The Baathists believed a weakened Iran would be incapable of posing a security threat and could not undermine Iraq's efforts to exercise the regional influence that had been blocked by non Arab Iran since the mid 1960s.

From 1717 to 1743, Phillips' Regiment, garrisoning Annapolis, Placentia, and Canso, was successful in protecting settlers from Indian attacks, checking French influence in the area, and preserving the British foothold in Atlantic Canada.

The Romans also exerted influence on the Persian Gulf.

We do not believe that such authoritative organizations as the United Nations, the Council of Europe and the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, as well as powerful nations, are incapable of bringing Armenia, a State that defies the civilized international community, to justice.

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It was able but only it was able to organize health care, education, policing, justice.

US influence in Burma is unlikely to outweigh that of increasingly powerful Asian neighbors.

Here India has been slow to join the struggle for influence.

As it stands, India and China are openly competing for influence in Sri Lanka, Myanmar, Nepal, and Bangladesh.

Over time, enhanced influence will enable him to get more things done.

She's apt to forget her promise.

a functioning state

Am I capable of killing?

With influence must come accountability.

No Country for Young Oligarchs

Finland fell into the Soviet sphere.

Your voice can prevent a war. Not guns.

The earth is capable of feeding everyone.

Africa can feed itself.

But governments can influence the development of productivity.

But Cuba s influence on the old FMLN leadership remains intact.

In the future, even liquid markets will be willing to intermediate fewer transactions than they were two months ago.

The EU has even more leverage.

He possesses more influence than power.

I was blind, I couldn't speak, and I couldn't walk.

Emerging powers have the potential to fill this need.

Governments can enhance growth by increasing inclusiveness.

This means a strategy based on political leverage not a threat of military intervention or regime change.

The market, they insist, regulates itself.

The pace of the decline of Western influence seems to have accelerated over the past decade.

Many Afghans complain that armed strongmen continue to dominate their local communities.

The country is at a stalemate the opposition is unable to topple President Bashar al Assad s regime, and Assad s forces are unable to quash the resistance.

The border dispute remains unsettled, and both countries vie for influence in neighboring states such as Myanmar.

Machines are becoming devastatingly capable of things like killing. Right?

Sami thought Layla could help him.

Force cannot accomplish everything.

Consequently, wages are market sustainable.

But Europe can do other things.

And they produce more equitable societies.

I would be able to do this again.

They outlined a national strategy in which world influence was understood to flow from scientific leadership.

Nevertheless, China s leverage over North Korea is in part illusory.

Spain s influence is, to a large extent, a result of its national self confidence.

Pakistan must be able to focus internally on its future.

Russia has had centuries of influence in the Middle East and Central Asia, much of which used to be incorporated in the Russian and Soviet empires.