King Abdullah in 2011 allowed women to vote and run for office in municipal elections, and he has called for more education and employment opportunities for them.

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He has denounced those like me who have called attention to them.

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Mr Bush has called for a moratorium on the sale of uranium technologies to countries without them, but he has winked at Brazil's decision to build a uranium-enrichment plant.

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Mahathir has always argued that Asia's economic troubles were caused by fickle international investors (or, as he called them recently, "funnymentals, intelligent humans behaving like silly animals in a herd"), not a lack of financial transparency and accountability and certainly not because of a lack of democracy.

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