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In order to secure power in the most turbulent months of his political career, Berlusconi obtained the support of many MPs through patronage, publicly attacked his prosecutors, and tried to water down the emergency budget adopted in July in order to benefit his own companies.
They obtained new knowledge of how to manipulate and intervene in natural processes.
But the EPP obtained two more MEPs than the S&D, which implies a per seat cost of roughly 26,000 votes.
Juncker came out ahead in the MEP count for only one reason: he obtained his votes in small countries, and votes are de facto weighted by country size.
The S&D obtained more votes, giving its Spitzenkandidat, Martin Schulz, a claim to greater democratic legitimacy.
The convening of a special conference under SCO auspices in March 2009 further confirmed the unique status Afghanistan has obtained.
In May 2008, China obtained a major economic stake in Afghanistan when Chinese firms won a $3.5 billion contract to develop Afghanistan’s huge Aynak copper field.
During the negotiations with EU leaders ahead of the referendum, British Prime Minister David Cameron obtained an opt-out clause in the case of a decision to move toward ever-closer union.
Instead the AKP obtained its landslide victory – a major achievement after 13 years of uninterrupted rule – by siphoning voters from its competitors.
It’s not yet clear how Michael Wolff, the book’s controversial author, obtained some of his information, but it must be assumed that he taped many of his interviews, particularly those used for the long conversations found throughout the book.
Even if China agreed to buy the debt, it would likely consider buying some of the special paper that the EFSF plans to issue only if it obtained some political concessions and an implicit guarantee from Germany.
Ariel Sharon and Menachem Begin went all the way to Beirut in the early 1980’s, paying a terrible and bloody price, to try to eliminate the PLO – a result that could never be obtained.
Even worse, many people who, as recently as a few years ago, would have easily obtained permission to study, work, or visit relatives in Europe are being denied visas simply because of their refugee status.
Most importantly, the terms that Paulson got for the capital provided to America’s banks were far worse than those obtained by British Prime Minister Gordon Brown (not to mention those that Warren Buffett got for putting far less into America’s soundest investment bank, Goldman Sachs).
The benefits of cross-border consolidation are that market power is diluted in a large market, and more diversification is obtained, though these gains come at the price of weakened cost synergies.
Indeed, a DPJ member of the Diet was able to pose pointed questions to Abe and his ministers because he had obtained detailed information from an unidentified Social Security Agency official.
Under the rules governing these transactions, the fact that no emissions were actually cut does not matter; what is important is that the tradable permission to pollute has been obtained.
In today’s information-based world, selection is effective only if a striking appearance is obtained at a very high price – and that price is known.
But LGIVs obtained a massive amount of financing in 2012 by issuing bonds and trust loans.
The benefits obtained by Poland from its geopolitical repositioning were impressive, even more so when its macroeconomic data are compared with those of a country like Ukraine, which followed a very different path after communism’s collapse.
In many cases, large borrowers have obtained their loans by deceiving the lenders or using political connections, as former Indonesian President Suharto’s cronies famously did.
To establish a new institutional dynamic in the Maghreb, three elements are needed: active engagement of the Maghreb states, who should be the initiative’s protagonists; determined EU support, which could be obtained only with the mediation of the Union’s Mediterranean members; and political backing from the US.
Friendly foreign governments, especially in Europe, can also be held responsible: although they knew about the torture, and took advantage of the information thus obtained, at no point have they expressed the slightest protest, or even signal their disapproval.
Once those parties obtained a majority in the following elections, however, they rushed to pass laws that revoked whatever powers had been granted.
In some areas, this can be obtained through boreholes that tap underground aquifers.
If those who hold wealth are seen as having obtained it in ways that lack legitimacy, no legal system can make property secure.
Liberia obtained its debt write-off by initiating profound changes in its governance and economic management in order to provide the institutional capability to manage debt prudently and spend resources wisely in the future.
It comes after a series of recent blows to that regime, including: reports that China may be planning to expand and modernize its strategic nuclear arsenal by using information obtained through spying on America; second, the successful test by the US a few weeks ago of a prototype national missile defense (NMD) system; third, reports that India and Pakistan are proceeding to "weaponize" their nuclear arsenals (meaning that the intend to mate their bombs with delivery vehicles); fourth, the recommendation to the Indian government that it create forces to sustain a policy of nuclear deterrence; and, fifth, the takeover of Pakistan by armed forces favoring a hardline with India.
China adds that if the US deploys anti-nuclear defenses in Asia to protect Taiwan and Japan, as America threatens to do, China will have to build up its offense nuclear arsenal -- perhaps making use of information that China obtained from the US through spying.
The Non-Smoking GunMEXICO CITY – Everyone these days, it seems, has their own favorite American diplomatic cable – or will soon – given that the 250,000 documents obtained by WikiLeaks include references to almost every country in the world.
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