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Yes, Assad would remain in power; yes, Russia would retain an ally in Syria; and yes, Iran would have influence there.
In a democratic society, therefore, the only way a minority – whether it’s large corporations trying to exploit workers and consumers, banks trying to exploit borrowers, or those mired in the past trying to recreate a bygone world – can retain their economic and political dominance is by undermining democracy itself.
If the country of my birth is to retain its reputation as one of Africa’s most liberal states, it must confront its affinity for the gallows.
While both the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights contain de facto prohibitions on capital punishment, the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) recognizes a state’s authority to retain the practice.
The report asserts that the media should retain the fundamental responsibility for press regulation.
But his successor, Julia Gillard – Australia’s first woman prime minister – failed so spectacularly to retain that support that the ALP seemed destined to political exile for a generation.
Nonetheless, there are messages in our experience that resonate not just domestically, but also for parties in Europe, Canada, and elsewhere that share some of the ALP’s social-democratic and center-left ideological traditions, and that are also struggling to win or retain electoral support.
This model, contemplated by the European Economic Advisory Group at CESifo, would retain the disciplinary effects of interest-rate spreads while capping them in order to limit panicked extremes in the capital markets.
People’s religious decisions should be driven by their sense of faith, rather than their desire to retain their civil rights.
Equally problematic, the AU’s decision creates an additional incentive for heads of state and other senior officials who have committed atrocities to retain their grip on power.
The expectation that this trend will continue has driven homeowners to retain possession of their properties, even though rental rates amount to less than 2% of a property’s market value.
The western realm would retain (initially at least) a common defense anchored in the deployment of U.S. forces integrated with European forces.
In other words, Suu Kyi will have to accept the same lesson the generals did: The best way to retain power is often to compromise.
If it does, we have all the reason we need to retain it; but if it does not, don’t we have as much power and as much right to change the arrangements under which we are governed as the framers had to prescribe them in the first place?
They could, for example, retain ownership of the bonds, but sell off their economic interest.
Britain’s European Ties That BindMADRID – Since the official start of Brexit negotiations last month, attention has been focused largely on the most contentious issues: how much the United Kingdom owes to the European Union, whether the UK will remain subject to the jurisdiction of the European Court of Justice (ECJ), and what rights British residents of the EU and EU residents of the UK will retain.
The company’s board should set the schedule in a way that ensures that executives always retain the desired level of equity ownership.
Given a slowing global economy, in which emerging markets are probably very grateful for any reserves they retain, this might seem an ill-timed question.
Any significant liberalization would contradict these regimes’ own political needs and objectives to retain control at any cost.
Their main argument was that the shortcomings of EU-level democratic practices required the German Bundestag to retain a substantial number of policy competences.
Even if the US – and, to some extent, Western Europe – does retain a competitive edge, it is unlikely to retain the kind of global geopolitical control that it has had since World War II and, especially, since the Soviet Union’s collapse left it as the world’s sole superpower.
Indeed, “talentism” will be the prevailing economic credo, with human or intellectual capital becoming the most critical asset – and the one most difficult to acquire and retain.
Significantly, in contrast to its increasingly vituperative attacks on the Dalai Lama, China has not denounced (or derecognized) its Karmapa, although his flight to India signaled its failure to retain the loyalty of a supposed puppet.
Large companies and wealthy individuals use their power and influence to capture and retain an ever-increasing share of the benefits of economic growth, while the poorest get by on a persistently shrinking piece of the pie.
In other words, the EMU will remain an institutional arrangement among individual countries that retain their fiscal sovereignty.
Such an overall cap would allow each taxpayer to retain all of his existing deductions and exclusions but would limit the amount by which he could reduce his tax liability in this way.
And it would force multilateral organizations to reform if they wish to retain even the limited relevance that they have now.
Moreover, they allowed the CCP to retain its hold on power.
Proteins that retain the same function across very different species – generally the case with orthologs – are expected to keep the same fold.
But we tend to retain into adulthood the same views of God that we formed in childhood.
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