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But, elsewhere in the region, leaders were quick to excuse Russia's invasion and annexation of Crimea, or to argue that Russia is simply too
powerful
to confront.
In doing so, he sent his Western allies – which have criticized the arrests of thousands of perceived opponents, including many journalists, following last month’s failed military coup – a
powerful
message: “I don’t need you.”
And yet Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, who still remains Russia’s most
powerful
person despite his not holding the presidency, has enjoyed high and steady approval ratings for years.
Brezhnev’s model resembled a bad marriage, exhausted of love or respect, in which the spouses constantly cheat, take advantage of each other, and grab each other’s property, though the
powerful
husband occasionally reminds his wife that he is boss and demands at least a formal pledge of loyalty – or else.
The IMF’s participation in the eurozone crisis has now given
powerful
emerging economies another reason to be disenchanted.
There is no political risk involved; the Swiss have no
powerful
lobby in the United States or the EU that they can mobilize; as the birthplace of private banking, Switzerland has enormous symbolic value; as the world leader in private banking, it triggers jealousies.
With five years of Iraqi experience – and
powerful
communication and financial support behind them – this network is growing rapidly.
Japan’s Nuclear Morality TaleNEW DELHI – The troubles of the Fukushima nuclear-power plant – and other reactors – in northeast Japan have dealt a severe blow to the global nuclear industry, a
powerful
cartel of less than a dozen major state-owned or state-guided firms that have been trumpeting a nuclear-power renaissance.
The ECB’s treatment of all such debt as equally
powerful
sources of back-up liquidity now trumps any analysis of differences in long-term sovereign risk.
All this will be especially important now given the status of the US, the most
powerful
country in the world, but one with an often uneasy relationship with the UN.
Contributing to the emergence of a more productive relationship between the world’s most important international organization and its most
powerful
member would be no small feat.
Anti-smoking lobbies consider the affair – which helps
powerful
tobacco lobbies – a slap in the face of European consumers.
A
powerful
lobbying effort included millions of dollars spent to support passage of one of the crowning achievements of Bush’s foreign policy: the United States-India Civil Nuclear Cooperation Agreement.
But, regardless of their cause, rapidly growing inequalities are a
powerful
force for instability everywhere, from wealthy America to rapidly growing China to reform-challenged Europe.
Putin’s political genius is that he understands that, for Russians, being perceived as
powerful
is even more important than actually being
powerful.
The fear was that
powerful
banks would exploit national government help, asking for intervention too soon.
Second, because IMF intervention would reduce the influence of
powerful
domestic insiders, early intervention would be less attractive to them.
Only a government that is sufficiently powerful, in terms of legal authority and solvency, can do so.
And, finally, given
powerful
interactions within the financial sector and across the broader economy, we need an overarching framework to manage risks in the financial system as a whole.
An agenda that
powerful
corporate interests would rather stifle might be a bitter pill for world leaders, but it is one that they should swallow sooner rather than later.
That spat not only prevented a merger, apparently welcomed by the market, with the Dutch firm KPN, it put the Spanish Security and Exchange Commission (CNMV) in a difficult spot as broker between government and a
powerful
company boss.
According to new research by Theresa Schroeder of Radford University and Jonathan Powell of the University of Central Florida, female heads of state may be more likely to provoke military coups in countries where armies are
powerful
enough to stage them.
The approach is simple and
powerful.
Why GDP?BERLIN – Gross domestic product is the most
powerful
metric in history.
Experience with similar programs in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Japan has shown that QE unleashes
powerful
forces of depreciation.
But in China, the brand has unwittingly found itself enmeshed in tales that illustrate the powerlessness of ordinary Chinese against the
powerful
and corrupt.
Even as they are becoming ever more litigious, many Chinese believe that they have no hope of securing justice against the
powerful.
There is an urgent need for a moderate, humanist, global, and “constructive” populism that can counter the extremists, not with complicated mathematical models of, say, the employment implications of Brexit, but with simple yet
powerful
ideas that resonate with millions.
The best that could be done was to enact Europe-wide and global rules, instead of allowing
powerful
countries like Germany or the US to impose their own.
One problem with the cultural argument is that it is often used to defend or excuse the behavior of the
powerful
against the weak.
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