"It is a recognition of the new Iraq that emerged since 2003 by its new leaders, its new constitution, its new policies, its new political system at the heart of the Middle East, " Zebari said.
Rome was not built in a day and nor, it is plain, will be any new Roman political system.
Tunisia's revolution ousted President Zine el Abidine Ben Ali and brought about a new government and political system, including a new draft constitution.
Khan earned legendary status in the country when he led the underdog national team to a 1992 cricket World Cup victory, and had injected new energy into a political system long dominated by dynasties.
Stabilizing military spending in the current fiscal environment may require some new threat that focuses the political system on the human and geopolitical consequences of haphazard defense cuts.
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Japan's political system begins the new year seemingly more muddled, just when the deteriorating economy cries out for effective leadership.
In Thailand, for example, it has brought down one government, and eased the passage of a new constitution aimed at cleaning up a political system long operated on commercial lines.
And many pro-democracy politicians argue that the new system will put even more political pressure on top civil servants, who will no doubt be anxious to please the appointees above them.
Super PACs are responsible for a new flood of secret and unlimited cash infiltrating our political system.
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Defense companies need to be thinking about other lines of work where their results are less subject to the whims of a political system that has moved on to new priorities.
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It's all a reminder that President Obama's decision on contraception isn't a one-off political intervention but the initial exploit of an elaborate new system.
Once this group finds its footing, and awareness dawns on the rest of the economy that it really is a case of game over, this is where we can expect a new breed of political and economic leaders to emerge and reboot the economic system.
Like it or not, Obama is not the new FDR, but the new Gorbachev: a man forced to preside over the demise of a political system he desperately wants to save.
So the fact that new weapons programs may take 20 years to reach the field in a political system that operates on two- and four-year cycles is a real threat to keeping those programs on track.
Those appointed to quangos within the commissioner's remit now have to say if they have been involved in politics in the past five years: in the first nine months of the new system, 10.3% of quango appointees admitted to political activity, of which 5.9% were Conservative, 3.3% Labour and 0.5% Liberal Democrat.
Indian activist Arvind Kejriwal, who announced a new political party to fight corruption this week, promises to "change the system within a fortnight" if voted into power.
That was all written into the rulebook in the last parliament by the Wright Committee, which designed the new system of elected committee chairs, with the aim of preventing party political attacks on them.
China's support for its increasingly successful and profitable artists and galleries may well be no more than a figleaf for a repressive political system, but the western art world, eager for a new audience and a new market, likes seeing red.
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What's more, Leveson will make recommendations for a new system of press regulation which look likely to be the subject of a bitter political debate.
Officials say the new system will make policymakers more personally accountable for their decisions and protect civil servants from political pressures.
From the start of his time in the White House, Reagan delivered a series of speeches that dismissed the ideological arguments of the New Left from the 1960s and insisted that the U.S. could still claim a superior political and economic system in the war against communism.
The new agreement is a bit more aggressive in its initial installment, and then grows progressively harsher depending on how the political system behaves.
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