"Turkey is a powerful country, but the Netherlands is also a powerful country," Mr. Rutte said.
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First, America is (still) the most powerful country on earth.
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The US is the most powerful country in the world.
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As Americans, we know that we are such a powerful country.
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The US retains its position as the world's most-powerful country.
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MORE is the president of the most powerful country in the world.
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We were the most powerful country in the world at that time.
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Russia is a far more powerful country with more troops and equipment.
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Now, though, he's the president of the most powerful country on the planet.
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The United States is the richest and most powerful country in human history.
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The Border Patrol is backed by the most powerful country in the world.
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"Canada has been the most powerful country in hockey for years," he said.
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We're the United States of America, the most powerful country in the world.
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If the world's most powerful country steps back, that entire architecture could erode.
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I would say everyone needs friends, including a powerful country like the United States.
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And be honest about that: that Britain would become a much less powerful country.
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And it so happens to be the most powerful country in the entire world.
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But the notion of Stapleton as a unique and powerful country singer hasn't shifted.
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They talk about feeling abandoned, left to drown in the world's most powerful country.
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The United States is still the richest and most powerful country in the world.
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And without it, we'll lose our position as the most powerful country in the world.
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I don't have any problems with poking light fun at a powerful country like England.
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And yet even these years hinted at Britain's mortality as the world's most powerful country.
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We're still the most powerful country in the history of the world and the wealthiest.
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Making an ally of the world's second most powerful country would greatly increase U.S. influence.
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Under that world order, the United States is the most powerful country in the world.
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Now, the world's most powerful country has one of the world's worst disasters on its hands.
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Inside Iran, the regime has marketed itself as the most powerful country in the Middle East.
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Maybe you can't believe the man in charge of the most powerful country in the world.
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For a superpower, unlike a less powerful country, there is an inevitable tension between "might" and "right".
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But it also knows it has the quiet endorsement of the most powerful country in the world.
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It's part of Xi's grander effort to make China — and not America — the world's most powerful country.
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It was a nervous breakdown of the executive power of the most powerful country in the world.
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A powerful country with extensive cyber capabilities continues to use social media to influence American society and politics.
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It's their policy and being the most powerful country, they don't need to think about the entire world.
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If current trends continue, China, a dictatorship that brooks no dissent, could become the world's most powerful country.
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America is the most powerful country in all of human history; you don't need to show it off.
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There is a hush as journalists parse the words of the leader of the group's most powerful country.
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The app is named Xuexi Qiangguo, which translates as Study Powerful Country, and has its own website, xuexi.cn.
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"Why is a powerful country like China so afraid of a beauty queen?" she said at the time.
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This language underscores that the most powerful country in the world has its own escalatory and retaliatory options.
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It's about making sure that every citizen of the world's most powerful country can receive modern medical care.
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Such a step could prompt a conflict between Europe's top court and the judges of its most powerful country.
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Ever wondered what a powerful country in the midst of a meth epidemic might look like under fascist leadership?
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Doesn't the most powerful country in the world have the best resources to prevent cyberattacks, and catch cyber criminals?
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Merkel took over the controls not because she's a natural leader but because she governs Europe's most powerful country.
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Why pick a fight with a vastly more powerful country whose nuclear arsenal makes yours look like child's play?
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If these countries can manage it, why is the most powerful country in the history of the world stymied?
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Speaking in Beijing, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Geng Shuang said the United States was the world's most powerful country.
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Serbia is the most powerful country in the western Balkans, and Mr Vucic, whatever his flaws, can keep it stable.
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How could their duplications of these articles, on their rinky-dink websites, upset the election of such a powerful country?
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Her words and actions are taken as the official positions of the president of the most powerful country on Earth.
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Conceding defeat is very hard for anyone, and especially hard for people making policy for the world's most powerful country.
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But he said it was up to the United States, as the more powerful country, to take the first step.
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The U.S. is the most powerful country in the history of the world, in large part because of our values.
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A political outsider with no government experience has become the president of the United States, the world's most powerful country.
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"China is China as a powerful country historically because widespread irrigation allowed the population of China to triple," Moore said.
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Britain in the 1930s was still the most powerful country in the world, especially with the Americans in isolationist mode.
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Eventually, America's long-slog presidential primaries will end, and the world's most powerful country will turn to the general election.
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This is a man who's just one election away from becoming the leader of the most powerful country in the world.
