Some people feared that London's predominance as a world financial centre could be put at risk.
Multi-sided business models with a predominance of free services are one reason for this failure.
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To maintain the predominance of this view, over the years its proponents have persecuted individuals who reject it.
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Most commentators who welcome this scenario imagine that American predominance would be replaced by some kind of multipolar harmony.
Russia particularly fears losing its predominance in the region, now that the threat of Islamic fundamentalism has been reduced.
According to an Australian expert, Paul Dibb, the revolution in military affairs will continue to favour heavily American military predominance.
Since there are few anatomical differences between human species, cognitive ones are the most likely cause of modern man's predominance.
And the election of Iranian-influenced Iraqi political leaders in Iraq in 2005 exacerbated the trend of Iranian predominance in post-Saddam Iraq.
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Bluntly stated, the world that will challenge the next government will be one characterized by the end of US global predominance.
The result is the promise of a potentially significant contribution to the U.S. balance of trade and continued predominance in the aerospace field.
The era of American predominance has shown that there is no better recipe for great-power peace than certainty about who holds the upper hand.
The future of the Takeover Panel has been particularly controversial, as some people fear London's predominance as a world financial centre could be put at risk.
Is America prepared to face the high-end asymmetric strategies being deployed by a Chinese state readying itself at all levels--political, military, and economic--to challenge U.S. predominance?
As for student participation, the predominance of political correctness on university campuses acts as a deterrent for students who would otherwise be drawn to courses on the subject.
One reason for the predominance of financial buyers in Germany is the lack of companies willing to make acquisitions in Germany for strategic, as opposed to narrowly financial, reasons.
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Today, traditional modes of transmission are threatened by the decreasing number of initiates due to the predominance of urban lifestyles among younger generations, and ritual practices take place less and less regularly.
In essence, American military predominance had become so extensive that it has altered the face of the battlefield by forcing others to adapt--to prevent America from playing the game but its rules.
Be that as it may, sari worry-warts have some empirical grounds for their pessimism in that as more Indian women have entered the workplace, the sari has lost its predominance in everyday wear.
It is not easy to pin down exact dates in a hazy age, but Western historians are probably right in marking off the period 1500 to the present as the age of European global predominance.
It is the predominance of anti-Israel attitudes throughout the continent that enables European leaders to make light of the Iranian nuclear threat even as ever growing swathes of the continent fall within the range of the Islamic republic's ballistic missiles.
Not so much because of all the social and technology shifts since then, but because that year is so close to the high-water mark of U.S. predominance as the only great power to come out of World War II more or less intact.
But just as Israelis are denied their right to an open and objective public discourse due to the radical Left's predominance in the media, so American Jews are denied their right to disown J Street due to the radical leftist American Jews' takeover of key US Jewish umbrella groups and institutions.
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With the dancers' single-spire headdresses pointing heavenward like so many sharp beams, and the predominance of golden hues in their sarongs (for the goddesses) and draped trousers (for the gods), the finale of "The Legend of Apsara Mera" had the look of a vista of towering temples all animated as if visited by a gentle breeze.
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