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While Prime Minister David Cameron’s government has staunchly opposed Russia’s actions in Ukraine, the City of London is determined to retain the Russian oligarchs as clients.
Despite regular exposure to terrorist attacks, Israelis retain a sense of relative security, owing partly to the ability of civil society to contribute to their own safety.
But such trappings will not make the transition process any easier for a young man of less than 30 in a society where veteran military chiefs retain so much power.
It is rare for someone who has reached the exalted office of President of the United States to retain the capacity for, much less interest in, hero worship.
Likewise, in the emerging conception of universities – one that draws heavily from the corporate world – educational “managers,” applying “best practices” (and always ready to move on to the next posting) – retain the most cursory regard for the institution’s life and traditions.
All CIS countries - with the possible exception of Belarus - will retain their sovereignty.
The worst reason for this will be the oldest reason: some pre-crisis elites retain influence and/or power.
They retain their intellectual autonomy, but could only have won their university posts - and thereby access to research facilities - on the basis of competitive assessments of the originality and promise of their published research.
Within the framework of these rules, individual countries would retain the authority to design their policies.
Geographical restriction and specialized transmission mean that in most time periods, most pathogens occur in a small number of host species, often only one, but retain the ability to infect more.
But, as London’s status shows, a longtime 1-IFC can retain its position in the international financial system even if its currency is no longer an IVC.
After his bodyguards assassinated him in 2001, his son, Joseph Kabila, became president, a job that he is seeking to retain in the forthcoming election.
Even the overwhelming military strength of the US only bears on those international situations which have the potential to turn into military conflicts; in all others -- the vast majority -- missiles and aircraft carriers retain little impact.
In other words, the segment of the US government that is directly responsible for upholding national security recognizes the need to attract and retain highly educated workers to provide care and early learning to the children of all employees.
After all, Putin needs their support – as short-lived or ephemeral as it may be – to retain his grip on power.
And Putin, for his part, understands this well enough to know that he needs no gulags – only the canny use of fear and forgiveness – to retain his grip on power.
To help chart a path for companies to hire, retain, and promote female employees, we are joining more than 400 global business leaders and government representatives in Santiago, Chile, this week for the Fourth Global Forum on Business for Gender Equality.
The bad news is that big banks retain significant political power.
Even if most eurozone countries retain the single currency, it will be because abandoning the euro would be financially painful.
China, too, most likely wants to retain, at least for a while, the benefits of single-party rule, and delay the transition to “messier” governance influenced by multiple voices.
No less important is the establishment of NATO institutions in Poland, in particular its Signal Battalion and Joint Force Training Center, which Poland managed to retain despite reforms of NATO’s chain of command.
But if the goal is merely for the communists to retain their monopoly on power, in both Hong Kong and China, then the rot that has settled into Hong Kong's polity and its economy may begin to infect the mainland.
I retain not only these images forever in my head, but also the sights and smells of thousands of decayed corpses stacked in two mine tunnels near Tuzla.
Under the feeble dynastic leadership of Sonia Gandhi (the widow of assassinated prime minister Rajiv Gandhi, Nehru’s grandson and the son of Prime Minister Indira Gandhi) and her son Rahul, Congress now seems unable even to retain seats in its historic bastions, such as Uttar Pradesh.
Because development-provoked erosion has brought the Gulf of Mexico 20 miles closer to land than it was in 1965, hurricanes are able to retain more strength, and their winds and waves pack more speed and destructive power.
While much remains uncertain, what is clear is that if the UK wants to retain access to the European single market, it will have to accept the EU’s four freedoms, including the free movement of workers.
It is in your best interest to retain the role of the victim, rather than receive reparation.
Instead of a one-time satisfaction, you retain a permanent privilege.
The government owns or controls most of the mass media – the major newspapers and television stations – but there is an abundance of mostly marginalized publications and radio stations (to say nothing of the Internet) that retain a remarkable degree of independence.
For in every democracy the excluded retain certain inalienable rights, including the right to vote.
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