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Wu Jinglian, one of China's leading economists and a longtime champion of its transition to free markets, says that it faces two starkly contrasting futures: a market economy under the rule of law or crony capitalism.
He so vigorously supported Alexander Hamilton's reports on public credit, including the assumption of state debts, and supported Hamilton's new Bank of the United States, that he was considered a leading champion by the Federalists.
But the revolt was easily crushed, leading Nicholas to turn away from the Westernization program begun by Peter the Great and champion the doctrine " Orthodoxy, Autocracy, and Nationality ".
Both at the University and within the Academy, Gibbs's principal mentor and champion appears to have been the astronomer Hubert Anson Newton, a leading authority on the subject of meteors.
Although Molitor wanted to remain with Milwaukee when he became a free agent after the 1992 season, the franchise offered him a one year contract with a $ 900, 000 pay cut ( to $ 2. 5 million ), while the Toronto Blue Jays offered a three-year, $ 13 million ($ in current dollar terms ) deal, leading to his signing with the defending World Series champion Blue Jays.
In their fourth season, 1995 – 96, with Bradley still leading the team in scoring, second-year forward Alexander Selivanov scoring a total of 31 goals, and Roman Hamrlik ( the team's first-ever draft choice except those drafted in the expansion draft two days earlier ( Wendel Young being the first ever Lightning ) in 1992 ) having an All-Star year on defense, the Lightning finally qualified for the playoffs, nosing out the defending Stanley Cup champion New Jersey Devils for the eighth spot in the Eastern Conference by a single game.
Because of the competitive advantages pitchers enjoyed between 1963 and 1968 ( prior to the lowering of the pitcher's mound ), Yastrzemski's. 301 mark in " The Year of the Pitcher " is the lowest average of any batting champion in major league history ; however, he was the only hitter in the American League to hit. 300 for that season against such formidable pitching, as well as leading the league in on-base percentage and walks.
This often meant that the NBA and the NYSAC crowned different world champions in the same division, leading to confusion about who was the real champion.
A four-time Stanley Cup champion with the Red Wings, he won six Hart Trophies as the league's most valuable player and six Art Ross Trophies as the leading scorer.
In 1993, the reigning champion ( Garry Kasparov ) broke away from FIDE, leading to the creation of two rival championships.
He won each of those fights, leading towards a challenge of European Lightweight champion Antonio Puddu in Italy, and Buchanan added the European Lightweight championship belt to his shelf by defeating Puddu by a decision in 15 rounds.
In the national championship Santos had a reasonable campaign leading the team to second place, albeit 15 points behind champion São Paulo.
He threw his keen intellect and trenchant style into the cause of university reform, the leading champion of which was another fellow of University College, Arthur Penrhyn Stanley.
Since then Widden Stud has been home to some of the finest stallions and broodmares including the following who were all at various times Australia's champion sire ; Lochiel ( four times leading sire ), Grafton ( four times ), Maltster ( five times ), Bletchingly ( three times ), Vain ( once ) and Marscay ( twice ).
Gwynn is an eight-time National League batting champion, leading the league in 1984, 1987, 1988, 1989, 1994, 1995, 1996, and 1997, which ties him with the Pittsburgh Pirates ' Honus Wagner for the league record — the all-time Major League batting titles leader is Ty Cobb, who won 12 American League batting titles.
The " Live Sex Celebration " segment earned Raw a 5. 2 rating, the highest Raw rating in over a year, leading Edge to call himself the " most watched champion ever ".
Electra Ramat HaSharon, is the city's women basketball team, one of the leading teams in the Israeli league and a former European champion.
Unlike most of the leading politicians of that generation, he was a consistent, dogged, and rancorous party man, a Cavalier of the old school, a zealous champion of the Crown and of the Church, and a hater of Republicans and Nonconformists.
Philip I of Hesse, ( 13 November 1504-31 March 1567 ), nicknamed der Großmütige ( the " magnanimous ") was a leading champion of the Protestant Reformation and one of the most important of the early Protestant rulers in Germany.
He also won his fifth Jennings Trophy and had the third-best GAA in the league, leading his team to back-to-back division wins that included a 6 – 0 regular-season sweep of the defending Stanley Cup champion Pittsburgh Penguins.
As the defending champion and 7th seed at the BMW Malaysian open in Kuala Lumpur, Dokic started her campaign successfully, defeating Kristina Mladenovic 6 – 3 6 – 1 and started good against fellow Australian Olivia Rogowska, leading 6 – 3 4 – 2, but eventually losing 3 – 6 6 – 4 7 – 6 ( 2 ).
The Tasmanian began his career in defence where he became a club champion and leading goalkicker for Fitzroy.
The French Tennis Federation had announced that Kuerten, as a three-time champion, would have every chance of being granted a wildcard to play at the 2006 French Open, provided that he managed to remain active throughout the 2006 season leading up to the French Open.
Employers claimed the strikers had revolutionary objectives and military intelligence seconded those charges, so Wood added acclaim as an anti-labor and anti-radical champion to his reputation as a military hero, critic of Wilson, and leading candidate for the Republican nomination for President in 1920.

