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Similarly, proposals in the United States for a federal jobs guarantee have been
gaining
momentum on the traditional left.
One can already see grassroots activism
gaining
momentum in congressional districts that would not have seemed competitive just five months ago.
Gazprom’s ambitions for
gaining
control of pipeline and energy transport infrastructure must be slowed, which requires allowing independent producers to prosper.
But it looks as if Sarkozy, once obsessed with
gaining
power, has progressively lost touch with reality since achieving his goal.
For Bersani, creating a coalition with Monti may well be the key to
gaining
control of the upper house and, in turn, of the government.
Obama is seeking Trade Promotion Authority, a necessary prelude to
gaining
congressional support for the Trans-Pacific Partnership, which would reduce barriers between the US and 11 other Pacific Rim countries.
In the most recent elections, Zimbabweans made their choice known, despite serious obstacles and widespread repression, with the MDC’s presidential candidate, Morgan Tsvangirai,
gaining
more votes than Mugabe.
Indeed, the idea that greenhouse-gas emissions should be reduced to zero by 2050 is
gaining
wider acceptance.
The drive to build a temple to the god Ram in Ayodhya, on the site of a 16 th century mosque demolished by Hindu mobs in 1992, is
gaining
new energy.
All across the continent, right-wing populist parties are
gaining
ground by exploiting voters’ concerns about migration and access to the welfare state.
When right-wing populists first started
gaining
political traction, Europe’s center-left parties hoped that their traditional strengths would enable them to weather the challenge.
Unsurprisingly, it will be the girls who get there last, with the poorest girls
gaining
access to lower-secondary education a full 70 years after the richest boys.
In Germany, the idea of a nuclear phase-out has been
gaining
support ever since the Chernobyl disaster.
And, indeed, when the results began rolling in, that is what happened, beginning with Trump’s dramatic victory in Florida and
gaining
traction as his lead in the Electoral College grew.
Iran’s regional foreign policy has not yet caught up with its new pre-eminence; it is making as many enemies as it is
gaining
friends, and it might squander the windfall gains that it made in the past three years.
But in recent years, pro-Taiwan groups and politicians in Japan have been
gaining
momentum.
Whereas good policymaking is about setting priorities, Trump’s policymaking is about wanting it all, wanting it now, and
gaining
very little.
Indeed, regional free-trade agreements are
gaining
momentum worldwide.
To protect that and maintain public support for the investments and policies that sustain growth, Singapore needed to prevent corruption from
gaining
a foothold, and to establish consistency in the application of rules.
In fact, a pluralistic system is already evolving under the umbrella of the Chinese Communist Party – a process that may eventually lead to citizens
gaining
an institutionalized voice in public policy.
It is too soon to discount genetics, however, because the science of “epigenetics” – the study of mechanisms for turning genes on and off, thus changing the way a cell develops without altering the genetic code – is
gaining
traction.
Extremist ideologies are
gaining
ground, and separatist movements have been reenergized.
But the incessant, extended media coverage of the investigation suggests that the MPD has provided – and possibly even leaked – information from the investigation to journalists, a routine but legally dubious means of
gaining
public support.
A US initiative that is not assured of
gaining
government support would be insufficient, and only if the US forms a partnership with China would adequate scale and speed be attained to meet the challenge.
Uzbekistan, which ought to welcome all the help it can get and probably doesn’t object to greater OSCE involvement in principle, is nonetheless dragging its feet, supposedly because of jealousy over all the attention Kazakhstan is
gaining
from its chairmanship.
In Europe, anti-establishment parties have been
gaining
ground in local, regional, and national elections, complicating government formation (for example, in Spain) and influencing major policy decisions (such as the UK Conservative Party’s decision to hold the upcoming “Brexit” referendum).
And I think this idea is
gaining
acceptance.
A credible new opposition party – the Cambodia National Rescue Party – has emerged under Sam Rainsy (who looks a little more like a national leader now than just a monochromatic anti-Vietnamese crusader),
gaining
significant popular support.
Much research remains to be done, but
gaining
such an understanding could help reveal better ways to meet those needs, before or after radicalization occurs.
To prevent a regime imbued with an absolute ideology from
gaining
possession of the “absolute weapon” is Israel’s paramount priority.
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