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Only a small number of African countries are vying for access to the UK market, whereas many are looking to conduct more trade with one another.
Those vying for their city to host the Games often argue that any short-term deficit will turn into long-term gain, because tourism, foreign investment, and trade will grow, to say nothing of improved national morale.
The two civilian leaders may soon begin vying with each other to see who can claim to be more anti-Musharraf.
In political terms, China, India, and Russia are vying with each other for power in Asia.
Russia has been vying for the West’s esteem for centuries, with approval by the French – a sought-after prize since the time of Peter the Great – coveted the most.
And yet Europe has proven utterly incapable of developing an appropriate response to conditions in which Islamist regimes are independently shaping their priorities and external actors – Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Russia, China, and perhaps even Iran – are vying for influence with an extraordinary combination of financial firepower and political muscle.
One hopes that all of the current candidates vying for the US presidency will be up to the challenges – both perennial and unanticipated – that they will face.
This has inevitably put religious revivalists in opposition to the second cultural type vying for preeminence in the Arab world: Western-educated, inner-directed modernists who hold Descartes’s declaration as their reference point.
This is in keeping with the larger populist trend in Europe, evident not just in Hungary and Poland, but also in the Czech Republic, Austria, the Netherlands, and Italy, where the populist Five Star Movement and the right-wing League are vying to lead the next government.
Meanwhile, other emerging economies – including Vietnam, India, Mexico, and Eastern European countries – are vying for China’s position as the world’s factory.
Until then, however, it is business as usual – which includes one of the accused, Kenyatta, vying for the presidency.
It was at that crossroads that Israel and Iran, two powers vying for mastery in a rapidly changing Middle East, chose to cast their strategic competition in ideological terms.
Chinese industries will cut costs, raise quality, and propel innovation for most consumer and industrial products--not just because of their own efforts, but because global companies vying for position in China are putting their own best practices to use there.
One reason is that she is the only fresh face among those Socialists vying for the party nomination.
Instead, at the heart of the matter is a semi-paranoid conviction among Saudi Arabia’s Sunni Arab leaders that Iran – which is predominantly Shia and non-Arab – is vying for superpower status in the Middle East.
So, naturally, that was the position Trump adopted while vying for the Republican nomination.
They are now locked in an all-out war with paramilitary groups, some of which arose from the right-wing paramilitaries that demobilized in the early 2000s; the National Liberation Army (ELN), a Marxist militia that resisted Santos’ offer of a separate peace deal; and criminal bands vying to take over FARC’s illicit economy.
Since then, Chinese money and firms have poured into the country, vying to build infrastructure.
China State Construction Engineering Corporation Limited, the government-run firm vying for the contract to rebuild Marawi City, is among the world’s largest 100 publicly traded companies, with market capitalization of $43.2 billion in 2017.
Indeed, the Kurds in Northern Iraq (Kurdistan) have already been vying for their own state, and even held an independence referendum last year.
One is that modern societies are pluralistic, with many interests vying to be represented; there is no general will for a politician to represent.
With so many producers vying for customers’ attention, marketing and endorsements have become all the more important – and expensive.
In particular, Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren – in my view, the two strongest candidates vying for the Democratic Party’s nomination to challenge President Donald Trump – have called for breaking up major tech companies.
But after former President Barack Obama attempted to fix the American health-care disaster with halfway measures – arguably the most that was politically feasible at the time – those vying for the Democratic nomination clearly have more ambitious plans.
The three men vying for the party’s top job are not household names abroad.
All are vying to control the country’s oil revenues.
Yet another common misunderstanding is that India and Pakistan are the only actors vying for control in J&K.
Now that China and the US are increasingly vying for the same prize, a zero-sum logic of competition has set in – “Chimerica” is no more.
The relationship was always tense, however, because Joseph Stalin and Mao Zedong were both vying to lead the international communist movement.
Today, Putin and Xi are vying for global leadership in challenging the United States and the West, and both are channeling their ruthless predecessors in the process.
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