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Needless to say, the active-retirement condition would apply only to those who are physically and mentally fit to contribute, and the commitment to work would decline with age.
And now that Trump has tacitly accepted the Iran nuclear deal, some of his advisers believe that it is necessary to apply pressure on Iran from elsewhere.
This could involve making scientific information accessible to the general public and innovators, and supporting public-private partnerships to pilot, demonstrate, and apply research outcomes, thereby creating jobs addressing public problems.
I’m not sure that these factors apply to oil in the same way, especially at a time when energy markets are on the cusp of big changes in supply and demand.
Moreover, even without defying the One China policy, Trump has ample room to apply pressure.
After all, such agreements would apply explicitly to the EU’s entire customs territory – a term with a precise meaning under WTO rules.
So, whatever market-access benefits they include would automatically apply to the UK.
The legal argument would be that the EU customs territory has not changed, so existing EU trade agreements must continue to apply to the UK.
Despite the European Commission’s call for member states to apply more EU funds to programs aimed at integrating Roma before the close of the 2007-2013 EU budget period, none of these six countries has done so.
Here, too, existing regulatory principles, and the agencies that apply and enforce them, should be given an opportunity to prove themselves.
IndianomicsNEW DELHI – Nowadays, economists are assailed by irresolute thoughts: what, for example, is the right term to apply to current global economic conditions?
The same does not apply to Europe, however.
These officials should take the money spent trying to convince other nations about the generous nature of Cuba's public health and education systems and apply it to the needs of Cuba's people.
Most important, Iran has committed itself to apply the Additional Protocol of the International Atomic Energy Agency, providing the organization with round-the-clock access to all components of its nuclear program for 15 years.
Cross-border trade in goods has grown by around a third since the creation of the Internal Market in 1992 due to two principles: mutual recognition, which allows companies to apply their own national rules, and EU directives that harmonize national rules.
Unlike their predecessor, the Millennium Development Goals, which focused almost exclusively on developing countries, the new global goals are universal and apply to all countries equally.
Once a satisfactory level of price stability is achieved, euro candidates might apply a more flexible variant of inflation targeting that also targets exchange-rate stability .
A good starting point would be to apply existing best practice more often, making exceptional cases the norm.
Currently, such levels of protection apply to only about 1%, so there is a long way to go.
The sad reality is that, were they to apply for EU membership today, neither Hungary nor Poland would be admitted.
It would threaten the role of London as a financial center, some complained, as if the proposal was meant to apply just in London and not globally.
Rather, it should apply only to small deposits, with the specific scale defined according to the richest participating country.
No such considerations about the right not to be ruled against their own will appeared to apply to the 6,000,000 inhabitants of Hong Kong.
The current situations in Bahrain, Yemen, and Syria are on the cusp: ugly, but smaller in scale and perhaps retrievable by pressure short of military action (of which the US and its allies could usefully apply much more).
In the coming years, emerging markets will most likely struggle with implementation of global financial regulatory standards, which apply mostly to more sophisticated financial markets.
Indeed, as 20th century experience demonstrates, in the face of true enemies, liberal societies must apply the rule of law even if the consequences appear harsh and "illiberal."
But they said nothing about the terms and conditions that apply to following through on this intention – i.e., the act of secession itself.
It should apply to all products that rating agencies evaluate.
Even on television, entertainment is subject to rules that don’t apply to news.
But this didn’t necessarily apply to Greece in 2009, when its public debt was high – at 127% of GDP – but not unsustainable.
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