He also acknowledged the rising role of independents, who now make up one in five voters in the state.
However vital the Afghan war effort, officials said, it has lost out in the internal debate to priorities like American jobs and the rising role of China.
Then he goes on to Chicago — a visit to Mr. Obama's adopted hometown, but also a chance to show China's rising role in the world.
In sum, the euro zone's recovery is hampered by its own structural weaknesses and by the rising role of emerging markets.
Europe's rising role stems not only from American fatigue with a seemingly intractable problem, but also from the peculiar dynamics of the Palestinian campaign at the United Nations.
This rallying cry for Islamic law, which is reduced to its most extreme measures, is an outgrowth of the rising role of religious identity, but it's also the most expedient means to terrify a population in the name of religion.
For all his success, Mr. Lee, 83, remains on the alert for perils that may exist only on the distant horizon: the rising role of China in the region as the United States looks the other way, the buffeting of the world economy, even climate change.
China is now starting to tear down these walls and free the renminbi — a decision driven partly by recognition of China's rising role in the world economy and partly by disenchantment with the currencies and financial systems of the industrialized world during the current downturn.
In the United States, the rising role of the state produced a long-term backlash, culminating most recently in the form of a tax revolt (from the 1960s), a move to the right in the Republican Party (beginning with Ronald Reagan and running through Newt Gingrich directly to Mr. Ryan) and a deep-seated conviction that tax rates and government spending must be reduced ("starve the beast").
The military, which had maneuvered Turkish political proceedings in the past, issued a memorandum on the Internet criticizing the rising role of Islamists in the government and indicating military readiness to act if an unapproved candidate, such as Gül, won the presidency; this approach was dubbed an "e-coup" by pundits.
