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While Iran has been emboldened by recent victories, MBS’s reform program has made it impossible for him show any sign of weakness.
Yet the lessons of the anti-Soviet struggle in Afghanistan have already been forgotten, including the need to focus on long-term goals rather than short-term victories.
But these recent victories do not leave me hopeful.
Big victories in recent years have come through the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria.
After a year in which Donald Trump was elected President of the United States and the United Kingdom voted to leave the European Union, many are anticipating more populist victories – and damaging policies – in 2017.
All these civil victories for women contributed mightily to the advancement of social life and have been instrumental in initiating comprehensive social reforms that have transformed Western societies.
From one perspective, it is good that the euro zone's finance ministers are eager to keep their national debts low in the long term: it is a sign that the victories over inflation won in the 1970's will not be casually thrown away.
Its victories over France and the United States were the defining wars of independence of the post-colonial era.
In this context, Sharon gained two landslide election victories as a hardliner, but implemented a moderate policy, including a full withdrawal from the Gaza Strip.
The War On Terrorism After IraqDazzling military victories in Afghanistan and Iraq may mislead us about the war on terrorism.
The Iowa Caucuses and the Atlantic AllianceWhat do the victories of two relatively inexperienced outsiders, Barak Obama and Mike Huckabee, in the Iowa Caucuses mean for American foreign policy in general and the Atlantic Alliance in particular?
The next time millions of people march peacefully in Cairo to demand that their voices be heard, the trigger may not be a self-immolation in Sidi Bouzid, but a riot in Istanbul, the impeachment of a US president, or electoral victories for progressive parties in Europe.
It is no accident that in all these nations opposition parties were able to ride corruption charges against the parties in power to impressive victories.
Can Barack Obama, fresh from his major domestic victory on health care, really afford to turn himself into Richard Nixon?Jeremy Lin and the Political Economy of SuperstarsCAMBRIDGE – The biggest news around Cambridge in recent weeks has been Jeremy Lin, the Harvard economics graduate who has shocked the National Basketball Association by rising overnight from “nowhere” to become a genuine star, leading a losing New York Knicks team to an unlikely string of victories.
In this sense, last week brought two victories: not just Barack Obama’s over Republican challenger Mitt Romney in the presidential election, but also the victory of America’s democratic system over China’s one-party authoritarianism.
Bannon was seeking to shake up the Republican “establishment” by backing similar “outsider” candidates in this year’s midterm elections, which, if successful, could make it all the harder for Trump to obtain victories in Congress.
For these are examples not only of individual success, but are victories for the community as well.
But the victories of the United Kingdom Independence Party (UKIP) and the National Front in France and the success of explicitly anti-status quo parties across the continent cannot be ignored.
It is also long overdue, as evidenced by last year’s political upheavals, including the United Kingdom’s Brexit referendum, Donald Trump and Rodrigo Duterte’s victories in the United States and the Philippines, respectively, and falling support for South Africa’s ruling African National Congress.
For rulers who don’t care if their victories are Pyrrhic, it is also an easily accessible resource for manipulating the public imagination with conspiracy theories and patriotic posturing.
These, however, don't really depend on occasional military victories; the national identities of a people do not change as quickly as the flags waving over cities sometimes do.
More recent computer victories – like “Watson’s” 2011 win on the Jeopardy game show, and Google’s 2015 computerized takedown of a professional Go player – have only heightened popular concern.
Over the years, he has won important victories limiting state aid to business, one of Europe's most pernicious economic maladies.
The naysayers’ victories show that sovereignty-based arguments that oppose any kind of European political union are on the march.
Its defeats are moral victories that prove the nation’s strength and courage, enabling it, like Christ, to return from the dead after 123 years of absence from the map of Europe.
Indeed, the interim agreement should be viewed as another in a string of recent Russian diplomatic victories over the US.
Nonetheless, the timing of the current ceasefire, which coincides with the installation of a new EU Commission, is advantageous, as is Putin’s shortsighted emphasis on tactical victories.
But, although poverty has not been eliminated, there has been significant progress – and some major victories.
Despite the fact that the victories of Felipe Calderon in Mexico, Alvaro Uribe in Colombia and Alan Garcia in Peru put a stop to a supposed tsunami of Socialist victories, the trend toward the left is unmistakable.
There is a paradox at the heart of this process: the electoral victories by the left are a clear sign of democratic maturity.
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