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To break with that tradition – or, worse, to play an active role in creating a humanitarian crisis – would amount to a repudiation of the values America claims to uphold.
This was not part of any prefigured Action Plan, but it shows that, given the political will, the EU can play an active role in promoting democracy and stability.
But an engaged and active president may cause tension with the prime minister who, in the Turkish system, is the real chief executive.
ALS is a degenerative neuromuscular disease that robs thousands of people worldwide of active control of their muscles, making them prisoners in their own bodies.
Among the three contenders to replace Merkel, Friedrich Merz was the most vocal proponent of a more active approach at home, within Europe, and abroad.
Of Syrian descent, Hamed Franco is an active supporter of Palestine who has been watched by US security agencies because of his alleged links to Islamist groups.
After all, people are most creative when they are active, not when they are unemployed.
In 2010, GSK, the Genomics Institute of the Novartis Research Foundation, and the St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital in Memphis, Tennessee, released into the public domain the details of more than 20,000 compounds that are active against the malaria parasite – 13,500 of which came from GSK’s proprietary compound library.
To do so, they are in active discussions with their northern neighbors, and innovative cross-border collaborations are being developed, building on the model of the highly successful partnership between Mozambique, South Africa, and Swaziland.
As a result, Turkey’s leaders are now willing to pursue active diplomacy in the Middle East in an effort to minimize problems with neighboring countries.
The Turkish government has adopted an active role as a promoter of peace and has reconfigured its policies toward a number of regional problems.
Turkey’s arrival as a regional power is different in that its democratic structures make an active peacemaker, not a local bully.
Managing a World of Great PowersMADRID – Today, great-power competition is a fact: The United States now competes with an increasingly active Russia and a rising China.
But while Clinton and his team remain aware that American self-interest demands active international involvement, the new American mood is suspicious of any international involvement even if it is so clearly to America's advantage as with Mexico.
But the NSS has so far restricted its scope to protecting nuclear infrastructure and material from active misuse.
In the asset management industry, there have traditionally been two types of investment strategies: passive and active.
By contrast, the active approach entrusts investment to a professional portfolio manager.
Moreover, most active managers – indeed, 95% of them – underperform their investment benchmarks, and their returns are volatile and risky.
Indeed, not only are active “alpha” strategies often worse than beta ones; some are actually disguised beta strategies (because they follow market trends) – just with more leverage and thus more risk and volatility.
For many emerging economies, it is imperative to pursue a rebalancing of growth patterns, with a greater focus on resilience, and a more active approach to managing debt and capital flows and their effects on asset prices, exchange rates, and growth.
Not only has the Bank not been active in promoting these globally agreed standards, there is a concern that the Bank discourages collective bargaining and protections for workers when it talks about “flexible labor markets” and conditions that are conducive to private investment.
More and more, the question is not put in terms of whether to do active productive development policies but rather how to do them.”
And, using new technology to analyze large amounts of data, they should boost the efficiency of social programs, while encouraging the active participation of concerned citizens.
Taking Drug Safety SeriouslyHealth hazards – nuclear reactors, guns, and contaminated foods – surround all of us, so governments take an active role in limiting these hazards through regulations, which, in many cases, are very successful.
Such movements, like the much-publicized “Barakat” (“Enough”), have encouraged a shift among Algerians from resentful abstention to active boycott.
Late last year, computer and network security researchers revealed, to little surprise or fanfare, that ISIS was active on the so-called dark web.
But in financial markets prices are not merely the passive reflection of independently given demand and supply; they also play an active role in shaping those preferences and opportunities.
These and other changes will require democratic leadership, based on active communication with various segments of society.
The failure of ECT’s critics to demonstrate what to them seems obvious indicates an active conspiracy to minimize treatment-induced problems and to block those who have been injured by treatment from seeking redress.
First, the Franco-British push for intervention is the latest example of European foreign policy by a small number of very active member states.
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