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Why would it risk escalating a tense situation that could put it on a warpath with the world's most powerful country?
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The United States is the world's most powerful country by far, with a globe-spanning network of alliances and military bases.
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This, like the Soviet-themed parades, shows a certain nostalgia for the feeling of being a big, proud, militarily powerful country.
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The government of the most powerful country on the planet cannot be run as a company or as a reality show.
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When you're talking about the time frame of the most powerful country in the world, things will probably keep grinding forward.
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When refugees are stuck in refugee camps — or, better yet, turned away from the most powerful country in the West entirely.
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But does Wakanda being exclusively black and the most powerful country in the world automatically make it a pro-black country?
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"This was because Cambodia was a very new but powerful country that seemed to be getting stronger each year," Clark wrote.
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But he has restored their sense of being citizens of a powerful country that plays a major part in world affairs.
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"He's running our country more like a reality TV show than the most influential and powerful country on Earth," said Coons.
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On Friday, International Holocaust Remembrance Day, the most powerful country in the world shut its doors to those most in need.
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This is the most powerful country the world has ever known being run by a man singularly unqualified to run it.
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Thus goes presidential politics in the most powerful country the world has ever known in the year of our lord 2016.
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Is it so important that he would risk a deep diplomatic crisis over it with the most powerful country in the world?
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Trump has helped Kim solidify his position at home, and put him on equal footing with the most powerful country on earth.
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And the most powerful country in the world, the United States, often expressed a desire to see wholesale regime change in Pyongyang.
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America is the most powerful country in all of human history, everybody knows it, and we don't need to show it off.
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"We're by far the most powerful country in the world," he said as he met with NATO leaders in London on Tuesday.
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Donald Trump has been elected president of the United States, the most powerful office in the most powerful country in the world.
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"America is the most powerful country in all of human history, everybody knows it, and we don't need to show it off."
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One is by the time of the bombing of Serbia, the United States had become the single most powerful country in the world.
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The American-led campaigns in Afghanistan and Iraq demonstrated that even the most powerful country in history cannot impose democracy by force alone.
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The United States' refugee program once served as a global model of how a powerful country should support the world's most vulnerable people.
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Since Germany is arguably Europe's most powerful country, Merkel's decision could pave the way to other countries accepting Huawei products down the line.
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World leaders once snubbed Putin, but the Helsinki summit put him on equal footing with the head of the world's most powerful country.
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It's abhorrent, unfair, unconscionable and just downright heartless for the richest and most powerful country on earth to treat American workers that way.
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The US government shutdown was, of course, massive international news — it's essentially the world's most powerful country and its largest economy going haywire.
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"If it is possible to recruit the most powerful country in the world onto our side, why should we fight alone?" he asked.
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But the actual speeches and panels barely mentioned the world's most powerful country — and when they did, it was usually to criticize it.
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Iran may be a relatively powerful country in the Middle East, but its options for countering the US and its European allies are few.
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LAST year the idea took hold that Mark Zuckerberg might run for president in 280 and seek to lead the world's most powerful country.
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Because, guys, this is the real world, this is how it works, you know, in other places, not in your perfect most powerful country.
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The United States became the world's most powerful country in part because it was insulated from foreign threats by vast oceans on two sides.
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Further, the collapse could result in a unified Korea, a powerful country on China's doorstep that would likely be allied with the United States.
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The War Against Russia The U.S. is the most powerful country in the history of the world, in large part because of our values.
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" Trump praised America as the most powerful country in the world and argued that it's only getting stronger "because I'm a big military person.
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Those surveyed ranked the U.S. as the most powerful country in the world, but it also suffered a drop in global trust, pollsters found.
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Mr. Kim wants his people to see him being taken seriously and as the equal of the leader of the world's most powerful country.
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He is likely to use his relationship with the leader of the world's most powerful country in any future appeal to the Israeli public.
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This is the white nationalist right emerging from its media cocoon and striding onto the world stage, running the most powerful country in the world.
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Still, I can't imagine that having two parallel governments operating in the world's most powerful country is going to stay peaceful and symbolic for long.
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According to Cagaptay, Gulen gains a certain amount of legitimacy by being protected by the most powerful country on earth, and Turkey's most important ally.
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And that he has finally succeeded in forcing the leader of the most powerful country in the world to acknowledge their country&aposs new status.
