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Thus, it is important to note how little - if any - ground America has gained relative to Europe in the past decade according to the yardstick of social welfare.
In due course, the respite gained by the older generations will have to be paid for by the younger ones.
That choice gave rise to a seeming paradox: North Korea gained surprisingly powerful influence over China.
And when, in 1961, Libya began to export oil, American and British companies quickly gained a dominant position.
The search for MH370 has shown in microcosm how much there is to be gained through peaceful cooperation.
Similarly, if Helmut Kohl's government had insisted in 1990 that all Germans expelled from Poland and Czechoslovakia have a right to return to those countries, German reunification would not have gained the broad international agreement that it did.
That means resisting the trend, which has lately gained momentum, toward bypassing these institutions in favor of bilateral or regional arrangements.
Perhaps corruption has gained the upper hand because India’s system for redressing grievances has become so sluggish.
Intriguingly, some of the most important insights into the causes of MND – and thus how it can be treated – have been gained through observations of natives of the remote Pacific island of Guam and Italian soccer players.
The investor loses $31 on the price of the bond, or three times more than he had gained in higher interest payments.
Still, in perpetuating a partnership with the same breed of corrupt leaders that colluded with Africa’s previous invaders and exploiters, the Chinese have forgotten that Africans, albeit often their own worst enemies, have nonetheless gained the upper hand over their foes in the end.
To bolster the legitimacy of such a move, the Council would have to select the candidate more closely associated with the party that gained more votes, however narrow the margin.
The same is true for the euro-based investor who would not have gained by holding gold but could have offset the dollar decline by buying euro futures.
Containing Competitive Monetary EasingMUMBAI – As the world struggles to recover from the global economic crisis, the unconventional monetary policies that many advanced countries adopted in its wake seem to have gained widespread acceptance.
And when the idea was revived again during the financial turmoil of the early 1990s and in the early stages of the euro crisis, it gained no more political traction than it did in the late 1970s.
“Shareholder value” has gained force; access to an organised stock exchange has widened.
Much of Hong Kong's elite shares the same mindset, despite their training in Western business schools and their fortunes gained from property trading.
Add to that the Antiquities and Art Treasures Act of 1972, which does not permit the government to seek the return of antiquities exported before India gained its independence in 1947, and, according to Kumar, the Indian government has no recourse to secure the diamond’s return.
In India, although only 53% say that women have gained greater equality, an additional 14% say that women now have more rights than men!(Presumably, they were thinking only of those females who are not aborted because prenatal testing has shown them not to be male.)
Hope for Hong KongLONDON – Hong Kong’s democracy movement has gained admiration worldwide.
This would not be the first time, of course, that a leader with a severe personality disorder has gained power.
But such leaders have usually gained control in smaller countries that lack the world’s most powerful military.
But, at a time of industrial upgrading and ever-increasing technological sophistication, the knowledge and skills gained in school are often insufficient.
As a result of this official support, private investors gained confidence in the new instrument.
He has spent the last four years centralizing and consolidating power, and his BJP has gained control of 22 of 29 states, complementing its lower-house majority with a likely majority in the upper house (which is elected by state assemblies).
In Egypt, Abduh’s progressive ideas gained support from only a tiny group of reformers.
One day, when we have gained a similar level of understanding of the biochemistry and physiology of the human body, precision medicine will be applied to all disease categories.
In the years before India gained independence from Britain in 1947, Rohingya militants joined the campaign to establish Pakistan as the first Islamic republic of the postcolonial era.
Just months after Myanmar gained independence in 1948, martial law was declared in the region; government forces regained territorial control in the early 1950s.
Still, the economy gained substantial momentum from the middle of Reagan’s first term, and to American conservatives, he remains an economic hero.
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