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No one prefers to live in a society where bribes must be paid to secure basic public services like health care and education.
The Kremlin in fact prefers not to proselytize on Russia’s behalf.
Djukanovic prefers an illegitimate federal government because it strengthens his argument for secession.
Vladimir Putin, however, prefers to promote the impression of his being a more enlightened and modern leader.
China will never be interested in Russia’s economic and political modernization, for it prefers Russia to remain a source of mineral and energy resources and a vast “strategic rear” in its looming challenge with the United States.
It is a jungle out there, as Americans say; not every problem and conflict can be handled through the sort of peaceful, drawn-out negotiations that the EU prefers.
Though country-to-country engagement with Asia’s rising powers may be tempting, and while China often prefers bilateral dealings, renationalization of EU members’ foreign policies would be counterproductive.
It is a summary of whether, taking everything into account, a citizen prefers one candidate to another.
As a result, China, which is particularly concerned to keep the US out of the negotiations, prefers to pursue bilateral talks, knowing full well that such an approach will invariably create a zero-sum game in which one side can be portrayed as protecting its national interest, and the other as having betrayed it.
Not surprisingly, given its own structures, the European Union prefers the multilateral approach.
Economic growth since the Orange Revolution reinforces that reluctance, because an expanding middle class nearly always prefers the flexibility of pluralism to the thump of an authoritarian's fist.
Possessing undoubted oil resources, President Haider Aliyev's government prefers to play games about where to construct oil pipelines rather than commit to actually building one.
Unfortunately, as in so many areas, Trump prefers unproductive confrontation to cooperation.
The Wolf that Ate GeorgiaFLORENCE –In Phaedrus’s well-known fable of the wolf and the lamb, the wolf easily could have eaten the lamb without a word, but prefers to set out his “reasons.”
His dismal standing in the polls suggests that Corbyn, like conservative Republicans, prefers feeling ideologically pure to being politically effective.
Left-leaning pundits claim that the dictator’s daughter has the same autocratic vision as her father, though Park invariably prefers incremental change to radical measures, and cut her political teeth in the tough-minded politics of the GNP.
But China prefers to use Rijiju’s attendance as evidence that the event is, in fact, political, suggesting that India is using the visit as “a diplomatic tool to put pressure on China.”
For one thing, possession of power resources does not always imply that one can get the outcomes one prefers.
Another stumbling block is that India prefers bilateral arrangements with individual member states to dealing with the EU collectively.
To achieve her goal, she prefers to emphasize her “essence,” thereby countering Sarkozy’s stress on his record as a “doer.”
In order to dominate decision-making, Khamenei prefers weak presidents.
If the US prefers not to do so, it should at least strip Pakistan of its status, acquired in 2004, as a Major non-NATO Ally, thereby ending its preferential access to American weapons and technologies.
The government, indeed, prefers to offer only hollow initiatives focused narrowly on the economy.
The United States favors continuing economic stimulus, while the European Union prefers fiscal consolidation.
Even on the issue of democracy, the US prefers to lecture other dictatorships rather than the world’s largest autocracy.
Internationally, Europe likes multilateral arrangements, whereas America prefers to go it alone.
Merkel’s style has exacerbated this confusion: she prefers to lead from behind and seems incapable of the stateswoman-like speech that would bring people to accept bolder measures.
A citizen who stays home, rather than voting for the candidate he or she prefers, is merely reinforcing the impact of the fat cat who donates to the opposing candidate’s campaign.
Netanyahu prefers Trump’s crude charlatanism to Obama’s professorial liberalism.
Trump plainly prefers dictators to democrats, and lacks any respect for his allies.
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