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This is the real Trump, and this is the real thinking that could be shaping foreign policy in the world's most powerful country come January.
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And so the world found out what happens when the most powerful country takes 100 years of economic knowledge and flushes it down the toilet.
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But that is hardly a good way to settle the matter of who is in charge of the most influential and powerful country on earth.
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Yes, it's weird that a U.N. official tasked with poverty investigates the most powerful country in the world — and finds that kids here have worms.
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Threats like these reinforce a view in Pyongyang that North Korea needs nuclear weapons to shield it against a much larger, much more powerful country.
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Publicly announce he feared Trump, potentially alienating the leader of the world's most powerful country as Ukraine struggles to establish democracy and fend off Russia?
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According to the Lowy Institute's new Asia Power Index, Australia is the sixth most powerful country in Asia, behind Russia and ahead of South Korea.
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Extravagant promises by ruling elites, and their unexamined assumptions, are at least partly to blame for this moral breakdown in the world's most powerful country.
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That is how the leadership of the most powerful country in the world will respond to this week's massacre of its citizens," he said. "Silence.
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The address amounted to the United States naming and shaming China — specifically pitting America against a powerful country like it did during the Cold War.
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Alavi also said "you have recently heard that we brought under our control a member of a cabinet of a powerful country", without specifying which country.
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The guiding belief of Generation Freedom is that the richest and most powerful country in the world should do more, much more, to combat human trafficking.
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Faced with this moral challenge, T'Challa must reconcile whether this great and powerful country can be truly great and powerful if it does not help others.
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Such a step would also prompt a conflict between Europe's top court, which has earlier backed the ECB, and the judges of its most powerful country.
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A crisis moment It's impossible to read Trump's tweets yesterday and think that the world's most powerful country is being led by a stable, rational individual.
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Who is John Bolton and what does he want It is not as simple as saying "America is in decline," since America remains a powerful country.
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But this has occurred in the most powerful country in the world, where our misguided policies will affect hundreds of millions of people and threaten civilization.
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And then there's the broader issue of China's being a wealthier and more powerful country; under any leader, Beijing was going to shake off its reticence.
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Anderson: The most powerful country on earth, the United States, right now has a president who has pulled the US out of the Paris Climate Accord.
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He believes that by making threats, the US (the most powerful country in the world) can intimidate other countries into changing their behavior at least somewhat.
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" Woodward writes that the staff's decision to circumvent the President was "a nervous breakdown of the executive power of the most powerful country in the world.
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Now, there is a sense that the Kremlin might be unsettled by the president of a far more powerful country deploying Mr. Putin's favorite tactic: unpredictability.
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Rolling out America's nukes and parading giant warheads down Pennsylvania Avenue is not needed to convince the world that the U.S. is the most powerful country.
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Iran may be a relatively powerful country in the Middle East, but its options for pushing back against the US and its European allies are few.
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During his 2008 campaign, Obama called China a currency manipulator, which he cited as the cause for the United States' trade deficit with the increasingly powerful country.
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How would citizens and policymakers in the West react to news of a nonwhite country — no, a black country — quietly being the most powerful country on Earth?
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"It's not fun to have any country, whether it's the most powerful country in the world or any country, deem you to be a criminal," he said.
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This spirit of action has helped make America the richest, most powerful country on Earth, but it has also gotten it into a lot of stupid wars.
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One can easily imagine India deciding it doesn't need to push nearly as hard on clean energy if the world's richest and most powerful country doesn't care.
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"Living next to China, which has ambitions to become the most powerful country in the world, is not easy," said Vo Van Tao, a popular political blogger.
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Just one glance at our traveling party and the crews at this base and you realize immediately why we are the most powerful country in the world.
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"We are committed to realizing a decarbonised society, and we are ready to contribute as a more powerful country in the fight against climate change," he said.
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But it is how you expect the head of the most powerful country in the world to deliver a message without scaring the pants off the public.
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Europe's most powerful country will once again have a stable government, comprised of Merkel's Center-Right CDU/CSU and the Center-Left SPD for another four years.
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But it's part of a pattern — as David Roberts says, Cool that one of the major parties in earth's most powerful country is utterly dominated by sexual insecurities.
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It might be easier to work out how to accommodate the evolving interests of non-Arctic countries were America—the region's most powerful country—to show more interest.
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He essentially turned the Republican Party into a vehicle for their style of populism, and used it to win a national election in the world's most powerful country.
