Ergebnis für "the trade of" in Politik

Hague shows how Wilberforce, after his agonising conversion to evangelical Christianity, was able to lead a powerful tide of opinion, as MP for Hull, against the slave trade, a process which was to take up to half a century to be fully realised. Indeed, he succeeded in rallying to his cause the support in the Commons Debates of some the finest orators in Parliament, having become one of the most respected speakers of those times.

Hvem er personen bag den senere så markante statsmand, og hvad er han påvirket af? Anders Fogh Rasmussen giver et meget personligt portræt af sine forældre. Han skriver om at føle sig som en bondeknold på Viborg Katedralskole, men ender alligevel med at indtage talerstolen. Han fortæller om kærligheden til Anne Mette og om at være "weekendfar". Fogh skriver om sit liberale livssyn, der er formet af bonde- og andelsbevægelsen, modstandsbevægelsen og ender med at formulere sit frihedsbegreb inspireret af Grundtvig og Kierkegaard.

After the terrorist attacks of September 11, Americans were left wondering how such a long-term, globally coordinated plot could have escaped detection by the CIA and taken the nation by surprise. Robert Baer was not surprised. A retired veteran of the CIA's Directorate of Operations, Baer saw firsthand how an increasingly bureaucratic CIA lost its way in the post-Cold War world and refused to adequately acknowledge and neutralize the growing threat of Islamic fundamentalist terror in the Middle East.

In the early 1990s, North America was the vibrant center of an increasingly democratic and revitalized western hemisphere. The United States and Canada were close allies working together to implement a bilateral free trade agreement and build an integrated manufacturing and export economy. By the late 2000s, the economic and diplomatic ties between the two countries were strained as policies stagnated or slipped backward and passports were needed to cross the border for the first time in history.