Iran does not actually have to use its capabilities to enhance either its regional or global leverage.
The focus of their attacks is likely to ebb and flow between local regime targets and regional or global ones.
But Chuan Leekpai, the prime minister, said that only a severe bout of renewed regional or global turmoil would make this necessary.
For alarmists about the Chinese naval buildup, the question is under what possible regional or global security system would China remain comfortable with this level of strategic and economic vulnerability.
We earnestly hope that this partnership that we establish, that we can look to the future and this partnership may build upon people-to-people relations between our two great nations and furthermore, can contribute to the creation of global peace, stability, and the economy, be it at the regional or at the global level.
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Given that Thailand has, belatedly, done nearly everything that was asked of it without dispelling the economic gloom, some Thai politicians are arguing that the region's woes now need a regional, or better still global, solution.
At times of crisis, whether global or regional, all eyes turn to the Fund.
To capture above-market growth opportunities, fashion retailers need a city strategy, not a global or regional strategy.
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One of the things I can see from the local competitors, we don't have a global or even regional competitor.
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China is aware of the problems facing the industry and is concerned that it has not produced a act of global or even regional standing.
Even if that does not make China a global or even regional power equivalent to the United States, it does mean that China is likely to look more awesome to its regional neighbours, and its enhanced capabilities will mean that any American military tasks will require greater forces and resources than is the case at present.
No one can even forecast global, national or regional weather conditions that will occur months or years into the future, much less climate shifts that will be realized over decadal, centennial and longer periods.
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Finchem does not foresee a single global tour superseding the major regional or continental tours, but he does believe that a more coordinated world competitive schedule will evolve, and it may eventually include some kind of major new global competition.
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The best emerging-market schools are determined to go global (or at least regional) in their own right: CEIBS has increased the proportion of its students who are foreign from 10% in 2002 to 40% in 2009 and is hoping to create an Ivy League for the East.
Three years ago, he started the Global and Regional Asperger Syndrome Partnership, or GRASP.
It could break the global Internet into unconnected islands of national or regional networks, extend telecommunications regulations to computing, or lead to onerous government regulation of the Internet.
The first is that the idea of boundaries does not focus enough on the distinction between things with truly global effects and those that matter primarily at a local or regional level.
This cream of the regional crop is not a ranking by size, like our annual Global 2000, or necessarily a measure of brand wattage.
Deaths apart, investors worry that widespread regional outbreaks of bird flu will make so many people unable or unwilling to work that global supply chains will be interrupted and output will fall, tipping the world into recession.
The implementation of the Programme in the Member States is carried out by the development of global and regional programmes and working grous in coordination with the IHP National Committees or Focal Points.
Regional agreements on trade and economic integration have proliferated, prompting questions on whether these help or hinder global free trade.
Studying in Scotland for your undergraduate degree makes you a global citizen, but studying in India for a professional degree may make you a regional or emerging market specialist.
The arms programs China initiated two or three decades ago are starting to bear fruit, with serious implications for the regional and global military balance.
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