NASA, that the real point of space exploration was to do science a considerable achievement in an age when political prestige rested on manned space flights.
But critics say Galileo is more about the projection of European political power and prestige on the global stage, than any hard commercial benefits.
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These advisors view Nunn's political reputation and prestige as an insurance policy against Clinton's being taken for a ride before he has time to start.
JAKARTA Indonesia's beleaguered soccer federation, a prize of money, political cachet and prestige for the country's most powerful men, charted a last-ditch course Sunday to reconcile two warring soccer leagues that have made the sport a domestic laughingstock, hoping to avert a looming suspension from international play.
Sounds like a sour case of a job won on power, prestige and political contributions.
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The administration continued to grant access, prestige and political cover to the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), even though three of its officials have been arrested in recent months on terrorism-related charges, and one already has pled guilty.
For this reason, the primary value of a nuclear test is more likely to be political through enhancing the prestige of the government, attracting international attention and allowing the North to enhance its bargaining leverage in future negotiations with the United States and its allies.
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To Dr Mahathir's fury, the book makes clear that progress has also entailed a succession of grotesque national financial scandals, huge wastage on prestige projects and a political system flooded with dirty money.
Their political leaders see these weapons as bestowing power and prestige.
In many ways, such attempts merely play into the hands of fundamentalists, who are skilled at cloaking their political agenda in the mantle of religious authenticity and Arab prestige.
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But the prestige of the office can give the incumbent oblique political influence.
But Lars Leijonborg, whose Liberal Party took a bashing at the polls over a spying scandal late in the campaign, might welcome a change of scene, and the prestige of the foreign job, to crown his political career.
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And now political analysts, unable or unwilling to understand the Russian desire for security and abstract international prestige at the hands of a semi-dictatorial lesser Napoleon taking precedence over freedom of the press and squeaky clean elections.
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