Prime ministers have learned from dismal experience over French-speaking Quebec's demand for special status that reopening the constitution sets the stage for confrontation with provincial leaders and rarely leads to success.
But there are an increasing number who feel the time is right to assert Chinese power and Chinese interests more forcefully, to demand the respect and status they feel China deserves.
The top operations executive should drive daily status assessments of supply and demand.
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As an aside, it is interesting to note that the same progressives that demand that evolution be elevated to the status of a state religion also fervently deny that evolution could result in fundamental differences between men and women, and between ethnic groups that evolved in different environments.
Clients expect on-demand, self-service access to the status of projects, the burn rate of the budget, and so on.
Serbia has dropped its demand for international talks on Kosovo's status following its declaration of independence from Serbia in 2008 - a declaration condemned by Belgrade.
Conspiracy theories claimed the name change was part of a secret plan to end the Palestinians' refugee status so as to block their demand to "return" to Israel.
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High consumer demand for well-known, cult-status Napa wines drives the wholesale prices up, and they get even higher at the steakhouse because "people are willing to pay, " he says.
Sources at the PA say that during the final status negotiations, the Palestinians will demand the return of more than 100, 000 refugees, some of whom will settle in the buildings currently being constructed in East Jerusalem....Israeli intelligence agents...suggested that the Palestinian construction aims to cut through and isolate Jewish settlements around the city.
With an unprecedented number of people making more money than ever, the demand for all things that signal an improvement in status is gargantuan.
An alternative course for the Palestinians would be to demand greater recognition from the UN, but a status which falls short of full nationhood.
While there are certainly highly-skilled and in-demand professionals who are able to parlay their hired-gun status into big paydays or renaissance workers who are mashing up day jobs and dream jobs, those who benefit financially from the gig economy are in the minority.
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The Communists, who feared their own extinction under a first-past-the-post system, are delighted, even if 21m Italians did demand new rules and fewer than 3m turned out to defend the status quo.
Letters provided to CNN show IRS officials in Washington and California contacted conservative groups to demand more information before approving the groups' requests for tax-exempt status.
Mr Hill is trying to bridge the gulf between the Serbian government and Kosovo's ethnic Albanians by suggesting wide autonomy for the province but not the status of a third Yugoslav republic, the Albanians' minimum demand.
After months of prevarication, the government meekly gave in a fortnight ago to a demand that the new machine-readable Pakistani passport should note a person's religious status.
The status quo will continue if you let it -- but it will change if you demand it.
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