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Its leaders believed that there was little to be contributed or gained by getting involved in the region’s problems, and that Turkey’s Ottoman legacy would leave its Arab neighbors suspicious.
The Fund’s participation in the effort to rescue the eurozone may have raised its profile and gained it favor in Europe.
Indeed, it has only gained strength since 2012, and now, with post-Crimea popular support having bought it some time, the regime is trying to adapt to the protracted economic, political, and social malaise Russia is facing.
I am proud that Poland, thanks to the expertise gained in the Mazowiecki years and after, can provide advice to the European Union’s eastern and southern neighbors, as well as countries like Tunisia and Burma.
In late 2008, anti-Thaksin mobs wearing yellow shirts and led by prominent business figures occupied Bangkok’s Suvarnabhumi International Airport with impunity, seeking to annul the result of a general election in which pro-Thaksin forces gained power, despite Thaksin’s exile overseas.
This effort has gained broad public acceptance because it was fair: both retirees and working people will contribute, as will companies and households.
The South’s drive for independence has gained momentum because of the North’s failure to make unity attractive through reform and elections, as stipulated by the CPA.
Societies that adopted the capitalist system gained unrivaled prosperity, enjoyed widespread job satisfaction, obtained productivity growth that was the marvel of the world and ended mass privation.
Ever since, Republican governments in the US have slashed funding for ballet, poetry in schools, and sculpture, while demagogues like former New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani have gained political traction by attacking controversial visual arts.
Nicolas II gained the status of saintly martyr.
Although “the Golden Shield Project” is the Communist Party’s largest single investment in the ideological field since it gained control of China in 1949, it is also likely to be the last big bet before the Party’s collapse.
But the biggest regional winner could prove to be Iran, whose influence in Iraq and Afghanistan gained a substantial boost from US policy under President George W. Bush.
Last year, Kosovo gained independence.
Globalization has reduced the state’s freedom of action, and the European Union has gained in prominence.
The first piece of evidence is that populist parties have gained mass support (if not power) in countries with relatively strong economic performance.
Arguably, the Five Star movement would not have gained so much strength in Italy if voters there didn’t think the traditional political class had systematically enriched itself with public money.
Not much, it is clear, can be gained from increased taxation.
Nevertheless, my prediction gained bold front-page headlines in many major newspapers throughout the world.
It gained headlines, evidently, because it was still far from a consensus view, although concerns were mounting.
Without US backing, it is unlikely that the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade and its successor, the World Trade Organization, could have gained sufficient authority to deepen and safeguard the post-war trading system.
Democratic Resilience for a Populist AgeBERLIN – The enemies of open, liberal societies have gained disconcerting influence in recent years, demonstrated most recently by the Polish government’s bid to place the country’s courts under political control.
Yet, although more than two billion people gained improved access to safe drinking water from 1990 to 2010, thanks to piped supplies and protected wells, this figure does not provide enough information on the agreed indicators.
How much longer can we ignore the fact that, in raising the bogeyman of “Chechen terrorism,” the Russian government is suppressing the liberties gained when the Soviet empire collapsed?
There is little to be gained from letting hot money flow into an economy freely.
As central banks have gained status in recent years, and thanks to imaginative leadership, the BIS has reawakened and taken on a number of important roles, including setting international regulatory standards for global banking.
The damage of not enlarging Nato soon just as the damange of not introducing the "Euro" in January 1999 will far outweigh anything that might be gained by delay.
Second, emerging-market bears point out that these economies have gained major productivity benefits from the migration of surplus rural labor to urban areas, a surplus that will soon be exhausted.
China became neighbors with India, Nepal, and Bhutan, and gained control over the region’s major river systems.
In part, we are victims of a self-fulfilling pessimism – the view that a debt overhang dooms us to unemployment and stagnation, with nothing to be gained by attempting to use fiscal expansion or monetary innovation to counter it.
We are also interested in introducing genes in cells that never gained them by natural genetic transfer.
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