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That has been the missing ingredient, not only in Iraq, but also in other countries ruled by despots.
The State of Netherlands, in which a Dutch court ruled, in 2015, that the government must ensure that the country’s emissions are cut by one quarter within five years.
A scenario in which Merkel finishes out her term, staying on for another three years, should therefore not be ruled out.
Finally, reformists see no contradiction between democracy and Islamic teaching, though democracy does conflict with centuries of tradition governing how Muslims actually have been ruled.
Northern PDP leaders complained that Yar’Adua’s predecessor, a Christian southerner, had ruled Nigeria for eight years and that it was only fair that a northerner should hold power.
My life was ruled by tk – which stands for “to kum,” or “to come,” in the jargon of reporters.
Mao’s revolution fueled countless rectification movements and campaigns that inverted the once-inviolate primacy of ruler over ruled, scholar over worker, husband over wife, father over son, and family over individual.
The court recently ruled that Nawaz Sharif, who Musharraf unseated eight years ago, must be allowed to return from exile.
As Francis Fukuyama has pointed out, the development of a capable state that is accountable and ruled by law is one of the crowning achievements of human civilization.
Unfortunately, it is not the people who are trying to change their country’s future, but the Egyptian military and the same politicians who ruled Egypt under the previous regime.
I ruled out a role for Special Drawing Rights (SDRs), the accounting unit issued by the International Monetary Fund.
At the same time, similar scandals removed liberal politicians from power in Hungary and Slovakia, which are now ruled by the most pro-Russian governments in the EU.
Ownership change was ruled off the reform agenda, however, reflecting not only ideological principles but, mainly, the desire to keep SOEs under the state's control.
To avoid such an outcome, the EU must transform itself from a redistributive union ruled by the majority to an optimal and voluntary union ruled by unanimity – one that conforms to the Pareto principle.
In September of that year, Bundesbank President Helmut Schlesinger made some reckless comments about how devaluations within Europe’s system of supposed stable exchange rates “cannot be ruled out.”
Will they be ruled by bearded men in turbans and veiled women - or will we see suits and high heels?
They believe that responding to calls for stimulus would simply lead to more such calls, creating a log-rolling, pork-barrel dynamic in which any hope for fiscal consolidation is ruled out.
Lady Macbeth of PyongyangTOKYO – North Korea’s communist regime is, by most accounts, set to complete its second dynastic transfer of power, this time from Kim Jong-il, who has ruled since 1994, to his youngest son, Kim Jong-eun.
Confucianism exalts an idealized bond between father and son as the model for all human relations, including between ruler and ruled.
Regular presidential elections in Mexico failed to disguise the fact that the same party ruled the country for over seven decades until earlier this year.
A revision of US policy towards Israel’s nuclear status can by no means be ruled out.
But the US Supreme Court has repeatedly ruled that states may not nullify or contravene federal law – a right some southern states claimed in the mid-twentieth century to resist school integration.
Meanwhile, as Gates was berating the NATO allies, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was bluntly warning African leaders that “authoritarian governments” ruled by “aging despots” were “no longer acceptable.”
(The judge ruled that there was insufficient reason to issue the requested arrest warrant.)
One reason China has been transformed into a gigantic building site, with huge new cities emerging almost overnight, is that this drives a red-hot and highly corrupt economy, ruled by a Leninist party that has monetized political power by asset-stripping and construction.
Whereas earlier, Chancellor Merkel had ruled out the old French idea of eurozone-specific governance for fear of being in a minority among Southern European countries, she has now drawn a lesson from the crisis and is proposing that eurozone countries go ahead and tighten cooperation with any others who are able and willing to join them.
On the Palestinian side, Mahmoud Abbas’s Palestinian Authority lost control in 2006 of the Gaza Strip – now ruled by an illegitimate Hamas-led government – and thus cannot speak anymore for all Palestinians.
For now, she seems to have ruled out calling an early election ahead of the Brexit negotiations.
Given that Qaddafi ruled Libya for more than four decades, his is a legacy that cannot simply be ignored.
Certain ASEAN countries clearly value their relationships with China more than their relationships with other ASEAN countries; so, unless China has already ruled out any negotiation on the South China Sea, it should not rule out meeting ASEAN as a bloc.
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