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Building on this momentum, the campaigns for debt relief, trade reform, and increasing aid to poor countries have gained traction.
This theory has gained credence because the Communist Party’s current leader in the Tibet Autonomous Region formerly held a powerful position in Xinjiang Province.
Under the CCP, they have gained power and privileges that were unattainable under British rule.
With prices far in excess of the cost of production, there are, for example, huge profits to be gained by persuading pharmacies, hospitals, or doctors to shift sales to your products.
In the long run, this is also good news for America's trading partners: there is more value to be gained by trading with a richer economy than with a poorer one.
By appealing to nationalist sentiment, populists have gained support everywhere, regardless of the economic system or situation, because it is being fueled externally, namely by the influx of migrants and refugees.
The moderate agenda has gained important ground this month – but the struggle to establish Indonesia’s political and religious identity is far from over.
A true joint Euro-Atlantic missile defense would demonstrate NATO’s collective will, not only to defend against the new threats of today and tomorrow, but also to send a clear message that there is nothing to be gained from missile proliferation.
The more, however, that the rich are seen as idle or crooked – as having simply inherited or, worse, gained their wealth nefariously – the more the median voter should be willing to vote for tough regulations and punitive taxes on them.
As no benefit can be gained by Russia from either surrendering or holding tough on this issue, the best thing for us is to evade negotiations on it altogether and, instead, initiate a wide-ranging dialogue on preserving and strengthening global strategic stability.
Otherwise what has been gained through protest could easily be lost again once the demonstrators have dispersed after the last explosion at Muroroa Atoll in early 1996.
Many international startups – including Sweden’s Spotify, Estonia’s Skype, Israel’s Waze – and, most recently, China’s Alibaba – have gained billion-dollar valuations.
But it is not only local governments that have benefited; through cash transfers created during the so called neo-liberal years, families have gained as well, most importantly through a universal and non-contributive old-age pension benefit given to persons over 60, which reaches slightly more than 30% of households.
Politicians gained influence and popular support by directing state-owned banks to make loans to favored constituencies.
It battled its way across North America in the nineteenth century and gained global dominance in the second half of the twentieth.
Fidesz in Hungary and the Solidarity Electoral Alliance (AWS) in Poland gained power two years ago because of a reaction to their post-communist predecessors.
Obama in IndiaNEW DELHI – Barack Obama, the sixth American president to visit India since it gained independence, arrives at a trying time, both for the United States and for India.
Indeed, although painful, acceptance of Western values by a society excluded for centuries from European history has gained momentum despite the fact that we often see ourselves as different from Western nations.
Even in China, where green initiatives have gained significant attention in recent years, investment in renewables – high by international standards – is dwarfed by investment in coal-generated energy.
We must allow the creative genius of our old and vastly experienced nations to move from their position of being funded and tolerated by the state to one where they have gained, at long last, their economic and cultural freedom.
People who are suspended between a lost past and a future not yet gained need help.
Mittal, the biggest steelmaker in the world, has successfully gained control of Arcelor, the second biggest, through what initially was a hostile takeover bid.
Many of Ukraine’s richest citizens, who gained their wealth through the crony capitalism that is the only way Yanukovych knows how to govern, remain unreconciled to Ukraine’s democracy.
Extreme poverty has been halved during this period; an estimated 100 million slum-dwellers have gained access to safe drinking water, and millions to health care; and large numbers of girls are now receiving an education.
That League’s mission did not stop the killing, but it represented an escalation of pressure to end the slaughter – and it was based on leverage gained in Libya.
Not unsurprisingly, the latter has gained more of the world’s attention than the former.
No one was happy, and political protest movements gained strength everywhere, including in Germany, where the right-wing, anti-euro Alternative for Germany (AfD) party was born in February 2013.
So, while right-wing populists have attracted older voters, left-wing populist have gained a following among younger generations.
So, should innocent victims and those who gained nothing from fake prosperity really be made to pay even more?
In the early 1970’s, moderates gained by engineering a rapprochement with the US, capped by Nixon’s famous visit to China in 1972.
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