• Mr Castro had been generous, as self-assured leading men are, before the pope arrived.

    ECONOMIST: Cuba

  • This philosophy promotes a middle path based on three components, namely moderation, reasonableness and self-immunity leading towards the development of a more resilient and sustainable economy.

    UNESCO: Towards a Sufficiency Economy: A New Ethical Paradigm for Sustainability | United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization

  • This attitude toward struggle is not only counterproductive -- leading to self-defeating behaviors including retreating inward with self-doubt and avoiding necessary risk for fear of failure -- it is also wrong.

    CNN: Why struggle at work is good for your career

  • It is the art of self-reflection, leading us to analyze our own motivations and emotions, as well as an understanding of how others see us.

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  • United, meanwhile, said it self-reported the incident leading to its proposed fine and has since taken steps to ensure that safety standards are met.

    CNN: US Airways, United face FAA fines for safety violations

  • The PA's ability to build a proper state still depends on Israel's withdrawal from the land it occupied after the 1967 war and on negotiations with Israel leading to Palestinian self-rule and sovereignty.

    ECONOMIST: The Palestinians' West Bank

  • The Amazon forest provides a relevant example: due to the interaction of deforestation, fire and climate change, it is predicted that the Amazon could undergo a widespread dieback in the future, with parts of the forest moving into a self-perpetuating cycle of more frequent fires and intense droughts, leading to a shift to savanna-like vegetation.

    FORBES: The Future of Life On Earth: A Two-Part Discussion

  • Three out of four billionaires in the Hurun List are self-made, with real estate, telecommunications, media and technology and retail leading industries that produce the super-rich.

    CNN: Report: U.S., China dominate global billionaires

  • In a 2004 paper, three social scientists argued that the link between higher heights and higher wages can be traced to adolescence, leading to speculation that taller youngsters develop self-confidence they carry into their careers.

    WSJ: At Tall Club, Members' Careers Get an Extra Lift

  • Republicans, and anyone else with a sense of self-preservation, should think twice about going where he is leading them.

    FORBES: William Kristol's Acceptance Of The Mess Is Wholly Unacceptable

  • Platts and three other leading PRAs have said they still believe in self-regulation, but recognise a code of conduct will be required.

    BBC: Setting prices crudely

  • Grupo MeXvi, a leading provider in Mexico of integral solutions for self-construction of low-income homes in rural and semi-urban settings, and FOMEPADE a microfinance institution pioneering micro-mortgagees, are doing their best to change that, starting with millions of Mexicans.

    FORBES: MeXvi: Enabling Families To Have A Home

  • It has also started to compete against traditional book publishers, offering leading authors a far-better payout on sales if they self-publish under an Amazon imprint.

    FORBES: The Jeff Bezos Formula for Asymmetric Competition

  • Nearly all leading Asian nationalists were men of ample learning, including the self-taught warehouseman Andres Bonifacio, who founded the Katipunan, the underground society that ignited the Philippine Revolution of 1896.

    CNN: CENTURY OF LIBERATION

  • Savile Row, which every self-respecting fashion designer, head of state, manor lord, and enduring leading man of the past two centuries called home, had begun to feel as predictable as the next "Sherlock Holmes" movie.

    WSJ: The British Are Coming!

  • Treasury's self-described "seminar for the policy community" is co-sponsored with the leading academic promoters of Shariah and SCF in the United States: Harvard University Law School's Project on Islamic Finance.

    CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Treasury submits to Shariah

  • Though a leading pro-Russian Chechen says he is brokering peace, his claim sounds self-serving.

    ECONOMIST: Russia

  • The investigators, however, concluded that only one person was directly involved in the assault that killed the leading opposition figure about two months after she returned to Pakistan after several years of self-imposed exile.

    CNN: Scotland Yard: Bomb blast killed Bhutto

  • Mr Summers strongly denied one potential self-interested motive for a weaker dollar: to help the American stockmarket by improving the prospects of leading multinationals such as Intel, McDonald's, and Gillette, whose dollar profits from Europe have suffered from the weak euro.

    ECONOMIST: Gambling with the mighty greenback | The

  • The self-confessed UVF members walked into Antrim police station in 2008 and admitted their involvement in the murder of leading UDA member Tommy English eight years earlier.

    BBC: What now for supergrass system?

  • Unlike the investors mentioned above, Kai is a self- taught quant who screens for stocks using a formula that incorporates fundamental attributes that he has cribbed from leading B-School academics.

    FORBES: How To Invest In Warren Buffett's New Successor

  • SAS-admiring Thatcherite attack-dog of yesteryear has evolved by careful degrees self-publicised on television, in print and through speeches at party conferences into the Conservatives' leading champion of personal tolerance and social inclusion.

    ECONOMIST: He who hesitates laughs last?

  • After decades leading the opposition, Japan's Socialist Party, with its unrealistic calls for abolishing the Self-Defense Forces, has faded.

    FORBES: On The Cover/Top Stories

  • Arias says the killing was self-defense, and described during her 18 days of testimony how Travis Alexander had grown more abusive in the months leading up to his death, once choking her into unconsciousness.

    NPR: Prosecutor Paints Jodi Arias As Manipulative Liar

  • MeXvi is the leading housing disaster relief agent in Mexico and has constructed approximately 4, 900 homes via its assisted self-construction program and has collaborated in the reconstruction of many devastated communities, improving the lives of approximately 25, 000 individuals.

    FORBES: MeXvi: Enabling Families To Have A Home

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