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Unfettered, it can assist in the fight against entrenched corruption.
We created the instruments needed to assist distressed countries, and the ensuing adjustment programs are delivering results.
Ghana needs foreign donors to plug the gap in its finances and assist us in standing on our own two feet.
While much more needs to be done for Africa and parts of Latin America, the Doha Round was intended to assist in providing market access (and therefore opportunity) to many more in the developing world.
Treating dying patients who do not want to go on living is a waste, yet only a few countries allow physicians actively to assist a patient who requests aid in dying.
The artificial heart machine, also known as a left ventricular assist device, or LVAD, has been used to keep patients alive until they receive a heart transplant.
Rethinking the Population TabooPRINCETON – At a press conference during last month’s G20 summit in Hamburg, a journalist from the Ivory Coast asked French President Emmanuel Macron why the world’s rich countries have not developed a plan to assist Africa in overcoming its problems, as the United States’ Marshall Plan had aided Europe after World War II.
Admittedly, there is still a fierce debate over the right way to assist poor countries, and this will play out behind the scenes at the G-8 summit.
Political parties could also help by conducting voter registration drives targeting women, and officially sanctioned messaging campaigns could encourage women to register and families to assist them.
But only in the Netherlands, Belgium, Switzerland, and the American state of Oregon are physicians permitted to assist a patient in ending his or her life by means other than withdrawing life-sustaining medical treatment.
The relationships between OCHA and IOM field staff and the vulnerable people they assist are built on trust.
As IMF teams now work across the globe to assist governments in devising programs that can restore confidence, it is clear that the role of lender of last resort is not obsolete.
On a global level, the IMF can assist in designing an overarching regulatory system for financial markets by providing a platform for key players.
Fox has every right to celebrate the recent initiative announced by President Bush to assist some currently illegal immigrants to the US come out of the shadow economy, and he should congratulate himself for pressing Bush to make this effort.
Why, for example, should the prosperous Germans continue to have their tax money pooled to assist the Greeks or the Portuguese?
The world must assist Russia in seeing to it that alternative supply routes for the rebels do not materialize.
The resolution’s “three pillars” asserted, first, the responsibility of a state to its own people not to commit or permit such mass atrocity crimes; second, the responsibility of other states to assist them; and, third, the responsibility of others to respond with “timely and decisive action” (including coercive military force, authorized by the UN Security Council) if a state is “manifestly failing” to protect its people.
The World Bank and WWF recently pledged to unite in an effort to assist in reducing the rate of global deforestation by 10% by 2010, and to work with other public and private sector institutions to pursue ambitious targets on forest conservation.
An internationalized court in Iraq for the prosecution of crimes against humanity would contribute to the development of a national justice system that will actually deliver justice for all Iraqis, and will thus assist the already encouraging efforts of the Iraqi Governing Council towards democracy.
Global responsibility to assist developing nations goes far beyond the MDGs – in both time and scale.
It must accept the idea of a long-term international redistribution policy to assist those who are excluded from the benefits of globalization, and give itself the means to implement this ambitious policy.
Funding and support to assist Iraqi courts and prisons to function more effectively and in accordance with international standards is also essential.
The opposition must build itself as a credible and attractive alternative to the Assad regime, and the regime’s international and regional critics must assist in that process.
Their campaign has been more coordinated and intense than last time, with the aim of mobilizing the maximum number of supporters and ensuring a high turnout, which most commentators assume will assist the Yes side.
Its members are eager to assist the Afghan government to counter regional narcotics trafficking and terrorism.
This could help the Taliban accept negotiations – and perhaps even renounce violence – if Saudi money is deployed to assist Taliban fighters create new lives for themselves.
But the range of initiatives now underway within NATO should help: transformation efforts to increase the pool of usable and deployable forces; wider use of multinational initiatives; greater reliance on common funding to assist force generation; and a comprehensive approach for sharing burdens more equitably across the entire international community.
Another assist may come from America’s recent move to tap its strategic petroleum reserves in an effort to push oil prices lower.
It does so, but not before the captain receives assurances that a larger ship is coming to assist.
The only chance to end cotton subsidies is now somehow to convince US and EU leaders to assist African peasants by curtailing payments to their own cotton farmers.
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