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They complain about year-long waits for eye operations and hip surgery--a direct result of a Social Democratic reform of 1994 that abolished the right of patients to seek alternative care at public expense if they are not treated within three months by their regional council.
Stockholm, ruled by conservatives and liberals, has extended its free-market experiments, such as privatization of subway trains, to education vouchers and free choice of alternative schools.
Worse still, Trump has not even bothered to offer an alternative approach to containing Iran’s nuclear program.
Providing such protection will be politically and economically costly, to be sure; but the alternative could lead to a nuclear arms race in the Middle East.
But, for many Cubans, the embargo has placed an alternative explanation at hand: Absent the embargo, many goods would be imported from the US, or produced at home with US inputs.
Many of America's allies say that they resent the excessive unilateralism of the Bush Administration's foreign policy, but even President Clinton argued that America must be prepared to go it alone when no alternative exists.
Instead of developing a credible alternative, politicians of the center left bought wholesale into the new disposition.
That purpose, of course, is to create an Asian Monetary Fund, i.e., a regional alternative to the International Monetary Fund, whose tender ministrations during the 1997-98 financial crisis have not been forgotten or forgiven.
Pooling regional reserves as a way of making them go further is a better alternative.
The alternative would be to embark on a sustained program of privatization to shrink the asset side of the state’s huge balance sheet.
On the contrary, migrants started to explore alternative and mostly dangerous routes with a frequent rate of deaths at sea.”
The alternative was an elected monarch: the Fifth Republic’s Constitution, ratified 50 years ago this week, was crafted around that central principle.
Following de Gaulle’s lead, elective monarchy or enlightened despotism is now perceived as a legitimate alternative to parliamentary democracy or US-style separation of powers.
I intend to stick to that path; indeed, there is no alternative to it.
In other words, they rejected ever considering alternative possibilities for the area.
First, different manifestations of Islamic piety or culture are seen as alternative ways of expressing the same core meaning.
To achieve economic and political autonomy from Russia, and to establish a North-South axis as an alternative to the dominant East-West axis, it is crucial for Poland that such deliveries continue.
As the China scholars Daniel A. Bell and Zhang Weiwei have noted, the major political alternative to Western liberal-democratic traditions are the communitarian institutions that continue to evolve in China.
But the most compelling reason why one should not expect a renminbi-dominated international finance system to arise anytime soon is that China’s leaders have never shown any sustained commitment to developing the renminbi as a true alternative to the dollar.
Though they have no alternative, both Israel and the Arab states will find it difficult to trust future US commitments to their security.
With or without a nuclear deal, Iran, which was disinvited from the Geneva II conference on Syria, because of its rejection of the conference’s US-inspired terms of reference, aspires to challenge America’s policies and represent an alternative path for the region.
Trump’s presidency has revealed an alternative perspective: globalization, at least as currently construed, tilts the balance of political power toward those with the skills and assets to benefit from openness, undermining whatever organized influence the losers might have had in the first place.
The ideological antagonism of the Cold War may be gone, but Russia now defines itself as an alternative civilizational and social model.
An alternative tradition, going back to Saint Thomas Aquinas, held that prices should be “just.”
Undoubtedly, South Sudan would face colossal challenges as a sovereign state, but the alternative – an inevitable return to war – would be incalculably worse, both for Sudan and for Africa.
As a result, gene editing has emerged as an alternative strategy to the chassis model for tailoring microbes to make useful products.
Second, as a policy matter, educators sometimes use indoor recess as an alternative to outdoor breaks.
Unless the EU changes course and increases its production of alternative energy – including biofuels, an option the EU has long neglected – some 95% of its oil will come from foreign sources by 2030, according to the International Energy Agency.
The European Commission must provide clear direction if EU member states are to develop alternative sources of energy.
The United States, for example, has created incentives for investment in alternative fuels.
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