The ascendancy of this sector represents a structural shift in the economy of the Turks and Caicos Islands.

In such a climate, Muslim extremists will gain ascendancy, and the terrorists will find fertile ground for recruitment everywhere.

The financial crisis is really a relatively small historic phenomenon, which has just accelerated this huge shift, which ends half a millennium of Western ascendancy.

The view that human rights instruments address the obligations of a State to its citizens and not obligations between States seems to be in ascendancy.

If they gain ascendancy over you, they will become your enemies, and employ their hands and tongues with evil designs, and wish that you also became disbelievers.

If they gain ascendancy over you, they will become your enemies, and employ their hands and tongues with evil designs, and wish that you also became disbelievers.

Its only allies in the region are Syria and Hezbollah. What s more, it is threatened by a de facto anti Iranian coalition of all other regional powers, united by their fear of Iranian ascendancy.

If they gain ascendancy over you, they will behave towards you as enemies and stretch out their hands as well as their tongues with evil intent they long for you to renounce your faith.

If they gain ascendancy over you, they will behave towards you as enemies and stretch out their hands as well as their tongues with evil intent they long for you to renounce your faith.

But with the ascendancy of a new crop of leaders committed to the fundamental transformation of African societies, we are confident that the social and economic circumstances of African peoples will be progressively improved.

The Special Rapporteur stressed that the ascendancy of multiculturalism in all countries results from the historical need for peoples to feed themselves, conquer others, make war and trade, failing which there would have been neither interaction nor history.

The chiefs of his people, who did not believe, said He is only a man like you. He wishes to acquire ascendancy over you. If God had willed He would have sent down angels. We never heard this from our elders.

The chiefs of his people, who did not believe, said He is only a man like you. He wishes to acquire ascendancy over you. If God had willed He would have sent down angels. We never heard this from our elders.

Instead, it has helped Iran to gain a regional ascendancy that the country could never have achieved on its own. Instead of a democratic transformation, were the US to withdraw now, the Middle East would face a war of all against all for regional hegemony.

The parallel weakness of Olmert and Abbas has produced a parallel interest in a peace settlement. Indeed, both men hope for political survival through a peace agreement Olmert by means of new elections and Abbas by a referendum through which he can regain ascendancy over Hamas.

The ascendancy of the West in the past few centuries created tremendous stress in non Western communities, upsetting all relationships and giving rise to a variety of responses, all of which sought to reconcile each community's sense of self with the needs of a Western defined modernity.

It coincided with the peak of the West s belief in its soaring economic strength and perpetual global ascendancy. Today, with Europe increasingly seen as the sick man of the world s economy, even the whole continent s renunciation of nuclear energy would have little to no reverberation on the world stage.

With this in mind, the G 20 leaders set out an ambitious agenda for an inclusive and wide ranging response. If the Pittsburgh summit is not to be an anticlimactic end to the G 20 s ascendancy as a forum for decisive action, the momentum generated must be maintained.

This focus supported the ascendancy of inflation targeting as the favored monetary policy framework and, in turn, led to operational independence for central banks. The policy was a success the discipline imposed by strict and rigorous concentration on a sole objective enabled policymakers to control and then conquer inflation.

A more confident and secure Japan would be better able to block China from gaining ascendancy in the western Pacific, thereby advancing the central US policy objective of ensuring a stable balance of power in Asia. No other country in the region could act as a credible counterweight to China.

China would also have drawn comfort from the fact that, within the murky world of intra Tibetan politics, its anointed Karmapa, oddly, had the Dalai Lama s backing. Historically, the Dalai Lamas and Karmapa Lamas vied with each other for influence until the Dalai Lama s Gelug school gained ascendancy over the Kagyu order.

Expanding NATO into the Baltic States in 2002 the Alliance s first enlargement into former Soviet territory was a catastrophic mistake, which made it almost impossible for a Russian to be both patriotic and pro Western. By both omission and commission, the West cut the ground from under Russian political liberalism, enabling the ascendancy of Putinism.

Despite efforts at secularization, the gap between Muslim and Western outlooks has, if anything, grown in recent years, as religion has regained ascendancy in most Muslim countries. Sharia religious law extreme versions of which hold that conduct decriminalized in the West, such as adultery and homosexuality, is punishable by death influences their legal codes.

Many blame the crisis on the decades long ascendancy of a laissez faire approach to economic policymaking, and rightly credit government intervention with facilitating recovery. The tremendous economic success of countries like China, where hundreds of millions of people have escaped abject poverty in a single generation, has reinforced support for state led systems.

For its part, Hamas, the Muslim Brotherhood s Palestinian branch, seeks to consolidate its control over Gaza and use it as a base from which to take control of the West Bank and the Palestinian national movement. This outcome would be comparable to the Brotherhood s takeover in Egypt, further establishing its ascendancy in the region.

Though it took more than 200 years to reach this point, foreign observers, especially in Europe, marvel at Barack Obama s ascendancy. They recognize from their own relative marginalization of people of color or of immigrants that no French, German, Italian, or British Obama is on the horizon, and they wonder how does America do it?

If you do good, you will do good for your own souls, and if you do evil, it shall be for them. So when the second promise came (We raised another people) that they may bring you to grief and that they may enter the mosque as they entered it the first time, and that they might destroy whatever they gained ascendancy over with utter destruction.

If you do good, you will do good for your own souls, and if you do evil, it shall be for them. So when the second promise came (We raised another people) that they may bring you to grief and that they may enter the mosque as they entered it the first time, and that they might destroy whatever they gained ascendancy over with utter destruction.

With Saddam gone, Iraq s Shia majority assumed power after a horrendous civil war, leaving Iraq s defeated Sunnis longing for revenge and waiting for an opportunity to regain their ascendancy. The Kurds in the north cleverly and adeptly used the window of opportunity that opened before them to seize de facto independence, though the key question of control over the northern city of Kirkuk remains a ticking time bomb.

The moderate Sunni Gulf Arab emirates, suspicious of growing Shia ascendancy and of Iranian irredentism in the region, have stopped propping up Syria s economy due to its alliance with the ayatollahs of Iran. Labelled by the US as part of the axis of evil, Syria has also seen Saudi financial aid dry up and fears that the trade benefits that would come with ratification of its Association Agreement with the EU will never materialize.

The rise of Islamists throughout the region as the sole power capable of exploiting the opportunities of free elections Hamas victory in Palestine and the Muslim Brotherhood s spectacular gains in the 2005 Egyptian elections are but the most noteworthy the ascendancy to regional hegemony of Shiite Iran, and the sense among Arab rulers that the embattled Bush administration is running out of steam have all combined to stall the promising drive to political reform in the region.