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The government is working to overhaul the constitution, in order to thwart democratic checks and balances.
APEC members, too, should use the existing umbrella of Pax Americana to accelerate economic, security, and political integration before new rivalries emerge to thwart their efforts.
But whatever their purpose, by raising fanciful hopes they thwart the possibility for real reform - something, incidentally, that the West ceaselessly demands from the Kremlin.
From this perspective, a declining US is doing everything that it can to thwart China’s rise.
His efforts to thwart Ukraine’s European future will continue, as will his efforts to hollow out our democracy and replace it with a Kremlin echo chamber, unless the world imposes such a high price for his imperial ambitions that the Russian people refuse to bear it.
Though the Kurds remain focused on closing the 80-kilometer (49-mile) gap, largely controlled by ISIS, between their eastern and western territories, they will not shy away from fighting a Turkey that, together with Syrian rebel forces, works to thwart their efforts.
In order to kick-start progress, ECB President Mario Draghi has proposed a grand policy bargain to European governments: if they implement structural reforms and improve fiscal flexibility, the central bank will expand its balance sheet to boost growth and thwart deflation.
Rejecting offers of assistance, it is spending its resources on Chinese-made military-grade crowd-control systems to thwart public protests.
Indonesians have the tools to thwart radicals' efforts to usurp Islam.
Indeed, partition may be the only way to prevent Afghanistan from sliding into large-scale civil war and to thwart transnational terrorists from reestablishing a base of operations in the rubble.
This structure harks back to the conditions of NATO’s birth, when it was forged to thwart the Soviet threat to Western civilization.
Those using terror, whether in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iraq, Somalia, Yemen and the list could go on and on, do so to de-stabilise nations and to thwart the will of the people to live in peace.
How best to respond if some states cannot or will not take the necessary steps to thwart terrorist planning on their territory?
Can we prevent a calamitous increase in global warming in a way that is fair, that takes account of past and present responsibility, and that does not thwart legitimate hopes for a better life everywhere?
Everybody is nowadays for or against something; everyday many people - often successfully - organize protests to thwart the aspirations of someone or other, or to negate some state decision.
Cameron’s bid to thwart Juncker’s candidacy mirrored his unsuccessful attempt to prevent the adoption of the EU’s fiscal compact in 2012.
When properly applied, these measures can encourage consensus building and thwart special interests.
If the government can influence 16 of the 30 functional votes, it can thwart proposals from the directly elected legislators.
And US President Barack Obama congratulated Ouattara, and said that the world would “hold those who act to thwart the democratic process and the will of the electorate accountable for their actions.”
Not surprisingly, the existing hegemons, led by the US, are doing whatever they can to thwart such efforts.
And both have worked to thwart efforts by India, Brazil, and South Africa to become permanent members of the United Nations Security Council.
Certainly the advent of an all-volunteer French army appears to thwart the General's notion of inculcating national esprit and grandeur.
That suggests that the problem may not be with US citizens’ attitudes, but rather that, at the federal level, the US political system allows industries with large campaign chests too much power to thwart the wishes of popular majorities.
Government and commercial activities virtually ground to halt this spring as democracy activists, in alliance with politicians and lawmakers opposed to a third term, battled Obasanjo’s allies to thwart the proposed bill.
Obasanjo is anxious to thwart the region’s growing armed insurgency, which is driven by widespread poverty and oil industry-related ecological damage.
Of course, in tipping off Russia about its plans, the Trump administration may have succeeded in preventing a Russian attempt to thwart them.
But poverty and ignorance can thwart even the best intentions.
And there are many ways that state governments can thwart progressive federalism at the municipal level.
Fortunately, they failed, surely in part because the American government, in cooperation with other governments, worked hard to thwart them, killing and capturing some and discouraging others.
But lax laws, poor enforcement, endemic corruption, and weak land rights for Peru’s 300,000 indigenous people threaten to thwart good intentions.
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