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In fact, Putin gained widespread support among the Russian people through his decisive and ruthless handling of separatism in the North Caucasus – support that helped persuade then-President Boris Yeltsin to appoint Putin as his successor in 1999.
The reformers’ arguments eventually gained ground: most of Vladimir Putin’s reforms during his first presidential term were promoted and even designed by the new capitalists.
But to tell the story of Latin America as one of foreign pillage is to ignore the benefits that the region has gained from foreign efforts, especially in Venezuela.
By the early 2000s, former Soviet republics like Georgia and Ukraine, which had not gained admission to either NATO or the EU, feared being left behind.
As hostility rises, an amicable settlement will become less likely, and everyone will end up losing more than they have gained.
As soon as these elites gained power, they became unwilling to surrender any of the state authority they inherited.
When sub-Saharan African countries gained independence in the late 1950’s and early 1960’s, their leaders inherited bankrupt states with no access to international capital markets.
Because the choice is not between left and right, independent views have gained greater weigtht.
One of the paradoxical results of America’s almost messianic belief in elections as a panacea for all the ills of the Middle East is that Hamas – the winner of democratic elections – has gained a degree of legitimacy that it never had before.
With Park’s impeachment, South Korea has gained an ideal opportunity to leave behind her father’s legacy as well.
For example, I know a brilliant chief technology officer who started a company that never gained traction because he simply couldn’t manage it.
But there are lessons to be learned and advantages to be gained from China if Latin American governments and businesses are willing to think creatively.
In Baghdad, Rasheed has gained fame – and notoriety – by seeking to inspire a new generation of Iraqi filmmakers and other young artists.
To the surprise of many, it gained the approval of 55% of those voting.
The alternative theory – of a global credit glut – gained more ground with the release last week of the Financial Stability Board’s report on shadow banking.
For now, the periphery countries calculate that the eventual benefits to be gained from remaining within the eurozone will outweigh the current pain of austerity.
This rhetoric has gained sympathy from some intellectuals on both the left and the right.
While the researchers who originally published those studies may have profited from increased funding and recognition, the patients who need new cancer treatments gained nothing.
With few exceptions, countries in which the US-educated economic technocracy gained the upper hand performed worse than they did prior to the 1980's.
Having gained remarkable popularity in the space of only a few years, UKIP threatened to alter the British political landscape.
Because the 90% threshold had become political fodder, its subsequent demolition also gained broader political meaning.
But it has gained currency as a tenet of Keynesian economics.
A regional presence corrupting local politicians, it soon expanded its territory and gained control of key positions in municipal and state security institutions.
It would have been a mistake, for example, to destroy America’s excess capacity in fiber optics, from which US firms gained enormously in the 1990s.
Triffin issued his warning more than 50 years ago, but it has recently gained traction, as China’s rise has made the world increasingly disinclined to tolerate the instability caused by a dollar-denominated system.
What central banks cannot achieve with traditional tools can now be accomplished through the circuitous channels of wealth effects in asset markets or with the competitive edge gained from currency depreciation.
There are big potential savings to be gained, too.
Meanwhile, bilateral trade between the two countries stands at over $100 billion annually; and the Indian diaspora has gained unprecedented influence in Washington.
Qaddafi was a brutal dictator, but he gained power – and maintained his grip on it for 42 years – for a reason.
With the US Federal Reserve set to tighten the exceptionally generous monetary conditions that have driven this “easy growth,” such emerging economies will have to change their approach, despite much tighter room for maneuver, or risk losing the ground that they have gained in recent years.
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