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One thing seems clear from the recent incident: a new dispensation reigns in China, and will continue to guide policy for the next decade under Xi’s leadership.
Neoliberalism reigns.
Chaos reigns in Egypt and Libya, where post-revolution authorities are proving too brittle either to consolidate their authority, or to incorporate more popular forces.
Global climate-change negotiations have similarly ended in failure, and disagreement reigns concerning how to address food and energy security amid a new scramble for global resources.
In other words, price stability reigns in the eurozone.
Generation-long reigns seem to have served Malaysia exceedingly well since independence.
But it is equally naive to believe that phenomena such as Brexit or Trump’s election augur the return of a world in which the nation-state reigns supreme.
So Sarkozy will step down as finance minister next month to take the reigns of the ruling conservative party (UMP), washing his hands of Chirac's muddled government and hoping to use the party machine to bulldoze his way into the Elysée Palace in two years.
Sheng and Geng see a world in which “the sovereign state still reigns supreme, with national interests overshadowing shared objectives.”
One place that has not changed is Cuba, despite Fidel Castro’s decision to retire and hand the reigns of power over to his brother Raul.
In much of Asia, Africa, and Latin America, however, optimism reigns.
Thus reigns the collectivist mentality that drives the unending feud between Jews and Palestinians.
Greece, too, is turning over the reigns of government to an unelected, and supposedly apolitical, technocrat, Lucas Papademos, a former vice president of the European Central Bank.
The fact that France has experienced high unemployment for over two decades, no matter who holds the reigns of power, is a clear sign that French economic policy is amiss.
For starters, the crisis has reminded us that nature still reigns supreme, and it should spur us to step up efforts to mitigate and adapt to other systemic threats, particularly climate change, which will continue to be the biggest threat to development.
When times are tough or uncertainty reigns, investors flock to dollar-denominated assets, particularly US Treasury debt – ironically, even when there is a financial crisis in the US.
For the time being, panic reigns.
He fell silent for some moments, then he said:"There's a powerful, obedient, swift, and effortless force that can be bent to any use and which reigns supreme aboard my vessel.
On two or three occasions the Marquis took his part: 'If he is absurd in your drawing-room, in his own office he reigns supreme.'Julien, for his part, thought he could divine the Marquise's secret.
'He has an immense power over me, since he reigns by terror and can inflict a fearful punishment on me if I drive him to extremes.'
From the dim woods on either bank, Night's ghostly army, the grey shadows, creep out with noiseless tread to chase away the lingering rear- guard of the light, and pass, with noiseless, unseen feet, above the waving river-grass, and through the sighing rushes; and Night, upon her sombre throne, folds her black wings above the darkening world, and, from her phantom palace, lit by the pale stars, reigns in stillness.
But he would have been still more surprised had he seen the peace and kindliness which reigns now in the hearts of men, and the talk in the papers and at the meetings that there is to be no more war--save, of course, with blacks and such like.
After all, where envy reigns virtue cannot live, and where there is niggardliness there can be no liberality.
As he was about to leave the presence, the cardinal gave him a friendly smile, and said, "A perfect harmony reigns, sire, between the leaders and the soldiers of your Musketeers, which must be profitable for the service and honorable to all.""He will play me some dog’s trick or other, and that immediately," said Treville.
She did not invoke God, we very well know, but she had faith in the genius of evil--that immense sovereignty which reigns in all the details of human life, and by which, as in the Arabian fable, a single pomegranate seed is sufficient to reconstruct a ruined world.
Here, at least, the descendant of Alfred still reigns a princess."
There reigns in it gentleness and goodness; and if a tinge of the world's pride or vanities may mix with an expression so lovely, how should we chide that which is of earth for bearing some colour of its original?
"Christus regnat!" rose ever louder, and in the seats, far up to the highest, among the rows of spectators, more than one asked himself the question, "What is happening, and who is that Christus who reigns in the mouths of those people who are about to die?"
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