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It is a great pity that formal negotiations with Iran have been stalled since 2005 amid Western demands that Iran suspend all of its enrichment-related activities.
For example, if Iran’s nuclear activities were to be surrounded with enough voluntarily accepted checks and controls, we could be confident of detecting at an early stage any diversion toward military purposes.
How do they create and mobilize coherent teams of people in new economic activities if the requisite tacit knowledge is missing?
Aid agencies that have managed to negotiate access with al-Shabaab should continue to do so, even though their activities are severely restricted.
The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs has overall responsibility for the UN’s disaster-relief efforts, and its activities should be guided by the four principles of humanity, neutrality, impartiality and independence.
Target governments use such activities as a pretext to discriminate against those groups.
They are also eager to develop more “networked” national and European foreign policies that take into account the activities and possible contributions of non-state actors.
The norms of a colonial and militarist regime have begun to infiltrate the governing organs of Israel’s democracy, perverting their proper activities.
This bias reduces developing countries’ comparative advantage in traditionally labor-intensive manufacturing (and other) activities, and decreases their gains from trade.
Haircuts, like a host of other activities requiring detailed local knowledge, cannot be outsourced.
Non-governmental and non-profit civil contracts bind people together for communal, religious, social, and political activities.
The process involves adding and combining new and existing capabilities to support more diverse and complex activities.
Major General Wang Zaixi, Deputy Director of China's Taiwan Affairs Office, warned of the use of force if Taiwanese authorities "collude with separatist forces to openly engage in pro-independence activities and challenge the mainland and the one-China principle."
Thousands of emails had been discovered on the laptop of the estranged husband of Clinton’s closest assistant, Huma Abedin, during a separate inquiry into his own activities.
Its activities should include raising capital (equity and debt) for global education; providing investment-banking services to governments, businesses, and multilateral agencies in cooperation with local banks; and offering consulting and advisory services for public-private partnerships, privatization, decentralization, loans, and concessionary finance negotiations.
Even though GDP is artificially inflated, some useful activities are carried out.
There are many activities that we would like to be able to turn over entirely to autonomously functioning machines.
Two weeks ago, Ausama Monajed, a Syrian strategic communications consultant who sends out a steady stream of information and links to opposition activities in Syria, suddenly started sending out pro-government propaganda.
Rather, it is those who are enraged by the expressed views who may threaten or actually engage in violence, either against the speaker, or against those, like US government officials, whom they believe have facilitated (or failed to suppress) the blasphemer’s activities.
With ASEAN’s range of activities broadening, the EPG observed, it should “consider alternative and flexible decision-making mechanisms,” including voting.
According to a study – cited in the World Bank report – by MIT’s Tavneet Suri and Georgetown University’s William Jack, mobile accounts have enabled 185,000 Kenyan women to leave farming and start more remunerative small businesses and retail activities.
Although official corruption is greater when the state is involved in economic activities, shifting the focus of state regulation appears to change only the magnitude of corruption.
States could, in theory, reinvent themselves as the political equivalent of Nike-minimizing in-house activities by contracting out ever more of their functions to providers in the global market.
Carrying the trait for a disorder, they can be labeled as “persons at risk” and deemed unsuited for normal activities.
Campaigning and governing are two very different activities, and there is no reason to assume that how Trump conducted the former will dictate how he approaches the latter.
At the same time, business owners seek illicit relationships with local officials to gain protection, privileges (such as contracts), loans, a blind eye to safety standards, and regulatory exemptions – activities that generate financial risks and undermine competition by raising entry barriers for more efficient enterprises.
We do not measure inputs – including aid or natural-resource revenues – or government promises and commitments; instead, we have chosen to measure the impact of government activities on the lives of citizens.
Senior PLO officials have participated in demonstrations and protest activities, with some being injured and Executive Committee member Abbas Zaki imprisoned for a couple of days.
In addition to nonviolent activities, Palestinian state-building efforts have been put in high gear.
On the contrary, there is some evidence that beneficiary households increased their participation in microenterprise activities and made larger investments in agricultural production activities.
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