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" That statement also reminded everyone that the world's most powerful country was exiting the Paris agreement "absent the identification of terms that are better for the American people.
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"Australia believes that international challenges can only be tackled effectively when the world's wealthiest, most innovative and most powerful country is engaged in solving them," the government said.
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"We've lost seven children in our custody just over the last year in this, the wealthiest, the most powerful country on the face of the planet," he said.
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His meaning was clear: Iran was a powerful country with a capable military and proxy groups like Hezbollah that could unleash serious violence from just over Israel's borders.
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The American press debates -- in total seriousness -- whether the Kremlin is literally keeping the President of the most powerful country on Earth on its leash and shaping his policies.
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Despite these slippages, the U.S. continues to be seen as the world's most powerful country: An economically and politically consequential nation with strong international alliances and strong military alliances.
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But, Macron will now have to lead the second most powerful country in the E.U. at a time when citizens are impatient with the direction the world is moving.
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And what they see is the most powerful country on earth in disarray, committing to policies at odds with historic American commitments and, at times, its own stated objectives.
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It's a very powerful country that we have a relationship with, but I would say not a great relationship, and I would say this can certainly help that relationship.
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We can't afford these distractions when the times call for deft diplomatic relations with a very powerful country that, until only a few decades ago, was considered the enemy.
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Simply sitting down for a summit with Moon, and then Trump, leader of the world's most powerful country, will be characterized as a victory back home in North Korea.
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How would Americans feel if, for 150 years, another powerful country expected us to happily flip the order of our personal names every time we interacted with that society?
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He said Trump heads the most powerful country in the world and that the United States has a responsibility to use its influence on the United Nations Security Council.
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When you're basically running the biggest army, [for] the most powerful country on earth, you don't have to be all excited and amped; you can't get aggravated like that.
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But the 28-page coalition agreement represents the best chance yet at ending the political deadlock that has left Europe's most powerful country rudderless since federal elections in September.
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The man who wrote these words is in charge of the world's most powerful country, with a world-class military and a nuclear arsenal large enough to incinerate the planet.
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There is no questioning the fact that the United States is the most powerful country in the world, commanding an unprecedentedly mighty military machine and an enormous network of alliances.
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It's not hard to imagine China and India deciding they don't need to push nearly as hard on clean energy if the world's richest and most powerful country doesn't care.
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Several authoritarian and right-wing leaders hailed the billionaire businessman and former TV show host, who won the leadership of the world's most powerful country against the odds in Tuesday's election.
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For a process that plays such a major role in determining the future leader of the world's most powerful country, the Iowa Caucuses can seem archaic, opaque, and hard to understand.
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It's not a stretch to suspect Castro, in his final moments, took special delight in having withstood 11 US presidents—and so much anger from the most powerful country on Earth.
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At a time when Britain's future is gravely insecure, she may feel as though the chance to get in with the leader of the world's most powerful country is worth it.
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Sitting down with the leader of the world's most powerful country is one way to do that — and all Kim had to do was suggest his country wouldn't test weapons anymore.
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The results are broken down into a range of categories that include the most powerful country, the best country to invest in, and the best country for women, children and retirees.
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"We have the most powerful military we ever had, and we are by far the most powerful country in the world, and hopefully we don't have to use it," Trump said.
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Brooks and Wohlforth argue that, contrary to Trump-esque pessimism, the United States is the most powerful country in the world, and will remain so for many decades — if not indefinitely.
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Taiwan, which is not in the United Nations, is often barred from using its national anthem and national flag in international events too, due to pressure from the much more powerful country.
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But it is also a fuss about a man who is about to govern the most powerful country on earth, who makes impulsive moves and seems not to understand their full significance.
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She pointed to Kirt Webster, the powerful country music publicist whose clients included Dolly Parton: Just this week, Austin Rick, his former client, publicly alleged that Webster molested and sexually assaulted him.
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On Tuesday morning in Singapore, he shook hands with the leader of the most powerful country in the world, with a backdrop of American and North Korean flags intermixed behind them. Stunning.
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Since Mr. Xi became chairman of the party in 2012, he has promoted a nationalist vision of making China a more prosperous and powerful country and restoring it to its ancient glory.
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Former Mexican President Vicente Fox blasted President Donald Trump on Friday, calling him a "child" and mockingly referring to him as a corporate "CEO" rather than president of the world's most powerful country.
