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Nothing foreordained that the US and its allies would prevail.
Indeed, in the rest of the Arab Middle East, where Sunni governments or monarchs prevail, the unprecedented “Shiafication” of Iraq has never gone down well.
A country should not be making fundamental, irreversible changes based on a razor-thin minority that might prevail only during a brief window of emotion.
Toward North Korea, on the other hand, continuity will prevail, with Abe re-emphasizing the principle that normalization of relations requires resolution of abduction cases – some dating to the 1970’s – involving Japanese citizens who were seized from coastal towns.
If law and order are to prevail, Hezbollah must be neutralized, and the Syrian-dispatched assassins of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri must be brought to justice.
But their model is obsolete, because Japan now competes directly with many other Asian and non-Asian countries, where work habits are of the type that used to prevail among the Japanese.
In nineteenth-century Europe, the mark of a great power was its ability to prevail in war, but, as the American analyst John Arquilla has pointed out, in today’s global information age, victory often depends not on whose army wins, but on whose story wins.
To prevail against ISIS, the US and its cyber soldiers will have to be capable of reacting quickly, while being guided by an overarching strategy.
Some hope reason will prevail at least to some extent, particularly given that markets are now pushing the green transition.
There is a realm where these conditions prevail: natural science.
Which form of Sunni Islam will prevail – the Saudi-Wahhabi version or a more modern and moderate one?
BERLIN – Regardless of whether democratization in the “new Middle East” succeeds or authoritarian forms of government prevail once again, one fundamental change has already become clear: no one will be able to govern without taking into account domestic public opinion.
It remains to be seen whether, in the end, the “Turkish course” will prevail against the radicals in Gaza or not.
The fan chart’s true meaning – “If economic circumstances identical to today were to prevail on 100 occasions, the MPC’s best collective judgment is that the mature estimate of GDP growth would lie above 2% on 50 occasions and below 2% on 50 occasions” – doesn’t even fit within Twitter’s 140-character limit.
Which system should prevail?
Whether the Arab and wider Islamic world’s democratic awakening will actually prevail or produce only change at the top of authoritarian regimes, whether it will lead to a stable order or sustained chaos and radicalization, still remains unclear.
A person of integrity does not seek to prevail over his competitors by methods that give him an illegitimate advantage.
Sanity must prevail: if everyone is mentally ill, then no one is.
That, combined with slow progress on financial-sector reform, makes it likely that risk-aversion will prevail, which could slow, if not reverse, financial globalization, and probably lead to slower growth in many countries.
They all believed that truth, both scientific and moral, could ultimately prevail against any phalanx of lies and power.
If that were to continue, the result would be a world in which each country’s contribution to pressure on natural resources and the environment would make sustainability a major global challenge, as the free-rider problem in its most extreme form would prevail.
A charitable interpretation is that, as a tough and pragmatic businessman, Trump is simply using threats to stake out a strong bargaining position, and that sense and reason will ultimately prevail.
And they completely dismiss the instinct of common humanity that does prevail when policymakers are given, as they have been now, a practical, affordable, and morally coherent strategy for avoiding further terrible human tragedy.
This second Poland – of openness and tolerance, of John Paul II and Czeslaw Milosz, of my friends from the underground and from prison – must prevail.
But, institutionally, the ICSID has developed less successfully than other members of the World Bank Group – particularly the International Finance Corporation – owing to a deeply rooted organizational culture at the Bank that perceives the ICSID as an instrument serving Western companies’ efforts to prevail over developing states.
We won’t know for a few months which alternative will prevail.
When it comes to politics, bilateral relations prevail, and from that standpoint France and Germany seem more important than Great Britain.
This contradiction signals that national interests continue to prevail in EU budget negotiations, which are often exploited for domestic political gain in member states.
The government’s closing of democratic and institutional spaces produces responses of a proportional and equivalent force, which in turn tends to expand the political conflict toward areas where force and violence prevail.
Now that the US has at last begun to move, gradually and thoughtfully, away from the passions that characterized the country’s response to the 2001 terrorist attacks, it is worth asking if Bill Clinton was right to say that America’s virtues and assets always prevail against its vices and defects.
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