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Recent tests of nuclear weapons and long-range missiles – including the country’s most
powerful
nuclear test ever, carried out last month – show just how close the Hermit Kingdom is to achieving its goals.
It all smacks of a politically directed attempt by Yanukovych and his supporters to rid themselves of a
powerful
opponent before the next election.
This has led to speculation that Chang’s execution was retaliation, endorsed by Shenyang, for Bo’s arrest and the ongoing purge of his supporters, including, most recently, Zhou Yongkang, the
powerful
former chief of internal security.
As long as
powerful
financial actors profit from this short-sighted approach, insufficient financing will flow toward developing and deploying renewable energy.
But, as
powerful
as the EU’s support has been, it is not enough.
The Syrian regime of President Bashar Assad retains huge influence over key levers of the Lebanese state, including the security and intelligence apparatus, the army, and the judiciary – not to mention an alliance with the militarily
powerful
Hezbollah.
Lebanon’s Sunnis and Shiites – the country’s two most
powerful
communities, owing mostly to their demographic weight and the backing they enjoy from elsewhere in the region – are nowhere near the point of mutual violence, but there has been palpable political tension recently.
One mechanism that has often been effective at reining in
powerful
special interests in individual EU states, and thus at implementing structural reforms, is action by the European Commission.
Simply condemning a film will not mean much to those who believe that, as may be true in their own countries, a
powerful
government like that of the US can simply decide whether a film should be made or broadcast.
It's a Smaller WorldImagine looking through a
powerful
microscope and discovering incredibly tiny machines taking apart the stuff around them, molecule by molecule, and reassembling the molecules to make exact replicas of themselves.
Another
powerful
factor depressing social capital is the changing structure of the American family.
But, by the time of the Iraq war, conditions had changed: the US had grown so
powerful
relative to the rest of the world that the lack of reciprocity became an intense source of irritation even to America’s closest allies.
Unleashing the potential for growth in the Baltic Sea Region is one
powerful
way to achieve this end.
At the end of May, a self-immolation occurred for the first time, in Lhasa, the capital, which may be a
powerful
portent of new turmoil in Tibet.
In many eurozone countries today, “fiscal conservatives” are a
powerful
group, insisting on the need to boost government revenue while bringing spending under control.
In recent decades, senior military officers have been transformed into
powerful
landlords through grants of choice agricultural lands and real estate.
While the army has always been the most
powerful
political force in Pakistan, it has undergone important changes in the decades since independence.
Political lobbies that oversee these sectors and overlap with certain factions in the Party are simply too
powerful
for nascent interests in society and the bureaucracy to parry.
Programs in the United States like “Teach for America” and “Teach for All” can serve as
powerful
new models for recruiting the teachers that will be needed for new secondary schools.
When the center left won elections in the past two decades, it did so under a
powerful
security-oriented leader: Yitzhak Rabin, Ehud Barak, Sharon (after his conversion), and Sharon’s successor, Olmert.
And costly, ineffective programs are notorious for surviving indefinitely because they develop
powerful
defenders.
For example, in a
powerful
speech – watched online more than a half-million times – Senator Elizabeth Warren responded uncompromisingly to the megabanks’ latest display of muscle: “Let’s pass something – anything – that would help break up these giant banks.”
“Break up Citigroup” is a concrete and
powerful
idea that would move the financial system in the right direction.
Turkey’s
powerful
military establishment may want to maintain close relations with Israel, but the widely popular change in Turkey’s foreign policy priorities, and the serious identity dilemmas facing the nation, send an unequivocal message that the alliance can no longer serve as an alternative to peace with the Arab world.
He replied, "You and I know the
powerful
groups that will testify against such a bill.
Powerful
vested interests had been built up in the postal monopoly; opposition to it was scattered.
Although we refugees, immigrants, exiles, and outcasts do not boast ad infinitum that “we are the best,” as many Americans do, we still believe that the US remains a
powerful
guarantor of freedom and democracy, and we consider its incoherence part of its liberty.
Indeed, private enterprise can create
powerful
interests vested in peace.
Likewise, if we define the fight against fire as a battlefield, we will build up our forces, search for more
powerful
technologies like air tankers, and accept firefighters’ deaths as inevitable.
Indeed, the more
powerful
of the emerging markets know how to live within the current system, and they may use it to their advantage.
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