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In 2018, China is a powerful country, with enormous ambitions to spread its influence across the globe, while the United States has effectively pulled some of its influence back from the world stage.
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At the United Nations, where American diplomats must battle Chinese and Russian diplomats in support of our interests and allies, the seat belonging to the most powerful country in the world is empty.
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He was fully engaged, and particularly concerned about the anguish that I was feeling about having to urge a powerful country not to intervene militarily to purge a foreign land of its oppressor.
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"The reality is what speaks the loudest for the United States of America is the fact that we're the most powerful country on the face of the Earth," Panetta told host John Dickerson.
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Lincoln, like George Washington before him, was a proponent of a strategic approach that made this country the wealthiest and most powerful country on the planet — immigration as a path to national greatness.
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However, it adds: "Despite [slipping in the ranking], the U.S. continues to be seen as the world's most powerful country: an economically and politically consequential nation with strong international alliances and strong military alliances."
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How does one reconcile the privilege of being the ruler of the most powerful country in the world with not retaliating against the people who've plundered and colonized the continent that country sits on?
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The generation that is coming of age during the Obama presidency knows a world where an African-American man was nominated to be the leader of the most powerful country in the world, twice.
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His words are amplified around the world -- both because they're the stuff that Russian bot dreams are made of and because he's the commander-in-chief of the most powerful country in the world.
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Simultaneously, corrode the European Union by: lauding Brexit; sending Stephen Bannon to stoke European anti-establishment movements; and undermining Europe's most powerful country, Germany, most recently through installing a right-wing flamethrower as ambassador.
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Diplomats and politicians agreed that other nations may be losing faith in the United States, but they have little choice but to continue to work with the richest and most powerful country on Earth.
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But Chinese analysts, whose advice is sometimes sought by the government on foreign policy questions, were scornful of the strike, which they viewed as a powerful country attacking a nation unable to fight back.
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But he joked that if he ever ended up in a prison there, he would use the time to write a history book about how the United States became the world's most powerful country.
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In this atmosphere, headline-grabbing protests against the government in one of their most well-known cities will frustratingly complicate their narrative of a united and powerful country, happy under the Communist Party's leadership.
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Amtrak turns 219 today, leaving many people wondering how is it that a rich and powerful country that was a pioneer in railroad adoption in the 22.2th century has such terrible passenger trains today.
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That a woman might still rise to the highest office in the most powerful country in the world is a silver lining in the dreary cloud that has fallen over us in the past week.
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In his most recent visit to the peak, Kim "recollected with deep emotion the road of arduous struggle he covered for the great cause of building the most powerful country," according to the KCNA report.
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"The entertainment value is high, and there is a certain, I have to say, level of anxiety as to what's happening to America, the most powerful country in the world -- it really matters," Blair responded.
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For the head of state of such a powerful country to lead the United Nations would be highly unusual, tipping the scale that Mr. Ban's successor would be more like a general than a secretary.
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But the US benefits a great deal from this, and US involvement in NATO has long helped it solidify its role as the globe's leading powers, if not the most powerful country in the world.
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"This is a far larger country, a far more powerful country, a far more strategic country, with far more allies," said Hady Amr, former U.S. Deputy Special Envoy for Israeli-Palestinian negotiations under President Obama.
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But the most powerful country in the world holds a certain degree of responsibility for what goes on in its hemisphere, and it is perfectly capable of accepting the most vulnerable people on the continent.
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Worse, these are now normal conditions for journalists: If the administration of the most powerful country in the world is doing it, it's not surprising that small but worrisome groups like these would do the same.
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Ali was not exactly a slayer of the "masters of war," but it meant something to us that, as a young man, a beleaguered citizen, he had stood up to the most powerful country on earth.
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She oversaw Europe's most powerful country during the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression, then the European debt crisis, and then the surge of immigrants from some of the poorest, most troubled nations on earth.
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This is the Trump presidency in a nutshell: The most powerful country in the world being run by a man who acts on whim and gut instinct, and cares little about what trouble his actions cause.
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That said, America's slide in the general rankings did not diminish respondents' sense that it is the most powerful country in the world, based on military and economic might and its political influence across the globe.
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But there's more: Having a woman assume the presidency of the world's most powerful country for the first time could prove educational for men and inspirational for women in the Middle East and, indeed, across the globe.
