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All of the countries that took the decision to intervene in Libya, including the US, must conduct themselves with a sense of renewed vigor, and with the understanding that NATO – whatever its shortcomings and shortfalls – must prevail.
These forces will all get into parliament, but the wider their representation, the sooner common sense and justice will prevail here.
Will such silence and neglect prevail again if civil war is renewed in Sudan?
As a result, the market-based economic and financial systems that prevail in Europe, and that, not so long ago, were a source of significant strength, are losing their vibrancy.
Instead, modern and pre-modern forms will prevail: support for government repression, like Russia has provided in Syria, or ethno-religious proxy wars, like those that Saudi Arabia and Iran have waged across the Middle East.
On the contrary, despite many loud assertions after the initial Brexit shock that things must change, there are many indications that business as usual will prevail.
Peace in this huge and strategically vital region – and thus in the world – can prevail only if its countries manage, despite their turmoil, to protect themselves from ideological extremes and political excesses.
Although new trade deals can spark controversy, it is highly unlikely that protectionism will prevail.
Many regard the UN's role as the guarantor of international law and legitimacy as self-evident, and now argue that its stature, undermined by the US-led invasion, must be quickly restored if the rule of law is to prevail internationally.
That’s why cooler heads are likely to prevail.
The creation of a European banking union is another area in which misguided calls for solidarity prevail.
In Latin American countries, on the other hand, an all-or-nothing attitude seems to prevail, with 50.1% of the popular vote regarded as being sufficient to stage a revolution of sentiment, if not of policy.
Many plaintiffs who brought such lawsuits – Russian and Ukrainian oligarchs, Arab princes, African dictators, and unscrupulous bosses – had little chance to prevail.
For all the theorizing of Plato and Marx, the family seems to prevail unless other social institutions counteract or supersede it.
Ultimately, the EU will prevail, because ordinary Poles will quickly realize that their country’s independence makes no sense without the EU and NATO.
In many regions of Africa, for example, young people are disillusioned with politics, convinced that wealthy older people will always prevail and advance their own interests, often at the expense of younger generations.
To meet these goals, the objective of peace should prevail over that of development if the two come into conflict.
Hundreds of people have already been killed, and more will undoubtedly die before Election Day, targeted because, if these groups prevail, they would push what is sometimes called the “idea of Pakistan” to its logical – and extreme – conclusion.
Unless that changes, the US will lack the strength needed to prevail over such singular threats as the Islamic State.
Lax financing conditions may prevail for quite a long time, but, sooner or later, growing external and fiscal deficits become unsustainable; confidence evaporates and investors flee, taking their liquidity with them.
Cool heads must prevail.
My inclination is to believe that the head will prevail – but not completely.
It took two wars, against Austria and France, for the “small Germany” solution to prevail.
But the global economy could be weaker in 2013 than it was in 2012 if the worst continues to prevail in Europe and the US, particularly if the new US Congress cannot work with a re-elected President Barack Obama to find a budget deal that improves the medium-term credibility of the US fiscal position while avoiding excessive deficit cutting.
Then, too, hesitation seemed to prevail over determination, contributing to the failure of the mission.
Unfortunately, instead of getting the best man or woman for the job, politics as usual is likely to prevail.
Such arrangements prevail in large parts of Latin America, the Arab Middle East, and Africa.
The war has continued for so long, in part, because both the Syrian government and the armed groups it is fighting believed that they would ultimately prevail.
Europeans are long-standing champions of the United Nations and international cooperation, and continually seek to ensure that stability, freedom, democracy, and justice prevail as cornerstones of international relations.
In its absence, bias and populism prevail.
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