Well it seems to me that membership in the WTO will, broadly speaking, work to preserve the political status quo.
Normally, a strong economy means a content electorate that returns congressional incumbents to office and maintains the political status quo.
Even President Farooq Leghari, a PPP member, is questioning how much longer he will let the political status quo continue.
They say they want their leaders to maintain the political status quo that is, de facto independence while focusing on improving economic conditions.
Countries that outperform their economic peers on maternal and child health tend to do very well on the political status of women.
Americans are dissatisfied with the political status quo as they know the political power game no longer advance the interests of their children.
Mr Bush's remarks sounded as close to an acceptance of the political status quo in China as any American leader is likely to utter.
Either way, the outcome would permanently determine the political status of East Timor, thus bringing to an end a conflict which has festered since 1975.
In reality, nationalism remains a double-edged sword, which does at times buttress the regime but can also develop in ways that threaten the political status quo.
Last month, Beijing elevated the political status of the country's food and drug watchdog, in the hope that parents would learn to trust the products produced within China.
This would be respectable in many Western countries, but as Kirill Rogov, an economic and political analyst, argues, it is not enough to sustain the political status quo.
Indeed, the junta's position towards Aung San Suu Kyi may have hardened further in reaction to developments that could significantly alter the political status quo albeit to the exclusion of genuine democratisation.
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The economic turmoil could one day unhinge the cozy political status quo.
He added that both parts of Ireland would have been destabilised by the granting of political status and felt the cardinal agreed with him.
Connelly begins his race with two huge problems: his lack of a connection to the state of Maine and the status-quo political environment.
Tangled as it is with the sensitive areas of religion and culture, at a time when many Arabs and Muslims feel under attack, the issue of the status of women is a political minefield.
About 1.6 million people work for the nation's big insurers, creating a political force to keep the status quo.
Along the way, Joe the Plumber became political road-kill, his professional, political and tax status the object of withering scrutiny and criticism.
They died in the Maze jail where republicans were attempting to gain political status which exempted them from the normal prison regime.
Therein lies the dilemma for the Nationalists - and indeed for any political campaigner seeking to overturn the status quo.
In both cases, as far as the Left is concerned, alliances or conflicts between nations are determined by the status of relations between political leaders.
We are slowly but steadily withdrawing the all important "consent of the governed" and demanding that our political leaders recede back to the representative status envisioned by the Constitution, and by Thomas Paine's Common Sense and by the Declaration of Independence.
The other candidates offer the same Status Quo and political glib!
Mr Durkan was speaking after meeting Sinn Fein President Gerry Adams at Stormont on Tuesday as the political row continued over the status of the IRA ceasefire.
Religious and political sensitivities surrounding the status of ancient sites run deep, and even symbolic adjustments have elicited angry reactions from both sides, deeply suspicious of each other's motives.
But this unsavory episode should also shine a light on the law that gives tax-exempt status to political groups of all ideological stripes, often described by the code section that grants their exemption 501(c)(4)s.
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But none of us has an investment in the status quo or any political reason to withhold true counsel.
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The islanders, who are due to hold a referendum on their political status this March, were also quick to dismiss the Argentinian position.
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Instead, it is vainly trying to preserve the status quo and appease entrenched political factions.
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