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But to most of the people I spoke with, the curiously timid words from the leader of the world's most powerful country proved at least as disturbing as the ugly chants from the gangs of neo-Nazis.
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He said the United States and its allies "should know that Iran is a democratic, stable and powerful country" and that it promoted "peace, good neighborliness, and the creation of a world opposed to violence and extremism".
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This notion, that the world's most powerful country might actually try to shake up the global order that sustains its power, is deeply stupid, which is why Georgetown's Nexon labeled it "geopolitical suicide" in the first place.
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"How do you tell a mother who has to cook, an ill person who depends on a machine, and a laborer who needs to work that they're in a powerful country without light?" he asked on Twitter.
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As the world's most powerful country, and the only one whose leadership can safeguard the world order, the United States must care more about whether it commands international respect than whether it is loved by international elites.
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The result is a president who doesn't understand the full scope of his job, a bureaucracy that doesn't trust its leader, and the most powerful country in the world being managed in the most dysfunctional way possible.
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The world's most powerful country cannot withdraw from global fights to expand democracy, and human rights, women's rights, and LGBT rights, he continued, no matter how imperfect its efforts, no matter how expedient ignoring such values may seem.
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But looming large over his remarks was the leader of world's most powerful country: President Trump, who has dismissed climate science, rolled back environmental regulations and vowed to pull the United States out of the Paris climate accord.
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But even as President Trump presses ahead with his cry for a wall along the entire border — implying, yet again, that neighbors to the south threaten the richest and most powerful country on Earth — history offers other perspectives.
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"What happens in America, just by virtue of being really the most powerful country in the world, will in some ways affect other people who are not necessarily Americans," the Americanah author and 2008 MacArthur Grant recipient tells PEOPLE.
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But now that he's a much more serious candidate, you'd like to think he would have given even just a few minutes' thought to his potential future leading the foreign policy of the most powerful country in human history.
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"People understand that China is a much more powerful country and its economy is producing numbers that Russia cannot hope to achieve," said Yuri Pronin, the editor of Baikalskiye Vesti, an independent weekly published in Irkutsk, the regional capital.
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"It is obviously a diplomatic success when the president of the most powerful country in the world arrives in your country and says very nice things about Poland and its rulers," Mr. Tusk said in a Polish television interview.
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That thinking seems more wishful than ever when the man chosen to lead the world's most powerful country keeps saying that two pillars of postwar security and prosperity — the North Atlantic Treaty Organization and the European Union — are obsolete.
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"We hope that the United States, as the world's most powerful country, can open both arms and welcome companies, the media, think tanks and students from all countries, including China, to go to the United States," he told reporters.
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Mr Trump is bringing into the mainstream a strain of for-profit bigotry and pessimism that believes life in the world's richest, most powerful country at the beginning of the 21st century could not possibly get any worse (see Schumpeter).
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The United States is still the world's most powerful country, but its leader is weaker at home and less effective abroad than any of his recent predecessors, not least because he scorns the values and alliances that underpin American influence.
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The most powerful country in the region to back the Qatari side in the dispute has been Turkey, whose President Tayyip Erdogan has his roots in an Islamist political party similar to movements that Qatar has backed in the region.
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There's a difference between campaign rhetoric about trimming back the federal government and simply disregarding the management needs of mammoth government agencies that help run the most powerful country in the world and handle its relationships with other global powers.
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But some former U.S. officials say that by kicking China while it's down, the Trump team is wasting a golden opportunity to build trust with an increasingly powerful country whose cooperation it will need to tackle future transnational challenges, including pandemics.
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The crown prince is spearheading an ambitious economic reform programme that aims to draw more foreign and private sector investment into the kingdom, which is the world's top oil exporter and the most powerful country in the Gulf Arab region.
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"(I'm trying) to get a proper debate going in the biggest, richest and most important, powerful country in Europe about not just the shape of Brexit but perhaps even the shape of the European project to come," Farage told reporters.
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After calling US President Barack Obama a "son of a bitch" on Monday, Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte has decided he does not "want to quarrel with the most powerful country on the planet" and attempted to atone for the insult.
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Mr. Bezos said he bought the newspaper because he wanted to make it into a more powerful national — and even global — publication, and that The Post was well situated to be a watchdog over the leaders of the world's most powerful country.
