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While Europe has grown and prospered since 1945, it has not regained the global leadership status its major countries once possessed.
That era of strategic rivalry between the United States and the Soviet Union gave way to one in which the US possessed far greater power than any other country and enjoyed an unprecedented degree of influence.
It was a miscalculation comparable to that of his predecessor, George W. Bush, who launched an invasion of Iraq on the erroneous assumptions not only that Saddam Hussein possessed weapons of mass destruction, but also – and more important – that post-Saddam Iraq would quickly become a stable democracy.
The dossier by former British spy Christopher Steele about US President Donald Trump’s activities in Moscow some years ago may turn out to be as credible as the claims that Saddam Hussein possessed weapons of mass destruction – or it may not.
Murder UnincorporatedNEW YORK – What possessed the young French Muslim Mohammed Merah to murder three Jewish schoolchildren, a rabbi, and three soldiers, two of them fellow Muslims?
What possessed another man, Anders Breivik, to gun down more than 60 teenagers in a Norwegian summer camp last year?
It’s almost as if China possessed a cure for the bubonic plague in the 14th century, but decided to stand by and watch as Europe succumbed to the Black Death.
But neither country yet ranks high on the various indices of potential soft-power resources that are possessed by the US, Europe, and Japan.
Indeed, he possessed that rare clarity of moral vision that prison – perhaps like no other environment – can nurture.
Russia at the outset of the reform process possessed a strong group of economic reformers; too few in Ukraine understood the need for radical economic reform.
The First and Second Party Congresses had only a few dozen representatives, who possessed the power to question the party's highest officials.
Their belief in the superiority of literal interpretations of Islamic texts and their deep animosity towards religious innovation (broadly defined) reflect their certainty that the first three generations of Muslims possessed the best understanding of Islam, and should provide guidance for future generations.
In Indian culture, the gold possessed by a household’s women has often been seen as a guarantee of the family’s honor; surrendering the nation’s gold to foreigners was a national humiliation that the old protectionism could not survive.
We know that Iraq at one time possessed chemical and biological weapons, because the US sold them to Iraq.
This is an election year in the US: if President Barack Obama had nominated a lamppost, America’s “newspaper of record” would have found it to be possessed of excellent credentials.
When the Republic replaced the monarchy for good, in 1875, ballots replaced birthright, but the new governing elite believed that it possessed the same rights and perks as the former aristocrats.
The regime that possessed every fathomable tool of power and controlled both the media and the entire economy began to crumble like a house of cards in the face of a peacefully, yet resolutely expressed will of the people.
But for the last three centuries, China has had no global maritime strategy, nor has it possessed – or sought to possess – naval forces capable of supporting such a strategy.
This failure apparently stemmed from the belief – long since proven wrong, certainly in the case of uranium – that the only states ever likely to possess that technical capability already possessed nuclear weapons, or (like Germany) were totally committed never to acquire them.
Perhaps their successful rescue of the banking system also misled some central bankers into believing that they possessed the Midas touch.
Moreover, the USSR possessed nearly half of the world’s nuclear weapons, had more men under arms than the US, and had the most people employed in research and development.
It possessed no relevant intelligence.
Kohl possessed most of the talents of a successful politician: ambition, ruthlessness, tenacity, tactical skills, and a sense for the minds of ordinary people.
Baker's mission possessed the unlimited backing of a US faced with the gargantuan cost of reconstructing Iraq;Jubilee 2000 had only world opinion behind it.
More than one hundred years ago, vast colonies, possessed mainly by the Western powers, stretched across the world.
After all, Europe before WWII possessed the nastiest politics on earth: rioting right-wing mobs in France, general strikes in Britain, civil war in Spain, fascism in Italy, and the Nazis' vicious consolidation of power in Germany.
While Bush was later faulted when inspectors failed to find WMDs, the view that Saddam possessed them was widely shared by other countries.
Archaeological remains indicate that prior to this separation, Tasmanian and mainland populations possessed the same skills – such as fire-making – and technologies, including the boomerang, spear-thrower, and polished-stone and bone tools.
Not only had they been unable to develop new skills and technologies; they had also stopped using some of those they had previously possessed.
And several subsequent Israeli prime ministers, including the incumbent, Binyamin Netanyahu, possessed the hardline credentials to make a deal with the Palestinians, in the sense that the anti-communist Richard Nixon could broker the US breakthrough with China a half-century ago.
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