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Indeed, Cameron’s promise is arguably the most consequential issue at stake in the British election: if he remains Prime Minister, there will be a referendum; if Miliband takes over, there will not be.
The dispossessed minorities who have the strongest stake in civil rights play no role during the democratic transition for the simple reason that they cannot normally bring anything to the bargaining table.
But there is a more fundamental cause at stake, and it should not be overlooked.
Trade has a strategic benefit as well, for it gives countries a stake in good relations with one another and in maintaining order and stability.
America’s stake in the Middle East would grow, undermining its attempts to free up assets for its professed “pivot” toward Asia, where it hopes to balance China’s growing influence.
What is at stake is the dignity of the presidential office and, beyond that, France’s ability to modernize.
Recent US monetary-policy measures and statements have reflected the belief that America’s stake in EMDCs’ financial stability is limited to the extent to which volatility poses a risk to the near-term US economic outlook.
At stake is nothing less than Russia's frail democracy.
The importance of engagement is also highlighted by the terms of recent acquisitions, such as PIF’s purchase of a stake in Uber, which gave it the right to nominate a board member to represent its interests.
One hopes that the Iranians, with so much more at stake, will behave more wisely.
Since other countries’ economies and jobs are also at stake, they owe it to their citizens to press the US to deliver meaningful financial reforms.
This continual, rather fetishistic sexualizing of powerful women confirms the argument I made more than two decades ago in my book The Beauty Myth: Women’s appearance is used against them most rigorously – as a diversionary tactic – when real social, economic, or political power is at stake and almost within their grasp.
Yet many institutions and investigators have a financial stake in the clinical trials they conduct.
In fact, the entire international community has a stake in the success of the UN process – and a responsibility to do everything possible to bring it about.
Like the US, China – North Korea’s neighbor, closest ally, and biggest trading partner – has a major stake in the outcome.
The international community has a lot at stake in the Congo.
China made a dramatic entry into the picture last April, when Nigerian officials announced that China National Offshore Oil Corporation (CNOOC) had bought a 45% stake in a Nigerian oil field for more than $2 billion.
Russian President Vladimir Putin’s recent threat to aim missiles at Ukraine highlights what is at stake in that debate’s outcome.
At stake in the debate about EU enlargement into the post-Soviet east is whether Western values will take root in those countries or whether they will drift into a gray zone from which they will sooner or later challenge the values and democratic ways of “Europe.”
At stake is not only assistance, but Pakistan’s own future, for, in the absence of genuine commitment to counter-terrorism, it is only a matter of time before the country falls victim to the infection that it refuses to treat.
At the same time, the US and other powers with a stake in Afghanistan must seek to reduce Indian activities in Afghanistan that Pakistan sees as threatening, or, if those policies are not threatening, assure greater transparency for them.
Pressure will not work if Pakistan’s leaders believe that their country’s survival is at stake.
Too much is at stake to allow the process to be dominated by petty power games that overshadow or undermine common interests, as happens so often in European politics.
In some ways, much less is at stake in building a new democratic community out of the already free and prosperous European countries.
For them, what is at stake is the principle that sovereign countries have the right to chart their own course, rather than be entangled in a larger power’s sphere of influence.
The society that emerges will be more stable, unified, and prosperous – an outcome in which everyone, rich or poor, has a stake.
And yet, regardless of what Trump thinks, we know that he is surrounded by advisers who know very well what is at stake.
A charitable interpretation is that, as a tough and pragmatic businessman, Trump is simply using threats to stake out a strong bargaining position, and that sense and reason will ultimately prevail.
At stake, both for Russia and the wider world, are stability and legitimacy, hence the prospects for steady political and economic modernization.
What is at stake are paradigms that have held for the past 76 years, and that have been supported recently by spectacular measurements of the cosmos.
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