They hope to perpetuate their influence by asserting claims of national sovereignty.

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Most economists go a step further, asserting that the US deficit is caused by a savings shortage.

The Iraq war proves this a new American empire is asserting itself.

(b) asserting a right or interest in property at issue in the proceeding.

Palestinians also face persistent pressure from Jewish religious groups bent on asserting Israeli control.

Today, China is not shy about showcasing its military capabilities and asserting itself on multiple fronts.

With Islamic fundamentalism, too, we are not witnessing a traditional religion asserting itself against the Christian West.

And, even if the state succeeds, re asserting control over Swat will only be the first step.

And, even if the state succeeds, re asserting control over Swat will only be the first step.

Serbia wants as much independence as possible for the Serb Republic, while asserting its own sovereignty over Kosovo.

Leaders also directed harsh criticism at Ban Ki Moon, asserting the unity of the people and Moroccan sovereignty.

One consequence of this is that Ukrainians are often shy about asserting Ukraine s independent interests plainly exemplified by Ukraine s acceptance of a deal that leaves its energy future so insecure.

They view themselves as counter forces to cultural domination by the West, asserting their religious identity in the face of what they regard as imperializing ideas like secularism and human rights.

His music aside, Delfín has faced a challenge since the beginning of his career being indigenous while asserting his own style.

In March 2017, she spoke at the National Convention of Human Rights Defenders on Reclaiming Rights and Asserting Freedom in Delhi

Their desire to preserve and reestablish Georgian territorial integrity by asserting renewed control over Abkhazia and South Ossetia is understandable, but can they accomplish this goal as peacefully as they won their revolution?

Tsipras might defend his approach to the referendum by asserting that his goal was not so much to sound out the people as to reinforce his position in the confrontation with Greece s creditors.

Guantanamo was selected as the site to imprison them in a deliberate and successful effort to prevent American civilian courts asserting their jurisdiction.

But, while Europe no doubt remains important for asserting both common and national interests, it is no longer a project of the future.

But when we refuse to assert that there are classes, we must not be supposed to be asserting dogmatically that there are none.

China must confront the challenge of domestic restructuring to sustain growth, while asserting the right to develop without being penalized because of its size.

Having earlier preached the gospel of its peaceful rise, China no longer is shy about showcasing its military capabilities and asserting itself on multiple fronts.

Asserting itself as a major power outside the Western realm, Russia has boosted the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, which includes China and most Central Asian countries.

When the issue became public, Bush's response was to condemn his critics as revisionist historians and to evade questions about the credibility of the information he had provided by asserting that the removal of Saddam was a good outcome.

The entire community , through their legitimate representatives in each and every Community Development Council (COCODE), have opposed the hydroelectric plant, asserting that it will seriously harm the Cambalan river environment, as reported by a Santa Cruz Barillas news portal .

Overnight, some media outlets that are critical of the government published opinion pieces and quotes by economics analysts asserting that the whole Eurobond deal was off and arguing that it is a sign that the government has lost international support.

So the Bundesbank s self righteous zeal in asserting that its responsibilities are somehow graver and more binding than those of other central banks is dangerously wrong headed.

The Republican challenger, Mitt Romney, sought to capitalize on the issue, asserting The president s plans haven t worked he doesn t have a plan to get the economy going.

Will the endgame be renewed class warfare, with populist governments coming to power, stretching the limits of income redistribution, and asserting greater state control over economic life?

Last week French president Nicolas Sarkozy was caught on an open microphone asserting to U.S. President Barack Obama that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is a liar.

This is most notable among big member states like Britain, France, and Spain, and one can see why these are former great powers, which fear being submerged in a mega Europe. They hope to perpetuate their influence by asserting claims of national sovereignty.

Despite an overt effort made by McFaul to open a dialogue with the Russian people through citizen media outlets, the Russian language blogosphere has reacted to his appointment with skepticism asserting that he's come to Russia with an agenda to incite 'revolution'.

To be sure, Poland, the Czech Republic, Hungary, and Slovakia have rightly viewed EU accession as an act of political emancipation, and have begun asserting themselves as political equals.

Distinguished scientists proclaim that our very destiny is inscribed on the DNA molecule, and science popularizers join the exultant choir, asserting that human beings are nothing but programmed entities.

In a July 6 article in the Daily News the TPDC responded to Kabwe, asserting that claims that the country risked losing US 1 billion per year were unfounded.

In September 2010, four months after the official Greek bailout was put in place, the IMF issued a pamphlet asserting that default in today s advanced economies is unnecessary, undesirable, and unlikely.

In proclaiming his mastery of the lingua franca of global affairs, Hollande was asserting himself as a modern statesman, while also suggesting that France will remain as influential as possible on the international scene.

Turkey would receive financial and military assistance in exchange for asserting greater control over its borders, while the question of Turkey s long term relationship with Europe would be set aside until the crisis passed.

The Czechs, probably the people with the most vivid historical memory of the bad regionalism of the 1930 s, succeeded France, the European country that today is the least constrained in asserting its national interest.

Countries like ours should take a clear stand when China overreaches externally (as it has in the South China Sea with its indefensible nine dashed line asserting historical rights with no known justification in international law).

Sensing a widening gulf between Japan and the US, the Chinese Navy is demonstrating its growing might in the seas around Japan and asserting its aspiration to replace the US as the Pacific s dominant naval power.

Other online news sites picked up the news, emphatically asserting that residents of the indigenous Mixe community in Oaxaca could no longer be allowed to produce their traditional textile embroidery unless they paid the corresponding royalties.

Despite the unreliable and often fantastical nature of its accounts it was used as a reference for the East, Egypt, and the Levant in general, asserting the old belief that Jerusalem was the center of the world.

The German perspective is thus shifting in the direction of that of France and the United Kingdom the EU is increasingly seen as a framework and precondition for asserting national interests, rather than as an aim in itself.