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In the meantime, as politicians debate and do nothing, consumer confidence falls, economic performance worsens, and the consensus needed to get reforms approved in the first place vanishes.
The only positive signs in consumption are seen among the youngest households, those headed by people in their early twenties, who evidently hope that sooner or later the reforms will be approved and their tax burden reduced.
If a product is approved for sale in one EU member state, it is considered safe enough to be sold in another.
But he soon changed his mind after attending the first modern Olympic Games in 1896 and saw that international sports created a fine opportunity for aggressive chauvinism, of which he much approved.
Thanks to these measures, and ECB President Mario Draghi’s vow, which Germany tacitly approved, to do “whatever it takes” to save the euro, the financial storm abated.
In late November, the parliament’s lower house, led by the majority African National Congress (ANC), overwhelmingly approved a new law – the “Protection of State Information Bill” – whose adoption would shield the country’s most-powerful political and business elites from public scrutiny.
It must still be approved by the parliament’s upper house, which is expected to vote on it in early 2012.
Add to that Yellen and Tartullo, as well as Jeremy Stein, who by then will be approved to serve until 2018, and Obama would shape the Fed’s policies for at least a decade.
Therefore new financial products must be registered and approved by the appropriate authorities before being sold.
Of the dozen or so insecticides WHO has approved as safe for house spraying, the most effective is DDT.”
Too often, however, governments ignore or distort public aspirations, stripping the discussion of all but officially approved platitudes.
Zhao’s package – a sharp break with Mao’s totalitarianism – was approved by the 13th Party Congress, officially the highest authority within the CCP.
Moreover, each of the seven judges on Mexico’s Federal Election Tribunal was individually approved by two-thirds majorities in the Senate, which included the PAN and the PRD.
Of course, it is easy to imagine a quota reform that would lead to more ambitious results, but it would be difficult to have it approved.
This, together with the rule that all decisions, even in the area of state aid, must be approved by a majority of Commissioners, suggests that the Commission is set to become much more lenient on state aid and competition policy.
Just to remind the world of this, as the indirect talks were preparing to get off the ground, Israel’s government approved a decision to break ground on 112 housing units in a settlement south of Bethlehem, and 1600 new settlement units in East Jerusalem.
Hamas has agreed to accept any negotiated peace settlement between Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas and Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, provided it is approved in a referendum among the Palestinian people.
Germline gene editing is not approved under international law: both the Council of Europe’s Convention on Human Rights and Biomedicine (although the UK is not a signatory) and UNESCO’s Universal Declaration on the Human Genome and Human Rights prohibit the practice.
In 2015, British lawmakers approved a form of germline modification known as “mitochondrial donation” – commonly referred to as “three-parent” in vitro fertilization (IVF).
During this summer of “separatist” folly, the first proposal concerned the appointment of headmasters of schools in the Veneto region: the local councilors in the province of Vicenza approved a measure to reserve all headmaster posts in the province for northern Italian teachers.
This proposal must now be amended and approved as soon as possible by the European Parliament and the Council of Ministers if we are to have a chance of activating the European Stability Mechanism (ESM) and proceeding with the other essential pillars of a banking union.
In July, the US Congress approved sweeping sanctions against Russia, partly in response to its alleged sponsorship of disinformation campaigns aiming to influence US elections.
Of course, no such intervention will, or should, be approved in practice unless it is seen as satisfying several moral or prudential criteria, which, though not yet adopted by the UN as formal benchmarks, have been the subject of much international debate and acceptance over the last decade.
In many other states, voters have approved public financing of elections, the adoption and preservation of Medicaid expansion, and marijuana legalization.
In November of this year, Maine shocked observers again, when voters there approved Medicaid expansion by 59-41%, overturning five vetoes by Governor Paul LePage of legislative efforts in favor of the expansion.
Australia and other countries provide models of how to do it: regulate and limit gun ownership to approved uses.
Now, debt in the 28 countries for which relief has been approved has declined by an average of two-thirds, while their expenditures on health, education, and other social services have risen to almost four times the amount of debt-service payments.
As a result, just this past December, the IMF approved immediate, full relief for 19 countries – including 13 in Africa, four in Latin America, and two in Asia – on all outstanding debt to the Fund disbursed before January 1, 2005.
Earlier this month, deeply concerned members of the European Parliament, after two previous attempts, finally approved a resolution that will pave the way for EU sanctions against Hungary.
Larger capabilities were part of the original space station plan, approved in 1984, but subsequently disappeared as the cost of the facility grew.
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