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Then, when the $700 billion US rescue package was approved, markets fell another 7% in two days.
Rather than waste time debating proposals that have no chance of being approved, economists and policymakers should be working within the parameters established by the German court.
There is a fair chance that one or more of these bilateral accords will be approved (in part because the Obama administration seems finally to have recognized that trade can generate good jobs), but it is far less certain that the president will gain the authority needed to negotiate a new global trade deal.
At the same time, the UK Parliament has approved stringent new measures to reduce carbon emissions by 2020, with the biggest CO2 cuts by far to come from an increase of more than 800% in offshore wind power over the next seven years.
With the right approach, businesses could not only help to achieve the emissions targets set out in the Paris agreement; they could also contribute to reigniting growth and delivering on the Sustainable Development Goals, approved by the United Nations last year.
Most Muslims also approved when the police raided and confiscated weapons at the Finsbury Park mosque in London, whose Imam had long preached hatred of the West and support for terrorists.
Moreover, in recent months, the government has approved some large steel and energy projects, and more such approvals may come.
The president – to be directly elected in the future given another AKP-initiated amendment that was approved by a referendum in 2007 – thus maintains the predominant role, which underscores the AKP’s confidence that it will continue to control the presidency in the years ahead.
In June, the International Labor Organization’s member states overwhelmingly approved the Domestic Workers Convention, which will significantly increase protections for a vulnerable group of workers – the majority of whom are migrants.
Just before stepping down, Berlusconi’s government also approved a constitutional reform that, among other things, provides a logical complement to the new electoral system.
The Council says that it invited officially approved Chinese writers because it wanted to create greater understanding of Chinese literature and promote cultural exchange between the two countries.
Most proposals for Jerusalem (including the so-called Clinton Parameters in 2000, which the Israeli government approved) share many common features.
Turkey wants desperately to be accepted into the EU, whose "Copenhagen criteria," approved in 1993, define what may be called the constitutional prerequisites of membership.
These include a hateful bill – which the House of Representatives has already approved – that provides for the construction of a wall along the US-Mexican border and makes unauthorized entry into the US a felony.
A number of other drugs – some new and some repurposed – are currently in the last stage of clinical trials, and one new drug has been approved by US regulators for treatment of MDR-TB even before such trials have been completed.
It maintains the country’s improved relations with the IMF, and it has even approved an agreement with the US to guarantee investments.
Among the slew of newly approved dam projects are five on the Salween, three on the Brahmaputra, and two on the Mekong.
Between 2000 and 2011, only 4% of newly approved drugs were for neglected diseases that affect predominantly lower- and middle-income countries.
And in Europe between 2000 and 2014, 51% of newly approved drugs were modified versions of existing medicines, and thus offered no additional health benefits.
Newly approved vaccines provide even greater protection.
Aware of these potential risks, Dubai’s leadership has just approved a comprehensive plan to overhaul education aimed at developing indigenous human capital.
From 2000 to 2006, Europe spent another €5.35 billion, and the EIB approved €6.4 billion in loans.
In the meantime, both sides would be well advised to undertake a careful analysis of previous experiences with programs that were approved in principle, rather than becoming immediately operational.
That is why the League of Nations approved the Geneva Declaration on the Rights of the Child in 1924, and why the international community adopted the Convention on the Rights of the Child in 1989.
Ireland is fortunately less worrying, but the odds that the fiscal pact will be approved in a popular referendum are becoming longer.
In the past year, the Australian government has approved both the massive Carmichael coalmine and the Abbot Point terminal, located near the Reef, to facilitate the global export of output from the Carmichael mine.
Such contracts were in flagrant violation of the arms embargo instituted under UN Security Council Resolution 1970, which China approved.
Yet the Global Fund approved his proposal without reservation, and it committed to backing his efforts with $18 million over the next two years.
Unfortunately, Kenya’s government listened and did not permit their farmers to grow genetically modified (GM) maize, even though it has been approved, sown, harvested, and eaten by both humans and animals in South Africa, Argentina, Brazil, the United States, and other countries for many years.
The most highly touted change – the separation between proprietary trading and commercial banking (also known as the “Volker rule,” after former US Federal Reserve chairman Paul Volker) – has nothing to do with what caused the crisis, and most likely was approved because it was ineffective.
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