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He also greatly enhanced the Fed’s standing among the general public, in financial markets, and in policy circles.
They will have materially damaged their standing and, consequently, the future effectiveness of their policy stance.
Indeed, we have seen Islamists, liberals, and leftists standing together in defiance.
By the late 1980s, when the Soviet Union sought an honorable and safe exit from Afghanistan, India had forfeited the standing necessary to help.
Even now, Yanukovych is attempting to amend tax rules in order to disqualify the popular Vitali Klitschko, a champion boxer and former German resident, from standing for President.
The result has been utter failure: military defeat and a severe degradation of America’s moral standing.
The Palestinian issue is not the source of all the Middle East’s ills, but its resolution would dramatically improve America’s standing among Arabs.
And, judging from the tone of the other candidates, standing up for globalization constitutes electoral suicide in the current political climate.
Xi and his advisers should not succumb to the illusory belief that such a conflict would boost their standing with the Chinese public.
Khamenei’s political standing is closely associated with the current nuclear policy, and he lacks the charisma and authority necessary to move the political and religious elite toward compromise.
Both guard their social standing jealously – and may even punish a guest who attends the other’s party by withholding future invitations.
In one corner is the EU, standing for democracy, freedom, the rule of law, and institutionalized international cooperation; in the other stands Putin, representing authoritarianism, intolerance, and the use of force and intimidation as instruments of foreign policy.
Lending and trading in renminbi is likely to boost China’s international standing and clout further.
Standing up for multilateralism and international rule of law may not only be the morally right thing to do; it is also in the interests of America's allies and, ultimately, America itself.
Zhou’s fall came not long after the trial and imprisonment of Bo Xilai, a candidate for Standing Committee membership who may have been planning a coup against Xi.
The answer may be that we, too, feel that we ought to live much more ethically, and the people described in Strangers Drowning are a standing reproach to our own way of life.
Mercosur BluesSANTIAGO – When the leaders of Mercosur met in Caracas this week, the usual bluster about standing up to imperialism filled the air.
The longer the US postpones the day of reckoning, the greater the risk to the dollar’s global standing as the world’s main reserve currency, and to the attractiveness of US government bonds as the true “risk-free” financial benchmark.
But, unless Israel is ready to pay an exceptionally high price in terms of its international standing by occupying Gaza and destroying its entire military hierarchy and arsenal, Hamas can still claim victory, having survived yet another onslaught by Israel’s colossal military machine.
The real peril is to be found at home: the corrosive effect of the Palestinian problem on Israel’s international standing.
And a credible national strategy must recognize that as long as the Palestinian conflict remains unresolved, Israel’s moral foundations and international standing will be dangerously compromised.
Chinese officials may not be answerable to a democratically elected parliament or congress; but government officials do have a unitary body – the seven-member standing committee of the Politburo – to which they must account for their failures.
What the political establishment overlooks is the broader damage that such behavior does to Parliament’s public standing, and therefore to democracy itself.
The quiet dignity of the protests that followed did more for Iran’s standing in the world than any amount of belligerent posturing by a populist president.
How hard Moon presses Trump for a different approach to North Korea remains to be seen, but one thing is certain: Trump’s standing among South Koreans won’t be what keeps Moon mum.
The resolution of Chen’s dilemma shows that standing up for human rights will gain the grudging respect of China’s leadership and citizenry.
For example, issuing fatwas , or religious edicts, is legitimately undertaken by those whose high standing is acknowledged by the whole Ummah , or Muslim community.
The current scandal’s impact on Obama’s image increasingly resembles the impact of the Watergate scandal on President Richard Nixon’s standing in the 1970’s – only now the events are playing themselves out on a global stage.
And liberal democracies’ apparent inability to protect their citizens from infringement of their individual rights has undermined their standing at home and abroad.
To ensure that countries have timely access to temporary support during liquidity crunches, the various layers of the global financial safety net need to be stitched together, and a new IMF standing liquidity facility should be at the core of the enhanced global safety net.
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