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But Orwell’s critique doesn’t help in explaining the CCP’s surprising ability to retain power long after the demise of most of the socialist bloc, even in the face of widespread protests, including an estimated 74,000 separate incidents across China in 2004 alone.
Iran and Russia want to retain their crucial ally.
A member of the Council of Ministers divided the country into Ramzada (believers in the Hindu god Ram) and Haramzada (bastards) – and was allowed to retain her post.
Their reasoning: Since the future is uncertain, it makes sense to retain the flexibility conscription permits, to respond both to unforeseen changes in the security environment and to shortfalls in the recruitment of volunteers; here the difficulties that allied armies are encountering which have jettisoned conscription have been a warning.
Rising carbon dioxide, in turn, causes the Earth to retain more heat from the sun, increasing the earth’s temperature.
Russia’s famous oligarchs have already stashed most of their wealth abroad, but they retain significant savings at home.
These risks could in turn exacerbate internal discord in the country at a time when the ruling Justice and Development Party is struggling to retain popular support.
Otherwise, states retain their freedom to act individually.
But ex-communists retain Leninist talents: a tight political structure, grassroots connections, capacity for nationwide activity, and a strong leadership devoted to holding power and enacting long term goals.
So far, Scottish nationalists have insisted that an independent Scotland would retain the pound.
After independence in the early 1960’s, during the Cold War, many African rulers played the West against the Soviet bloc to retain their predatory economies.
Elite networks continue to conspire with foreign interests to cannibalize their economies and retain the perquisites of power: fleets of luxury cars, private jets, bank accounts in tax havens, overseas properties, consumer goods, weaponry, etc.
The West’s reluctance to intensify sanctions stems largely from European countries that retain strong economic ties with Russia.
So science must retain its claim to being natural philosophy, too.
The final tab on the toxic mortgage bailout and other assets is likely to be a larger percentage of a larger amount, but still far less than the face value of the loans, because the underlying assets will in many cases retain considerable value.
But, among renewable-energy options, biofuels have the greatest environmental impact of all, because they require large areas of agricultural land and forest, yet fail to retain the carbon dioxide that nature captures so effectively.
In this way, populist politicians can retain some economic control while negotiating with investors for new funds.
In those rare areas, like taxation, where elected representatives retain formal autonomy, the pressures of globalization have attenuated ideological differences between established center-left and center-right parties.
By focusing on the ethnic Russian majority in Crimea and declaring his right to “protect” ethnic Russians abroad, his legitimating myth now includes the role of national savior, which could enable him to retain power indefinitely.
The most likely result is that France will retain the bonus tax, continuing the effort to shift European policy away from Anglo-Saxon-style capital markets.
First, how much conventional war-fighting capability should the US military retain?
By and large, workers and management in Continental Europe retain many of the old class antagonisms that first emerged with the rise of industrialism in the 19 th Century.
Attempting to retain advantages for your exporters and to buy up commodities regardless of the political and economic price is a tactic for China, not a strategy for the world.
If the Salehs retain control of the air force, which remains under the control of Saleh’s half-brother, employing it against defecting military divisions would likely lead to a bloodbath.
And the thousands of electronic voting machines that are manufactured in India can survive heat, dust, and power failures – and retain their results safely until the votes are ready to be counted, sometimes weeks later.
Now, imagine that, of that total, the companies pay out $250 in dividends (which you reinvest to buy more stock) and retain $450 in earnings to reinvest in their businesses.
And how can Europe’s institutions function with enhanced legitimacy to accommodate countries that share the euro and others that retain their national currencies?
And political parties that have either openly or implicitly called for leaving the eurozone currently hold a parliamentary majority, and would likely retain it in another election later this year or in early 2019.
The college president, though usually a clergyman, was in effect the CEO of a struggling enterprise that needed to attract and retain students and donors.
As long as one of the parties to a sexual transaction is considered to be a criminal, prostitution will retain its underground character.
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