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In this sense, the European Central Bank is the quintessentially independent central bank: No single government stands behind it, and it is expressly prohibited from standing behind any of the national governments whose central bank it is.
The Greening of New YorkIn the coming days, the United States will make a critical decision that has the potential to change America’s standing in the world: whether to approve a $537 million grant that will help make New York City the first environmentally sustainable megacity in the twenty-first century.
On March 29, I joined supporters of the lawsuit in a New York City courtroom to determine if the plaintiffs would be granted legal standing to challenge the government’s planned actions.
An independent centrist standing in his first election, Macron saw off the established parties’ candidates in the first round two weeks ago and won nearly two-thirds of the vote in the runoff against the far-right National Front’s Marine Le Pen.
In the meantime, both sides risk disrupting transfer payments (including to the elderly) and the provision of public services, as well as eroding further America’s global credit standing.
But the two-step scenario involves incremental risks to the US economy, and to its standing in the global system.
Most recently, his misguided decision to withdraw from the Paris climate agreement jeopardizes America’s global standing.
But nothing has done as much to cement the QPC’s standing as the recent motion submitted by a lawyer in the ongoing criminal proceedings against former President Jacques Chirac, who is charged with having created fictitious jobs at the Paris City Council when he was mayor.
But, standing at Michni Post, the highest point of the Khyber Pass, staring down at the thousands of trucks and buses buzzing through Afghanistan into Pakistan under the shadows of the Hindu Kush, the answer is obvious: controlling the Afghan-Pakistan border requires a counterinsurgency policy that looks at Afghanistan and Pakistan together.
Many people predicted, and everyone can now see, that the decision to invade was a disastrous error; that it is having catastrophic consequences, not just for Iraq, but also for the Middle East generally; and that it has seriously damaged the moral standing of the United States and Britain.
Much more important is the potential impact of such a decision on the UK’s global standing.
But a non-European Britain would be less likely to secure the same standing and influence in whatever institutions emerge in the years ahead.
This gives us considerable standing.
And, by extension, they improved the standing of Indian capital.
The more the West waits, the more radicalized the rebels will become, weakening the standing and influence of moderate forces.
(A "military first" programme ensures diverts most supplies to North Korea’s huge standing army and bureaucracy.)
Kohl himself often eagerly recounts a moment when, standing on a balcony in Berlin, he received an urgent message from Gorbachev.
South Africa seeks a wider and more influential role reinforced by its obvious standing as a regional hegemon.
A single standing EU army in lieu of Europe’s largely irrelevant and inefficient national armed forces, with a budget of around 1% of EU GDP – some €130 billion – would instantly become the world’s second leading military force, after the US, in terms of resources and, one would hope, capabilities.
But it was achieved by a cynical alliance with the Communists which gives them a new standing in the political establishment and restores their ability to participate in the power game.
Iranian citizens have shown great courage, and they would do well to continue pouring into the street and sitting down, lying down, or standing still.
Because the fate of Europe depends on Germany, and because the issuance of eurobonds will put Germany’s own credit standing at risk, the compromise will clearly have to put Germany in the driver’s seat.
But favorable economic indicators have made little difference to the standing of Cameron’s Conservatives in opinion polls, and have done nothing to save their coalition partner, the centrist Liberal Democrats, from a severe slump.
Kaczynski presented this fluid electorate with a credible vision of a state concerned with social solidarity (with no one’s refrigerator standing empty) and opposed to heartless liberalism (which brings empty refrigerators for the poor and full ones for the rich).
Instead, her standing reflects her unique political talents: an academic background in Arabic studies (she studied at Cairo University) and fluency in English, which give her a global perspective that most of her male colleagues lack.
Bush’s war, with its poor strategic vision and worse planning, increased Iran’s regional standing in a way that the country was unlikely ever to have achieved on its own.
Any Democrat who is up for reelection in 2018 will be standing firmly against Trump.
Down goes the economy and down goes the Labour government’s standing.
Replicating the 10% annual growth rates achieved in Gujarat under Modi’s leadership from 2004 to 2012 would obviously be a boon to India’s development prospects and global standing.
Another issue with the potential to undermine the PD’s standing is the party’s advocacy of a new wealth tax.
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