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Advocates
of this position see EU voters as terrified by the consequences of the May 2004 enlargement of the EU, when eight formerly communist states joined, and angry that they were not consulted about it.
The links between Europe and America are, frankly, much more complex than the
advocates
of decoupling appreciate.
Another promising initiative – the “optional protocol on communications,” aimed at enabling children and their advocates, for the first time, to bring cases before the UN Human Rights Committee – has been similarly weakened by a lack of strong support, authority, and resources.
The main
advocates
of the idea, developed in the 1920s, were the Italian Giulio Douhet, the American William Mitchell, and the Englishman Hugh Trenchard.
Moreover, sometimes
advocates
have assumed, without justification, that the new jobs would pay more than careers in conventional energy.
Yet many studies used by
advocates
of green jobs have not addressed these costs at all – overlooking both the cost of investment and the price hikes to be faced by end users.
More realistically,
advocates
of a single currency reasoned that it would cause people to identify as Europeans, and that the shift to a single European Central Bank would herald a shift of power away from national governments.
Last year, Japan issued a visa to Taiwan’s former president, Lee Teng-hui, a man who explicitly
advocates
a US-Japan-Taiwan alliance against China.
Within the parliament, the conservative bloc is divided between supporters of Ahmadinejad and
advocates
of more parliamentary oversight of the president.
Advocates
of more democracy in the Arab world now risk being accused of cooperation with the American design for re-making the Middle East.
Advocates
of open borders can pay now, or they will certainly pay later.
For example, sustainability in agriculture is often linked to organic farming, whose
advocates
tout it as a “sustainable” way to feed the planet’s rapidly expanding population.
While DiEM25
advocates
a democratic union, we certainly reject both the inevitability and the desirability of “ever closer union.”
Austerity’s
advocates
rely on one – and only one – argument: If fiscal contraction is part of a credible “consolidation” program aimed at permanently reducing the share of government in GDP, business expectations will be so encouraged by the prospect of lower taxes and higher profits that the resulting economic expansion will more than offset the contraction in demand caused by cuts in public spending.
Environmentalists and labor
advocates
have a point when they insist that growth should not be the ultimate goal of economic policy.
What steady-state
advocates
forget is that stagnating or declining incomes would heighten resistance to higher taxes on fossil fuels and delay investment in green technologies (and thus the transition to new industries and the creation of better jobs).
Advocates
of tit-for-tat trade polices have even found supportive quotes from Adam Smith on the subject.
It is not clear that
advocates
of this option have fully comprehended its potentially severe adverse consequences.
At first blush, this unusual convergence between Western and emerging countries seems to reflect what
advocates
of a new international economic order had in mind.
Advocates
envisaged an orderly process in which economic convergence accompanied and facilitated global economic growth.
Jiang Qing
advocates
a tri-cameral legislature – a democratically elected People’s House representing the common people’s interests, a House of Exemplary Persons to secure the good of all those affected by government policies, including foreigners and minority groups, and a House of Cultural Continuity that would maintain China’s various religions and traditions.
It has been asserted that the report
advocates
giving the European Union the power to regulate independent national media.
To minimize this risk, the report
advocates
two forms of limited supervision.
Second, echoing the major recommendation of Lord Justice Levenson’s report on British press standards, the report
advocates
creating, in those countries that do not already have one, an independent regulator whose sole responsibility is to protect against potential abuse to oversee press freedom and pluralism.
Given that providing the state with any amount of authority over the media also carries risks, the group
advocates
EU oversight over national authorities – regulation of the regulators.
The US Supreme Court’s 2013 decision that naturally occurring genes cannot be patented has provided a test of whether patents stimulate research and innovation, as
advocates
claim, or impede it, by restricting access to knowledge.
Advocates
for the precision-medicine agenda are largely silent on these factors influencing the health of populations.
But it is not just Trump, with his populist “America First” agenda, who opposes globalization and
advocates
protectionism, particularly against China.
The divide is apparent even among activists and
advocates
for HIV/AIDS research.
Throughout the nineteenth century, Catholicism’s public role bred cruel fights between supporters of the clergy and their opponents, reflecting a more fundamental conflict between supporters of the Republic and
advocates
of a return to the old order.
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