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But it would also make a grand statement, and Putin thrives on grand statements.
In a mere 13 years, Putin’s regime, with its grand ideological style, has passed through all of the stages of Soviet history, becoming a vulgar parody of each.
We have written a memo that spells out some of the essential elements of what a grand bargain for peace in Sudan could look like.
Together, the allies can improve global prospects for nuclear nonproliferation, but only if they hammer out a grand bargain that accounts for South Korea’s current – and future – security concerns.
In Egypt, Mubarak turned his back on the lofty rhetoric of Gamal Abdel-Nasser’s revolution and its grand strategic designs.
When a grand coalition is threatened, its members tend to panic.
Equally significant, China has lost the battle in the arena of public opinion – chastised by Western policymakers, a few high-profile academics, and others for having failed to live up to the grand bargain struck in 2001, when the country was admitted to the World Trade Organization.
But, no sooner was Qutb the intellectual executed than Qutb the grand martyr was born.
The best-known examples of such grand new cities are planned capitals, typically built near countries’ geographic center.
Schuman was France’s foreign minister in May 1950, facing grand strategic questions on the organization of European and Atlantic cooperation.
Their claim to be "always representing the progressive direction of advanced culture" is yet another grand and empty declaration.
China’s government has grand plans for the country’s future as a digital world power.
The two parties’ “grand coalition,” according to recent polls, is grand in name only.
European integration cannot continue without a grand bargain between the two groups.
For a grand bargain with the US, Iran needs to end its support for militant organizations like Hamas or Palestinian Islamic Jihad which undermine efforts at reaching a two-state solution for Israel and Palestine.
Lottery officials in Shaanxi province rejected a winning ticket, calling it a fake and denying its bearer, a 17-year-old security guard named Liu Liang, the grand prize of a $58,000 BMW and 120,000 yuan ($14,510) in cash.
Currently, a three-pronged strategy can be discerned for the “what”: knowledge for growth (economic recovery and prosperity); knowledge for society (tackling the grand challenges ahead, from climate change and energy security to healthy aging); and knowledge for science (nurturing Europe’s science and technology base, which remains indispensible for innovation).
Such reforms require a grand bargain between America’s political parties, which in turn presupposes visionary leadership by both of them.
German fiscal policy could soon look very different from the zero-deficit bias that prevailed under the grand coalition that governed from 2005 until 2009.
The grand coalition envisions abolishing this tax for everyone except the top 10% of earners, who generate more than half of the revenue from it.
For a magical evening, a holy sacrament re connects them with the grand bourgeois of 19th century Paris or Vienna, establishing a mystical bond that transcends everyday life.
Deng Xiaoping, "the grand architect" of China's economic reforms, encouraged his people "to seek truth from facts."
In the two months since the book’s publication in English, many an essay has been penned claiming that the Paris School of Economics professor’s grand oeuvre confirms earlier claims (usually the author’s own) about the perils of inequality in Latin America.
Piketty weaves a grand narrative about the dynamics of capital accumulation in a market economy.
But Kennan was also among the key architects of another US grand strategy: the “dominance and discipline” approach toward Latin America.
The two main parties, the Social Democrats (SPD) and the Christian Democratic Union (CDU), along with its Bavarian sister party, the Christian Social Union (CSU), were punished at the ballot box, after having governed as a grand coalition under Chancellor Angela Merkel for the past four years.
All told, the election was a landslide against Merkel’s grand coalition.
With the SPD refusing to participate in a grand coalition, the only mathematically viable option that remains is a “Jamaica” alliance – named for Jamaica’s black, yellow, and green flag – comprising the CDU/CSU, the liberal Free Democrats, and the Greens.
In recent German state elections, Merkel’s Christian Democratic Union and its government partner, the Social Democratic Party, experienced notable losses, which could mean that Germany’s grand coalition is at risk ahead of next year’s election.
Instead of being viewed as a fire sale to fill fiscal holes, privatization would be part of a grand public-private partnership for development.
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