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Reputation has always mattered in world politics, but credibility has become crucial because of a “paradox of plenty.”
That success mattered far more than Singh’s flaws.
As an innovator said to me amid the financial crisis, his objective was to take over a market – it mattered little that the targeted market was only 90% of its former size.
It was success that mattered, not relative success (would anyone want to be the sole achiever?).
And the process may have mattered more than the success.
Or perhaps something like the “bipolar hegemony” of Great Britain and Russia after 1815 (though other players like Austria, Prussia, and France mattered) could be reconstituted, with the US and China substituting for Great Britain and Russia.
But her experience mattered, and Alexievich recognized that.
A new Pan-European security alliance was conceived as a replacement, with the more naive among us believing that, in the new era in which all are democrats, security alliances no longer mattered.
What mattered was not a company's long-term strength but its short-term appearance.
The pressure that has always mattered most for the Assad regime is that capable of being applied by Russia.
While it would not matter much to any individual bank whether it did so by reducing its loan portfolio or by raising its capital, it mattered very much to the economy that the banks chose the second.
Although there were 44 participating countries, only two really mattered, the United Kingdom and, above all, the United States.
I was attempting to explain why the rule of law mattered so much to the territory's future, and I noted that when I was in the British government, the law applied to me just as much as to those I helped govern.
One of the most tragic aspects of the whole story, just now emerging, is the failure of UN officials on the ground to publicize at the time, when it really mattered, credible information that would have undercut the government’s narrative.
His aggression has dispelled whatever doubts had existed as to whether the transatlantic bond still mattered.
Interpretation of the election has been influenced by exit polls in which voters were asked (after they voted) about which issues mattered most to them.
Only the power bureaucracy mattered.
And what Fannie Mae did later in the decade mattered very much.
But the flows that mattered were not the net flows of capital from the rest of the world that financed America’s current-account deficit.
On foreign policy, at least, Russia’s former president, Dmitri Medvedev, mattered more than is commonly understood.
Although The Hite Report initially spurred great controversy, in the end it was broadly accepted that women’s pleasure and sexual well-being mattered and deserved respectful inquiry.
Nothing else really mattered.
But, even back then, what mattered was the amount of gold you owned – not where it was actually stored.
In Argentina and Venezuela, what plausibly mattered most in the end was voters’ desire to live in what one might call a normal country.
Anglosphere connections mattered a lot for Australians and others in the days before the UK joined the European Common Market.
Berlin is not sleepy Bonn, and the world of the 24-news cycle is not the same as the clubby atmosphere of the old Federal Republic, where only the opinion of one or two newspapers mattered.
In defense of Khrushchev (my great-grandfather), whether Crimea was part of Russia or Ukraine hardly mattered.
Indeed, an astounding 87% of Indians polled said that they did not think the election mattered to them.
Images likely mattered more.
It was structural change that mattered, not international trade per se.
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