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Sefr al Hawali, a
prominent
Saudi Wahhabi cleric, warned of the dangers of the “Shia arc” following the Shia intifada in Iraq in 1991.
Here the EU can also play a
prominent
role by recognizing Russia’s special interest in proper pipeline maintenance and a proper accounting for the gas they carry.
Several
prominent
Democrats or party supporters were recently sent pipe bombs.
This comes after years of declarations by
prominent
economists, including Berkeley’s Brad DeLong and former US Federal Reserve Chair Ben Bernanke, that helicopter money offers a way to overcome deflation (with which Japan has struggled for decades).
Nor is it the case that US government officials are typically bribed in an open fashion (though there have been some
prominent
exceptions).
After Manafort and his minions helped Yanukovych defeat former Prime Minister Yuliya Tymoshenko in the 2010 presidential election, Yanukovych had her imprisoned on trumped-up charges, with help from a legal brief prepared – at Manafort’s bidding – by the
prominent
American law firm Skadden Arps.
Indeed, a considerable number of the most
prominent
figures of the Cold War, in Russia and the US support abolition of nuclear weapons, including former German chancellor Helmut Schmidt, Paul Nitze, considered by many the author America's Cold War nuclear policy; former NATO commander Andrew J. Goodpaster, and Russia’s General Aleksander Lebed.
Today, new development partners are increasingly
prominent
in the global architecture, providing steadily rising aid contributions of different types.
Even without this change, the SDR can and should gain a more
prominent
position in global reserves.
If John Kerry and Chuck Hagel are confirmed as US secretaries of state and defense, respectively, the Obama administration will feature two
prominent
skeptics of military intervention.
But these two prominent, national membership organizations may succeed in dampening Islamic militancy where the government, afraid of waging the battle it must fight, has failed dismally.
Sedition was thus explicitly intended as an instrument to terrorize Indian nationalists; indeed, Mahatma Gandhi was among its
prominent
victims, though far from its last.
Senator David Vitter of Louisiana is the most
prominent
Republican member of Congress in favor of limiting the size and power of the biggest banks, but there are others who lean in a similar direction.
The roadmap even dangles the carrot of cabinet posts and provincial governorships to
prominent
Taliban figures.
Although he didn’t explicitly say so in his recent speech, he is clearly targeting the kind of Russian interference that played a
prominent
role in the 2016 US presidential election, and also threatened his own presidential campaign last spring.
Moreover,
prominent
human-rights lawyers have been jailed; the well-known free-speech advocate Pu Zhiqiang, for one, has already been held for over six months, while prosecutors attempt to build a case against him.
In Egypt, government authorities recently raided and shut down
prominent
cultural institutions – an art gallery, a theater, and a publishing house – where artists and activists once gathered.
This is even more likely in countries that do not face the same constraints on national solutions as members of the EU -- most
prominent
among them China or India, which only recently opened their borders to foreign direct investment in the financial sector.
The young candidate’s unexpected popular support is rooted within the ruling coalition: his adoptive father is a
prominent
Socialist senator (his biological father, a leader of the revolutionary left in the 1970’s, was killed by Pinochet’s political police).
Prominent
Russian intellectuals – including the filmmaker Nikita Mikhalkov, journalist Maksim Sokolov, and Vsevolod Chaplin, a Russian Orthodox cleric – call for the coronation of Putin, and petitions of support are gaining signatures online.
Perhaps the most
prominent
example from 2008 is the way that the failure of the investment bank Lehman Brothers risked brining about the imminent collapse of the insurer AIG, while also leading to intense pressure on money-market mutual funds.
Jolie is prominent, but she is hardly alone.
It has been produced for half a century, and, according to a poll conducted by Reuters, it is Europe’s most
prominent
business indicator, outperforming even official EU indicators.
Currently, the anti-corruption activist Alexei Navalny, a
prominent
critic of Putin’s regime, is being prosecuted for allegedly conspiring to embezzle from a state-owned timber firm, while Sergei Magnitsky, a lawyer who died in prison after accusing several Russian officials of large-scale embezzlement, is being tried posthumously on conspiracy charges.
In American corporate criminal actions, the targeted US firm often brings in a
prominent
figure – a former prosecutor or a former judge – to investigate the behavior and people involved and report to the target’s board of directors.
The latest example of this practice now in the news is that of General Motors, which hired Anton Valukas, a
prominent
former prosecutor who examined and reported on the dealings of the failed investment bank Lehman Brothers to the bankruptcy court.
But, thanks to the efforts of New York’s attorney general, Eric Schneiderman, and others, serious discussion has started in the United States about an out-of court mortgage settlement between state attorney generals and
prominent
financial-sector firms.
Losing InterestBERKELEY – Two of the world’s most
prominent
economic institutions, the International Monetary Fund and Former US Treasury Secretary Larry Summers, recently warned that the global economy may be facing an extended period of low interest rates.
The 103-minute production, by the
prominent
journalist Chai Jing, highlights the health risks posed by the thick smog shrouding China’s most productive cities.
Another danger lies in the
prominent
role in the revolution of multi-millionaires.
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