Approaching
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Total US debt (as a share of GDP) is
approaching
levels associated with past financial meltdowns, and that doesn’t even account for the hidden debts associated with infrastructure maintenance, rising sea levels, and unfunded pensions.
But with the deadline approaching, AGRA has shifted the goalposts, and is now promising, much more modestly, to increase incomes (by an unspecified amount) and improve food security for 30 million smallholder farm households in 11 African countries by 2021.
The EU’s arrangements with Norway and Switzerland, originally designed to last just one or two years when the EU single market was created in the early 1990s, are now
approaching
their fourth decade.
Shifting Arctic ice, raging wildfires in western US states and elsewhere, and methane leaks in the North Sea are all warning signs that we are
approaching
a tipping point on climate change, when protecting the future of civilization will require dramatic interventions.
Is the end of an era
approaching?
With the 75th anniversary of the UN and the Bretton Woods institutions
approaching
in 2020, the international community should mark the occasion by heeding the lesson of the 2008 financial crisis.
And about half of the country’s population of 1.38 billion is likely to have been impoverished, with many
approaching
starvation levels.
With the critical junction
approaching
and confronting them with the federate-or-disintegrate dilemma, the locomotive’s drivers demonstrated that they preferred derailment.
A decade ago, the conventional wisdom was that America would lead the energy future, because it was
approaching
“energy independence,” owing to massive reserves of shale oil and gas that could now be extracted through hydraulic fracturing (fracking).
Even without more images of police brutality, the situation facing many African-Americans, disproportionately affected by the pandemic, was already
approaching
the unbearable.
Why were no preparations made for an
approaching
pandemic, despite public warnings by opposition leaders of the need to do so?
Earth, and especially the ocean, is thus
approaching
the tipping point of irreversible degradation.
One likely explanation is that World War I, which was
approaching
its end after the last major battle, the Second Battle of the Marne, in July-August 1918, crowded out the influenza story, especially after the armistice in November of that year.
The argument for
approaching
development through the prism of climate change is that rising temperatures exacerbate challenges such as malaria and lack of access to education.
Europe’s New Defining MomentBARCELONA – The European Union and the eurozone are
approaching
their second defining moment in a decade.
On such a Democracy Doomsday Clock, we would be rapidly
approaching
midnight.
Meanwhile, Japan is
approaching
its fourth consecutive decade of consistently low nominal growth, inflation, and interest rates.
I am ashamed to tell it,' he said with a blush, and was obliged to turn round to the
approaching
Sergius Ivanich.
With rapid steps he approached the door of his studio, and in spite of his excitement was struck by the soft light on Anna's figure as she stood in the shadow of the porch listening to something Golenishchev was vehemently saying, and at the same time evidently wishing to look at the
approaching
artist.
He had expected to find the physical signs of
approaching
death more definite: greater weakness, greater emaciation, but still the same sort of condition generally.
Go, go!Vasily Lukich is calling you,' said the hall-porter, hearing the
approaching
step of the tutor, and gently disengaging the little hand in the half-drawn-off glove which held him by his shoulder-strap, as he nodded and winked toward the tutor.
Steps were heard
approaching
the other door, and the nurse said in a frightened whisper, 'Coming!...' and handed Anna her bonnet.
On seeing Koznyshev
approaching
she did not move; yet everything told him that she felt his approach and was glad of it.
Levin jumped down from the cart where he had already seated himself, to meet the carpenter who was
approaching
with a sazhen measure in his hand.
Besides, he experienced that feeling of concentrated excitement which every sportsman knows when
approaching
the scene of action.
Returning tired and hungry from his sport, Levin so vividly anticipated the pies that on
approaching
his lodging he seemed to smell and taste them – just as Laska scented game – and he immediately ordered Philip to serve them.
'We had fine sport, and so many new impressions!' said Veslovsky,
approaching
Kitty, who sat at the samovar.
Dolly dozed, and only woke up when
approaching
the inn where the horses were to be changed.
I soused him,' said the landowner who had been to fetch him,
approaching
Sviyazhsky.
'Very, very glad to have met you,' he added, seeing Sviyazhsky
approaching.
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