The more money a country puts in, the more influence it has.

Sheltered from foreign competition, industry grew fat and lazy.

Finland nevertheless enjoyed a high degree of , until its independence in 1917.

Like other regions on the edge of the Empire, Britain had long enjoyed trading links with the Romans.

It has provided Israel with the high tech success that it has enjoyed over the last decade.

(The three percentage point differentials that Chinese banks have enjoyed are roughly on par with those of their developed country counterparts.)

Her work in ballet continued into high school, where she had an active social life.

For too long, these regimes have enjoyed impunity regarding the terrorism that they notoriously foster, support and glorify.

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

Throughout its history, the kingdom of Armenia enjoyed both periods of independence and periods of autonomy subject to contemporary empires.

Because its main geographic focus was north of the forest, Oyo enjoyed easier farming and thus a steady growth in population.

Reasons of legal certainty militated against removing the privilege enjoyed by this group retroactively.

By contrast, East and South Asia enjoyed robust growth, in some countries faster than the 1970s.

At least? America has had a knowledge based economy and one of the highest living standards in the world for decades.

For individual institutions, this was not seen as a problem, because they were protected by the logic of being too big to fail.

Women had much more freedom than in other Italian cities some even had the opportunity to earn a degree at the university.

Therefore, in the 2000 2003 period, despite falling prices of agricultural products in the world market, Vietnam's agriculture enjoyed continuous growth at 4 per annum.

Ever since, a country that had never truly experienced democratic rule has enjoyed all the charms and vicissitudes of competitive elections, legislative battles, and rotation in power.

For example, A.G. McDowell cites the Will of Naunakhte as an example of the power that women held in regards to controlling their own property (McDowell 1999 pg.

The weaker countries enjoyed real estate, consumption, and investment booms, while Germany, weighed down by the fiscal burden of reunification, had to adopt austerity and implement structural reforms.

They have successfully targeted websites in several countries, illustrating that the internet truly has no borders, and that even big name websites can be fragile against unknown attackers.

Part of this capital export flowed to the new EU members in Eastern Europe, which enjoyed, relative to their size, gigantic capital imports.

Under traditional English common law an adult unmarried woman was considered to have the legal status of feme sole , while a married woman had the status of feme covert .

Economic and trade opportunities and special arrangements for countries could not be fully utilized unless those least developed countries had the capacity to create the necessary industries and technologies.

Secondly, her Plan of Action likewise enjoyed wide support although it remained to be seen whether her request for a doubling of resources over five years would be accepted.

Whereas China, India, and others have enjoyed continuing economic growth and investment in research and innovative capacity, Europe is perceived as being on the brink of decline, economically as well as politically.

The Anglican Church of Australia (formerly known as the Church of England in Australia) remained the largest denomination until 1986, when it was surpassed by the Roman Catholic Church in Australia.

So, it is not alarmist to worry aloud about preserving the sense of community that Europe has enjoyed for the past half century.

Taking advantage of the impunity which it has always enjoyed even within the Council, Israel has consistently adopted a policy of fait accompli and of the use of force, disregarding the principles of international law and the relevant United Nations resolutions.

As China s Premier, Zhao implemented ten years of economic reforms that brought steady progress in which the people, especially the peasantry, enjoyed tangible improvements.

Market access for small island developing States, which, for the most part, are exporters of single commodities mainly bananas and sugar should be maintained through the preservation of the current preferential trade agreements which they have traditionally enjoyed.

Under the moribund, as the Constitution came to be known, Venezuela not only had eight peaceful presidential transitions, but also enjoyed the fruits of democratic pluralism and strong civil and political liberties.

In any case, it is clear that the exposure enjoyed by that issue during the months leading to the summit overshadowed our vision and diverted our attention from other reform matters of equally major importance.

Yet the government and the Mittelstand, the small and medium sized enterprises that form the backbone of the German economy, were encouraged by the strong export driven recovery the country enjoyed in the early part of this year.

In 2004, the governments of ASEAN vowed to end the impunity states like Burma have enjoyed and signed the Declaration to Eliminate Violence Against Women in the ASEAN Region.

Acorn BBC Archimedes The Acorn BBC Micro was a very popular British computer in the 1980s with home and educational users, and enjoyed near universal usage in British schools into the mid 1990s.

The goal of feminist history is to explore and illuminate the female viewpoint of history through rediscovery of female writers, artists, philosophers, etc., in order to recover and demonstrate the significance of women's voices and choices in the past.

During its 47 years of existence, the German Empire operated as an industrial, technological, and scientific giant, gaining more Nobel Prizes in science than Britain, France, Russia, and the United States combined.

The country has long had an unparalleled reputation for corruption. But, since the late 1990s and especially after 2000, when the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), which had ruled for 70 years, was swept from power Mexico has made significant inroads in combating the practice, at least at the federal level.

Europe has had more than 250 wars since the beginning of the Renaissance in the mid fifteenth century. So, it is not alarmist to worry aloud about preserving the sense of community that Europe has enjoyed for the past half century.

An ongoing dispute between the territorial Government and the Pacific Blue Airlines, owned by the Australian airline Virgin Blue, also means that New Caledonia has been unable to benefit from the boost to tourist arrivals that other Pacific island nations have enjoyed following the launch of cheaper flights.