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Germany thus failed to have a system adopted that would have provided it with some relief.
Unions should return to the policy they adopted during the successful struggle against inflation in the 1990s.
There is, however, a set of policies that, if adopted, would help leaders manage the challenges.
The Genocide Convention, adopted on December 9, 1948, in response to the Holocaust, should have been a circuit breaker.
In 2005, the World Summit of heads of state and government and the UN General Assembly unanimously adopted the principle of the “Responsibility to Protect,” or R2P, as it has come to be known.
The UN Security Council has adopted a series of resolutions to impose extensive sanctions, following the North’s three previous nuclear tests.
Modi’s government has adopted an even weaker stance on another unpopular but necessary decision: fuel-price increases.
The Modi government has also adopted the UPA-proposed Goods and Services Tax, which had been stalled by opposition from BJP-ruled states (including Modi’s Gujarat).
A host of declarations adopted over the years by the SADC and the African Union address the conduct of elections on the continent.
Moreover, South Africa was instrumental in drafting the declaration on unconstitutional changes of government, adopted by the Organization of African Unity, the AU’s predecessor, in 1999.
Indeed, these are all key components of China’s recently adopted 12th Five-Year Plan.
When new forms of business such as textile manufacturing and department stores came to China from the West in the late nineteenth century, Chinese businessmen quickly adopted them and adapted them to local conditions.
Today's Chinese leadership has adopted that bit ancient wisdom to currency management.
Who would have believed at this time last year that the fiscal pact adopted in March would have been possible?
When the US, responding to domestic political pressures, adopted the Smoot-Hawley Tariff four months later, angry European governments responded in kind.
To achieve this, the Global Change Council of Germany (WGBU) suggests that a budget formula be adopted.
The statistical conventions on which we base our estimates were adopted a half-century ago, at a time when the economy was producing relatively similar physical goods.
Wolf, for example, argues that financial markets have adopted a head-in-the-sand focus on the “long run of small gains,” ignoring the “occasional calamity” in advance, while losses will be attributed after the fact to “unforeseeable bad luck.”
At the same time, with boatloads of migrants arriving from Tunisia, some rather drastic measures have been adopted.
But no change has been more obvious than the way the continent has adopted mobile technology.
Co-creating solutions with people experienced in delivering health care in low-resource settings can help to ensure that the solutions are adopted at scale.
That can be attributed partly to Prime Minister Theresa May’s new government, which has purposely adopted a gradual approach to the Brexit process.
The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) were adopted by the UN in 2000 with the goal of tackling some of the most daunting development challenges: eradicating poverty and hunger; enrolling all children in school; turning the tide on HIV/AIDS, malaria, and TB; and reducing infant, child, and maternal mortality.
The goals, which the UN formally adopted last fall to guide sustainable development for the next 15 years, are universal; they apply to countries at all income levels.
These Islamist parties have nothing to do with Al Qaeda, even though some of the most conservative among them have adopted somewhat similar ideological positions.
But as a Kenyan living in China, one of the African continent’s most important development partners, I see one metric that tips the scale in Zimbabwe’s favor: its relationship with my adopted home.
No such guidelines have yet been formally adopted by the Security Council or the General Assembly, but five criteria have emerged from the R2P debate over the last decade.
In order to secure power in the most turbulent months of his political career, Berlusconi obtained the support of many MPs through patronage, publicly attacked his prosecutors, and tried to water down the emergency budget adopted in July in order to benefit his own companies.
In accordance with the “responsibility to protect” doctrine, adopted unanimously by heads of state and government at the UN World Summit in September 2005, if a state fails to meet this primary obligation, responsibility shifts to the international community, which may exercise various measures, including, if absolutely necessary, military force.
Although it would be best if these options were adopted by the UN Security Council, the EU itself can and must act to increase the costs to the Sudanese government of its continued obstruction of aid deliveries and its delaying tactics on deployment of international peacekeepers.
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