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" Willem Dafoe, for Most Subtle Donald Trump Ego-Pop: "Our leader should be a moral leader, and I don't think we're going in the right direction, and we're a powerful country and we have a responsibility to the rest of the world.
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Ignoring what one of history's greatest examples of lying has to teach us about current examples of lying, particularly lying by the "president" of the most powerful country in the world, seems to me an act of timidity in a time of terror.
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The anniversary comes at a time when Australia is once again conflicted about its relationship with the region's biggest, most powerful country, and many Chinese-Australians are digging into their families' archives to share their history with audiences from both China and Australia.
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Vindman explained that he considered the request to implicitly be a demand, because it was the president of the most powerful country in the world asking for "a favor" from a much lesser world power, according to the people familiar with his testimony.
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The presidency is the most powerful office in the most powerful political system in the the most powerful country in the world, so in the grand scheme of things, the president of the United States is probably the single most powerful politician in the planet.
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Like its witchcraft panic, its positive contributions to humanity are also extreme and unsung, lost by the historical erasure that comes with living next door to a more powerful country, England, which has had the privilege of narrating history because it was the victor.
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Even today, our eyes bear witness to the Native Americans at Standing Rock, hands still firmly clutching what's left of their culture and sacred land – even after the undeniable genocide that was brutally cast upon them giving birth to the most powerful country on Earth.
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However, for those who sacrificed their domestic policy preferences and supported an erratic, unethical and dishonest candidate for the highest office of the most powerful country on Earth, just because they believed Trump's hawkish foreign policy promises, it's time to look beyond his campaign rhetoric.
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To him this means that under the Communist Party, China will again be the world's richest, most powerful country as it was before the "hundred years of humiliation"—the economic disasters and territorial grabs by foreigners during the century after the first opium war of 215-21800.
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To an outside observer, the propaganda and censorship might seem like only a means to an end, a way to ensure that the parade went as smoothly as possible and the image of China as a united and powerful country was maintained for the outside world.
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The challenge for any interested party — which is just about every person on the planet since the president is the leader of the most powerful country in the world — is figuring out what Trump was just saying to win people's votes, and what he really believes.
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" McCain also said that senators have a responsibility to preserve the system that made the US the most powerful country in the world, even when doing so "requires us to do something less satisfying than winning, even when we must give a little to get a little.
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But Black Panther also offers the kind of story that so many of his fellow superheroes can't: a legend that empowers those with brown skin, cherishes Africa, and rewrites history to create a black monarchy that rules the most intelligent and powerful country in the world.
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In none of these crises is he to blame for all that went wrong, not even close, but as President of (as he noted in his State of Union speech) the world's most powerful country he was in a position to steer events in a different direction.
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Sure, it may work for Tamra and Eddie in Orange County when they run their (always empty based on Real Housewives episodes) gym together, but more or less running the most powerful country in the free world is a lot more than free weights and training selfies.
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But these traits, in the commander in chief of the most powerful country in the world, can be exceedingly dangerous and, perhaps, should be reasons for others in power to use the instruments at their disposal to do something about it for the sake of the country.
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Among some Republicans, it has reinforced doubts about whether Mr. Trump, who has built his campaign around whim and impulse, can now harness that into a viable force to beat the Democratic contender, Hillary Clinton, in November — and to run the most powerful country on earth.
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But right now those notions are pipe dreams, while the Great Barrier Reef will be dead within decades, and everyone's favorite vampire squid, Goldman Sachs, has no fewer than five alumni at the top table of what remains, for now, the most powerful country in the world.
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Those feelings are also tinged with a touch of pride that, after centuries in the shadow of Russia, its giant neighbor to the east, the nation is no longer seen as a backwater but a pivot around which the fate of the world's most powerful country implausibly turns.
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Everything from siding with a dictator over US intelligence to the moral repulsiveness of the geopolitical logic to even the juvenile writing style screams an obvious fact: A man who released this under his name is not fit to run the world's oldest democracy and most powerful country.
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And so, he knows he&aposs got the leverage and he&aposs executing based upon the being the leader of the most powerful country in the world as opposed to apologizing as President Obama did and had sent in pallets of cash to get detainees back, and all of that insanity.
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The refusal to speak English, the lingua franca of international finance, illustrates continued resistance from the euro zone's most economically powerful country to the ECB's project to establish itself as the bloc's main bank supervisor — one of the pillars of Europe's response to the financial crisis that began in 2008.
