They quickly overwhelmed the German forces and occupied the island for the duration of the war.

In contrast to most such questionnaires, it was easier for candidates to excel by contributing original thought than by simply agreeing.

We all desire success.

Possessing nuclear superiority, for example, allowed Eisenhower to face down Soviet threats to intervene in the Middle East during the 1956 Suez Crisis.

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Nobody can surpass him.

The Soviets were simply outgunned.

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By creating an illusion of military supremacy, they could provoke their own use, which in turn might lead to the actual use of nuclear weapons.

On top of all this, the US military, rather than being a burden, feeds the country s technological superiority by subsidizing basic research.

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For China, this is not a power race.

The moral superiority of high marginal income taxes suddenly waned.

For their part, students will be encouraged to excel by the granting of prizes.

Instead, it seems more like a child s playground a strange mixture of inferiority and superiority complexes.

A few years ago, some regarded Japan as having overtaken the US.

Thus, while Abbas seeks to create a new fact on the ground by drumming up international support for a Palestinian state, Israel aims to trump him by making such a state unviable.

Despite bravado about American superiority, the students themselves do not seem to feel superior, and wonder if they will be living emerging country lives of their own in coming years.

Clever government officials of goodwill, he thought, could design economic institutions that would be superior to the market or could at least tweak the market with taxes, subsidies, and regulations to produce superior outcomes.

China s leaders would be naïve and foolish to bank on their country s peaceful and quiet rise to global preeminence.

Democrats have even managed to beat the Republicans on their own turf.

The scholarships were granted on the basis of academic excellence and financial situation.

I would probably feel superior and say something like, It must have been so difficult for you, then! .

One is there's the science of achievement, which almost everything that's run is mastered to an amazing extent.

A panoply of innovations has helped Chile to outperform its South American neighbors.

That is why he barged his way past Hillary Clinton, the consummate operator of the party machine.

China will most likely be saving more than the US for years to come.

It is time to leaven financial triumphalism with some humility and common sense.

And America s military superiority has not proved all that useful in accomplishing American ends.

Against this background, primacy seems like a more accurate description of a country s disproportionate (and measurable) share of all three kinds of power resources military, economic, and soft.

The dollar and the pound then shared international primacy in the 1920 s and 1930 s.

I co founded a similar program called The Woodhull Institute by teaching these skill sets, and adding mutual support in an all female space, our alumnae whether from barrios or Ivy League universities quickly and dramatically outpaced their peers.

But for many years, until the late 1990s, China had an infrastructure disadvantage vis a vis India.

UNITAR will continue to identify and invite top female resource persons and participants who contribute substantively to the excellence of the programme.

The insurgents in Iraq, as the British admit, were able in just three years to cope with their enemies technological superiority in a way that the IRA in Northern Ireland was unable to do in 30 years.

One is to steal secrets and gain an asymmetrical advantage over another country.

Actual injury is not necessary the perceived superiority of another nation is enough.

Determined to outbid Gorbachev as a reformer, he persuaded liberals to overcome their distrust of his provincial manners.

American financial supremacy in the twenty first century resembles Britain s position in world finance a century ago.

It is now that we can use the diversity of our talents to create intelligent, meaningful and extraordinary work. It's now.

It's not easy to one up the Greeks. But with the industriousness of the Egyptians, they were able to build the Library of Alexandria the idea of a copy of every book of all the peoples of the world.