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Egypt also has a
powerful
secret weapon that is yet to be fully deployed – a generation of young people who, after years of alienation and repression, believe that they can (and should) influence the country’s destiny.
This theory has gained credence because the Communist Party’s current leader in the Tibet Autonomous Region formerly held a
powerful
position in Xinjiang Province.
Whether we have the political will to implement effective controls is, as always, another question – in large part because the big banks are very
powerful
and they would like the shadows to remain as shadowy as they are now.
But will they be able to stand up to the
powerful
lobby of big banks and their shadowy allies?
Over the course of history, very few
powerful
states have developed a sense of themselves as being based not on ethnic heritage, but on a set of values that all citizens can live by.
By contrast, a great and
powerful
Russia or China today – or the Third Reich in its time – may be able to garner the support of its citizens; but such states cannot constitute the basis of an international order that others find appealing, because they are based on a vision of themselves that does not encompass others.
To be sure,
powerful
economic forces – including China’s rise, globalization, high inequality, and soaring property prices – have buffeted Hong Kong since 1997, undermining the city’s competitiveness and contributing to social discontent.
It should thus serve as a
powerful
incentive for MENA governments and businesses to change their approach.
Both have large and
powerful
social insurance systems.
In Kenya, M-Pesa – which transforms one’s phone into a mobile wallet – has leveraged
powerful
network effects to bring about a vast expansion in the share of adults using digital financial services.
But is reprogenetics simply a new and more
powerful
vehicle to repeat the abhorrent eugenic practices of the past?
Furthermore, the innate desire to provide for one's children is so
powerful
that affluent citizens may buy reprogenetics elsewhere even if their society bans or limits its use.
These licenses, sometimes worth half the world market value of the oil being exported, were distributed free to
powerful
insiders at a cost to the Russian budget of several billion dollars per year.
It also cut back on several country-specific monitoring mechanisms, compromising one of the most
powerful
of human rights tools, that of naming and shaming.
This is happening, in part, because countries with vile human rights records - Algeria, Burundi, China, Cuba, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Indonesia, Kenya, Libya, Malaysia, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Syria, and Vietnam - command a
powerful
bloc within the CHR.
All the same, manipulation by
powerful
countries and the foes of human rights have left the CHR in bad shape.
Whether al-Qaeda had a direct role in the Madrid and London bombings, or the recent plot to blow up airliners over the Atlantic, is less important than the way it has been transformed into a
powerful
“brand.”
But with a clear development blueprint and a
powerful
leader whose political clout all but guarantees continued reform, China might be in a strong position to address the challenges it faces and sustain its unprecedented economic success.
The good news is that a
powerful
investment-led impetus should partly offset declining export growth and allow Asia’s landing to be soft rather than hard.
He has long championed a
powerful
idea: that each of us should retain control of our online profile, which should be readily transferable across portals.
Quintarelli emphasizes that, “Effective competition is a
powerful
tool to increase and defend biodiversity in the digital space.”
Contrast that with Typhoon Haiyan, the most
powerful
storm ever to make landfall in the Philippines.
Independence is even more problematic in an age when the cross-border spillovers of national monetary policies have become
powerful.
First, modern finance is simply too politically
powerful
for legislatures or regulators to restrain its ability to create systemic macroeconomic risk.
Representatives voted on behalf of their districts’
powerful
interests.
They preferred less competition in credit markets not out of concern for the unwitting farmers, but in order to defend
powerful
lenders’ profits.
Twenty-first-century legislators seemed to be more democratic, responding to their voters’ possibly misguided wishes, rather than primarily to
powerful
financial interests.
In general, expanding access is beneficial (just not before a crisis!), but finance is a
powerful
tool that has to be used sensibly.
The problem with these perceptions – both at home and abroad – is that the US remains the world’s most
powerful
country, and is likely to remain so for decades.
Such appeals are often heard, but
powerful
vested interests make it hard for governments to follow through.
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