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Among many other decisions that have worked out well for them, both countries have foregone a standing army.
Yet Ahmedinejad, referring to Europe’s response to the Holocaust, asks her to imagine “what standing some European countries could have had and what global role they could have played, if it had not been for this 60-year-old imposition.”
Unlike in Hungary, with its Jobbik party, outright fascism has no standing in Poland.
And, of course, the US has had a standing immigration agreement since 1965 with a country most Americans would not imagine: Fidel Castro’s Cuba.
Cameron’s supporters in Britain cheered and portrayed him as a new Winston Churchill, standing up to the threat of a vicious continental tyrant.
Assad’s overthrow would be a major strategic defeat for Iran, weakening the country’s international standing and dealing a heavy blow to the so-called “axis of resistance” – Iran, Syria, and Hezbollah.
Indeed, America’s technological lead – together with its enormous capital assets and dynamic business culture, exemplified in Silicon Valley – could ultimately reinforce its global standing.
By withdrawing Canada from the Kyoto Protocol and largely rejecting the issue’s significance (before finally offering limited concessions to reduce the country’s carbon footprint), he diminished Canada’s standing on one of the premier global issues of our time.
The road that got the US to the Geneva agreement with the Russians was long and windy, and may indeed have done some damage to America’s standing in the world, even though the outcome was better than any other on offer.
Even those with close historical ties to France, like Romania, are standing up to France, because Chirac and his colleagues do not offer them the type of “European reflex” they want and need.
Instead, all eyes were on the man standing behind them: Khaled Fawzy, the head of Egypt’s General Intelligence Directorate.
Egypt’s leadership in this process will raise the country’s standing in the Arab world, reinforcing its position as a regional heavyweight.
The alternative – standing back and letting the markets handle things – would have brought America and the world higher unemployment than now exists.
A critic who made the same claim that economics allows only one theoretical approach would be dismissed as paranoid, whereas Rodrik’s standing creates an opportunity for a debate that would not otherwise be possible.
That means standing up to the authoritarian drift through whatever democratic means are available.
If repeated, this approach will irretrievably undermine Israel’s standing in the family of nations.
Given Hagel’s good standing in Washington, the move reflected poorly on the administration.
The reason is simple: active citizenship means standing up – or kneeling down – for what we believe in, whether it be a government free of corruption or law enforcement free of racism.
Simone Veil is standing in the front row, a handsome woman lost in her thoughts yet still attentive.
And as for private persons standing up to the government in court, the idea was utterly inconceivable.
Opposing Europe now means not only standing up to an unelected behemoth in Brussels, as Euro-skeptics would have it.
Moreover, unemployment – which is declining throughout Germany – is not particularly high in Chemnitz, standing at 7%.
Still, a shift away from a US-dominated world of structured relationships and standing institutions and toward something else is under way.
America's standing plummeted in Islamic countries, whose support is needed to help track the flow of terrorists, tainted money, and dangerous weapons.
And, if all else fails, we should remember that standing up to an unpopular president who received almost three million fewer votes than his opponent is not just the right thing to do; it will also make for great reality TV.
Peace with Pakistan would strengthen his personal standing nationally and internationally, thus constituting a step toward fulfilling the BJP’s great-power ambitions for India.
After standing at Kim’s side during every ribbon-cutting ceremony in 2012, he was nowhere to be seen in 2013.
Alexander Pushkin, Nicolai Gogol, and Fyodor Dostoyevsky were all suspicious of the Poles, calling them “cold,” “distant,” and “manipulative,” and seeing Poland as always on the side of the West, rather than standing with its Slavic brothers.
Those moves suggest that Tibet has become an increasingly serious concern for China’s rulers, one that they have not yet found ways to handle without damaging their standing in Tibet and around the world.
Next month, Peru is hosting a major United Nations climate-change conference, and efforts to protect the world’s forests are expected to take center stage – even as those who are physically standing in the way of deforestation are being killed.
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