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Indeed, we struggle--more or less successfully, I think--even to define what a "scholarly" practicing physician is, because a clinician's reputation rests on local interactions that are often difficult to document.
But this logic rests more on correlation than causation.
To assess the risks and options for China and the world, one must understand China’s “Made in the World” production system, which rests on four distinct but mutually dependent pillars.
NEPAD's credibility and ultimate success rests on the answers to these questions.
Catholicism – or, more accurately, the celibate male mythos at the heart of the institutional church – rests on centuries of sexism.
To meet this challenge, we have designed an economic strategy that rests on three pillars: Europe, fiscal consolidation, and competitiveness.
Indeed, the program’s public defense rests shakily on a presumption of baseless speculative pressures.
Either way, the premise that the US should lead forcefully rests on the idea that without a benevolent hegemonic power to police the world, chaos will ensue and more malevolent forces will take over.
His success as a president rests less on the good things he has done (although he has done plenty) than on the stupid things he has avoided, like getting into more unnecessary wars.
The global effort to combat climate change rests on a collection of non-binding agreements, from which the United States has withdrawn.
At worst, however, it creates an image of arrogance that can only undermine the credibility on which central banks’ authority rests.
Justification, if it exists, rests on the danger Saddam's regime posed.
Lenin defined his "dictatorship of the proletariat" as "power that is limited by nothing, by no laws, that is restrained by absolutely no rules, that rests directly on coercion."
Given the lack of political freedoms, the Chinese government’s legitimacy rests on its ability to deliver improved living standards and increased economic opportunity to the masses.
The “Strategic and Global Partnership between Japan and India,” established in 2006, rests on the recognition that Japan and India share common values and interests, as they are the two major entrenched democratic countries in Asia.
By keeping an open stance on immigration, maintaining a respectful discourse toward all who want to live out their differences freely, and considering women in a modern and dignified manner, Obama was able to mobilize the strength of America’s exceptionalism, which rests on one key word: diversity.
Europe’s Populist Fifth ColumnBRUSSELS – European security currently rests essentially on the NATO alliance and the principle of mutual defense, and on cooperation between national intelligence services working to prevent violence against people and national assets.
The G-8 process, which Italy chairs this year, will test such resolve - on which rests the legitimacy of the entire process.
Perhaps most important, they have undermined the basis on which political union rests – namely, persuading European Union citizens to identify with the European idea.
Whatever hope exists that they can be persuaded to withdraw support or sanctuary from terrorists rests on the certainty and effectiveness with which they are confronted.
The potential for global leadership still rests, believe it or not, with the US.
It rests on a bedrock of good governance and the rule of law – in other words, a well-performing state.
Ukraine is one of the cornerstones on which the European order rests after the Cold War.
Drawn from traditional “just war” theory, R2P rests not only on right intentions, but also on the existence of a reasonable prospect of success.
What Lucas makes out to be a general truth – that the path to economic growth cannot lie in creating and acquiring the kind of knowledge that is “embodied” in books, blueprints, and machines – rests on a barely examined decision to restrict attention to only a few kinds of models.
How can democratization begin if Pakistan’s army and Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) agency are immune to civilian oversight and decisive power rests with military generals?
Of course, competence and responsibility for arms-export controls and licensing rests with member states, not EU institutions.
We must also recognize that a war with Iraq, even a limited war, could profoundly disrupt the international flow of goods, services, and investments upon which our global economy now rests.
A country’s success – whether measured by the glory of its Kaiser, the expansion of its territory, the security of its borders, or the well-being of its population – rests on the health of its people.
And yet a grave responsibility rests upon their shoulders.
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