• Governments, they say, should think more in terms of reducing risk and increasing resilience to shocks than about boosting sovereign power.

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  • And by far from leaving Iraq, the United States is going to deepen our engagement with you as we build a comprehensive relationship with a sovereign power.

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  • And America's friendship with Britain disqualifies it from pressuring the unionists or from taking centre stage in a way that would seem to usurp Britain's role as sovereign power, or harm British national interests.

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  • Virtually all of these scholars agree that Muslim societies must accept Allah as the sovereign power and struggle to abide strictly by Shariah law as exemplified in the Sunna (the life, words and deeds of the Prophet).

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  • The revolution of 1789 in theory made the people sovereign yet in practice left power in the hands of an elite ruling in the people's name.

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  • Finally, and most important in the near-term, were the meetings that occurred Monday in Baghdad in which the Coalition Provisional Authority formally handed over power to a sovereign Iraqi government and its new members were sworn into office.

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  • Spitznagel and Taleb ran another fund Empirica together from 1999 to 2004, but Taleb has now retired from trading to concentrate on teaching the world how to hedge against trickier black swans like nuclear power crises and sovereign debt crises.

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  • Electoral reform in Scotland and Wales has achieved its object of ensuring that a party without a majority of the votes cannot claim the arbitrary power of a sovereign majority, though the prime minister appears to have been surprised to discover that this was the case.

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  • The proffered salve for festering sovereign debt sores is increasingly concentrated power.

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  • The majority "deprives States of what most would consider the defining characteristic of sovereignty: the power to exclude from the sovereign's territory people who have no right to be there, " Justice Scalia wrote.

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  • Still, forward-looking corporate and sovereign statements point to demand growth in the second half, although summer power shortages are a risk.

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  • Soft paternalists argue that, without the power of the state behind such schemes, they will often break down: the sovereign consumer can always veto his own decisions.

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  • Ever since the eurozone sovereign debt crisis began in December 2009 with the Greek economic imbroglio, Germany has sought to use the power of its purse to reshape EU institutions to its own liking.

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