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Whether or not Copenhagen is declared a political victory, that inescapable fact of economic life will once again prevail – and grand promises will once again go unfulfilled.
What was surprising was the magnitude of the victory.
His victory – following a fact-free, vicious election campaign – has trashed the brand of American democracy.
If former Shadow Chancellor Ed Balls or former Foreign Secretary David Miliband takes the reins, Labour might have a real chance at victory in 2020.
NEW DELHI – One major casualty of Donald Trump’s victory in the bruising US presidential election is, without a doubt, America’s soft power around the world.
US equities and bond yields rallied after Trump delivered a victory speech that seemed to signal that he was tacking to the center, which investors had originally expected him to do this summer, after he won the Republican nomination and entered the general election campaign.
Brazil's victory in the World Cup may have no connection with these reforms, but the creativity of that winning team does say a great deal about the spirit of the country.
So the results have been hailed as a victory for the BJP, affirming Modi’s popularity and vindicating his leadership – including of the campaign itself.
The benefits of winning an election have become so large that political parties will stoop to new lows to clinch a victory.
If it sticks to its principles, it could end up ceding victory to the “bad” party, which will do even more harm once it is in office.
Churchill gave Britons something to look forward to: victory.
Indeed, a Macron victory could launch a counter-trend to the populism that is sweeping the globe, by giving hope to all who are sympathetic to the left or right, but anxious about populism and hyper-nationalism.
The alternative could be a Le Pen victory, and a further step back toward the 1930s, when too many countries turned their back on international cooperation and collective solutions to shared problems.
A right-wing victory now, they warn, would lead to a disaster: an inefficient, dangerously incoherent government failing within a year, leaving the economy in shreds.
That legislation was based on European and international law, and symbolized the victory of democracy in Russia.
Even if the US had achieved stability in Iraq, this would not have assured victory in the “war on terrorism,” let alone success in achieving broader strategic objectives.
The policies of deregulation, privatization, and trade liberalization (the so-called Washington Consensus) that countries adopted in the 1980's, supposedly marked the victory of professional economists over populist politicians.
The paradox is that this was no victory for economics.
The struggle to secure the victory of Viktor Yushchenko, the true winner in last Sunday’s presidential election, as Ukraine’s new president is not one that we sought.
French Prime Minister Manuel Valls described the victory of Marine Le Pen’s far-right National Front as a political “earthquake.”
The UKIP’s stunning victory was unambiguously a popular rejection of Europe, in particular of immigration from the EU.
His best policy now would be to capitalize on his surprise victory and set a very early date for the referendum.
But they want to follow up their tactical victory – which postpones the restoration of pre-Bush tax rates for a couple of years – with a longer-term victory next spring.
The victory of a Hindu chauvinist hardliner – a man who had systematically blocked his predecessor’s peace-making efforts while in opposition and demonized Pakistan in his campaign speeches – was naturally assumed to portend a bilateral chill.
America is leaving Afghanistan, but without victory.
The US should follow suit, with a plan to revitalize the so-called Rust Belt that was integral to Trump’s victory.
Hamas in PowerThe victory of the fundamentalist Hamas in the Palestinian elections will have far-reaching consequences for the region, some totally unexpected.
The Hamas victory is, first and foremost, an indication of the total failure of the traditional Palestinian leadership to create a body politic.
Israel’s response to Hamas’s victory will obviously be complicated by its own elections on March 28, and by a government headed by an interim prime minister, Ehud Olmert, owing to Sharon’s incapacitation just weeks after leaving Likud and founding a new, centrist party, Kadima (Forward).
But Hamas’s victory suggests that the gaps between the Israeli and Palestinian sides will grow even wider, and that the chances for a negotiated settlement will recede even farther into the future.
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