Word: establish
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...added, is to provide the political representatives with an opportunity to engage in an “orderly” discussion at a time when the presidential campaign “is going into hyper speed.” Shaheen said it is important for the political contenders to establish “markers”—landmarks along the campaign trail including endorsements, donations, or position papers that signal the relative strengths of presidential campaigns. “I hope this will be one of the events that helps lay down some of those markers and sets...
...partnerships are aimed at achieving political reform, sustainable economic growth and social justice. The China-Africa Summit that was held in China last year emphasized NEPAD as a long-term framework within which China should engage Africa. China is a critical player that Africa will work with strategically to establish fair procedures for international trade. As for colonization, the African people will ensure that it never happens again. Tshilidzi Marwala Cambridge, Massachusetts...
...spillover patterns from past civil wars, Brookings' researchers believe Iraq's collapse would result in refugees streaming into neighboring countries, creating an economic burden. Embittered refugees would become "a ready recruiting pool for armed groups still waging the civil war." As al-Qaeda did in Afghanistan, terror groups would establish enclaves in Iraq. Neighboring populations could become radicalized and side with ethnic and religious factions fighting inside Iraq, as Albanians were over Serbia's harsh treatment of Kosovar Albanians. Syria, which intervened in the Lebanon civil war, might do the same in Iraq, and Iran might join the Syrians...
...December 2005, nearly 70% of adult Iraqis took the trouble to vote in their national elections. If we are not willing to fight to help decent, peaceful Iraqis establish democracy, what are we willing to fight for? Some commentators have pointed out that more Americans have died fighting in Iraq than during the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11. They forget that more Americans died on the beaches of Normandy in an hour on D-day than in the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. Barb Yagley Troy, Michigan...
...claimed to be the Mahdi - in Shi'a Islam, a spiritual leader who vanished in the late 9th century and whose return presages a final battle between good and evil. (Sunni Muslims have a quite different conception of the Mahdi, a redemptive figure who will walk the earth to establish peace in the world prior to general resurrection of the dead and the Last Judgment...