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To start, we can rule out Chile from the supposed leftist surge, for it is a country ruled by a centrist coalition of Ricardo Lagos’s European-style socialists and the country’s historic Christian democrats.
The big question is whether the rich countries that have long ruled the roost at the Fund would actually surrender some of their power.
And precedents from Argentina, Chile, and Peru have shown how even in countries where the atrocities occurred, amnesties granted under pressure of violence can be ruled invalid.
Spain, Austria, Italy, Denmark, Portugal are already ruled by center-right governments.
But Bolivia’s constitutional court has ruled that he can, because the adoption of a new constitution redefined the country as the Plurinational State of Bolivia;Morales, therefore, served his first term as the head of a different state.
Europeans have concerned themselves largely with introspection, ancient animosities, and sweet dreams of the nineteenth century, when they still ruled the world.
When it worked – which was not always true – the chair ruled the FOMC with an iron hand and with the near-lockstep voting support of the governors.
A similar outcome cannot be ruled out in the months ahead.
For example, in October 2010, the Afghan Supreme Court ruled that women who run away from home can be charged with prostitution, unless they go to the police or an immediate relative's home.
Is there another country where only a father and his son have ruled like demigods for the last 61 years?
Here, indeed, is a wonderful plot to force the State to retrench, but Italians shouldn't get their hopes up too early, for Italy's supreme court ruled that taxation is not for the people to decide.
In parts of the Balkans long ruled by the Ottoman Empire, trust in government is lower than in nearby regions that just happened to have been ruled by the more efficient Habsburgs.
Recently I traveled in distant regions of Russia, where I grasped the enormous disconnect between the center (Moscow) and Russia’s periphery, between rulers and ruled.
Over a million Palestinians, unable to flee to either Egypt or Israel, have for years been ruled by a military junta that prioritizes the killing of Israelis, across the international border, at all costs.
And, as the Soviet nuclear arsenal grew, the US government ruled out defense against a missile attack: because it could not deflect every incoming nuclear explosive, it would be safer if neither side tried to build ballistic missile defenses.
Major social unrest cannot be ruled out.
This reduced the risk of escalation, but it also ruled out many potential targets, limiting the price paid by the Syrian government for what it had done.
It is tempting to dismiss other countries’ experiences, particularly after Egypt’s youth-led grassroots movement delivered something that no one thought possible (toppling in just 18 days a president that had ruled with an iron fist for 30 years).
In 1983, Suharto, who ruled Indonesia with an iron fist from 1967 to 1998, presided over a series of mysterious deaths, known as the Petrus Killings (for their Indonesian acronym).
And so, still, is China, ruled by engineers and other faceless technocrats.
For example, in a 2002 Virginia case, the high court ruled that the execution of the mentally retarded is forbidden by the American Constitution as "cruel and unusual punishment."
In the absence of a backstop for emerging-country finances, the doomsday scenario of a protectionist vicious cycle reminiscent of the 1930’s could no longer be ruled out.
His case was strong, because the UK Supreme Court subsequently ruled in a different case that the government does not have the power to make a person stateless.
In the nineteenth century, much of geopolitical rivalry revolved around the “Eastern Question” of who would control the area ruled by the crumbling Ottoman Empire.
Karnataka (whose capital, Bangalore, is a symbol of India’s thriving software and business-process-outsourcing industries) had been ruled for the previous five years by the Bharatiya Janata Party, the country’s main opposition party, which governed India from 1998 to 2004.
Indeed, while changes in fundamental perceptions may not occur easily or fast, they should never be ruled out.
The legitimacy of Kim Jong-un’s claim to power is weak, despite his blood tie to his father and grandfather, the dynasty that has ruled North Korea since its inception.
A judge who had previously ruled against Tempo in Winata's civil suit filled her vacancy.
He has already ruled out any changes to Social Security.
After all, unlike the Soviet Union, Russia has not ruled out the offensive use of nuclear weapons.
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