous for carving out a policy toward the Soviet Union distinct from that pursued by the United States.
This suggests, of course, that while it is essential to consider separately the distinct issues of the future financial regime and the post-crisis response, there are links between them.
White’s response to my lecture engages constructively with that debate, and focuses our attention on the distinct but nonetheless linked issues of the appropriate future financial regime and the best post-crisis response.
While many issues involved are distinct, a "democratic deficit" looms large in both undertakings.
The Arab Spring and Europe’s TurnNEW HAVEN – Until now, and with few exceptions, the West has nurtured two distinct communities of foreign-policy specialists: the development community and the democratic community.
Though Saudi Arabia's motivation in not cutting production was probably almost entirely economic, low oil prices could also offer distinct political advantages.
Given the fiscal trends that prevailed until recently, an eventual debt crisis was a distinct possibility.
Because of these three very visible fault lines, some Russians describe their country as having distinct security, economic, and political/business governments.
A quarter-century ago, I pointed out the two distinct ways in which economic growth would have this effect.
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