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A plurality of civic associations and activities – regulated but not controlled by the state, and free to express its views and even to demonstrate its (diverse) sentiments publicly – is the most
powerful
pillar of a liberal order.
The 1970’s were a transition period to the Age of Reagan – 30 years of conservative politics led by
powerful
corporate interests.
If America realizes these bold steps through purposeful public policies, as Obama outlined, the innovative science, new technology, and
powerful
demonstration effects that result will benefit countries around the world.
Vested interests remain powerful, certainly in Congress – and even within the White House.
Even so, America remains by far the world’s most
powerful
country; its decline has more to do with its incompetent use of power than with the emergence of competitors.
In particular, the diverse and dynamic Silicon Valley, where many tech leaders and thinkers are immigrants themselves, is a
powerful
engine of innovation for our company.
They are just not
powerful
enough to justify spending billions of dollars for laser weapon systems the size of football fields.
Israel’s shift in policy towards Syria, and that of French President Nicolas Sarkozy, was a
powerful
message to the Americans that they should not miss the Lebanese train as well.
They showed that the Kremlin cannot reduce a new and
powerful
social trend – memorialized by countless Web sites, blogs, and online archives – to “isolated outbursts” fomented by “foreign agents.”
It could be that these
powerful
emotional states increase the propensity of the brain to produce corresponding verbal "messages."
Instead of cementing Poland’s strategic importance to NATO and its rightful place as a powerful, respected EU member state, the PiS has become obsessed with reversing modernity.
But any reforms they might attempt would necessarily threaten
powerful
entrenched interests, and thus destabilize the existing balance of power.
This could amount to a
powerful
refutation of the tactic, adopted by countries like Italy, of aggressively confronting the EU authorities.
While the real GDP growth rate stated in the 12th Five-Year Plan should not be viewed as a fait accompli, the fact that the Plan’s growth rate was lowered to 7% is a
powerful
signal of official intent.
In poor countries, by contrast,
powerful
vested interests often resist higher taxes on the wealthy, and widespread poverty makes it difficult to impose universal consumption taxes on the poor.
There are many reasons why this won't happen, the most
powerful
being the end of Britain's equity boom and the consequent loss of revenue from taxes on the sale of stocks.
But the overall message is clear: Putin answers to no rules, and there are no limits to the reach or ruthlessness of his retribution, no matter how
powerful
in Russia a person may once have been.
Since Deng’s final years in power, in the late 1980s, a form of collective leadership within the Communist Party has ruled China, with the same unwritten conventions protecting the most
powerful
from retribution.
In the US, this sentiment has fueled the Tea Party, which coalesces around opposition to government expansion (and to elites more generally), even if that expansion is aimed at regulating big banks (presumably because government regulations tend to be shaped by the
powerful
among the regulated).
But the tendency to apply old labels remains strong, so that everyday we hear gross simplifications like the current one that holds that Latin America is now undergoing a
powerful
leftist wave.
And Pakistan’s strategy of “bleeding India to death by a thousand cuts” through insurgency and terrorism has accomplished little, while making its military an enormously
powerful
domestic player and spawning terror outfits (some of which have turned against their sponsors).
Because life is social to the core, disconnecting people from the networks we all use to survive and thrive can be a
powerful
punishment – and can be meted out in a decentralized way.
ISIL’s ransom demand was not just a bid for cash; it sent a
powerful
message.
It is that we need to reinvent it for a new century in which the forces of economic globalization are much more
powerful
than before.
Now, with many Europeans blaming the EU for painful austerity measures, that complaint has grown more
powerful
– and Europe’s political leaders believe that they must act now to address it.
For me, however, legalization of Solidarity was fundamental;I firmly believed that the sphere of freedom that we could wrest from the government would be real only if it was protected not by small groups, but by a
powerful
social movement.
In both cases, pressures from the Republicans as well as from centrist Democrats helped to pull the Clinton Administration onto the correct track: supporting free trade despite
powerful
protectionist allies in the Democratic Party; supporting budget deficit reduction instead of large fiscal spending programs.
As a practical matter, Assad leads one of the conflict’s most
powerful
factions, one that must be represented at the negotiating table if peace is to be achieved.
Participating in global value chains is an alternative way to learn by doing that is potentially more
powerful
than closing markets to foreign competition.
Reforms aimed at decentralization and devolution have, in some cases, enabled the rise of
powerful
local political patrons.
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