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But the fringe parties are not united.
But that has begun to change, thanks to a political innovation that has united Mexico’s political leaders around a shared reform agenda.
Given the existing constitution’s provision for a mandatory run-off if no candidate wins 50%, Wade would almost certainly lose if the opposition parties united behind a single candidate.
The opposition’s most effective – and democratic – strategy would have been to unite behind a single candidate to run against Wade six months ago, when campaigning began, just as Chile’s two major opposition parties successfully united to defeat General Augusto Pinochet in the plebiscite of 1988.
The US may have done something few could have expected: united the Shi'ites and the Sunnis in a common cause.
As a civilization and a religion, Islam envisions the optimal world order very differently – as a caliphate, in which faith and government are united and peace prevails throughout the Dar al-Islam, or house of Islam.
Members of NATO share much more than an alliance; we are united by ties of blood and purpose, a heritage of liberty, and a calling to confront extremists’ violence – and defeat it.
Great achievements are possible when the Atlantic community is united.
Democratic governments replaced dictatorships across Latin America, Africa, and parts of Asia, and they were supported by a united front of older democracies in the North Atlantic.
The “Communist united front” has been let off its leash.
Today’s Chinese united front is no exception, and Australia is one of the countries that is being targeted.
The public trial of Mubarak shows what united demands can achieve.
For now, the League and M5S remain united by their determination to defend Italy’s sovereignty against EU efforts to undermine it.
In December, May lost her first important Brexit battle, when Labour MPs united with 12 Tory rebels to pass an amendment requiring a specific Act of Parliament to approve whatever deal is negotiated with the EU.
The unilateral and persistent way in which President Kim and his associates pursued their opening to the North caused enormous divisiveness on an issue over which the country was usually very united.
And he must forge an alliance with Greece’s pro-European parties, because only a united government will be able to deliver.
South Africa must tap into the growing concern among Zimbabwe’s neighbors (Angola, Botswana, Tanzania, and Zambia) about the political crisis, and forge a united front within the SADC that sends a clear message to Mugabe and his generals that the region will no longer tolerate their actions.
Europe, America, and the wider world must see Putin’s so-called “managed democracy” in its true light, and must stand united against his neo-imperialist dreams.
And what a collection the delegates make: the President of Mauritius, the former Governor-General of New Zealand, former Prime Ministers of Fiji and Guyana, Malaysian politicians, Gulf-based entrepreneurs, tycoons from Hong Kong, and corporate titans from the United States, all united by the simple fact of shared heritage – the undeniable reality that even exiles cannot escape the mirror.
As Prime Minister Manmohan Singh put it in his inaugural address, they were united, too, by an “idea of Indianness.”
Parliamentarians across Europe and the West must join their voice together in a well-defined, united and ringing declaration that forces Western leaders to apply real pressure to Europe’s last dictator.
Nothing less than a united position against the despot of Belarus is necessary if Lukashenka – and his Russian backers – are to be forced to change their ways.
The Costa Rican experience shows that environmental stewardship is a job done best by alliances between local people and national leaders, united by the common cause of conservation.
Peres understood that a Jerusalem united under exclusively Israeli rule was not feasible, assuring Norway’s foreign minister in a 1993 letter – critical to the conclusion of the Oslo accords – that Israel would respect the autonomy of Palestinian institutions in East Jerusalem.
Such communities, which comprise 30% of Jerusalem’s population, make the notion of a united, peaceful Jerusalem farfetched, at best.
In 1966, a year before Israeli paratroopers ostensibly united Jerusalem, the composer Naomi Shemer sang of, “the city that sits solitary, and in its heart a wall.”
He envisioned a united Europe, led by a trans-European cultural elite focused not on grandeur, but on the development of a new European culture.
At the beginning of reforms in Russia the country lacked a big class of people united by common interests, for whom market changes were vitally important.
This is an example of alienation that eventually makes the middle class lose interest in elections because this class does not believe that the country can be influenced through elections and, thus, stops it from perceiving itself as a class of people united by the same goals.
In a society devoid of such self-awareness, not a single party will ever have a stable electorate united by something more substantial than agreement on the forms of protest.
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