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But the authority of those dictators did not rest primarily on the rule of law; that of their modern counterparts does.
The Battle of the TemplesBANGKOK – The military skirmishes between Thailand and Cambodia that have claimed more than two dozen lives, caused scores of injuries, and displaced tens of thousands of people since February are primarily attributable to domestic politics in both countries.
So other pressure will need to be applied, primarily by the European Union and the United States.
To focus on how many species have become extinct, or will go extinct, obscures the fact that a large number of species have become greatly contracted in the range of their habitats, primarily due to human activity.
Unlike in Tunisia, Europeans and Americans should increase the pressure on Egypt’s leaders – primarily the military at this stage – to start fulfilling the regime’s promises of political reform.
India is no longer primarily an agricultural economy; indeed, agriculture accounts for only around 20% of GDP.
The debate about a future global order is taking place primarily in the West – specifically, North America and Europe.
Machiavelli addressed the importance of ethics for leaders, but primarily in terms of the impression that visible displays of virtue made upon followers.
In the future, various global powers will be active in the Middle East – primarily the US, Russia, China, India.
A new Middle East policy will thus have to concentrate primarily on four aspects: 1) a comprehensive offer to Syria to detach the country from Iran and settle open conflicts; 2) an offer to Iran for direct talks about the perspective of a full normalization of relations; 3) a decisive and realistic initiative to resolve the Israeli-Arab conflict 4) a regional security architecture that centers on stabilizing Iraq and Afghanistan.
His columns are the centerpiece of Kiyan, a magazine founded in 1991 primarily to air his views and the debates they spark.
Adding to the confusion, another group, the sarrafs (primarily private money lenders) are the key interface between foreign investors and an Iranian counterpart, whether basij or bonyad.
Given that a wealth tax would be used primarily to pay down high levels of existing public debt, it would be applied in the context of the individual member states.
In modern times, it took the threat of nuclear war to spark efforts to mend ties between East and West – and even then the rapprochement was spearheaded primarily by Russia’s secular authorities.
The Middle East is certain to face the continued movement of large numbers of people, first to the region’s calmer areas and, in many cases, beyond – primarily to Europe.
For more than a half-century, Gulf countries absorbed millions of workers, primarily from their Arab neighbors’ lower middle classes.
Those criteria are that the atrocities occurring or feared are sufficiently serious to justify, prima facie, a military response; that the response has a primarily humanitarian motive; that no lesser response is likely to be effective in halting or averting the harm; that the proposed response is proportional to the threat; and that the intervention will actually be effective, doing more good than harm.
Moreover, there has always been a disconnect between the UK and the EU, because the project of European integration was presented as primarily economic, when it was, above all, political in nature.
It is primarily about governance, not economics.
I have nothing but praise for Gates’s efforts to reduce the death toll from these diseases, which primarily affect the world’s poorest people.
The choice of words to describe America’s fiscal situation matters, given the hysteria that has been whipped up in recent months, primarily by people who want to make big cuts in the country’s two main entitlement programs, Social Security and Medicare.
China is now seen primarily as an economic adversary, rather than an economic partner.
But China’s trade surplus with the US is not primarily due to undervaluing its currency.
The financial sector, in particular, lacks the right incentives to contribute to addressing the climate challenge, because financial institutions’ decision-making is guided primarily – even exclusively – by monetary profit-seeking.
Reserve holdings of dollar assets (primarily by central banks) were worth around 2% of US GDP in 1948 and about the same in 1968.
It has been unequivocally good for Westerners who derive their income primarily from renting their physical and intellectual capital to the highest bidder.
The key to success will be to take preemptive action, rather than focusing solely (or even primarily) on ameliorative measures.
Not long ago, international links existed primarily among major trading hubs in Europe and North America; now, the web is intricate and sprawling.
It persuades intimidated (often elderly) voters that, in the parlance of the Brexiteers, they can “take back control” of their lives and their countries, primarily by rejecting foreigners.
US President Barack Obama’s strategic “pivot” to Asia depended primarily on enacting the 12-country Trans-Pacific Partnership, which Trump has promised to scrap on his first day in office.
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