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"China is able to send out a consistent message that it is a powerful country, it is able to project this in a coordinated manner and show leadership, while the Trump foreign policy is rather confused," said Zhang Baohui, a professor of political science at Lingnan University in Hong Kong.
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Precisely at this dire moment in Chile's natural history, precisely now I am forced to watch how the government of the powerful country that my wife and I have adopted as our home is gutting the very environmental policies that, even if insufficient, were at least steps in the right direction.
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"It can only irritate veterans that on the one hand they hear propaganda that China is now a wealthy, powerful country that reveres its military, yet on the other hand they feel they have to fight for scraps," said Neil Diamant, a professor of Dickinson University and expert on Chinese veteran issues.
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In statement after statement Wednesday, world leaders sought reassurance about their ties to the US. And after a bitter and divisive election campaign in which Trump was seen to marginalize and insult large groups of people, many looked for a reaffirmation of the values they associate with the world's most powerful country.
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And President Trump understands that he is a commander-in-chief of the most powerful country in the world and he mentioned $700 billion twice, you know, in during his press conference today and that number is are the size of our defense budget and this was a strategic messaging to North Korea.
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Mayors, governors, corporate executives and environmental activists from four continents are gathering in San Francisco this week to show what they can do to stave off the most catastrophic effects of climate change, even if the president of the world's most powerful country — the United States, which is also history's biggest polluter — won't.
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The level of comical sycophancy that an ally—the only country in Europe with a still-smoldering war on its territory—has had to resort to in order to be heard out by the leader of the world's most powerful country is a testament to the double-edged sword of American support.
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"We will never come out on top if we accept advice from soundbite salesmen and carnival barkers who pretend the most powerful country on Earth can remain great by looking inward and hiding behind walls at a time that technology has made that impossible to do and unwise to even attempt," he said.
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Whether or not the comment was made in jest—a possibility given Trump's miserable attempts at humor and something resembling a smirk visible in video of the moment—it's doesn't quite hit the mark, given that he's now expressly encouraged a powerful country with a nut job leader to hack into the email of a US presidential candidate.
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RELATED: US stands tall as Asia's most powerful country despite rising China "If there's a general retrenchment or a loss of confidence in the US and its ability to underline security for its allies in the region, then you will see a weakening in that defense network score," the index's project director Herve Lemahieu told CNN.
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A. The shocker for people outside of the United States is to see the most powerful country in the world — the nation that has more sovereignty and more effective sovereignty than any other country in the world — has got millions of people inside it, in Ohio and Pennsylvania and Indiana, who think their country's lost control.
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"We will never come out on top if we accept advice from soundbite salesmen and carnival barkers who pretend the most powerful country on Earth can remain great by looking inward and hiding behind walls at a time when technology has made that impossible to do and unwise to even attempt," said the former U.S. Senator from Massachusetts, who was the Democratic nominee for president in 2004.
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Related: Russia says accusations it hacked the Democrats are paranoia Whoever is responsible, the DNC email heist is one of the most spectacularly effective cyber attacks in history — starting with a data breach of a major political entity in arguably the most powerful country in the world, then dumping that intelligence to set off a political maelstrom resulting in the resignation of a most senior official.
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Instead, a rich and powerful country with a stable government and control over its own currency (which is to say, not a prisoner of the euro) should be willing to live with a loose fiscal policy when wage growth is disappointing and inflation low, and it should debate tax and spending changes on their own terms — will this money be put to good use?
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"I think it is very fair to say that China sees this cyber espionage for economic purposes as a necessary component of its national strategy to grow economically and to become a more powerful country, and that it is not going to stop — at least not with the current set of pressure that is being exerted by the U.S. and others, " said Michael Fuchs, senior fellow at the Center for American Progress, a think tank.
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It is one thing to see so much of our popular culture narrowing and flattening to suit various billionaires' crude and idle whims, but it's something else to realize that the political life of the richest and most powerful country on earth is in large part determined by the spats and obsessions of a super-class of aged and lazy lords, all of whom consider themselves peers of each other and virtually no one else.
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"He can say that nobody pushed him but understand that the United States is the most powerful country on earth … When the president of the United States withholds military aid that had been duly authorized by Congress and then on the July 25 phone call says 'do us a favor' -- four words, Chris that will likely live in infamy.... That is what you call a high-pressure tactic and of course the Ukrainian president got the message," Jeffries responded.
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