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Poverty drives some to take money in exchange for acts of violence, abetted by the lure of a false heroism that they were not able to act upon during Saddam’s long
reign.
The 500 years of Abbasid
reign
that followed provide many valuable illustrations of how these two communities subsequently related to each other.
But it is no more arbitrary than the accident of birth, which determines the right of kings and queens to
reign
over their countries.
In the months ahead, the military-enforced calm will coexist with growing anxiety about what will follow King Bhumibol Adulyadej’s nearly seven-decade-long
reign.
Has Brexit paved the way for the decline of one of the EU’s most dynamic economies and the end of London’s
reign
as a global financial center?
The surprise has been emerging economies’ apparent nonchalance regarding America’s roughshod
reign
at the World Bank.
Indeed, the central feature of the first decade of the Pope's
reign
was his struggle against dictatorship--Communist dictatorship in particular.
In the early 1980’s, prior to the
reign
of exchange-rate targeting, the fashion was money-supply targeting, the brainchild of the monetarist Milton Friedman.
Indeed, historians have counted as many as 25 such cycles since the
reign
of Tsar Ivan III.
In Putin’s authoritarian capitalism – similar to that of China – Western-style liberal democracy, which was supposed to
reign
triumphant, has a new rival.
So wherever globalization and full commercialization
reign
supreme, there is an unmistakable concentration of quality and success.
Indeed, there is no way of knowing whether his ideas and policies throughout his
reign
were actually Kim Il-sung’s.
Third, strongmen will continue to
reign.
If they double down on status quo policies, their
reign
will eventually give way to an extended period of populist-inspired economic chaos and minority scapegoating.
The “democratic energy” of Norway may constitute too distant a goal, but Russia’s role as a predictable energy supplier requires ending the
reign
of corruption.
At home, Salman’s
reign
so far has meant a marked increase in the number of sentences of death by decapitation, often carried out in public – a method emulated by the Islamic State.
As long as the system is corrupted from above, and as long as the only way common people can deal with the government is through bribery, says the report, inefficiency will
reign
and people will cheat each other.
Toledo assumed the presidency planning to dismantle the corruption that marked Fujimori's administrations and end the
reign
of his crooked chief of intelligence, Vladimiro Montesinos.
The media, silent during Fujimori's reign, contribute to the feverish political climate.
During the 1547-1553
reign
of Henry’s son, Edward VI, revolutionary momentum carried England definitively in a Protestant direction.
A weak, partitioned Afghanistan may not be a desirable outcome; but a “soft” partition now would be far better than a “hard” partition later, after years of chaos and bloodletting – and infinitely better than the medieval Taliban’s return to power and a fresh
reign
of terror.
They also see this victory as the main counter-weight to the memory of the USSR as a
reign
of brutal, unjustified violence.
In the 30 years of former President Hosni Mubarak’s reign, the regime tried to transform the country by embracing a distorted form of liberal capitalism and a relentlessly realist foreign policy that positioned Egypt as a sidekick to the region’s petro-dollar heavyweights.
Fahd, the eldest Sudeiri son, ruled for 23 years, the longest
reign
for a Saudi king.
It is fine to blame their southern compatriots for fiscal profligacy, or, in the case of Spain and Ireland, for letting free markets have free reign, without seeing where that would lead.
They also view Russia in terms of a tradition whereby every new tsar partly repudiates the legacy of his predecessor, creating a political thaw at the beginning of a new
reign.
Putin’s third presidency will be a
reign
of instinct and appetite, rather than a government of reason and restraint.
The
reign
of Emperor Trump could be just around the corner.
The clearest example is a common currency: the US dollar; the Euro that will shortly
reign
in the common market.
By contrast, the suicide in 1939 of Stalin’s wife, Nadezhda Allilueva, underscored the
reign
of terror in the country.
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