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So far, Suu Kyi has circumvented this booby trap with the verbal evasiveness that one would expect of an ordinary politician, rather than someone of her courage and standing.
We are pleased to see Chile – which is hosting this year’s Our Ocean Conference – demonstrate leadership and commitment to action by ratifying the PSMA and standing up to illicit fishing operations.
Next we need to work out how much we’re willing to pay to keep these trees standing.
Latin Americans are simply standing by as the bodies pile up.
He has nothing to do with the communist era and has sacked all former Party members from important positions, even barring former Prime Minister Leszek Miller from standing for parliament.
Since then, the organization has done battle with the Russian government time and again, including standing up to the ever-more despotic Vladimir Putin.
While Obama’s policies have not weakened America’s international standing, they also have not led to achievements comparable to Richard Nixon’s rapprochement with China, largely owing to what might be described as the dogmatic pragmatism that underlies them – an emphasis on avoiding the worst, rather than on striving for the best.
Once again, a “pro-American” autocrat seems to be rapidly losing his grip on power, with his US ally only half-heartedly standing by him.
The critic Irving Howe, a New Yorker of long standing, tried to temper my enthusiasm.
Even the armed bandits who waylay relief supplies – making necessary a guard of soldiers with automatic weapons, standing every few hundred yards – cannot destroy this moment.
Standing in the way is the prized sovereignty of 28 countries with very different political cultures and a host of conflicting national and regional interests.
Contributing to this loss of dynamism is the flood of proposals rushing out of Venezuela, including the Bolivarian Alternative for the Americas (ALBA, with its own standing army), the Trade Treaty of the Peoples (TCP), the Bank of the South, and the South Atlantic Treaty Organization (OTAS).
The Leninist “democratic centralism” to which Morsi seemed to have subscribed, if maintained, will be a standing provocation to the new generations and their allies in the old state apparatus to rise up, even at the price of civil war.
Europe Should Step Up By Standing DownLONDON – Ten years on, the euro is a resounding success.
His English improved quickly, and so did his standing in the company.
Standing alongside Berlusconi, they did indeed rise, but the tycoon’s star out-shone their own.
The daughter of a Protestant pastor raised in East Germany during Communist rule, she is standing up for Christian Democratic values.
Improved environmental policies mean that most of today’s forests are still standing and no-fishing zones are widely established and enforced.
First, neither the US nor European countries have much standing as legitimate arbiters of “good governance.”
As the rulings pile up, they are starting to pose a threat to Russia’s international standing, its financial health, and Putin himself.
Finally, they brought him down, and the new democratic leadership in Belgrade has, at no little risk to its own position and standing, arrested him.
In the summer of 2003, a poll conducted by the Pew Organization in 20 countries revealed that the UN’s standing had declined in all of them.
In this moment of transition, dissent from someone of Li’s standing could have precisely the kind of destabilizing impact that China’s leaders fear.
As for the underlying blockchain technology, there are still massive obstacles standing in its way, even if it has more potential than cryptocurrencies.
By expanding humanitarian aid with no strings attached, the US could do more to address hunger, disease, and poverty, while reaping considerable benefits to its standing and lowering terror risks.
Indeed, by the time Germany agrees to a eurobond regime, its own AAA standing may be at risk.
It also fulfilled a fundamental need in Northern Indian society: to give millions an identity, a standing in society, and a sense of security that they and their families had not previously known.
By continuing to support Assad despite his use of chemical weapons, Russia’s standing in the Arab world has gone from patron to pariah.
What little moral and political standing Russian President Vladimir Putin has retained in the rest of the world is also evaporating, as he will soon discover at the upcoming G-20 Summit in Saint Petersburg.
It is important to remember: those who were responsible for taking the British Marines captive wanted an escalation of the confrontation, both to improve their domestic standing, and to punch back for sanctions that were beginning to bite.
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