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If she does, she will be Asia’s most
powerful
woman, perhaps the most
powerful
in the world, at the end of next year.
The July 2009 decision by the Non-Aligned Movement (comprising 118 member states) to hold its next meeting in Tehran provides a
powerful
demonstration of non-Western perceptions about Iran.
Ideas can sometimes be as
powerful
as interests.
He lifted Georgia out of civil war in the early 1990's, but then held it together by playing one
powerful
clan off against another.
Selling a product’s benefits instead of the product itself would create a
powerful
incentive for producers to design for longevity, repeated reuse, and eventual recycling, which would enable them to optimize their use of resources.
In other words, the closer you lived to a printing press, the more likely you were to change the way you viewed your relationship with the Church, the most
powerful
institution of the time, and with God.
If, in the worst case, a terrorist attack were to occur – especially one that could, in some way, be linked to refugees – the nationalist-populist reaction would be powerful, potentially weakening the very fabric of German society.
If Germany can integrate the refugees, it will send a
powerful
message to nihilists and extremists everywhere.
But continental integration clashes with a
powerful
trend in Russia: reintegration with Kazakhstan and Belarus, at almost any cost with the latter.
Victor Li Tzar-kuoi, the son of Hong Kong’s most
powerful
property baron, Li Ka-shing, astonished the public recently, saying in court testimony that it was a “painful experience” to deal with the government’s imperious Urban Renewal Authority.
An effective European Council president must have a temperament that enables him or her to move a diverse group of
powerful
people toward mutually beneficial outcomes, all without taking the spotlight.
But his half-brother and more
powerful
rival, Prince Naif, the Minister of Interior, ordered the arrests, trial, and imprisonment of 13 reformers in March 2004.
Corruption, in the widest sense of the word, is the glue that holds the “system” together, that ensures that moneyed and
powerful
interests are free from rules that are meant to hold them in check.
The word Yalta, too, has assumed a life of its own, serving for years as a symbol of a division of the world by the great powers: of the large and
powerful
deciding the fate of the small and powerless without asking their advice, of inadmissibly pragmatic concessions or compromises by democratic governments vis-?-vis the overpowering strength of a totalitarian regime.
But what May hoped would seem like a clear, even powerful, stance was actually a vague, fatuous, and rather transparent ploy to avoid the question that voters never had a chance to consider: “What kind of Brexit should the UK pursue?”
Now firmly established as China’s most
powerful
leader since Deng Xiaoping, Xi can shape his legacy according to his own vision.
And that, in turn, has triggered a round of bitter political squabbling that threatens to negate the entire idea of a much more
powerful
European voice on the global stage.
The key is to link a bold idea with a practical and
powerful
technology, and then to push the idea and technology forward through mass citizen action.
Just as with polio, the fight against hunger, disease, and lack of access to safe water and sanitation can be carried forward with practical and
powerful
technologies.
Indeed, these technologies are so
powerful
that they can enable families currently trapped in poverty to escape it once and for all.
The reason is that Karzai's government, and Karzai himself, are controlled by a small group of
powerful
men associated with the former Northern Alliance and dominated by Minister of Defense Marshall Fahim.
A year after his inauguration, Davos provided a
powerful
reminder that he is far from being normalized.
And the revival of religious parties – in a country created by avowed secularists – opened the way for a more politically
powerful
but also more nationalistic and intolerant setting.
President Barack Obama’s instincts may be an exception here, but he is fighting
powerful
hidebound forces in the United States, as well as a demagogic populism, in the form of the Tea Party, that is far worse – and that might defeat him in 2012, seriously damaging America in the process.
In the United States, Western Europe, and Asia, Internet platforms, especially Facebook, enable the
powerful
to inflict harm on the powerless in politics, foreign policy, and commerce.
UMNO’s call for “Malay unity” rendered all Malay-based opposition parties illegitimate by default, and PAS responded with a
powerful
narrative of Muslim nationalism.
When Agricultural Workers Go HungryGENEVA – Food is a
powerful
storyteller.
It is people’s willingness to take personal risks and confront the
powerful
by daring to speak the truth, not the truth itself, that ultimately leads to change.
The Russian Academy of Science, the most
powerful
body in Russian science, has opened itself to new blood, increasing the number of specialists by 20% in recent years.
Many are in formerly
powerful
research centers now wasting away, some form entire populations in once closed research cities and one institute towns that were wholly dependent on a single defence institute or project.
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