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During the 2004 hurricane season, Haiti and the Dominican Republic, both occupying the same island, provided a
powerful
lesson.
Centuries before Wilders arrived on the scene, and just a few decades after Voet was fulminating against a Jewish presence in the Dutch Republic, the Dutch-born philosopher Baruch Spinoza – himself of Portuguese-Jewish background – was composing a
powerful
set of arguments against a politics of fear.
So, while powerful, “hegemonic” countries like the US managed to impose their own rules on weaker partners in the PTAs that they helped to proliferate, big emerging economies like India, Brazil, China, and South Africa insisted on rejecting such demands when made as part of multilateral trade rounds like Doha.
As a result, governments can claim a
powerful
legitimacy in embarking on reform efforts.
But, although the government is trying to take some of the air out of the market, the authorities cannot easily take the more aggressive action that is required, because Chinese officials and other elites store so much of their wealth in real estate, which also comprises much of the collateral of state-connected banks, Similarly, although state-owned enterprises are sucking too much oxygen out of China’s economy, reforming them would require taking on China’s most
powerful
business and government leaders.
For example, ten years of studies of the possible health effects of a class of carbon-based nanomaterials known as fullerenes report that the soccer-ball-shaped fullerene molecules known as “buckyballs,” are
powerful
antioxidants, comparable in strength to vitamin E. Other studies report that some types of buckyballs can be toxic to tumor cells.
Some major businesses are providing
powerful
examples of what is possible.
Powerful
interests will, of course, oppose any low-carbon transition, dismissing and often drowning out those who stand to benefit.
In Iran, apart from senior commanders, who were either killed or fled the country, the Shah’s powerful, staunchly secular army switched sides to Khomeini’s revolutionary government virtually overnight.
But an uncomfortable question lingers: How is it possible for the world’s most
powerful
country and its oldest continuous democracy to exhibit a state of political discourse that is more reminiscent of a failed African state?
The United States, Europe’s closest and most
powerful
ally – a crucial security partner and bearer of shared values – is now headed in a very different direction, and threatening to leave a shaken and divided Europe alone in a harsh world eager to tear it apart.
Donald Trump’s Climate FantasiesNEW YORK – Legend holds that King Canute brought his flatterers to the sea to show them that even a king could not command the ocean waves, that the laws of nature are more
powerful
than the decrees of men.
At the same time, successive EU enlargements over the decades have brought in other
powerful
contenders, chiefly Spain and the UK, as well as smaller countries who are unwilling to bow before French-German leadership.
Indeed, Havel’s greatest defeat may be that most Czechs now view their country as a place where political parties serve as agents of
powerful
economic groups (many of them created by the often-corrupt privatization process overseen by Klaus).
Nearly 31 years ago, on 25th December 1974, a
powerful
earthquake flattened towns along the Karakorum Highway and killed nearly 10,000 people.
Poor countries are typically at a huge disadvantage in bargaining with big multinational lenders, which are usually backed by
powerful
home-country governments.
Our histories of oppression by
powerful
neighbours told us that collective security within NATO was the only real option.
They are bankers, lawyers, businessmen, and railroad builders, often representing the interests of
powerful
figures in the big cities on the East Coast.
Beyond the amped-up military and the
powerful
security services, there is now the National Guard of the Russian Federation, or Rosgvardiya, a contingent of some 340,000 personnel created by Putin in 2016 that answers directly to him.
The rich and
powerful
nations often declare their leadership in the world.
Let us pledge that the rich and
powerful
should take real actions to help the poor, the weak, and the suffering.
A
powerful
factor that diminished perceived risk and encouraged investment and enterprise in the post-WWII era was the so-called “Roosevelt put.”
Tahoun analyzed the relationship between stock owned by congressmen and contributions their political campaigns by the relevant firms, and found a
powerful
positive association.
The Mirage of the Financial SingularityNEW HAVEN – In their new book The Incredible Shrinking Alpha, Larry E. Swedroe and Andrew L. Berkin describe an investment environment populated by increasingly sophisticated analysts who rely on big data,
powerful
computers, and scholarly research.
By supporting further consolidation of large-scale monocultures in the hands of the most
powerful
economic actors, we risk widening further the gap with small-scale, family farming, while pushing a model of industrial farming that is already responsible for one-third of man-made greenhouse-gas emissions today.
With ever more
powerful
processors, silicon chess players developed the ability to calculate so far ahead that the distinction between short-term tactical calculations and long-term strategic planning became blurred.
It is increasingly powerful, globally pro-active, and economically robust.
But Latin America’s
powerful
transnational criminal movements, such as the gangs in Mexico that control much of the drug trafficking into the US, do not want to jeopardize their profits by associating themselves with al-Qaeda and its affiliates.
The ugly facts have been apparent for a while, but people cannot abandon one mental framework unless another one can take its place: in the end, beautiful old theories are killed only by newer, more
powerful
theories.
In Europe and beyond, GMOs became emblematic of the
powerful
economic fears that globalization inspires.
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