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To revolt requires you to be active.
This implies active complicity between creditors (the OECD countries and their financial institutions, especially the IMF and the World Bank) and borrowers (African governments).
That thinking – which needs to be reaffirmed and politically supported – underpinned our active trade agenda.
The EU must become more active, more determined and united in securing its energy interests and those of its member states.
Compared to the number of active military personnel in Syria (125,000), Iraq (271,500), Saudi Arabia (233,500), Turkey (510,600), or Iran (523,000), ISIS is minuscule.
Whether other parent banks active in the region stand by their subsidiaries depends on how severe the crisis in Western Europe becomes.
Finally, like Sirleaf, Weah’s government must embrace coalition-building and active engagement at the local, regional, and global levels.
And, as NATO approaches its 60th birthday next spring, there seems no immediate urgency about writing its obituary; 60-year-olds may reasonably look forward to another decade, perhaps two or even three, of active and productive life.
Likewise, more than a quarter of all medicinal drugs, representing billions of dollars in sales and reduced healthcare costs, possess active ingredients derived from wild species.
Later, when Israel began to build settlements all over the occupied territories, admiration even turned into active hostility from Europe’s left.
If it is to deliver real benefits to the financially excluded, the financial-services industry will need to play a much more active role.
After all, good sheriffs need active citizens to be in their posses and to serve on juries.
As active, engaged shareholders, institutional investors can use their ownership (and, in the case of large investors, their public voice) to help persuade companies to adopt climate-safe policies.
The students are right to be frustrated that most university endowments have so far been passive on the issue, neither divesting nor engaging as active investors.
Though she did say that Harvard would be an active and responsible shareholder, she offered no details about what such engagement might look like.
In the Mediterranean countries of North Africa, the young active population is expanding fast.
An active Brazil can inspire smaller players, like Chile and the Central America countries, to push America as well.
One way to improve data collection and use for sustainable development is to create an active link between the provision of services and the collection and processing of data for decision-making.
The second factor is America’s pluralistic public sphere, an arena not without religion but with many religions, which are visible and active in civil life as the basis for institutions, publications, and symbols that influence values and conduct.
Although Belgium recently followed the Dutch way of regulating voluntary active euthanasia in a strictly medicalized framework, it is precisely this sort of regulation that is increasingly challenged.
France could not become an active player in this debate without being part of the alliance.
But they mostly take money from employees when they are active to redistribute it to them when they retire.
But active institutional investors may also be unable to play a stewardship role.
As Soros has noted, Ukraine probably has the most active civil society in Europe.
Most important, it will have profound intellectual benefits by creating incentives for the active pursuit of ideas.
Had she been politically active during the Nazi times, Merkel would have landed in a concentration camp.
In the meantime, Iran’s youthful population may become more politically active and demand democratization and improved living conditions.
Despite violent clashes with a special military task force in Borno and Yobe, the northern states where the sect is most active, Boko Haram remains robust.
Nevertheless, Nigeria (and perhaps Zanzibar) remains an exception in Islamic assertiveness in sub-Saharan Africa, which is why the idea of an active “Islamic World” includes only a relatively limited segment of sub-Saharan African Muslims.
China’s active leadership of the SCO has resulted in policies that it favors.
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