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The specter of a Middle East nuclear arms race, with Iran’s Sunni rivals in the region – Saudi Arabia, Egypt and others – redoubling their efforts to attain nuclear status, cannot be
ruled
out.
In this interpretation, ice ages in Russia’s history – periods when cold-blooded leaders
ruled
with an iron fist – were good for the country.
But the Court
ruled
that, absent a showing of actual racial bias in the minds of testers and administrators – virtually impossible to prove – the pervasive reality of racial disadvantage was not unlawful.
If the situation continues until the end of the year, which cannot be
ruled
out, many more countries could experience serious banking crises.
My own country, for example, invented much of what it means to be British in order to accommodate Scotland in the eighteenth century to the idea of rule from England, and to persuade the whole of the United Kingdom that it should not object to being
ruled
by German kings.
He then appealed to NATO to help investigate the crash, even though it has long since been
ruled
an accident.
Despite the economic advances they registered, Tunisia, Egypt, and many other Middle Eastern countries remained authoritarian countries
ruled
by a narrow group of cronies, with corruption, clientelism, and nepotism running rife.
The National Salvation Front that
ruled
Romania's first half-decade of transition, headed by Ion Iliescu, simply emerged triumphant from the bloodshed of 1989 as a fait accompli.
The gap between the rulers and the
ruled
widens everyday.
South Korea’s recently elected president, Park Geun-hye, is the daughter of Park Chung Hee, who
ruled
the country from 1961 to 1979.
Coke was the main sponsor of the 1978 World Cup in Argentina,
ruled
in those days by a brutal military junta.
One of the most secular regimes in the Arab world – Saddam Hussein’s Iraq was another – the Syrian Baath system, based on a trinity of party, army, and ethnic loyalty, has now drawn the country into a sectarian war between its Sunni majority and the small Shia-Alawite minority that has
ruled
for the last 45 years.
In February, the Stockholm arbitration court
ruled
that Gazprom must award Naftogaz $2.56 billion in damages for breach of a previous agreement between the two companies.
Both options cannot be
ruled
out.
Is the current crisis creating or revealing a growing split between rulers and
ruled?
Having
ruled
for four years, the DPP has already redrawn Taiwan's political map.
But both men, on finding themselves in positions of authority,
ruled
from their default positions: Bush as an evangelical convinced that God was on America’s side, and Putin as a KGB graduate convinced that all power comes from intimidation and threats.
So there is no question that the invitation to the New York Philharmonic was meant to burnish the prestige of a regime,
ruled
by The Dear Leader, Kim Jong-Il, whose standing is so low – even in neighboring China – that it needs all the burnishing it can get.
That is why the world must also consider implementing a shared strategy; call it Plan B.Of course, collective action will not be easy – not least because some measures, such as a global monetary or fiscal policy, were
ruled
out at the 1944 Bretton Woods conference, where world leaders created the international economic and financial architecture that prevails today.
Likewise, the appeal of war has
ruled
out the prospect of serious negotiations between Israel, Syria, and Lebanon.
Most Afghans will then be
ruled
again by tribal leaders, Islamists, drug barons, and warlords.
Yeltsin's victory settled who
ruled
Russia and who would determine economic policy.
Should the Al Saud dynasty fall and the country splinter into rival territories
ruled
by jihadi factions and tribes, the civil wars in Syria and Libya will seem like minor conflicts in comparison.
A free-floating exchange rate can be
ruled
out right away.
Panic is by no means assured, but cannot be
ruled
out.
In late January, Wade’s stacked Constitutional Court
ruled
that he could run for a third term, even though the Constitution allows only two terms.
Two characteristics of the Arab world could explain this: its predominantly Muslim population and the autocratic governments that have
ruled
much of the region for the past 50 years.
Instead, it boasts of reclaiming territories once
ruled
by the Kremlin and threatens to use force to “protect” ethnic Russians from purported threats.
Turkey's refusal to grant the Americans access to military bases on its territory effectively
ruled
out a northern front in the war.
With the war against ISIS winding down, a new round of violence in Lebanon – between pro-Saudi and pro-Iranian forces, or even between Hezbollah and Israel – cannot be
ruled
out.
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