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Either national democratic processes will prevail, rendering the rules ineffective, or the rules will be strictly enforced, and the limits that they impose on national political systems risk plunging democracy itself into crisis.
It was this sense of lost national sovereignty that allowed Syriza to prevail.
But if they can outrage and frustrate citizens of the state into taking self-defeating actions, they can hope to prevail.
An anybody-but-Sarkozy reflex may exist in some circles of French society, but, in order to prevail, a credible alternative is required.
While these policies might impose costs on other countries, they are deployed not to extract advantages from them, but because other domestic-policy motives – such as distributional, administrative, or public-health concerns – prevail over the objective of economic efficiency.
If a country or coalition of countries other than the UN Security Council uses force, even as a last resort, "anarchy", not international law, would prevail, destroying all hope of world order.
Although the endgame is close, it is impossible to predict which alternative will prevail.
One hopes that this is just a temporary phase, and that comprehension of Poland’s real achievements will prevail over the hyper-sensitivity of its current leaders.
Instead of throwing up our hands in despair, we should adhere to a distinction dear to the great German sociologist Max Weber, for now is a time when the ethics of responsibility must prevail over the ethics of conviction.
Though it would be premature to announce a trend, one can hope that pragmatism and compromise will prevail over the moral righteousness of political extremes.
If the fiction is maintained that the court was merely doing its judicial duty as it saw it, decency could still prevail: Anwar could be granted executive clemency.
Let us hope, therefore, that reason – and the instinct of self-preservation – will ultimately prevail.
The feminist critique, for example, has totally remade elementary-level education, where female decision-makers prevail: the construction of male hierarchies in the schoolyard is often redirected nowadays for fear of “bullying,” with boys and girls alike expected to “share” and “process” their emotions.
LONDON – The British people voted to leave the European Union, and the will of the people should prevail.
On the other hand, they can decide to allow economics to prevail.
The nightmare scenario of a violent conflict on the Korean Peninsula demands that cooler heads prevail.
Not only was there no new leadership, but the seniority system and the omnipresence of "senior advisors" continued to prevail throughout Japanese institutions.
This is because global warming has mixed effects; for moderate warming, the benefits prevail.
In Poland, the “politics of values” is based on the assumption that a “moral order” based on religion should prevail over the freedoms guaranteed by permissive liberalism on issues such as abortion, gay rights, and the death penalty.
So, whichever side gains the upper hand, authoritarianism and economic stagnation will prevail once again.
In Egypt, the military counter-revolution will prevail, but the Islamist revolution eventually will return as long as its causes have not been eliminated.
But that is what it will get unless sober heads prevail.
Given Catalonia’s size and Catalans’ minority status, Spain’s position will always prevail.
In India, financial repression is used as a means to marshal captive savings to help finance massive government debts at far lower interest rates than would prevail in a liberalized market.
In light of the escalating violent repression of the opposition Movement for Democratic Change – and of those whose support apparently helped the MDC to prevail in the presidential election, the results of which have still not been announced after four weeks – an international arms embargo on Zimbabwe is urgently needed.
We can hope that cooler heads prevail.
Prosperity and liberty will be the victims, unless those who grasp the opportunities of the new world prevail.
The EU can and must prevail in this fight and in the defense of the values that it cherishes.
While other countries certainly support these values, only the US has been willing, healthy, and big enough to ensure that they prevail.
But, given the scant interest of European Union members in transferring further competences (and juicy international positions) to the EU level, the chances that this solution will prevail seem remote.
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