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Second, investment, both public and private, remains a powerful growth engine.
Even the most powerful country, the US, has reluctantly yielded to its finding, for instance, that its steel tariffs violated international trade law.
Forging twelve independent, proud, and, in some cases, powerful national central banks into a cohesive collective was no easy task.
Russia’s ability to negotiate its current predicament hinges on its powerful president, Vladimir Putin.
Iran’s large youth population can be a powerful driver of growth.
While many Shia Muslims worship the 12th Imam, a previously secret society of powerful clerics, now openly advising the new president, are transforming these messianic beliefs into government policies.
The Ministry of Information and Security (MOIS), largely sidelined by former President Mohammed Khatami, has re-emerged as a powerful repressive force, using plain-clothes agents, allied with the paramilitary Bassij and non-government vigilantes, to crack down on potential opponents of the regime.
The joint organization of the 2018 World Cup in a place where two peoples were once at war would serve as a powerful symbol of the way that sports can serve the cause of peace.
But, apart from its military strength, the USSR was never really powerful enough to counterbalance US influence.
This constitutes a powerful disincentive for Chad and Cameroon to act against company malfeasance or to defend individuals adversely affected by the project.
This is reflected in the brutal, destructive campaign against climate science by powerful vested interests and ideologues, apparently aimed at creating an atmosphere of ignorance and confusion.
First, there was a hard-money lobby: a substantial number of rich, socially influential, and politically powerful people whose investments were overwhelmingly in bonds.
The Meiji Restoration created a powerful military under the slogan “Enrich the country and strengthen the military.”
Exposing foreigners’ ethical failings and ruthless business practices sends the message that China must remain vigilant, while reinforcing the legitimacy of a powerful, interventionist state, including state-owned enterprises, which have come under increasing fire in recent years.
This creates a powerful incentive for depositors and investors to monitor their bank's performance.
Second, many corporations view CSR as an effective defensive strategy against powerful activist NGOs (such as Greenpeace) that have taken to using online agitation, boycotts, and other means to “blackmail” targeted corporations into acceding to the activists’ demands.
As a rule, they serve the interests of powerful and well-organized special interest groups that are likely to resist any change.
Among those likely to be tried are two of Pol Pot’s closest and most powerful cohorts: Nuon Chea, a Khmer Rouge party leader, and Ieng Sary, the former Deputy Prime Minister for Foreign Affairs.
Some skeptics argue that one man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter, and that treating suppression of terrorism as a global public good is thus merely the hypocrisy of the powerful trying to disarm the weak.
Such behavior is unacceptable whether it is carried out by the powerful or the weak.
Today, some states harbor terrorists in order to attack their enemies or because they are too weak to control powerful groups.
In the long term, Russia does not want to look as though it is dependent on its increasingly powerful southern neighbor.
To be sure, democracy implies limiting the time that the powerful have to exercise their power without challenge.
The reason that the Millennium Development Goals are feasible is that powerful existing technologies give us the tools to make rapid advances in the quality of life and economic productivity of the world’s poor.
Of course, people, at first, love seeing the truth uncovered and powerful wrongdoers punished.
When it finally crumbles, the powerful state built by Bashar’s father, Hafez al-Assad, will hardly exist.
Most notably, eurozone countries have faced powerful asymmetric shocks, to which their lack of independent monetary-policy instruments made it virtually impossible to respond.
Demilitarizing Muslim PoliticsISLAMABAD – Can Muslim governments free themselves from their countries’ powerful militaries and establish civilian control comparable to that found in liberal democracies?
But, after these restrictions were removed in the sixteenth century, and up until their extermination in the nineteenth century, the Janissaries became extremely powerful in Istanbul (and even established their own dynasty in Egypt).
The most extreme transformation of this kind is, of course, the story of God’s favorite angel, Lucifer – a story that has set the context for my psychological investigations into lesser human transformations in response to the corrosive influence of powerful situational forces.
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