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All people have a right to develop their talents, and their political leaders have a duty to ensure that nothing is standing in their way.
But a deeper, long-term alliance with the MHP will have significant implications for Turkey’s domestic politics and international standing.
The Socialist “yes” also means support for increasing Europe’s standing as a global power through the creation of an EU ministry of foreign affairs.
At the international level, the standing of US-supplied public goods (including the dollar as the global reserve currency) faces gradual erosion.
It is far from clear if he would have prevailed, given his lack of an independent political base, but his international prestige and standing might have given him a chance if he would have chosen to throw the gauntlet.
The court may have deferred to the European Court of Justice on the question of the European Central Bank’s “outright monetary transactions” scheme; but it will not be able to do the same with respect to fiscal sovereignty, because the constitution is clear, and the ECJ has no standing to interpret German constitutional law.
For example, the so-called “voting paradox” presented by Condorcet showed that majority rule can reach an impasse when every alternative is defeated in voting by some other alternative, so that no alternative is capable of standing up to the challenge of every other alternative.
One specific suggestion is that governments, on both sides of the Atlantic, set up a Standing Conference of senior officials to identify potential problems before they become sources of difficulty.
Because all countries are members, the UN enjoys a global standing that gives its decisions and actions a degree of authority that no individual government enjoys beyond its own borders.
They – and the men who support them – are standing up to rape in ways that should be a model for the rest of the world.
Standing out is of course the point.
Despite this, he brims with imagined presidential plans, such as ridding the country of terrorist groups like Shining Path and re-establishing Peru's economic standing.
Thus, it took barely a decade, from a standing start, for the new international currency to overtake the incumbent.
All of this could leave the US more able and willing to halt the multi-year erosion of its global economic influence and standing.
Standing silent as democracy atrophies in Venezuela is now not only immoral, but is becoming increasingly dangerous for all of Venezuela’s people.
China’s domestic market is now the source of its power, which means that the choices it makes in this area in the near term will largely determine its global standing for decades to come.
But, with those rates currently standing at only 2%, such a move is impossible.
The most extreme current case is Serbia, where a big part of the electorate gave their votes to men standing trial for war crimes in The Hague.
For example, local authorities have long had a perverse incentive to improve their own standing by allocating resources to image-building projects that serve no genuine economic need or purpose.
The IMF, which should be standing up to this dangerous bargain, instead plans to open the spigots (with Chinese, American, and other countries’ funds) even more widely to insolvent nations.
It is reasonable for the ECB to be concerned about its public standing.
Now, after years of standing in the waiting room, nothing seems clear.
When that goal is saving lives, standing in place is unjustifiable.
There are no big productivity differences between Finland and Portugal when it comes to standing behind a counter selling stockings.
Turkey’s improved standing in the Middle East can also help the US with democracy assistance in the region.
But this is far from a holistic depiction of China’s global economic standing.
But nature is entirely indifferent to man; it has no moral standing and it contains no moral code.
As General Brent Scowcroft, National Security Adviser for President George H.W. Bush, observed recently, the UN Charter originally envisioned a standing military force to enforce Security Council resolutions – a vision that the NATO partner model might ultimately realize.
These rants display a second major feature of the Chinese cult of guochi : the tendency to blame a weak, feckless Chinese government for not standing up to predatory foreigners.
The best way to defend public space is to occupy it, even if you are championing a cause different from that of the person standing next to you.
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