We deepened our friendship.

Both failures have strengthened domestic terrorist groups.

It is clear that the NPT and the CTBT have reinforced nuclear security.

Catastrophic events like Hurricane Katrina have reinforced this stance.

Such investments would directly strengthen Germany s public sector balance sheet.

Netanyahu also knows that the Arab side s failures have nurtured radical Zionism.

Fears that the Soviet Union would cheat reinforced their position.

Other developments, both before and since, have reinforced and embedded the RtoP norm.

Those commenting here, unfortunately, have not convinced me otherwise, but only strengthened my previously held convictions.

The US and China have built stronger relationships and established constructive channels of communication that didn t previously exist.

These successes, combined with the 1990 s boom and the seeming durability of price stability, reinforced Greenspan s exalted status.

At the same time that political changes helped spread democracy across Latin America, structural economic reforms were strengthened.

With pro reform forces strengthening their position in the new parliament, the government has two choices.

And its automatic stabilizers, with spending automatically increasing as economic woes increased, held out the promise of moderating the downturn.

The tumult of the Maoist period instilled in a broad cross section of people a profound appreciation for stability, and a yearning to be left alone.

The American led coalition can help by taking more steps that would reinforce a message of hope and optimism for the exhausted and demoralized Sunnis of Iraq.

Having emerged from the position of the sick man of Europe only a decade ago, Germany is now willfully, if thoughtlessly, undoing the reforms that had so strengthened its economy.

They just reinforced the links between popular South African music and Mozambican music, which have been intermingling since well before the railroads linked Johannesburg with Mozambique's then capital Lourenço Marques.

The recent turmoil in Iraq has, on the contrary, strengthened those in both capitals who argue that there is now even less reason to get involved on the ground. At the very least, France and Germany are demanding that the Bush administration openly admit to its failure and the need for help.

My visits deepened my view that there is a potentially destabilizing contradiction between China s short and medium term economic performance.

Germany remains willing to do the minimum and nothing more to hold the euro together, and the EU s recent steps have merely reinforced German resistance to further concessions.

Indeed, the empowerment of Iraq s long suppressed Shia has raised expectations among Saudi Arabia s Shia that they, too, can gain first class status.

This is because his actions, his irresponsibility in the use of what he calls humor, has affected lives, has reinforced oppressive stereotypes, has discouraged empathy and human solidarity.

Even if the ceasefire agreed on November 21st holds, this week's fighting has strengthened the hawks on both sides.

A communications network that allowed rapid dissemination of ideas served a common spirit. Intellectual and cultural ties were reinforced by travel, so that statements such as Montesquieu's that Europe is just one nation made up of many'' flowed naturally.

This worked for some time, but an alleged attempt to involve the United States more openly in Pakistani politics weakened, rather than strengthened, his hold on power.

To present Juncker s candidacy as a matter of high political principle, with Cameron heroically but unsuccessfully standing alone against the dark forces of federalism and centralization, could have only reinforced English feelings of alienation from Europe.

Intellectual and cultural ties were reinforced by travel, so that statements such as Montesquieu's that Europe is just one nation made up of many'' flowed naturally.

Indeed, terrorist attacks at the turn of the century solidified public opinion against Chechen rebels and gave Putin the public support he needed to raze Grozny, Chechnya s capital.

His election inevitably enhanced the standing of the US as a land of genuine opportunity, a nation whose multicultural credentials were as great if not better than polyglot and poly ethnic India.

South Korean policymakers, anticipating the challenges, strengthened institutions for valuing and pricing land, trained a cadre of appraisers to ensure transparency in the valuation process, and publicly disseminated land value information.

Traditional career paths, and the cultural norms that constructed and reinforced them, simply have not enabled women to gain the skills required for top leadership positions in many organizational contexts.

Over the last decade, the country s authorities have raised awareness, established and strengthened disaster management institutions, and worked on recovering from past disasters, including Typhoon Haiyan.

Maximizing it requires not only that individual countries address their weaknesses and rebalance their sources of growth, but also that they build and strengthen the regional institutions needed to manage economic integration.

Recently, for example, he denounced the idea that Australian sacrifices in the Gallipoli campaign of 1916 during World War I had somehow made and redeemed his nation.

While the media's talking points these days seem to center around whether people should be allowed to wear burkinis at the beach, other newsworthy actions are quickly forgotten extraordinary actions that help more to solidify France's social fabric than anything to do with swimwear.

Parts of the incomplete fortress which were later in the 17th century strengthened with wooden walls stayed up to the 19th century when they were disassembled by the city authorities and local residents and used as a material for stone building.

This is the culmination of the focus of the major international and regional state actors on the war on terror , and consensus around Bashar Al Asad remaining in power, both of which have strengthened the confidence of the dictator and the ruling class in Damascus.