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Likewise, influential groups such as Hamas, the legitimate winner of the Palestinian elections, cannot be eliminated by military force, however powerful, nor exorcised by decree.
Yet it retains a
powerful
hold on Indian society, limiting the opportunities available at all stages of life.
Because caste was such a
powerful
source of self-identification, it proved to be a useful tool for political mobilization in India’s electoral democracy: When Indians cast their vote, they too often vote their caste.
And yet, even as Euro-skepticism has been rising across the continent, there remains widespread popular support for a common, more
powerful
European foreign policy.
Likewise, a
powerful
urbanization dynamic continues to deliver solid support for China’s high-investment economy, while enabling relatively poor rural workers to raise their incomes by finding higher-paying jobs in the cities.
Wen Jiabao’s critique six years ago was a
powerful
diagnosis of the Old China’s flaws that pointed to the Next China’s hopes and dreams.
They have come to recognize that
powerful
interests are blocking the necessary shift to clean energy, and they simply no longer trust that their governments are doing enough to stand up for the future of the planet.
Conservative fundamentalist Christians – traditionally a
powerful
force in the Iowa Republican caucus – had been largely backing another anti-establishment candidate, the noted neurosurgeon Ben Carson.
Even in the age of the Internet and social media, nationalism remains a most
powerful
force.
In the United States, by contrast, biased news stories, especially on social media, appear to be having a
powerful
effect on voters, and have propelled political polarization to unprecedented levels.
Many participants agreed that China’s top-down decision-making structure, by enabling the government to invest in painful but needed reforms, confers a
powerful
development advantage.
At that time, newspapers held the public’s focus and could be a
powerful
gadfly.
A new form could evolve from this changed power relationship between editors and citizens, potentially becoming as
powerful
as traditional journalism, if not more so.
They are all cases in which
powerful
individuals and organizations tried to obfuscate, deceive, or hide behind a front.
And Germany’s
powerful
industrial lobby frets that American tech companies could eat their manufacturing lunch.
And its outcome seems preordained; in a leaked position paper, Oettinger proposes a
powerful
new EU regulator to rein in online platforms.
Bond investors’ heavy reliance on credit-rating agencies, which tend to be laxer with
powerful
issuers, has not been fixed.
These redistributive effects are forcing economists to rethink optimal central-bank governance, which has rested on a
powerful
dogma that emerged in the late 1970’s and early 1980’s, in response to high inflation: central bankers need to be independent of the political system.
A clash with
powerful
unions awaits.
The law has proven to be a
powerful
tool in stifling dissent, which can include mass protests against election fraud, journalists working to expose corruption, or a librarian in Siberia fulfilling a patron’s request for a banned book.
For example, Norway, which has been promoting positive gender discrimination for years and recently elected Erna Solberg as its first female prime minister, has yet to allow a woman to control the purse strings – at either the central bank or the finance ministry, with its
powerful
sovereign wealth fund.
Powerful
vested interests – not least the world’s fossil-fuel industries – will no doubt seek to limit progress, and most governments are not yet focused on the problem.
This is an important point, given that the economic reforms implemented by former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev and former Russian President Boris Yeltsin thus confronted
powerful
headwinds.
Beyond implementing domestic reforms, France can still work with Germany to send a
powerful
message in support of European integration.
Singapore also pays its government employees well, which allows it to attract and retain top talent – and gives those whom it hires a
powerful
incentive to stay honest.
The combination of external shocks and internal pressure from rising wages can serve as a
powerful
incentive for governments and businesses to pursue structural reforms.
Promoting private insurance may seem an indirect response to the tsunami disaster, but it is a rational – and
powerful
– response.
American politics has become a game of
powerful
corporate interests: tax cuts for the rich, deregulation for mega-polluters, and war and global warming for the rest of the world.
What Trump signifies is the culmination of a long-term process whereby
powerful
corporate lobbies have bought their way to power.
But it is far from obvious that Sonia Gandhi, President of the Indian National Congress and the country’s most
powerful
politician, shares Singh’s reform agenda.
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