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This stagnation in policymaking has been heavily criticized by the media and the influential Wirtschaftsrat (Economic Council), an association of entrepreneurs who sympathize with the CDU.
Now, as the largest and most influential member of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), Indonesia must leverage its newly acquired strength to confront the challenges facing it and its regional partners, while avoiding foreign-policy recklessness.
Women’s participation, moreover, is skewed toward positions in less influential areas like shared services, in which opportunities for promotion to top positions are limited.
But the world can be confident that the US will remain stronger, wealthier, and more influential in global affairs than China even in 2030.
The African Centre for Technology Studies in Nairobi is influential internationally and already plays an important policy research and capacity-strengthening role.
Frank Gaffney, an influential figure in Trump’s ethnic nationalist circles, spoke of Muslims as “termites,” who “hollow out the structure of the civil society and other institutions.”
While no one yet knows the national plutocrats’ names, I believe that they are new, influential players in or associated with the Kremlin, and that they have now become bold enough to challenge both Putin and Medvedev.
A number of influential Swedish intellectuals and politicians have directed their harshest criticism against Vilks, not against those who have called for censorship and even incited violence.
What the stolen emails revealed was a group of the world’s most influential climatologists arguing, brainstorming, and plotting together to enforce what amounts to a party line on climate change.
And, in terms of soft power, India has an established democracy, an influential diaspora, and a vibrant popular culture with transnational influence.
It is also the home of Boeing and Intel, Google and Apple, Microsoft and MTV, Hollywood and Disneyland, McDonald’s and Starbucks – in short, some of the most recognizable and influential brands and industries in the world.
Most recently, concerns have focused on the treatment of some of the leaders of Hong Kong’s 2014 pro-democracy demonstrations: three of the city’s most influential activists were sentenced to up to eight months in prison for their activities, and have been prohibited from seeking public office for five years.
The United Kingdom, for example, is leaving the European Union, but may want to maintain a European continental partnership, as described by a group of influential Europeans.
He recognizes that shared sovereignty will make Europe more influential, thereby empowering its citizens.
A genuine and inclusive process will require engaging with the whole spectrum of Afghan civil society, including rights organizations, women’s groups, the clergy, public intellectuals, and influential tribal networks.
Reforming Economic ReformEconomists have been more influential over the last 15 years than at probably any other time in history.
But some highly influential Republicans on the House Financial Services Committee have attacked the OLA relentlessly, arguing that it represents a government bailout-in-waiting.
Far from producing the outcome that they feared in 2003, Bush’s wars in the Middle East left Iran as the most influential actor in Iraq.
In profiling Lee for Time magazine’s 2010 list of the world’s 100 most influential people, Kissinger observed: “There is no better strategic thinker.”
As influential as Stiglitz’s research has been, this remains an area where much more work can be done.
America’s influential Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) also was established under Nixon.
Big banks became particularly influential not just through their financial clout, but also through their control of key policymaking positions in Democratic administrations.
In proclaiming his mastery of the lingua franca of global affairs, Hollande was asserting himself as a modern statesman, while also suggesting that France will remain as influential as possible on the international scene.
Some influential supporters argue plug-in hybrids, battery-powered vehicles, and biodiesel cars are closer to market, and that they are better, less costly technologies than hydrogen and fuel cell cars.
Europe, Japan, and (to a much lesser extent) the US, were simply unwilling to face down their small but influential farm lobbies.
Former Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke, among others, has offered influential support for “helicopter drops” to revive flagging economies.
The naive part of this plan is the assumption that MPs from Milosevic's Socialist Party, the Yugoslav United Left (the small but influential party of Mrs. Milosevic) and Vojislav Seselj's ultra-nationalist Radical Party, would vote against their government and for a new one from which they could not benefit.
Having secured support from several influential evangelical leaders, Bolsonaro also supports religious interference in public life.
The 2015 AHDR shared similar themes with its 2002 precursor, but this time we engaged more directly with influential Arab youth to compile the best data possible, and to put a spotlight on the effects of the wars engulfing the region.
In both Korea and Japan, large firms’ entry into the service sector is impeded by restrictive regulation, for which small producers are an influential lobby.
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