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Some educated people, however, emboldened by the satellite network al-Jazeera and its likes, seem poised to step beyond the current limits of toleration.
Africa is poised to establish its own human rights tribunal, fifty years after Europe, 25 years after the Americas, and two years after the International Criminal Court.
True, against all odds and historical logic, Europe seems poised to maintain the leadership of the IMF.
Expansion and Democracy in EuropeEurope is poised on the rim of two nearly revolutionary undertakings: eastward expansion and the possibility of a draft constitution for the European Union.
With more than 450 million workers poised to enter the labor market by 2035, most African economies will need to innovate to stay strong; one of the best ways to do that is with “greener” growth.
The Struggle for Secularism, Then and NowIt is a strange irony that France is poised to celebrate the centenary of the law of December 9, 1905, that separated church and state at the very moment disorders have been roiling its cities.
In exchange for more bilateral and multilateral financing, Russia now faces growing US military bases on its southern flank in Central Asia and the Caucasus, while NATO is poised to expand right up to our Western border.
Call me a “growth optimist”, but Europe looks poised for another good growth year in 2007.
But falling share prices should not blind us to the fact that on top of the ongoing information revolution, three fresh waves of revolutionary technology are poised to hit: bio-technology (including new medical technologies and genetic engineering, such as the creation of human embryos through cloning), nanotechnology, and robotics.
With the help of sound policies, we are poised as a modern society to win the future.
Iran's Election SurpriseWASHINGTON D.C.: Iran’s revolution is poised to enter a new phase when, later this summer, former minister of culture Mohammed Khatami (who won a stunning upset on May 23 over the heavily favored speaker of parliament) becomes the country’s fifth president.
Britain may now be poised to do so once again.
So, not surprisingly, they have provoked excitement in some circles that the US may finally be poised to leave behind the depressing trio of unusually sluggish growth, persistently high unemployment, and high and growing inequality.
The Western Pacific is thus poised to become the world’s new center of naval activity, with China and the US locked in a strategic tug of war.
The test is not whether traces of those weapons remain, as such traces will be found at disposal sites, but whether those weapons were poised for use in threatening amounts.
If compelling evidence proves that weapons of mass destruction were at hand; that they were poised for use on a threatening scale; that the UN inspectors had poor prospects of uncovering and dismantling those weapons, then we must acknowledge the arguments made by Bush and Blair.
Turkey, for example, is poised to attack the Kurdish enclave in Iraq’s north.
The China Factor in Kenya and ZimbabweBEIJING – Ask anyone with a basic knowledge of Africa which country is more poised for success – Zimbabwe or Kenya – and he or she will undoubtedly answer “Kenya.”
Poles, who lost nearly all their patriotic ideas over the past decade, now seem poised to rediscover their national identity solely on a negative basis forged by our peasants.
In November, the man who once seemed poised to succeed Bernanke, Larry Summers, suggested that the US economy might be in the grip of “secular stagnation.”
But, however fundamental the current differences might be, it is the underlying suspicion that Obama is poised to shift America away from its unique relationship with the Jewish state that most worries Israelis.
But they are poised to become the most capable and competitive original equipment manufacturers--producers of goods sold under other brand names-- that the world has ever seen.
Within Ukraine, a government capable of truly governing should seek to adopt EU laws and norms in exactly the manner that the countries poised to join the Union have done, thus helping to clean up the murky system in which Kuchma's criminal cronies flourish.
But it is China that is now poised to exploit much of these resources.
Are monetary policymakers poised to break the world again?
Having suffered a deeper economic collapse in 2009 than the United States did, Europe’s economy is poised for a much more sluggish recovery – if one can call it that.
If not, is that because 11 out of the 14 governments today are socialist/social-democrats, and jumped to help out when fellow Austrian socialists were poised to lose power?
Until recently, China, in many people’s view, was poised to assume global leadership, if it hadn’t done so already.
The Lebanese LabyrinthLebanon is poised to hold a presidential election that none of its contending factions – indeed, none of the rival parties in the region – can afford to lose.
Against this background, mega-PTAs seem poised to re-shape world trade.
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