UNIDO's current stability and international prestige were largely due to the leadership of Mr. Magariños over the past eight years.

Allowing Zakaev s return would have worsened matters by increasing Kadyrov s prestige at home, as well as his international visibility and legitimacy.

That is why competition for national prestige has been the main motive in international politics since the beginning of the twentieth century.

This adds to their power, wealth, and prestige.

People gradually became accustomed to the expression Palestinian state, and those who embraced it received support and gained prestige on the international scene.

First accrue wealth, power, and prestige, then lose it.

In fact, US prestige has suffered much since 2008.

The idea that prestige is important is not new.

What shapes this process are competitiveness, financial considerations and prestige.

Being a nuclear power provides sovereign states with protection and prestige.

That price is not necessarily a gain in prestige for the Kremlin.

These groups only exist because of people's ideas of prestige or dishonor.

Of these, the Diplomatic Career enjoys the highest responsibility, prestige and remuneration.

They will include prestige projects, high employment companies, and politically well connected businesses.

The return to Chechnya of an amnestied Zakaev would greatly increase Kadyrov s prestige.

But that would miss the most important point about America s role in the world The same idealism that made Kennedy so popular is also driving the decline in America s international prestige.

But, seen from today s perspective, Kennedy s presidency seems like a high point of American prestige.

In the bilateral sphere, it reinforces the economic, commercial and financial embargo imposed on Cuba, in that it seeks to prevent foreign investment in the island deriving from the international marketing of Cuban products whose trademarks and trade names have won international prestige.

Consequently, the prestige of the Taliban and other militant groups operating in the area has grown.

Having them, their prestige among other fighters will soar, and so will support for their moderate stance.

Since then, South Korea has used the issue as a means of boosting national prestige and, aware that its sovereignty claims are legally dubious, has refused to allow the International Court of Justice to adjudicate.

Past performance is also important the visibility and prestige of a sport increases after Olympic success, as does funding.

We must value a sense of moderation and modesty instead of an unquenchable greed for money, prestige, and consumption.

China, they believe, is regaining the status and prestige that it enjoyed until the end of the eighteenth century.

But the rapid decline of US prestige and soft power during the 2000 s sowed doubt outside the US.

But these complaints fail a vital diplomatic test preservation of national dignity, prestige, and the honor of one's citizens.

The second lethal blow to Putin s prestige came with the unprecedented scale of fraud perpetrated in December s parliamentary elections.

Past performance is also important the visibility and prestige of a sport increases after Olympic success, as does funding.

After the breaking up of the Young Pioneers in 1991 its prestige declined, though it remained a popular vacation destination.

Football clubs have become the status symbols of newly rich tycoons from Russia or the Middle East, and international competitions, especially the World Cup, have become occasions to bolster the prestige, and sometimes even the legitimacy, of national governments.

This is the most irritating aspect of Blatter s FIFA. The corruption, the vote buying, the absurd thirst of soccer bosses for international prestige, the puffed out chests festooned with medals and decorations all of that is par for the course.

Wade has substantial international prestige, because he led the final phase of the country s long democratic transition in 2000. But Wade postponed legislative elections, originally scheduled for June 2006, first to February 2007, and later, by presidential decree, to June 2007.

The ownership of property is not always going to assure power, but there are frequently people with prestige and little property.

Member States are therefore rightly concerned about the decline in the Assembly's prestige and its diminishing contribution to the Organization's activities.

Security Council reform is not about any country's prestige or power, but about transforming the balance of power in the world.

If so, it is not the game itself that they have forsaken, but rather the kind of game that football has become a billion dollar business, a prestige object for louche plutocrats, and an extravagant showpiece for corrupt governments and international sporting organizations.

At the diplomatic level, Europeans could threaten to deprive Russia of the prestige it draws from participating in G8 and EU Russia Summits.

In this effort, professionals in applied science, as people who would help Muslim countries catch up with the West, have enjoyed enormous prestige.

Azerbaijan, like many other States, is concerned about the decline in the General Assembly's prestige and its diminishing profile in the Organization's activities.

That price is not necessarily a gain in prestige for the Kremlin. The true risk implied by the US deal with Russia lies elsewhere.

The government could launch a broad crackdown on such protests, although this would risk damaging China s prestige internationally and provoking larger, more violent protests.

The first, and deepest, consequence consists in plummeting prestige of and respect for the US and the Bush administration in Latin American public opinion.

The question now is whether this determination can bring about the type of surprising breakthrough to peace that Sadat s newfound prestige in 1973 yielded.

In the case of the Middle East, that traditional mobilizer is Islam, and so threats to national prestige are presented as threats to Islam.

Also, the prestige gained in the aftermath of the battle helped the revolutionaries to announce the Turkish Constitution of 1921 on January 20, 1921.