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China’s Afghan policy is a case in point, but it also is a formidable challenge to the weiqi way.
The task of defending its interests in Afghanistan after US withdrawal is a truly formidable challenge for Chinese diplomacy.
Full currency integration on a lasting basis is the key step to complete the bold trade opening that is already producing formidable payoffs in the north of Mexico.
When such smart diplomacy is put at the service of an appealing and influential Pope, not to mention the 1.2 billion Catholics worldwide, the result is an engine for doing good that is more formidable than anything the world has seen for some time.
The entire formidable work was recently opened to limited public viewing, with a plan to publish it over the next five years.
That is America’s story: despite a yawning trade deficit, investment is running high, eagerly financed by the rest of the world; public finance is formidable and inflation insignificant; new economy prospects run unabated and asset markets are revealing that even if there is a US bubble, it is unlikely to burst as violently as in Japan a decade ago.
Netanyahu may be a dismal prime minister; but he is also a formidable campaigner.
PRONACO has formidable leaders in Wole Soyinka, the Nobel literature laureate, and Anthony Enahoro, an elderly politician who made his name as a fiery young nationalist in the 1940’s.
But a hardening of the mood there, and a brokered armistice between its disenchanted youth and older but vastly more experienced political war horses, will not only present PRONACO with a formidable opponent, but could throw West Africa into turmoil if matters degenerate into a frontal clash.
But even the supposedly formidable Bush name was not enough to convince younger, scrappier candidates to step aside.
Formidable difficulties still lie ahead, and a final agreement is by no means certain.
And yet, while we hear talk of a second Green Revolution, expanding the food supply today in the poorest, most crowded, and insecure nations is a formidable task.
The Soviet Union represented a far more formidable challenge, and it ended up collapsing under the weight of its own economic failure.
AlsoMoreover, the European public itself has become a formidable obstacle to reform, because it has developed a vested interest in cheap prices for medical services.
The present calls for a new perception of the contemporary world as a multipolar, multicultural and globally interconnected entity; and, for a consistent reform of all international organizations and institutions in order that they might reflect this new understanding and are able to meet the formidable tasks of the coming period with this new spirit.
Without the hearts of news producers – or, increasingly, of censors – the seemingly formidable edifice of journalistic regulation will, sooner or later, collapse like the Berlin Wall.
Even without droughts, Asia would be facing formidable water constraints.
In this sense, they would be following in the footsteps of two of America’s closest allies – the United Kingdom and France – which have built formidable deterrent capacities, rather than entrust their security to the US.
One is to build interoperability between their formidable naval forces, which, in cooperation with other friendly navies, can undergird peace and stability in the Indo-Pacific region.
The quality of hurricane protection in the Florida Keys seems to be formidable.
And, in the spring of 2009, the presidential campaign in Iran evinced a formidable craving for freedom.
Iran’s nuclear weapons program and Iraq’s formidable military build-up of the 1990’s exemplify the lethal link between hyper-militarization and energy-market power.
The assurance given to the world that wars will no longer originate in Europe represents a formidable reversal of history.
Europe has formidable wealth, but that wealth is sleeping; it has formidable human capital, but it is shackled from lack of initiative, counterproductive regulation, bureaucracy, and by insufficient profit motivation – call it a lack of greed.
Egypt is, however, better placed to embrace democracy than the other Arab countries, because the obstacles to democracy in the Arab world are less formidable in Egypt than elsewhere.
In alliance with Li, they would form a formidable force, one likely to enjoy high-level support from senior party elders like Wan Li, Qiao Shi, and Tian Jiyun.
The analytical foundations of many of these “improvements” appear shaky, and the challenges of implementing the new regulatory regime have proven formidable.
According to this logic, it follows that only a formidable countervailing power – such as massive official intervention – can halt the ravenous dynamics of financial markets.
A far more formidable challenge will be resolving the dispute over the countries’ Himalayan frontier – the world’s longest unsettled land border.
He has quickly discovered, like previous US presidents, that America’s political system is designed to prevent rapid, large-scale change, by interposing formidable institutional obstacles, from the Congress and career civil servants to state governments and the courts.
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