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It will have joint decision-making authority in many more areas, including the budget.
The difficulty with implementing this policy has been that its preventive aspects – social support and reintegration of delinquents – appear to the frightened population living in the affected areas as being “soft on crime” and overly generous.
The main risk now is that events in the suburbs of large French cities will serve as an example to other young people, whether in the less urban areas of France or in other European countries, who feel socially excluded and are, perhaps, just as prone to violent outbursts.
It remains a daunting journey, through areas little changed to this day, inaccessible, and desperately poor.
Another multilateral forum that could prove invaluable to the UK is the Trans-Pacific Partnership, a mega-regional trade agreement that provides for duty-free trade and includes modest commitments in areas like state aid and competition policy, without requiring EU-level integration.
It is easy to imagine Republicans and Democrats standing for two different versions of the country: one is overwhelmingly white, modestly educated, not very young, strong in rural areas, often male, and proud to own guns; the other is better educated, younger, urban, racially diverse, more female, and keen to control guns.
Moreover, by giving the Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) – which brings together the country’s long-marginalized Kurdish minority and other groups – more than 10% of the vote, they enabled the party to enter parliament for the first time, with representation throughout the country, not just in Kurd-majority areas.
Governance failures, ranging from corruption to inefficient implementation of reforms, also pose a serious challenge, as do social and political tensions (and, in some areas, the threat of terrorism).
Many countries are already testing the technologies and policies needed to bring energy to rural areas and growing cities.
In Morocco, the provision of solar photovoltaic kits to isolated villages has helped to raise access rates to electricity in rural areas from less than 15% in 1990 to more than 97% in 2009.
Instead of waiting for a grid to come to a town or village, renewable energies can be swiftly deployed in remote areas.
Although China's official growth rate reached 8% in 2002, its high budget deficit and large stock of non-performing loans (about 40% of GDP) mean that it cannot afford any slowdown if it is to keep people employed, especially in rural areas.
As one presenter at the conference summarized: “No models have shown a complete shutdown, or a net cooling over land areas.
The army appears to be winning this time around, in marked contrast to its recent half-hearted confrontations with Taliban forces in neighboring tribal areas.
This round of fighting was preceded by a negotiated calm, as the government sought to quell militants in Pakistan’s tribal areas by striking a deal with the Taliban leader, Sufi Mohammad.
Such a framework embraces realism about areas of contention defined by significant conflicting national interests and values.
At the same time, it is “constructive” in the sense of identifying areas of sufficient commonality to create new public goods, such as bilateral investment treaties, a non-nuclear Korean Peninsula, and a global agreement on climate change.
Without disregarding logic and ethics – areas where the liberal world order continues to outshine the alternative – liberals must connect with people on an emotional level.
The 5% figure is grossly misleading, with surrounding areas taken or earmarked for expansion, roadways joining settlements with each other and to Jerusalem, and wide arterial swaths providing water, sewage, electricity, and communications.
Especially troublesome is Israel’s construction of huge concrete dividing walls in populated areas and high fences in rural areas – located entirely on Palestinian territory and often with deep intrusions to encompass more land and settlements.
Meanwhile, right-wing parties, like the Republicans in the United States, paid lip service to the social conservatism, and sometimes outright bigotry, of less privileged voters in rural and provincial areas, while doing what was best for big business once they were in power.
It would also reclaim its own global prestige and potential for progress in other areas.
This division remains particularly acute in economic and social policy, though it also extends to other areas, like education policy (for example, extended education versus early specialization).
Improved agricultural productivity would benefit rural areas and give farmers a comparative share in the Union’s growing wealth.
Viewed from the standpoint of food security and the wealth of rural areas, there is now an urgent need to revisit the CAP’s main instruments so that a new policy formula can be introduced.
If the market “misbehaves,” farmers could be reduced to poverty, leading to the neglect of large areas of Europe.
Such statistics indicate that Hong Kong and mainland China have been linked to each other closely in economic areas, and that the handover of sovereignty may not have much immediate impact on both sides.
So their natural tendency in a test apparatus is to find areas that are poorly illuminated or close to walls.
The longer a medicated animal spends in areas in which it is unprotected, the more effective the drug is judged to be in treating anxiety.
The brain systems that control behavioral responses in threatening situations are similar in rodents and humans, and involve older areas deep in the brain that work nonconsciously (for example, the amygdala).
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