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In his Strasbourg speech, Macron set out a potent agenda: the EU must convince its citizens that it deserves their support, by engaging with them directly and offering a compelling narrative that emphasizes the Union’s unwavering commitment to liberal democracy.
The Internet has thus turned out to be less potent than expected in the fight against tyranny.
Xi then posed a potent question: “What has gone wrong with the world?”
Specifically, policymakers must be open and willing to understand the unusual challenges facing the US economy, react accordingly, and possess sufficiently potent policy instruments.
Yet, three years later, the violence and terrorism Sisi pledged to prevent remain a potent reality.
Indeed, continued real-wage growth is forcing inefficient industries that relied solely on cheap labor out of the market, while bolstering the competitiveness of producers that appeal to the evolving tastes of China’s increasingly potent consumers.
That is why the proposed fuel tax hits so close to home, and why the yellow vest has become such a potent and visible symbol.
That ancient sense of the potent power of shame should be employed today, lest the democratic tide continue to run out.
Instead, policymakers should focus on supporting employment and productivity gains – historically the most potent weapons against poverty.
To make Boko Haram appear more potent, its members play up this alleged affiliation, and even claim to have the support of “important” people in the northern part of the country.
When the threat of ballistic missiles from Iran became potent, it built a missile-defense architecture to deter provocation.
To be sure, state actors – in particular, an increasingly assertive Russia – remain a potent threat.
But, though nation-states and their politicians are more constrained than ever before, the records of women like Merkel and Rousseff suggest that individual leaders remain a potent force, for better or worse.
Of course, Al Qaeda-linked jihadist groups like the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), which has become a potent force on the ground, and the Nusra Front will not and should not be represented in Montreux – not least because they will not feel bound by any agreement.
Suboptimal storage conditions – which include, for example, prolonged exposure to sunlight and heat – can cause potent estrogenic activity in bottled water, exposing consumers to chemicals that alter the function of the endocrine system by mimicking the role of the body’s natural hormones.
What Albert Einstein considered a “malignant fantasy” remains a potent force even in united Europe, where regional nationalism and xenophobic nativism have not come close to disappearing.
Despite his murky profile, Putin's most potent claim to fame – and to power – is a dour toughness.
Because of its vast natural heritage, the continent contains some of the most potent solutions to climate change.
For China and South Korea, the Yasukuni Shrine’s inclusion of 14 Class A war criminals who were executed after World War II has made it a potent symbol of Japan’s prewar militarism, and Abe had long refrained from visiting it – including during his previous stint as prime minister.
Fear of radiation, it seems, poses a far more potent health threat than does radiation itself.
The current campaign shows that xenophobia and nostalgia for communism retain an alarmingly potent appeal.
And, unlike business-friendly conservatives, centrists do not think that market competition arises from thin air: it must be fostered through potent anti-monopoly policies.
Every detail, from the number of bicycles and boats needed to deliver the vaccine to otherwise inaccessible areas, to the refrigerators and cold boxes needed to keep the vaccine potent, even the batteries necessary to power them, were counted and budgeted.
A victorious Russia would pose a potent threat to the Baltic states, with their large ethnic Russian populations.
It is this internal weakness that has allowed Putin’s Russia – which, on its own, is far from attractive – to emerge as a potent rival to the EU.
John Paul II demonstrated that moral force was a weapon potent enough to undo Yalta's division of the world.
By contrast, a genuinely repressive iron hand would be far likelier to spur a more potent democratic resistance.
One lesson than can be drawn from these data is the potential value of social media, which, despite being constrained in many countries during elections, remains a potent tool to facilitate youth political engagement.
This is because the animal sector is responsible for a third of all anthropogenic methane and two-thirds of nitrous oxide emissions – both potent greenhouse gases that trap more heat than carbon dioxide.
Instead, race and caste remain as potent as ever.
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