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And, though a formal offer of membership in either organization is at best a distant possibility, it has not been ruled out.
The implication of these findings is that early on (perhaps since dinosaurs ruled the earth, or even before) evolution hit upon a way of wiring the brain to produce responses likely to keep an organism alive in dangerous situations.
Trump is likely to be a leading proponent of this tack; in fact, even regional trade deals may be ruled out, as his opposition to ratifying the 12-country Trans-Pacific Partnership suggests.
Japan’s Self-Defense DefenseCAMBRIDGE – Since the end of World War II, Japan has been ruled by an American-written “peace constitution,” Article 9 of which prohibits war and limits Japanese forces to self-defense.
Since 2001, the Kirchners have ruled with a siege mentality.
During the 30 months he ruled his country, from mid-1998 to the start of 2001, Estrada accepted payoffs from gambling lords and orchestrated (with social security funds) sales of stocks, channeling much of the profits into his personal aliased account.
Today, the bigger danger is that an increasing number of smaller countries ruled by unstable or dictatorial regimes will try to acquire nuclear weapons.
For the clumsiness of Chancellor Kohl in seeking to force the Bundesbank to revalue Germany's gold reserves (a fiscal fudge designed to allow Germany to meet the Maastrich criteria), and the fact that after the victories of Tony Blair in Britain and Jospin in France only Germany and Spain are now ruled by governments of the Right, should facilitate the search for a compromise.
And while ECB President Mario Draghi has highlighted the technical, legal, and accounting obstacles that stand in the way of helicopter drops by his institution, he has not ruled them out.
The court ruled that Parliament had failed to hold the president accountable in a scandal concerning diverted state funds.
But he has consistently ruled it out, and launched an independent bid for the presidency in November, most likely with an eye toward the long term.
It may also shield the Palestinians from Israel as it reassures the Israelis that the political entity that will emerge on their doorstep is not going to be another failed quasi-state ruled by warlords and terrorists.
But the matter is far from settled: Obama has not ruled out a military strike.
In China’s view, Patten’s position was hypocritical, even offensive, given that the British had ruled Hong Kong autocratically.
Italy’s Return to Political ParalysisFor more than a decade, Italy has been ruled through a bipolar political system.
Even if greed is ruled out as an acceptable motive, in favor of traditional ethno-cultural nationalism, a profusion of tiny tribal states might make the world far more unstable.
Why should the West insist on elections in a country that since 1984 was ruled by a Western-backed dictator, Lansana Conté, who himself came to power in a military coup?
For decades, the Congress Party of Nehru and his daughter, Indira Gandhi, basically ruled the country unchallenged.
Without such solidarity, we are marching towards a world with no center, no authority, no order; a world ruled by a globalized Mafia “where what is official and what is clandestine will meet”.
A coalition government comprising the AKP and the MHP cannot be ruled out, but such an alliance would detract from the inclusive agenda that won the AKP much of its support during the past decade.
Here is a country that disappeared from the map of Europe in the eighteenth century and was divided and ruled by imperial occupiers for 150 years.
“[T]he provisions of the Brazilian Amnesty Law that prevent the investigation and sanctioning of severe human rights violations,” the tribunal ruled, are “incompatible with the American Convention.”
And they certainly were never asked if they wanted to be ruled by a Sunni dynasty that the British had implanted from the Hejaz, now a part of Saudi Arabia.
With Iraq probably becoming the first Arab country to be ruled by Shiites, and hence integrated into an expanding Shiite Iranian empire, America’s Sunni allies in the region now view the US as unreliable.
Given that Xi has ruled out mobilizing the Chinese public to support his reform plans, his only means of forcing the bureaucracy to comply with his agenda is the threat of corruption investigations and prosecutions.
He had ruled Kenya for 13 years before a move in 1991 to reintroduce multi-party democracy paved the way for an election the following year.
A succession of dictator-presidents ruled the country under a state of emergency for more than 40 years.
Some assumed an implicit debt guarantee, but that was always implausible, given that the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union explicitly ruled it out.
Since Deng’s final years in power, in the late 1980s, a form of collective leadership within the Communist Party has ruled China, with the same unwritten conventions protecting the most powerful from retribution.
But this scenario, too, can be ruled out, owing to the regional bias against military interventions and the fact that Venezuela’s neighbors lack the means to carry one out.
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