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The court recently ruled that Nawaz Sharif, who Musharraf unseated
eight
years ago, must be allowed to return from exile.
Musharraf’s rule has given the military leadership a strong role in policymaking, but his
eight
years in office have badly damaged domestic support for the army’s influence within the government.
By 2000, the average holding period had fallen to
eight
months; by 2008, it was two months.
The White House did all it could for
eight
years to hide the overwhelming scientific consensus that humans are contributing to climate change.
The recent fighting in Macedonia, which left
eight
police officers and 14 Albanian militants dead, raises the specter of renewed violence.
And, after
eight
years under President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, the country faces elections next year.
Instead, it backed the more inclusive East Asia Summit, which brings together leaders from ASEAN and its
eight
key partners – China, the United States, Japan, India, Russia, Australia, South Korea, and New Zealand.
Voters in the Turkish Cypriot north rejected the party of their leader, Mehmet Ali Talat, who has been meeting almost weekly for
eight
months with his Greek Cypriot counterpart, Demetris Christofias, to work out the terms of a settlement to reunify the island.
During the PO government’s
eight
years in power, Poland’s GDP grew by almost 25%, while unemployment and the budget deficit fell by almost half.
Over the last
eight
years, China’s economy has grown by an average of 10% annually – a total increase of around 115% – leading to a 53% increase in CO2 emissions.
The most obvious solution is to increase the number of permanent members from five to
eight
or nine (including Germany, Japan, India and possibly Brazil) and to change the voting rules, so that two or three permanent members--rather than just one--are needed to block an action.
The main reason might be the poor fortunes of social-democratic parties, which now head only
eight
governments in the EU, despite their efforts since 2000 to minimize their waning influence within their traditional electorate – blue-collar workers and white-collar public-sector employees, middle managers, and civil servants.
So, Slumdog Millionaire following its four Golden Globes and Screen Actors’ Guild awards, seven BAFTA awards (the British Oscars), and
eight
Academy Awards, is a cause to celebrate in India.
Eight
of the countries that will enter the European Union in May 2004 were until recently governed by totalitarian dictatorships and enslaved by another nation.
Indeed, the extent of the task is reflected in a new McKinsey Global Institute report, “From Poverty to Empowerment,” which uses an innovative analytical framework, the “empowerment line,” to estimate the cost to the average citizen of fulfilling
eight
basic needs: food, energy, housing, potable water, sanitation, health care, education, and social security.
Indeed, much like Modi’s disastrous demonetization gamble just
eight
months ago – which entailed the abrupt withdrawal of all large-denomination banknotes from circulation – his GST has proved both messy and disruptive.
About
eight
million taxable businesses have now registered with GSTN.
In January, during Abu Dhabi Sustainability Week, the UAE honored
eight
winners in five recipient categories with prizes totaling $4 million, rewarding proven innovators and giving them the financial support that they need.
Stay the Course in The HagueWASHINGTON D.C. -- After
eight
years on the job, Carla del Ponte is about to step down as the chief prosecutor for the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) in The Hague.
According to the TNS Sofres poll for Le Figaro Magazine, Sarkozy’s popularity tumbled a whopping
eight
percentage points in January, to just 41%, the lowest level since he took office last May and down from a high of 65% in July.
Of the
eight
economic evaluations recently surveyed by the Institute for Fiscal Studies, a respected independent research institution, only one claims that leaving the EU would lead to significant economic gains.
And they have grilled the deputy director, Andrew McCabe – who was close to Comey and could verify his claims that Trump tried to persuade him to limit the investigation – for
eight
and nine hours at a time.
This would represent a notable reversal from the last
eight
years, during which President Barack Obama made a concerted effort to deepen America’s ties with Southeast Asia.
In the
eight
recoveries since the early 1950’s (excluding the brief pop following the credit-controls-induced slump in the 1980’s), the stock-adjustment response lifted real consumption growth by 6.1%, on average, for five quarters following business-cycle downturns; spurts of 7-8% growth were not uncommon for a quarter or two.
And certainly the election of the first African-American as president would do wonders to restore the soft power that the Bush administration squandered over the past
eight
years.
Eight
years later, the Korean War also ended without a formal peace treaty, leaving behind a divided and heavily armed peninsula.
Eight
hundred million people are chronically undernourished while three and a half billion lack micronutrients.
So, in Syria and the surrounding region, there is already a lost generation in the making: children who are now
eight
and nine and who have never been to school, children condemned to work as child laborers, and hundreds of girls forced into early marriages.
Dzhokhar, now 19, was only
eight
years old when the family moved to the US – settling in Cambridge, Massachusetts – and by many accounts he was a reasonably well-adjusted American-immigrant.
Today,
eight
of the region’s fifteen debt-troubled LICs are commodity exporters.
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