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This means that broad swaths of the population don’t finish high school, don’t attend college, and don’t become empowered citizens of their own countries and the world.
Profound economic and technological changes in recent decades – together with privatization, deregulation, digitization, and financialization – have further empowered elites and enabled them to hone their use of political influencing via think tanks and philanthropies; shadow lobbying, workarounds that subvert standard processes; the media; campaign finance; and stints in “public service” to advance their interests.
Yet the real value is in training people to deliver for themselves, at a local scale – empowered rather than controlled, creative rather than rehearsed, and working by choice rather than in desperation.
It was because Shi’ite religious leadership felt empowered, optimistic, and secure enough to press the Sadrists to end their revolt.
Every member of the community must be empowered to protect and improve their own mental health, and that of those around them.
Deviant individuals and groups exist in all human societies, and they are now empowered in ways that were once unthinkable.
As a result, neither national governments nor European authorities are empowered to act.
If they were empowered as leaders, the conditions of an anarchic world would force them to make the same bellicose decisions that men do.
In a nod to the importance of the councils to realizing change at the most local level, the World Bank and its partners have adopted a highly innovative program that channels rural development aid through the councils, which have been empowered to decide how the funds will be spent.
Already squeezed by exorbitant property prices and popular resistance to land takings, they now face higher interest rates, property taxes, villagers empowered by stronger rights, and expensive new requirements to provide social services to migrants.
Such a court would be empowered to prosecute any act of terrorism perpetrated after its creation, offering desperately needed assistance to countries with weak legal systems and providing a strong deterrent to would-be terrorists.
The digitization of knowledge has empowered people to get information that shapes their views.
If municipal authorities – which have proved their willingness and ability to tackle the nuts and bolts of integration in innovative ways – were empowered to play a more active role in crafting immigration policies, everyone would benefit.
Members are equally empowered to set priorities and contribute to discussions.
Second, empowered by exceptionally generous global financing conditions, a growing number of emerging-market corporates have resorted to external dollar borrowing, materially increasing their financial vulnerability to higher interest rates and adverse currency moves.
Beyond creating a better life for herself, an educated, empowered girl supports the prosperity of members of her family and wider community – including fathers, brothers, and husbands, as much as mothers and sisters.
In contrast to these titans of dissent, we are empowered with the instruments of social media to spread the word, overcome isolation, and mobilize millions in support of reform and renewal.
It is to be hoped that Nepal’s newly elected Maoists have the wisdom to listen to their newly empowered electorate.
The American invasion of Iraq set the pattern, for it broke the central government’s power and empowered ethnic and religious enclaves.
These institutions’ leaders must always remember for whom they are ultimately working; local communities must be empowered to play a role in shaping the development agenda, and more must be done to engage with them directly, through a fully devolved structure.
Last but not least, people should be empowered.
The finest tribute Filipinos and other freedom-loving peoples can offer to Cory's memory is for responsible citizens to work towards the vision of an empowered, bountiful future for which she and Ninoy aspired.
The Millennium Villages Project, which I have the honor of helping to lead, has demonstrated that pastoralist communities can be empowered through targeted investments in livestock management, veterinary care, business development, mobile health clinics, boarding schools, and local infrastructure such as safe water points, off-grid electricity, and mobile telephony.
Even without fiscal and political union, the European Commission has been empowered to supervise fiscal spending and other macroeconomic developments – such as wage growth and real-estate prices – that could cause imbalances to re-emerge.
Arriving 30 years after the military coup that brought Pinochet to power, the report has both unsettled and empowered Chileans.
To achieve their objectives, China’s leaders will need to strike a delicate balance between a muscular, disciplined, and ubiquitous Party, setting standards and protecting the public interest, and innovative, empowered, and potent markets, driving the economy into the future.
From the Right to Information Act, which has empowered citizens and boosted government accountability and transparency, to the Right to Education Act, which has led to record-high school enrollment and pumped resources into moribund classrooms, the current government’s reforms have changed the face of Indian society.
Cartel members would be empowered to reward and penalize third parties acting in bad faith.
And, most important, the workers themselves would be empowered to reclaim their dignity in a system that has long stripped them of it.
These special interests feel especially empowered now by Donald Trump’s administration, which is filled with corporate lobbyists, not to mention several right-wing billionaires in the cabinet.
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