But nobody wants to isolate America, the world's most powerful country, by forcing a vote.
"Chinese people have a bit more money now and China has become a powerful country, " he tells me.
"They are a powerful country and they must do their duty, " he said.
It's likely the commission president's wrath was raised not by the leader of North America's most powerful country, but its biggest.
Dilbertia is a rich and powerful country, where people are extremely productive.
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In the end, there may be little the bank can do to clean up governance in a large, powerful country, such as India.
Ms. IKOKWU: I think it's just the fact that a black man was elected the president of the most powerful country in the world.
Now, we are a powerful country with a powerful economy, and we are the United States of America, and the American people are very resilient.
For the first time since 1988, the Norwegians, traditionally the most powerful country in the discipline, have failed to win a single cross-country gold at the Olympics.
As it turned out, the League, lacking the support of the world's most powerful country, was unable to stop aggression by, first, Japan, then Italy and Germany.
When the most powerful country in the world does not support women's rights, it gives permission for other countries to dismiss their commitment to improving the status of women.
Many respondents were aware of former prime minister Margaret Thatcher and "her label as the 'Iron Lady', her personality and demeanour reinforcing a sense of the UK being a powerful country".
The BBC's Peter Biles in Johannesburg says that coming from South Africa - the most powerful country in the region - the ANC statement is a further sign of Mr Mugabe's growing isolation.
What this has done is sent a chill through many countries who have thought, well, if the U.S., the most powerful country in the world, can make a mistake, we probably all could make mistakes.
America is taking this position because officials believe that as it is the most powerful country in the world, an international court could be used to mount frivolous and politically motivated actions against its citizens.
The America that Mr. Thiessen yearns for sounds to me like an Osama Bin Laden fantasy: the free residents of the most powerful country on earth everyday reliving a decade old tragedy as if it just happened.
Some of the criticism is quite petty and irrelevant, however, it is reasonable to expect the Chief Executive of the world's most powerful country to be able to speak coherently to his people, and to the peoples of the world.
Money has completely corrupted the system and helped create a situation where the U.S., the most powerful country on Earth, has one of the lowest voter turnouts (lower than any country in Western Europe or Latin America, lower than most countries in North America).
America became great not just because it was so nice as to welcome immigrants (though it was), it became great because it accumulated more human capital than other countries, which combined with good institutions and staggering natural resources, created the richest and most powerful country in history.
Already India's software, tech-support and pharmaceutical industries have shown what a powerful plus the country can be.
Now we know that the armed forces have been hugely powerful in your country for sixty years now.
On March 21st Sadiq al-Ahmar, who heads the Hashid tribal confederation, the most powerful in the country and the one to which the president's tribe belongs, declared his support for the protesters.
While the aggregate GDP contributions of what I call the Schumpeterian and Smithian effects are comparable, and both have been important breakthroughs in the Indian economy, I believe the Smithian effect is more powerful for the country.
During his three and a half years as chairman of the joint chiefs, Admiral Mullen has flown to Pakistan well over 20 times for meetings with the head of the army, General Ashfaq Kayani, in an effort to build a personal rapport with the man widely seen as the most powerful in the country.
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It's even harder if the patriarch is one of the most powerful people in the country.
But the most powerful explanation for shifting country-club allegiances lies with the Republican Party itself.
The two men were thought to be among the five most powerful figures in the country.
Should the most powerful family in the country, for example, be indulging in business practices which are dubious at best?
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You've always had powerful forces in this country who benefit from the status quo, and they bet against the American people.
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