And so it's becoming a bigger player, as it turns out, in the global scene.
America thus seemed destined to dominate the global scene for the foreseeable future.
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Before we leave the global scene - and we've got Iran we've been talking about and Somalia and the Yemen - do you not feel that perhaps too much attention has been focused on Afghanistan?
"The French people have the right to truth and clarity, " said Sarkozy, who has been an outspoken leader on the global scene even as he has presided over a period of significant economic challenges since taking over in 2007.
As a consequence of these emergent strengths and India's arrival on the global scene, the nation can no longer look away from the challenges of money and finance that the world faces and which have a direct bearing on India.
Sure, we've seen the D830 clam, X820 candybar, and FCC approved D900 slider before, only now they've been turned-out onto that mean global scene official, spec'd, and rebadged with their ultra-slim, millimeter measurements right in the name: the Ultra Edition 9.9 (D830), 12.9 (D900), and 6.9 (X820) pictured left-to-right.
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If the yet-to-be-named car is a success when it goes on sale next year, it would herald the emergence of Tata Motors on the global auto scene, mark the advent of India as a global center for small-car production and represent a victory for those who advocate making cheap goods for potential customers at the "bottom of the pyramid" in emerging markets.
He has been performing on the global dance scene since breakthrough album Better Living Through Chemistry in 1996.
And, as if more proof were needed that Korea aspires to become a player on the global screen scene, the first Pusan International Film Festival, last August, displayed some of the trappings normally associated with major movie celebrations in the West.
The result was still disappointing in many ways, especially to developing countries, and yet since the round's completion in 1993 the world economy has grown lustily and the biggest developing countries, China, India and Brazil, have all burst on to the global trading scene.
Although NYC embraces its image as the centre of the global contemporary art scene, it has supported neither adventurous architecture nor landscape architecture.
Montreal is the scene for a sort of Woodstock of global warming.
In a global market, cross-border partnerships can alter the scene, and create entirely new brand names, in very unexpected ways.
Last year venture capital godfather Kleiner Perkins, along with Tiger Global, injected a surge of optimism into the Turkish start-up scene when they invested a combined 26 million into Trendyol, one of several Turkish versions of Gilt Groupe.
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This scene came to mind earlier this month when the U.S. Global Change Research Program (USGCRP) released its National Climate Assessment draft report.
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Wal-Mart, whose products were found at the scene of the Tazreen fire even though it had barred contractors from using the factory, overhauled its global sourcing standards this year, adopting a "zero-tolerance policy" for violations.
Scene Four: Al is pestering us again about how we have to tighten our belts or else the global sea level will rise dramatically and turn our coastal cities into Waterworld.
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