Steve Royston, a businessman based in Bahrain who blogs regularly on Gulf matters, believes that, though caution remains the byword, social media is a force for change.
The departure of the Social Democratic Alliance would force a reconstruction of the government as party holds the defense and foreign affairs portfolios, and a deputy prime minister post.
The Internet can be a positive force for creating reinforcing social connections, and a negative for abuse of civil liberties and increasing polarization of opinion.
Social media, a very strong force in our lives, seemed the ideal way of connecting my fellow students.
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The president is supposed to be a monarch of sorts, and a force for social and political cohesion.
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His music aside, Criolo also is a force for social change in Brazil.
But the religion that Mr Obama embraced the religion of Abraham Lincoln and Martin Luther King was a force for social reform.
"It's indisputable that social networking sites can be a force for good in society, a truly positive and valuable mechanism, " he said.
Online and offline freedom of expression is the foundation for democratic societies, a pillar of individual rights and a force for social transformation.
The growth of the Internet and rise of social media has been a disruptive force that is tearing apart and remaking marketing strategies all around the world.
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Far from being a force for social change, the military enlists far more people from the ranks of the poor because the poor often have no better alternatives.
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And now that advertising agencies in 2011 were reported for spending about 10-12% of their budget on social media, it is a force that cannot be ignored either.
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The Director-General called on political leaders to build on the potential of culture as a force for social cohesion and dialogue: "The role of culture in development should be fully recognized by policy makers, especially at a time when the new development agenda is being defined, " she said.
Netflix, HP, Verizon and others learned that social media uprisings can force policy shifts in a matter of hours.
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He wanted the Sandinistas to become a modern social-democratic force.
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Rather it was to draw attention to the extraordinary and improbable power of self-interest: this stunted, inward-looking trait is transformed, through spontaneous social co-operation, into a force for the common good.
California is considering a bill that would force social networking sites to rejigger how they go about privacy settings for new users.
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Twitter has been the dominant force in Social TV (at least from a public data point of view) and it grew organically.
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IETF's founders, to launch last year an Internet societal task force as a forum for deliberating social and economic issues thrown up by the spread of the Internet.
Ryan, for his part, called for a trigger that would force the President to come up first with a plan to make Social Security changes.
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But they reveal little understanding of the complex interest-group politics and broader meaning of Medicare in America, as a social insurance program, as a pillar of the liberal welfare state, as a force in the lives of millions of people.
Over and over, I heard people talking about how digital is a force for democratization, for social justice, for economic empowerment all over the world.
Revenge is still a powerful motivating force in Iraqi social life.
Horrified by the consequences of Thatcherite economics, first the unions and then the party turned to the social democratic Europe of Jacques Delors as a countervailing force.
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On Monday, Welsh Labour First Minister Carwyn Jones said Baroness Thatcher's "place in the history books is assured" as a "major force in British political life who undoubtedly had a significant influence on the political, social and economic landscape in Wales and the UK".
In fact, investors have become a force in arguing that the economic, social and environmental impacts of business are integrally linked.
But, during the 2004 campaign, Ryan, with such allies as Kemp and Ferrara, kept up pressure from the right to force the White House to make a decision on Social Security.
Roosevelt repeatedly warned congressional leaders that if they did not approve a moderate Social Security bill, popular pressure would force them to adopt irresponsible Government handout schemes like the ones being pushed by California's Dr. Francis Townsend and Louisiana Governor Hyey Long.
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