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The retirements from frontline politics of Singapore’s Lee Kuan Yew and Malaysia’s Mahathir Mohamed have deprived Southeast Asia of its
senior
leaders.
How Europe Can Save the Iran Nuclear DealLONDON – This week, a
senior
German official pointed out to me that, “The Iran nuclear deal is the last firewall preventing military tensions in the world’s most combustible region from spilling over into thermonuclear war.”
Betraying some nostalgia,
senior
members of the administration speak privately of a “remarkable continuity” in the Tunisian transition.
Several
senior
military officers whose loyalty was questionable were also replaced.
Second, they need to use their workforces efficiently, which requires modern labor legislation that encourages employment of women, the young, and
senior
citizens.
But this requires containing tribal and regional polarization, as well as the rivalries between the Interim National Council (INC) and the Military Council (MC), and between
senior
military commanders.
This might lead a group of
senior
officers to rule directly, especially if victory in Libya comes militarily.
This month, as President Xi Jinping and his
senior
advisers retreated to the seaside resort of Beidaihe, rumors were circulating about growing criticism of Xi’s personality cult among the CPC rank and file.
My years of service overseeing the World Bank’s operations in China had put me in close contact with some of the country’s
senior
leaders, including then-Prime Minister Zhu Rongji.
Instead,
senior
officials in Europe think and talk like US policymakers did three years ago.
Guo and Xu are not the only
senior
officers to have fallen since their commander-in-chief, President Xi Jinping, launched his war on corruption at the end of 2012.
And if there is merit to the allegations that a large number of generals bribed Guo and Xu for their promotions, it is reasonable to assume that the most wide-ranging purge of
senior
PLA officers since the Cultural Revolution will continue.
The fact that Russia’s Prosecutor General Yuri Chaika, took over the investigation into Politkovskaya’s killing, as he did with the murder of Kozlov, doesn’t inspire hope, as such
senior
level involvement would in any real democracy.
And compromises were made in the placement of many
senior
officials, including key cabinet members.
They could not simply resign and move on, much less receive a future role in the organization (and certainly not a
senior
post).
In yet another shrewd move, he pursued the turnover of
senior
officials at the Vatican gradually, rather than in one fell swoop.
One very
senior
government official of a northern European country did not even put down his fork when interrupted by an earnest dinner companion who pointed out that many Spaniards now eat out of garbage cans.
Europe-wide presidential elections, for which many
senior
political figures have called, would help to stem the erosion of political legitimacy that has cost the EU, in its technocratic incarnation, the respect, sense of identification, and even the attention of its citizens.
On the other hand, the Court cannot charge – or refrain from charging – a
senior
political or military official responsible for grave crimes solely to avert negative political repercussions.
Only by demonstrating professionalism in its work, and willingness to hold
senior
government figures accountable where appropriate, can the ICC engender broad and lasting support.
Second, the European bonds would be
senior
to private claims.
We know that companies cannot change their total market value by changing the composition of liabilities (making some claims
senior
to others).
The same applies to countries: making some claims
senior
to others would not lead to lower average borrowing costs, owing to the higher cost of private financing after it is reduced to junior debt.
Ultimately, however, their average cost would not be lower, because, again, if official creditors are
senior
to private lenders, large-scale official financing – which is used mainly to repay maturing debt – would impede governments’ access to private credit markets.
A subsidiarity principle even grants
senior
cadres discretion in delegating powers to underlings.
One received a phone call informing him that a
senior
Muslim Brotherhood leader was coming to announce that the group was being blackmailed: either accept the constitutional addendum decreed by the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF), which practically eviscerated the presidency, or the presidential election’s outcome would not be decided in the Brothers’ favor.
An hour later, the
senior
figure had not shown up.
Now the hard part begins for Morsi, who confronts an intense power struggle between the beneficiaries of Mubarak’s status quo – generals, business tycoons, National Democratic Party bosses,
senior
judges, media personnel, and
senior
state employees – and pro-change forces, whose largest organized entity is the Brotherhood.
Among the company’s other
senior
leaders are more ex-KGB men, including Sergei Ushakov and Konstantin Chuichenko.
Few of us are surprised (though some may be disappointed) when a federal judgeship is awarded or a
senior
diplomat appointed because the candidate passes a litmus test of loyalty to some principle that is important to the President's or Prime Minister's party.
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