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Europe must redefine itself and identify its mission anew if it wishes to retain its geopolitical weight.
Policy adjustments, clever tactics of manipulation, and a healthy dose of luck enabled the CCP to win the support it needed to retain power and suppress destabilizing forces.
In this context, the decision to retain the CFA franc, a freely convertible common currency that is pegged to the euro at a significantly overvalued exchange rate, is dubious.
They wanted to retain Hong Kong as a dynamic capitalist showcase – one that remained as politically quiescent as before the handover.
Can an Argentine president promote disinflation and retain voter support during a period of slower growth, or even recession?
Of course, it is true that birthright citizens live their lives – and retain their citizenship – without ever being tested on the basics of their political systems.
A leader is only as good as the people who work for him, so organizations must make it a high priority to attract and retain good staff and rid themselves of those who lack professional integrity or competence.
In Russia, unlike in most other countries, the central bank does not retain the exclusive right to intervene.
Moreover, wage flexibility meant that substantially slower wage growth in the states that lost industries helped to attract and retain other industries.
Because they retain sovereignty, they cannot make similarly credible commitments not to interfere with financial markets.
For Europe’s task is to maintain and strengthen structures of cooperation that retain the advantages of diversity and independence without reviving the old curse of the European nation state: xenophobia, bloodshed, and war.
The normal cells of women carrying the BRCA1 or BRCA2 mutations can still recombine, because they retain one functional allele—or alternative form—of the gene.
Finally, Pakistan’s military, which has governed the country for half of its 64-year history, is fighting hard to retain influence over policymaking.
With EEA status, Britain could retain “sovereignty” (actually loss of influence in EU decision-making) and “control of its borders,” two key (and much distorted) promises made by Leave campaigners.
The key reason is that wages in China began rising much faster than in other low-wage Asian economies, and companies within Asia’s production networks are finding it difficult to retain their most talented Chinese staff, particularly in the country’s booming coastal regions.
With a prize system, innovators are rewarded for new knowledge, but they do not retain a monopoly on its use.
But to retain popular backing will be a problem in Western Europe, America's closest allies.
In fact, thanks to automation, Asia is likely to retain its manufacturing dominance, even after wages rise above the traditional levels of manufacturing-intensive economies.
Articles 56 and 61 stipulate that the SCAF will retain a broad range of executive powers until a president is elected.
While China and the US battle it out, each trying to retain its own “exorbitant privilege,” Europe seems to be stuck in the middle, suffering from the same disadvantages of the US position, but enjoying none of its privileges.
The founders remain the company’s only shareholders; they want to retain control of the technology, while working with partners and investors to build the operating units.
The BJP, licking its wounds after such a rout, must now decide what sort of election campaign it will conduct to retain power in New Delhi.
We had better sort it out quickly – legally, morally, and culturally – if we are to retain a proper sense of what it means to live in a free society.
If governments that retain strong credit ratings are to spend scarce resources effectively, the most effective approach is to catalyze debt workouts and reductions.
In Egypt, though, the prospects for women seem gloomier, because they failed to retain the pre-revolution quota system that had given them 64 parliamentary seats.
Now the only change he wants to make is to the constitution, so that he can retain his hold on power.
In doing so, Wade broke ranks with the rest of the African Union, naively expecting to gain French and Western support for his bid to retain power.
They retain the biggest faction in parliament and control government in 20 regions.
The UK could face an exodus of foreign firms, as companies seek to retain a presence in the EU.
Herein lies the unique twist that Piketty's theory takes on in Japan: the disparity is not so much between the super-rich and everyone else, but between large corporations, which can retain earnings and accumulate capital, and the individuals who are being squeezed in the process.
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