He argues that Georgia has to manage a delicate balancing act between nearby powers, who may have different political ideologies, and key allies, who are far away.

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Today we have seven different organisations with seven different sets of powers.

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The new powers in world racing all have different models.

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"There is an attempt to invade Syria, the forces are coming from outside, from different nationalities, they are using different tactics from what the colonization powers have used, " he said.

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Well Europe is the thing that's, one of the things that's featured here, Hague vows to wrest key powers from Europe, say the papers today, in fact two papers have the same exact headline, two different papers, vows to wrest key powers from Europe and this as it stands is a, is a, is saying this far and no further in a number of areas, is that right?

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Indeed, the constitution recognises that different communities will have diverse priorities and elegantly solves the problem with federalism, leaving powers not prescribed to the national government to the states.

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