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More recently, with the death last December of the Emir, Sheikh Jabir al-Ahmad, parliamentary approval was exercised a key role in resolving
succession
debates among factions of the royal family.
The 147 students killed in an attack by the extremist group Al-Shabab at a college close to Kenya’s border with Somalia are only the latest victims in a
succession
of outrages in which educational institutions have been singled out for attack.
Furthermore, China will probably need to ease up on the restrictions it has already imposed if it wants to gain all of the internet's benefits; that is, unless the conservative factions who feel most threatened by the internet consolidate their power in the upcoming leadership
succession.
Then there is conflict over the royal
succession
process, with King Salman’s effort to consolidate power in the hands of his aggressive and talented but not particularly popular 30-year-old son causing considerable upset within the extended royal family.
Never in the history of the Fifth Republic has the same partisan majority won a presidential contest more than three times in
succession.
In the wars of the Yugoslav
succession
we have seen a struggle between the ethnic and the civic concepts of citizenship.
There is now absolute clarity on the questions of
succession
and where power lies.
The fact that after 45 years of Party rule China remains hostage to "great leader" kultur and that with a
succession
crisis looming there is no "great leader" on the horizon, makes many wonder how long things will hold together.
The regime in Pyongyang is seeking to ensure that power passes to a third generation of Kims, represented by the pudgy and well-fed “Dear Young General,” Kim Jong-un, and appears to believe that provocations such as its bombardment of a South Korean island earlier this year are the way to secure the
succession.
Modern research has shown that the great economist Joseph Schumpeter was wrong in thinking that competition in innovation leads to a
succession
of firms.
A stalemate has taken hold, with the denouement likely to be reached only after the royal
succession.
President Hu Jintao will step down in 2013, but will continue to hold his post on the all-important Central Military Commission until a complete
succession
is completed, also around 2015.
Two Wrongs Don’t Make a Right at the IMF and World BankOne has go back to the “Year of Three Popes” (1978) to find a
succession
drama as strange as what has been happening at the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank, the two pillars of the global financial system.
Nor does the closed-door
succession
process at the Bank, where the US continued its sixty year lock on the Presidency, justify continuing European monopolization of the Fund job.
The problem is that all three factors – nuclear-armed boldness, the succession, and economic malaise – will continue to influence North Korea’s behavior for the time being.
Worse, because they came in rapid succession, they created the sense that now (as opposed to previous alarms) the Trump presidency was truly spinning out of control.
China’s succession, though set, will nonetheless bring a period of uncertainty, while South Korea will undoubtedly face its usual no-holds-barred democratic battle in its coming presidential election.
During its nearly 55 years of independence, Sudan has experienced a
succession
of violent conflicts, in the South, the West (Darfur), and the East.
The vicious jockeying for power that the party faces during its leadership
succession
this year, and the public rift that has resulted from Bo’s humiliating fall, must have gravely undermined mutual trust among the party’s top leaders.
Ordinary Nigerians, brutalized by a dizzying
succession
of corrupt and inept military juntas, have, like a drowning man, clutched at "democracy" as their lifeline.
France and FrankfurtPRINCETON – Over the past two years, financial markets have turned the spotlight on a
succession
of countries – Greece, Ireland, Portugal, Spain, and Italy – turning each into the epicenter of a seemingly perpetual European financial earthquake.
The markets have broken all-time records, come close to doing so, or at least done very well since 2003 ( the case in Japan) by making up for the big drops incrementally, in a
succession
of smaller increases.
So there may be an underlying sensitivity to price drops, which could fuel a
succession
of downward price changes, amplifying public concerns about problems in the economy and heralding a profound change in investor sentiment.
It is known that Chinese leaders had hoped that Kim Jong-il would survive long enough to consolidate support among the country’s various factions for the
succession
of his son, Kim Jong-un.
(And, in the latter case, would the US follow its pattern of ousting a Middle Eastern government without a
succession
plan?)Regardless of the goal, the end result would be more troops and ships in the region, more resources appropriated to fight new or revitalized terrorist organizations, and more arms for allied countries, many of which are themselves unstable.
They, and the world at large, are focusing on the
succession
to President Jiang Zemin and Premier Zhu Rongji.
The announcement was welcomed by ordinary Nigerians, but incited jitters in the industry, prompting anxious questions about how deep Obasanjo’s angry sword will cut, and how smooth the political
succession
is likely to be.
In fact, the PDP has splintered into three warring factions, drastically reducing Obasanjo’s chances to control the
succession.
And the Greek government faces an endless
succession
of budget cuts, with each step being more difficult than the last as the economy spirals down a black hole.
At that point, the CSRC launched a
succession
of desperate measures: it suspended initial public offerings, allowed companies to stop trading, and limited short selling.
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