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What these newly influential voters want is clear: less immigration, crackdowns on crime, more economic opportunities, but also more protection against economic risk and international competition.
Gul, for example, complained to the police about her abusive in-laws, but she was returned to the family when some of their influential contacts intervened.
His hugely influential “dependency” theory argued that if poor countries relied too much on commodity exports, they would never achieve the industrial depth needed to sustain rapid growth.
It counts influential Silicon Valley firms such as Sequoia Capital, Northgate Capital, and Comcast Ventures as investors.
During Kenya’s democracy movement in the 1990s, one of the most influential was Wahome Mutahi, a humorist who skirted state control to parody the authoritarian president, Daniel Toroitich arap Moi.
It's not too late to create a programming, software and information-based industry capable of competing at the leading edge of what may well turn out to be the 21st Century's most exciting, profitable and influential, industrial and cultural sector.
As the threat of climate change grows increasingly menacing, influential institutions like the WHC must take a stand against the toxic and insidious legacy of dependence on coal and other fossil fuels.
Iran is now the most influential regional power in Syria, as it is in Iraq and Lebanon.
They reject the view that ethics is optional, even though some influential professors, like René Frydman, who helped to create the first French IVF baby, have warned that France will fall behind in the science race unless it abandons its principles.
As the Sunni world’s most influential country, Saudi Arabia knows that it must do what it takes to limit Iran.
A number of developing countries – notably India, China, Chile, Cuba, Lebanon, and Panama – played an active and influential part in drafting the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
So far, that friend has been America, but the US could well pull out of Pakistan for the fourth time in the countries’ turbulent relationship – a threat that several influential figures in the US Congress have already made.
Today’s Israeli and Palestinian leaders are far weaker than their predecessors;Hamas controls Gaza;Iran is more influential; additional settlements and a fence have been built; and the US is bogged down in Iraq and has lost standing throughout the region.
An influential Moscow think tank called Niccolo M. advises the Kremlin on policies like offensive military communication technologies and hybrid warfare.
But to restore the UN’s standing and influence to the level it attained under Annan will require stronger support from Europe – in particular, France and Germany – alongside at least two other influential liberal democracies, perhaps Canada to represent North America and Japan to represent Asia.
But far more influential may have been the change of heart that took place among French Socialists following the collapse of their experiment in Keynesian reflation in the early 1980’s.
Likewise, influential groups such as Hamas, the legitimate winner of the Palestinian elections, cannot be eliminated by military force, however powerful, nor exorcised by decree.
An influential 1933 study of the Austrian town of Marienthal by the sociologist Paul Lazarsfeld painted this dismal picture in detail.
But what Europe really needs is the kind of honest assessment and tough love that the Fund has traditionally offered to its other, less politically influential, clients.
Influential developing countries share a joint responsibility with the G-8 for the stability of the global financial and economic systems.
Clearly, influential Tea Party supporters would strongly resist any attempt now by Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke to find unorthodox ways to run a more expansionary monetary policy.
Otherwise, they compete to become bureaucrats at the most influential ministries – for example, finance, economy, or foreign affairs – or they try to get on the fast track to the top of elite firms like Toyota or Sony.
In a bid to retain its international authority – and to prevent an increasingly influential China from setting new standards for international trade – the EU has been pursuing an ambitious trade and investment agreement with the US.
In his influential 1998 book Inflation Targeting, Ben Bernanke and his co-authors advised policymakers to announce a target inflation rate because it “communicates the central bank’s intentions,” which would “reduce uncertainty.”
By this measure, the biggest NGO's have become established players in the battle for the attention of influential editors.
The result is that EU policy proposals that could do much to advance the economic and geopolitical interests of Europeans are not as influential as they could be.
Given their growing role in the global economy, it is understandable that larger Latin American countries, along with the other BRICS, are seeking a more influential world role.
Housing versus HabitatCAMBRIDGE – Peter Drucker, the influential management guru, famously said, “What does not get measured, does not get done.”
Well-informed nonpartisan outsiders are increasingly well organized and influential, particularly when they can work closely with pro-reform officials.
The local stock market’s fall immediately after Humala’s victory is a clear sign that the most influential forces in the Peruvian economy will continue to press for deeds, not promises – deeds that benefit their interests, of course.
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