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Such numbers mean that effective reform policies are gaining a constituency within the state sector.
Like the Soviet Union, China is paying through the nose for a few friends, gaining only limited benefits while becoming increasingly entrenched in an unsustainable arms race.
The United States’ economy is gaining traction.
After gaining Security Council support, the US, Europe, and some Arab countries began doing exactly what should be expected of the international community when a government is preparing to butcher its own citizens: prevent the slaughter.
These younger leaders guided the Intifada, gaining stature within Palestinian society, as well as a feeling that they might soon supplant the traditional old guard of the PLO.
If nothing else, Trump may resist the idea of China gaining strategic primacy in the region.
Putin is gaining ground in Ukraine, and Europe is so preoccupied with Greece that it hardly pays any attention.
At the same time, a radical reform program within Ukraine is gaining momentum, and slowly becoming visible to both the Ukrainian public and the European authorities.
While a transition to a low-carbon, resource-efficient economy is gaining traction globally, some claim either that it is merely a glossy repackaging of the sustainable-development agenda, or, worse, a plot to constrain rather than liberate growth in developing and least-developed countries.
Still, robots are gaining a foothold in the region, particularly in economies such as China and South Korea.
Although the government met neither of these demands, the early results clearly showed that the opposition was gaining a large number of seats.
Throughout Europe, xenophobia and open racism are running rampant, and nationalist, even far-right parties are gaining ground.
Pigs, Calves, and American DemocracyAmidst all the headlines about the Democrats gaining control of the United States Congress in the November elections, one big election result was largely ignored.
Similarly, African-American leaders sometimes joke wryly about gaining the reins of municipal power just when a city is about to go bankrupt.
On the contrary, it would compel member states’ governments to look beyond narrow national interest, defend openness and multilateralism, and confront head-on the exclusionary political forces that have lately been gaining ground.
The result could be higher wages that contribute to the creation of more new jobs – 300-365 million worldwide – as spending increases, with emerging economies gaining the most.
Despite gaining some 12-13% of the overall vote, its representation in the House of Commons has been halved – to just a single MP.
Appointing an Iraqi tribunal capable of generating some form of legal accountability for Saddam and his henchmen--an idea that is gaining ground among Bremer's staff, at least for Saddam Hussein if he is captured alive--is unrealistic.
Of course, the rich are getting richer (a lot richer!), but low-income groups are gaining ground, too.
Proponents of a different strategy (Presidents Juan Manuel Santos and Otto Peréz Molina of Colombia and Guatemala, respectively, among others), based on public-health premises and legalization, are gaining ground.
For example, powerful groups and transnational corporations (such as the World Economic Forum, General Electric, and Rio Tinto) are gaining influence within the G-20, the G-7, and the BRICS, whose members compete among themselves for access to resources and markets.
Ironically, the political backlash against globalization is gaining momentum in many places even as digitization increases the opportunities and economic benefits that globalization has to offer.
When you are hanging over an abyss, as the global financial system has been in the past few weeks, then gaining solid ground, even if only temporarily, makes a big difference.
With an increasing number of Germans losing confidence in a European solution to the ongoing refugee crisis, calls for German isolation and unilateralism are growing louder – and far-right political forces are gaining traction.
But on the middle chessboard, economic power is already multi-polar, with the US, Europe, Japan and China as the major players, and others gaining in importance.
Conversely, Australia appears to be the only country with less than 50 million inhabitants gaining more than 3% of the medals at a Summer Olympic Games.
The Chinese are steadily gaining influence in Africa, not with bombers, but with money.
The Right Question About Inequality and GrowthCAMBRIDGE – The belief that inequality hurts economic growth is gaining currency among policymakers.
They learned to speak the language of democracy, gaining money and influence in the process and enlisting independent organizations to defend their rights and privileges.
Palestine’s Necessary Civil WarRegardless of the latest hastily negotiated truce, the battle between nationalist Fatah and Islamist Hamas seems to be gaining intensity.
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