leading and Melville's
In Herman Melville's Paradise of Bachelors and Tartarus of Maids, Melville contrasts the beauty of the Temple Bar gateway with the highest point on the road leading to the hellish paper factory, which he calls a " Dantean Gateway.
At the age of 21, with just £ 50 and an introduction to famed actress Marie Tempest from Gregan McMahon, she emigrated to England where she became established as a stage actress, notably as leading lady to Jack Buchanan in Frederick Lonsdale's The Last of Mrs Cheyney, W Somerset Maugham's Lady Frederick and Alan Melville's Castle in the Air.

leading and claims
of Type I errors ( false positives leading to false scientific claims )
In The Divine King in England ( 1954 ) she expanded on her earlier claims there was a secret conspiracy of pagans amongst the English nobility, the same English nobility who provided the leading members of the Church.
In June 1135, Bernard of Clairvaux took a leading part in the Council of Pisa, asserting the claims of pope Innocent II against those of pope Anacletus II, who had been elected pope in 1130 with Norman support but was not recognised outside Rome.
Fogelin claims to detect a suspicious resemblance between the Theories of Justification and Agrippa's five modes leading to the suspension of belief.
His possible hereditary claims would not be enough to gain the support of the leading nobles, against the adult Harthcanut.
The doctor then dumps his body down a chimney, and this leads to yet another tale in the cycle, which continues with twelve tales in total, leading to all the people involved in this incident finding themselves in a courtroom, all making different claims over how the hunchback had died.
The exact nature of the elenchus is subject to a great deal of debate, in particular concerning whether it is a positive method, leading to knowledge, or a negative method used solely to refute false claims to knowledge.
After the annexation of Georgia in 1801 Leonida's family were deemed ordinary nobility in Imperial Russia rather than royalty, leading to claims that her 1948 marriage to Vladimir ( who, however, also belonged to a deposed dynasty by then ) was unequal.
From the 1970s, numerous geoglyphs have been discovered on deforested land dating between 0 – 1250 AD, leading to claims about Pre-Columbian civilizations.
*" The Uncertain Return of Russian Power ", by Mike Haynes, analyses Putin's Russia and looks at claims that the reassertion of Russian power is leading to a new Cold War.
On one occasion, Lessig also commended the John McCain campaign for discussing fair use rights in a letter to YouTube where it took issue with YouTube for indulging overreaching copyright claims leading to the removal of various campaign videos.
Theodora, the wife of Constantius Chlorus, is often called Maximian's stepdaughter by ancient sources, leading to claims by Otto Seeck and Ernest Stein that she was born from an earlier marriage between Eutropia and Afranius Hannibalianus .< ref > Aurelius Victor, de Caesaribus 39. 25 ; Eutropius, Breviaria 9. 22 ; Jerome, Chronicle 225 < sup > g </ sup >; Epitome de Caesaribus 39. 2, 40. 12, quoted in Barnes, New Empire, 33 ; Barnes, New Empire, 33 .</ ref > Barnes challenges this view, saying that all " stepdaughter " sources derive their information from the partially unreliable work of history Kaisergeschichte, while other, more reliable sources, refer to her as Maximian's natural daughter .< ref > Origo Constantini 2 ; Philostorgius, Historia Ecclesiastica 2. 16 < sup > a </ sup >, quoted in Barnes, New Empire, 33.
In 2005, these claims amounted to $ 11. 7 billion, leading some to believe that if current trends continue, such claims may be too much to pay if they are found against the government.
Another incident involved the USMS awarding a $ 300 million contract to a firm that had a known history of numerous criminal activities leading to convictions for mail fraud and bank fraud and false insurance claims in addition to a civil judgment against its Chief Financial Officer.
Psychiatrists rarely have the time or resources to check the validity of a person ’ s claims leading to some true beliefs to be erroneously classified as delusional.
Its parent company is also a leading U. S. manufacturer and exporter of sweet whey, whey protein and lactose products and claims to be the world's largest manufacturer of mozzarella and pizza cheese.
As such, ISPO claims that civil society, through its adoption of Simpol, can for the first time lead governments, rather than governments leading the people.
Dressler herself claims to have cast Charles Chaplin in the movie as her leading man, and was " proud to have had a part in giving him his first big chance.
Other accusations centred around the fact that Booth appointed his own children to posts for which others were better qualified, leading to claims that The Salvation Army was a Booth family-business.
Thus, Hustler magazine's parody of Jerry Falwell was deemed to be within the law, because the Court found that reasonable people would not have interpreted the parody to contain factual claims, leading to a reversal of the jury verdict in favor of Falwell, who had previously been awarded $ 150, 000 in damages by a lower court.
Since the 1970s, numerous geoglyphs have been discovered on deforested land in Acre dating between 0 – 1250 AD, leading to claims about Pre-Columbian civilizations.
The leading associations of psychological, psychiatric, medical, and social work professionals in the United States have said that claims that the legal recognition of marriage for same – sex couples undermines the institution of marriage and harms children is inconsistent with the scientific evidence which supports the conclusions: that homosexuality is a normal expression of human sexuality that is not chosen ; that gay and lesbian people form stable, committed relationships essentially equivalent to heterosexual relationships ; that same-sex parents are no less capable than opposite-sex parents to raise children ; and that the children of same-sex parents are no less psychologically healthy and well-adjusted than children of opposite-sex parents.
He became more affiliated with leading American members of St. Louis, including Edward Hempstead, a land claims attorney, and Thomas Hart Benton, editor of the St. Louis Enquirer.

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