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Nothing can ever diminish what was at stake – and the victory that has been won – on the streets of Kyiv.
If the Sunni leadership were to feel that it has a stake in the outcome of political events now unfolding, it would also be able to stop the insurgency.
They had little personally at stake in high capacity utilization and low unemployment, but a great deal at stake in stable prices.
The IMF’s role reflects the huge stake that the rest of the world – advanced and developing countries alike – has in Europe’s recovery: it is a high-return investment.
At stake here are opposing positions about the relation between national identity and law.
Schmitt advocates a global order that universalizes the Monroe doctrine: great nations stake out inviolable zones of geographic influence, or Grossraum, from which they afford each other mutual respect.
For years, China’s government sought to broaden equity ownership, thereby providing more Chinese citizens with a stake in a successful transition to a market economy.
As a rule however, referenda measure the popularity of political leaders at a particular moment, regardless of the issue at stake.
We all have a stake in her success.
Such an approach would not just address the NPL problem; by giving the private sector a stake in the SOEs, it would also help to spur performance-enhancing reforms.
As Kennan explained, when America goes to war over something less than a vital interest, the adversary – for whom vital interests are at stake – will fight long after the war has become too unpopular at home to sustain.
The Greek Time BombATHENS – Much is at stake in Greece’s upcoming election.
Worse still, Europe’s debt and confidence crisis is also the EU’s gravest political crisis since its inception: at stake is nothing less then the future of the European project itself.
Tunisia’s revolution is a unique historical opportunity, and the EU’s stake in the outcome can hardly be overestimated.
When a “hot” issue like minority rights is at stake, the Ciorbea government cannot even rely on its own supporters.
What is at stake here is far more than some easily resolved question about a division of labor.
Yet that sequence is the opposite of what one might have expected: only after financial markets developed did those with a stake in them press for better legislation to protect investors.
But what counts even more is that the polity has a continuing, stable stake in keeping those rules in place and making them work for finance and economic growth.
Yet, if the revolution leads to a more open, democratic, middle-class-oriented political system, in which enough people believe that they have a stake in the government’s continuity, the economic benefits for Egyptians could be large.
Security of the European Union and Europe’s moral responsibility after the crimes of World War II were at stake.
It is difficult to overstate what is now at stake for the Western allies, to say nothing of the interests of the people of Kosovo.
The Bush administration, predictably, is pushing for new and tougher sanctions, based on an implied warning in the earlier UN Resolution, and arguing, as it did in the run-up to the invasion in Iraq, that the UN’s credibility is at stake.
By contrast, a direct equity stake in Spanish banks taken by an appropriate eurozone investment vehicle would decouple bank and sovereign risk.
In a very real sense, the future of the planet is at stake in Rio.
The world has a lot at stake in China, and China’s authorities have a lot on their plate.
If private firms and households are to replace government-led investment as the economy’s main drivers of growth, the state must reduce its stake in major enterprises and allow more profits to be paid directly to shareholders, while providing more of the profits from its remaining shares to citizens.
Powerful economic interests are often at stake, raising the pressures even more.
To understand what is at stake, it is sufficient to consider the name of the main youth movement fathered by the Kremlin: Nashi, or “Ours.”
Before the financial crisis, when so many private interests and profitable opportunities were at stake, many economists defended a growth model that was based more on “irrational exuberance” than on sound fundamentals.
Whether it does will depend to a large degree on how the West responds now, because what is at stake is not just the ousting of tyrants, but also the profound transformation and modernization of entire societies and economies.
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