Nor did English reach its present global status without ruthless tactics.
The cost of hosting the Olympics was evidently considered a sound investment for Beijing, and will be for Rio de Janeiro, as an announcement of a new found confidence and global status.
Iron Man 3 is first up, and its global blockbuster status is guaranteed.
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The Davies commission will publish an interim report by the end of 2013, with ideas on how to improve the use of existing runway capacity over the next five years and an assessment of what is needed to maintain the UK's global hub status.
While nightly news shows are steadily slipping in relevance, think of the just-released Global Report on Status of Women in News Media.
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It knows that it needs a big acquisition for a shot at global super-carrier status.
Britain benefits considerably from London's status in global capital markets, which has created many thousands of tax-paying jobs.
Director of the Bangkok UNESCO Asia-Pacific Regional Office for Education Mr Gwang-Jo Kim noted that according to the Global Report on the Status of Women in the Media, men outnumbered women 4:1 in media management positions across Asia-Pacific.
Many do not believe that both these currencies fit the global criteria for reserve currency status.
Samsung expects to keep its frontrunner status in the global memory semiconductor industry with competitive products and differentiated cost structure.
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London's status as a global financial centre is, in part, an historical accident driven by American regulations in the 1960s that created an offshore lending business (the Euromarket) in Britain.
By this analysis, Barack Obama took office committed to good relations with China, and ready to welcome it as a great power in return for China's accepting the global responsibilities that go with that status.
Earlier this month, GM announced that 52 percent of its global facilities have achieved landfill-free status.
"As universities are facing severe economic conditions and ferocious global competition it is clear that the status quo is not viable, " she said.
Jolie, known as well for her global humanitarian efforts as for her movie star status, is a good example.
They insist any rejection or doubt of the GM-free status of Indian rice in the global market could threaten their trade.
There is always a danger that, for global businesses demanding stability, the lure of the status quo will result in inaction.
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First, the reserve-currency status of the dollar helped to create global imbalances.
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Moreover, it has largely been unexplored, likely the result of the region's longstanding status as an inconsequential piece of the global security architecture.
However, the market is most nervous about a downgrade and the global ramifications of the US losing its triple A status for the first time in its history.
To compile these data, the company undertook a global effort and was able to confirm the vital status information for 843, or 63%, of the 1, 338 trial participants who previously had unknown vital status.
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From 2000 to 2008, nuclear energy dropped from 16.7% to 13.5% of global energy production, according to the World Nuclear Industry Status Report 2009.
With one eye on the global rating agencies that threatened to downgrade India to junk status, P Chidambaram has ruthlessly slashed expenditure in 2012-13 to contain the fiscal deficit.
Often, inscription is seen as a mark of status, rather than an opportunity to contribute to global heritage conservation.
The species are listed on the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Red List - a comprehensive source of information on the status of wild species facing a high risk of global extinction - as being 'vulnerable'.
Moreover, a paradox has emerged in our networked world where knowledge is ubiquitous and change is rapid, but the absence of a common vision and agenda ensures that the status quo will be maintained with respect to major global challenges.
Further confirmation that the U.S. dollar is gradually losing its reserve status came today from an International Monetary Fund report on global holdings of foreign exchange reserves by central banks.
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Or rather, after an aberrant half century of industrial-scale McDonaldization of the global economy, the local food industry is actually reclaiming the bellwether status it has always had in history.
What they totally lacked was creativity in developing new financial systems that enhanced the status quo at the time and prevented the catastrophic failure of global monetary system.
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He outlined his views on the gold market and provided a status report on his still-young company during the 2013 BMO Global Metals and Mining conference taking place this week in Florida.
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