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Optimists point to the package’s ambitious goals as evidence of Xi’s commitment to reform, while critics cite its vagueness and lack of a specific timetable as grounds for caution.
Ambitious but thwarted presidents are easily tempted to take unconstitutional measures; after all, they reason, the people elected them directly.
The trade-liberalization agreements that the EU has in the pipeline with Asia’s vibrant economies (including South Korea, Singapore, Malaysia, India, Vietnam, Japan, and Thailand) are more ambitious in scope than previous bilateral deals.
The ambitious bilateral trade agreement now under construction is expected to boost exports in both directions by up to one-third.
China and India have used very different political models to achieve their ambitious GDP-growth targets.
But Putin is ambitious, and – like other autocrats in Central Asian nations – he may remain in power for decades to come.
In a promising move toward strategic accommodation, China has established an International Cooperation Agency to accompany the country’s ambitious Belt and Road Initiative.
All are based mainly on predicted shortfalls in revenue and excessive current spending, rather than increases in investment spending over and above the Chancellor's ambitious plans.
To implement his ambitious reform agenda, Xi has taken several steps to consolidate his personal and bureaucratic power.
Governments and the societies they serve should be ambitious, while always asking themselves a practical question: What are we trying to achieve?
US Secretary of State John Kerry has re-launched American mediation efforts in the Middle East at a time when his country’s most reliable partners are estranged: Egypt’s military rulers resent the West’s early support for the Muslim Brotherhood’s Mohamed Morsi in his presidential tenure, and Saudi Arabia fears that an Iran that talks to the US may prove to be an even more ambitious regional hegemon.
The price must be high enough to achieve ambitious environmental goals, in alignment with national circumstances, and it must be stable, in order to encourage businesses and households to invest in clean technologies.
The panel will produce a prioritized list of solutions that can serve as a set of guidelines for regional policymakers, helping us to be both ambitious and realistic.
This hostility comes at the wrong moment in time, with Europe engaged in ambitious and difficult constitutional reforms.
It has set itself ambitious targets for the future and is taking the lead in seeking a comprehensive global agreement, including a very significant effort on funding.
Statements by new MEPs, EU officials, and national governments indicate that so many items have already been removed from the negotiation agenda, or declared non-negotiable, that it is difficult to see how such an ambitious free-trade agreement can be reached at all.
Though the EU has given itself an ambitious competitiveness agenda, it has not seriously – or even coherently – sought to follow through on it.
Maybe, many say, we are too ambitious and ought to enjoy a higher quality of life with more leisure.
An ambitious goal, which may or may not be achieved.
Known as the “Barcelona process,” this initiative proved weak and ineffective, because much of its funding was diverted to Eastern Europe for the EU’s ambitious enlargement drive.
Cash Aid for AfricaSTOCKHOLM – Europe has made an ambitious commitment to scale up its aid to Africa, and Africa’s challenges call for that greater engagement.
Addressing these and other enduring problems – part of the ambitious set of health and development targets that United Nations has set for 2030, as part of the Sustainable Development Goals – would be all but impossible without the continued delivery of development aid.
WASHINGTON, DC – Once upon a time, ambitious young people with a knack for math and science went to work in manufacturing.
But these measures were merely palliative; the next MFF should be much more ambitious in identifying the role of the EU budget in the management and prevention of crises.
Unfortunately, it also indicates how ambitious and challenging a task it is to reform the international monetary order.
Adding to these fundamentals, populist rhetoric about introducing a quasi-currency or small-denomination IOUs (presumably to finance ambitious spending plans and larger budget deficits), and about not honoring the Bank of Italy’s debt, adds fuel to the financial fire.
Now is the time to set new ambitious goals for Europe.
As a recent assessment by former Dutch prime minister Wim Kok pointed out, the EU’s member states generally have not made the Lisbon Strategy a high priority, and they balk at giving the EU the means to pursue more ambitious policies to offset this neglect.
He may also need to double down on his ambitious plans to reshape European politics.
Singapore-style incorruptible one-party state bent on modernizing society is probably a far too ambitious goal for most non-democratic regimes.
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