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Millions gained essential human and civil rights, including the right to criticize their leaders.
Geologically, the islands are connected to Taiwan, and Japan gained control over them by taking possession of Taiwan in 1895.
This progress, which gained a further institutional foothold with the establishment of the International Criminal Court last July, led many to believe that the triumph of international law is no longer a utopian hope but a practical prospect.
The outcome of the court hearings is difficult to predict, but it will answer the question of whether Russians have lost the freedom artistic self-expression that they gained after communism's fall.
Indeed, despite spending huge amounts of taxpayer money – amounting annually to 16% of regional GDP in southern Italy and 25% of regional GDP in eastern Germany – the Italian and German economies have gained little.
An administration of plutocrats – most of whom gained their wealth from rent-seeking activities, rather than from productive entrepreneurship – could be expected to reward themselves.
The idea to model the “call on OPEC” gained ground after the October oil embargo of 1973, a time when few economists were familiar with the oil market.
Burma was ruled as part of Britain’s Indian Empire until 1935, and the links between the two countries remained strong after Burma gained its independence in 1947.
Moreover, disruptive technologies will cause value to shift among economic sectors, as occurred when television overtook radio or, more recently, when online media gained predominance over print publication.
In middle-income countries, prices would more closely reflect a country’s ability to pay (for example, GSK cut the price of its cervical cancer vaccine, Cervarix, by 60% in the Philippines and gained a 14-fold increase in volume sales).
So we must not be tricked by the fact that those who gained economic power by looting state assets now employ lawyers, invoke free market nostrums, and claim to follow the letter of the law.
Indeed, this did happen with the one property recovery that my government was able to secure, the giant Kryvorizhstal steel works that our former president’s son-in-law gained through a rigged sale at a bargain price.
But there are other, untold stories of people who paid a heavy price for the West’s freedoms that have not gained much attention.
By combining both stored and newly collected blood and tissue samples, and supplementing these with detailed genealogical charts and records, the biotechnology company believes that it has gained a head start in searching for genes that are implicated in human disease.
While they have gained new verbal commitments from Morales to contain the narcotics trade, the government’s ineffectiveness was evident when a Bolivian police general was arrested in Chile while transporting a huge shipment of cocaine to the United States.
But the renationalization of politics within the EU gained traction long before the summer of 2015, and it is not a result of the refugee crisis.
What is to be done, then, with the tainted property gained during the wild privatizations of the 1990's?
But it is the neo-protectionists who have gained the most power, and they are now threatening to pursue an agenda that will clip the wings of US producers, ultimately undermining America’s position in the global economy.
The idea that Catalonia should be able to hold its referendum, under the principle of the “right to decide” (derecho a decidir), has been raised in the international press, and even gained traction among some segments within Spain.
One useful consequence is that wealthy countries’ low levels of assistance to those less fortunate has gained wider attention.
The government must not overestimate how much revenue can be gained by the consumption-tax increase, and thus how much of the budget hole can be closed.
They gained in every part of the country, but especially in the industrial heartland from Pennsylvania to Wisconsin.
At the same time, the movement faces new questions about its ability to take advantage of the diplomatic opportunities that it has gained.
More recently, a less violent but equally worrying phenomenon has gained ground, the revival of national protectionism.
Malaysia’s Opposition RebornIn Malaysia’s recent elections, opposition parties managed their strongest showing since the country gained its independence from Britain in 1957, cutting the ruling coalition’s parliamentary majority to below two-thirds.
And while about 100 developing countries gained independence, the process was not always peaceful.
As a result, the purely inflation-oriented approach to monetary policy gained total dominance in both central banking and academic economics.
This proposal gained its legs from long-standing worries about the H1(b) and L-1 programs on the part of Republican Senator Chuck Grassley and Democratic Senator Richard Durbin, and had recently attracted the sponsorship of the influential Democratic Senator Charles Schumer of New York.
But he gained clout with the onset of the current crisis, and concern over intractable unemployment numbers is enabling politicians to justify all sorts of superficially attractive remedies.
The renminbi’s potential to serve as a reserve currency has gained increased attention this year, as the International Monetary Fund prepares to review the currency basket that determines the value of its own reserve asset, the Special Drawing Right.
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