This is an invaluable asset.

In addition, Pakistan, in the words of chief military officer General Ashfaq Kayani, views the Taliban as a strategic asset in the struggle with India.

Then, we could say, active passive.

You're a valuable asset to me.

Public health is an important asset for any nation.

Economic success is the region s financial asset.

It retains enormous strategic weight.

The transition plan cements that strategic shift.

Such politically expedient language has a strategic downside.

The strategic context of the Iraq insurgency is also new. In the twentieth century, the superpowers supported insurgency and counterinsurgency as a type of proxy conflict.

The strategic context of the Iraq insurgency is also new.

The cause of democracy in Egypt has one other asset, the most important one of all.

Third, Mauritius recognized that without natural resources, its people were its only asset.

Behind the unpleasantness may lie a broader strategic calculation.

The Greek Cypriot example shows that it is simply not true that the occupied have no recourse other than violence and terrorism.

The absence of an effective soft power component undercut the strategic response to terrorism.

The IMF s current strategic review does not start from scratch.

The strategic emphasis on breakout time is thus misplaced.

Recourse to violence and terror is a moral and strategic choice.

Today we tore down buildings constructed with illegal access to utility lines above the technical zones of the Moscow Metro, which caused a safety hazard to Muscovites. The buildings were erected mainly in the 1990s obviously with either the connivance or complicity of officials.

Disease saps the greatest asset that any country possesses the energy and talent of its people.

But India s greatest asset there doesn t come out of a military mission it doesn't have one.

Many at the bottom, or even in the middle, are not living up to their potential, because the rich, needing few public services and worried that a strong government might redistribute income, use their political influence to cut taxes and curtail government spending.

Lack of opportunity means that its most valuable asset its people is not being fully used.

As a result, Clinton has launched an actual strategic dialogue with civil society.

While the economics of the TPP is important, the strategic component is even more so.

This is not a penalties race, according to Georgina Philippou, the authority s enforcement strategy director.

On the contrary, Europe s Economic and Monetary Union is proving a major asset in these tumultuous times.

And, by bowing to the UK s pressure, the Fund undermined its only real asset its independence.

Americans sometimes suggest that the Russians have a hidden strategic agenda.

For now, the terrorist war is the policy response to the spread of Islamic terrorism.

Beyond the current crisis, however, a much more fundamental strategic challenge is emerging.

And, without a dominant regional power, a dangerous strategic vacuum has emerged.

As a result, the framework agreement is creating strategic chaos in an already dysfunctional region.

For its part, Russia would gain significant influence in strategically important Cyprus.

As a result, society s most valuable asset, its human capital, is being wasted and even destroyed.

My guess is that on polling day, Prime Minister David Cameron will emerge holding this asset.

Within this department, official entities can exchange SDRs the IMF s own international reserve asset for other currencies.

America s biggest strategic blunder in the Middle East arguably concerns the emergence of Iranian power.

America s strategic pivot to Asia thus needs to be substantial and lasting.

In 2000, the company established a strategic alliance with DaimlerChrysler and severed its partnership with the Hyundai Group.

But, beyond narrow party confines, opinion polls were exceptionally kind a vast cross section of the Israeli public wants Livni to lead.

Her predecessor, Ehud Olmert, inundated by corruption charges and set to resign, is hardly her best asset.

Criticizing Japan's silence need not undermine the Japanese US strategic alliance.

So, when you get history wrong, it can skew your own strategic choices.