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But, having campaigned as a socialist, and with his own camp’s deep divisions leaving him no real majority in parliament, he could not afford to reveal his pro-industry orientation (he continues to denounce the financial sector) without a significant delay.
We now know that the congress had been put off for 14 years, owing to deep divisions among Cuban leaders.
Indeed, another reason for the war was America’s internal divisions over what it represents as a nation – its purpose and meaning to the rest of the world.
These divisions, obscured by Saddam’s totalitarianism, never went away.
Whether or not Macron’s presidency is a success will depend on his ability to heal France’s social divisions, restore its economic dynamism, and tackle its high unemployment, particularly among young people.
The divisions between its south and north, which had been two different countries – with totally different histories –until Saleh’s dictatorship, are resurfacing again.
Although this has further deepened pro- and anti-US divisions within the army, among both commissioned and non-commissioned officers, Musharraf clearly expects to remain president well beyond the October 2007 elections, as well as to extend further his term of leadership of the army.
Through two rounds of free and democratic elections in 2005, the people of Liberia courageously chose peace, reconciliation, and development over ethnic divisions and violence.
Lebanon’s resilience has confounded expectations, given its lack of a shared national identity – a result of deep social divisions that resemble, to some extent, those besetting Iraq – and notoriously weak state institutions.
In the US, for example, George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, and Franklin D. Roosevelt succeeded in strengthening their country because they recognized the need to address internal divisions in the light of America’s core values, global position, and long-term goals.
In particular, the outdated divisions between rich and poor countries and their responsibilities must be revised.
The Bush administration’s incoherent foreign policy included a plan to build a missile defense shield in Poland and the Czech Republic, which allowed Putin to revive the Old Europe/New Europe divisions that began with the Iraq war, with this split appearing to enhance Russian influence on the continent.
And, critically, an increasing number of states are unable to contain these divisions within peaceful boundaries.
When they look at the West nowadays, they see populism, demagoguery, and deep divisions, rather than harmonious, inclusive societies.
Today's global war against terrorism permits this approach to be modified to create new divisions.
That is the new game President-elect Fox must play, just as he must be more skilled at domestic politics than the PRI ever was, because of the democratic divisions in Mexico's congress.
To that end, the Kremlin is actively supporting European populist movements and political parties and their efforts to exploit historical tensions and create divisions within the EU.
Such divisions play directly into Putin’s hands.
Another of Brave New World’s strategies for control was to maximize divisions among the populace.
So long as these differences remain, so will Europe’s political divisions.
The bill, which emphasizes Israel’s Jewish identity above its democratic principles, has caused deep divisions not only among the electorate, but also within the government coalition.
In a region that is not yet firmly anchored in structures like NATO and the EU, ethnic, territorial, or religious divisions could have catastrophic consequences.
Accordingly, he believed that only by abolishing it could society’s class divisions be healed, and a harmonious future ensured.
Given the many divisions inside the Union, Europeans will probably muddle on, until a serious crisis forces them to act, by which point it could well be too late.
His below-the-belt insults, racist dog whistles, and unfounded attacks on the media and other democratic institutions are deepening political and social divisions, while diminishing respect for the presidency and the US more generally.
Together with the battle over the Taliban’s future role in the country, the struggle for power in 2014 could reanimate divisions that take the country back to the brink of a wider civil war, with the liberal technocrats of Kabul crushed between a resurgent Northern Alliance and a wider “Pashtun Pact.”
For its own domestic reform needs, China needs to move toward fully independent commercial and civil divisions of its court system, even if the criminal division remains subject to political control.
In the middle of the twentieth century, Josef Stalin scornfully asked how many divisions the Pope had, but four decades later, the Papacy was still intact while Stalin’s empire had collapsed.
Most notably, the unifying character of Solidarity gave way to social divisions and, among many of Poland’s people, a large dose of alienation from both politics and civic engagements.
But there are at least two other divisions in economics that have been neglected: meso-economics and meta-economics.
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