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Since the radical anti-establishment Syriza’s election in Greece almost two years ago, voters seem to have taken to the idea of national governments standing up to supranational and multilateral organizations such the European Commission and the International Monetary Fund.
Saudi Arabia’s initial response to the fracturing of a system that it had underwritten with petrodollars was to increase support for those of its allies that were still standing – Jordan, Lebanon, and Bahrain.
Yet his foreign travels have achieved little, beyond improving his personal standing, which had suffered considerably following accusations that, as Chief Minister of Gujarat, he had been at least negligent as more than a thousand people were killed in a 2002 anti-Muslim pogrom.
France may not have the military might of the US or the growth rate of China and India, but its team reached the World Cup championship, raising its standing in the eyes of billions of people – and perhaps giving a reprieve to its unpopular government.
In 1960, Kennedy was beamed into American homes, standing beside the better-known but far less charming Richard Nixon.
But, it seems that no robust critique was delivered when she met privately with Hun Sen in Phnom Penh on February 22 – even though Australia’s high standing in Cambodia (not least owing to its historical role in the peace process) means that its voice certainly would have been listened to.
Towering levels of corruption damage not only the authority of government at home, but the very standing of Georgia as an independent state abroad.
Obama’s Middle EastJERUSALEM – President-elect Barack Obama’s plans for the Middle East, the region where his predecessor’s policies shattered America’s standing around the world as a benign superpower, represent a welcome departure from President Bush’s grand design to redress the region’s ills through “constructive chaos.”
This is the real wound that infects America’s entire foreign policy, particularly its standing in the Arab and Muslim world.
Consider how Putin’s standing benefited from the annexation of Crimea – a move that he defended in historical terms – despite the devastating impact of that move on Russia’s economy.
Today, the world’s great powers are no longer claiming to be the last man; all they can do is hope to be the last man standing.
For Turkey, the overthrow of Assad would bolster its regional standing.
Standing on the verge of greater integration, Europeans are hesitant, “unsure whether we should really stride out on the onward journey.”
Ghana needs foreign donors to plug the gap in its finances and assist us in standing on our own two feet.
An exit would also harm Britain’s geopolitical interests, both in Europe (where, ironically, it favors EU enlargement) and, worldwide, in its global standing and special relationship with the United States (which has made clear its preference for a European UK).
The threat to America’s international standing is real; but, blinded by it, Americans believe that they are still in a position to condescend to China as they would to an inferior power.
It was about standing up to the Zionist enemy, the high-tech crusader whose military superiority can be defeated only by stubborn resistance.
Meanwhile, the deal severely compromised the leadership of Mahmoud Abbas, the president of the Palestinian Authority, who has been clamoring for years for the release of prisoners in order to boost his popular standing and enhance his position as Israel’s interlocutor for peace.
They are more assertive in standing up for their right to education than the adults who are supposed to uphold that right.
And an international court’s credibility and moral standing depends on the fundamental principle that everyone is equal before the law.
According to a Palais Royal Initiative report, a key way to raise the SDR’s global standing is through “regular allocations of SDRs under appropriate safeguards” or even allocations “in exceptional circumstances.”
If so, standing trial in The Hague would be the best service he could render to his country.
In one dilemma, you are standing by a railroad track when you notice that a trolley, with no one aboard, is heading for a group of five people.
This time, however, you are not standing near the track, but on a footbridge above the track.
Standing next to you, however, is a very large stranger.
I hope it does not come to that, and that when the battle smoke clears, Cameron will be left – as he deserves to be – the only man standing.
Last but not least, the three pillars could not have remained standing without the anchor provided by the fourth.
So there is no question that the invitation to the New York Philharmonic was meant to burnish the prestige of a regime, ruled by The Dear Leader, Kim Jong-Il, whose standing is so low – even in neighboring China – that it needs all the burnishing it can get.
The Face of EvilNEW YORK – Standing with Slobodan Milosevic 13 years ago on the veranda of a government hunting lodge outside Belgrade, I saw two men in the distance.
Standing up to Israel, and its new fanatical friends, is not anti-Jewish.
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