Thanks to timely economic and financial reforms and shedding some of its nanny-state image, Singapore has stolen much of Hong Kong's limelight and pinched a number of its multinational corporations.
IR As a citizen of a state whose image has gone straight from lovable waltzers to international outcast, I am glad of your moderate and balanced evaluation of the political developments in Austria.
Texas was a battleground for the tort reform movement in the 1990s, with pro-business conservatives eventually winning control of the Texas Supreme Court and reversing the state's image as a haven for plaintiff lawyers with exotic new theories of damage.
In recent months, the Brotherhood has thrown caution to the wind and set about remaking the Egyptian state in its own image with a speed and ferocity that has surprised most onlookers.
He spoke from a studio in the state's capital while simultaneously projecting his image to more than 50 separate rallies across the state.
It was all very different from the shabby image associated with state hospitals.
Opposition parties are using the case to highlight the state's poor law and order situation while Mr Yadav and his party colleagues are blaming the media for projecting a negative image of the state.
Often those with the largest vote, the secular political forces have in the past had their wings clipped repeatedly by a powerful military establishment which finds an Islamic image of the state more suited to its security needs.
Some of Mr. Perry's Republican supporters played down the damage to his political image, both at state and national level.
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He is already closing critical newspapers and using the state-controlled media to reinforce his image as a peace-maker who has saved Serbia from vicious attack.
Therefore, it is hard to image that the evolutionary end state Mundell envisions is meant to be a single international fiat currency managed through the discretion of central bank technocrats.
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This does not prevent the image from being edited with software such as Photoshop, but it will tell authorised users whether the image is in its original state or has been retouched.
By combining a state-of-the-art image processing engine and back-illuminated CMOS image sensor with low-noise, even up to ISO 6400, and approximately 16.0 effective megapixels, the PENTAX X-5 provides users with very high-resolution images.
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In October 2010, Kim Jong Eun's first public image was released by North Korean state media.
The foreign-ministry document talks of the need to project the image of Russia as a democratic state with a socially oriented market economy but says nothing about the need actually to become one.
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First, customers have to swipe their driving licence to prove they are 21, then they stand in front of a surveillance camera which beams their image to a call center where a state worker checks it against the licence.
Even many reasoned reformers, while suggesting that the judiciary should substantiate the charges and make the evidence public in order to protect Iran's image abroad, have rallied around the state and condemned the West's speed in attacking the arrests.
As prime minister, he sought to burnish his image as a conservative defender of a strong state.
"Penn State, with its own system, protected their public image, " he continued.
These stories and statistics belie the common image of Mexico as an almost-failed state whose chronic instability is spilling over to the U.S. side of the border.
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We create an image of the hard drive using PowerQuest's Drive Image software and use the image to restore the system to its original state after each test.
President Kuchma's opponents allege that he has used his position to project a favourable image of himself and undermine his opponents on state television, particularly the first programme.
Hong Kong (CNN) -- Chinese Vice Premier Wang Yang has called on his nation's tourists to improve their behavior, stressing it was important to project a "good image of Chinese tourists, " official state media outlet Xinhua reported.
Greene, who is in a tight race for the Democratic senatorial nomination in Florida with Rep. Kendrick Meek, was already facing something of an image problem as a recent arrival to the state whose former employees have accused him of being a difficult boss.
In both the Bush and the Obama Administrations, the leading agency in charge of this policy seems to be the State Department whose philosophy is to try to improve the image of the United States in Latin America in order to mitigate the effect of anti-Americanism in the area.
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His objective was to turn the Empire State Building into a state-of-the-art property with a restored image that would give it a unique competitive marketing edge.
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That might be about to change, though, as South Korea's state-owned Korea Electronics Technology Institute has announced a new image sensor chip that promises to take "vibrant photos" in extreme low-light conditions -- all the way down to 1 lux, which is the equivalent light output of a candle shining one meter away.
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This image was taken in Cairu, a town in Bahia state that is a bit off the tourist beaten path.
With remarkable magnification power in combination with 14-megapixel resolution, the super-slim SZ-12 is packed with state-of-the-art Olympus technology that delivers excellent image quality.
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