Association
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Germany’s ChoiceFRANKFURT – The euro crisis has already transformed the European Union from a voluntary
association
of equal states into a creditor-debtor relationship from which there is no easy escape.
Since then, however, many studies have explored the
association
between cannabis use and psychotic illness.
Bonnici, for his part, continued cementing his ties with the Libyan dictator until the very end, through his
association
with – wait for it – the Qaddafi Prize for Human Rights.
This tax effect partly underlies the robust
association
between spikes in world oil prices and US economic downturns documented by James Hamilton of the University of California San Diego.
They and their families have become multimillionaires by exploiting the close
association
of business and politics, as well their strong links with China’s state-owned enterprises.
In the meantime, Ukraine had been negotiating with the European Union for a free-trade and
association
agreement since 2007, and these talks were completed in early 2012.
Will Hutton, a prominent British commentator, has described the Financial Services Authority, which I chaired from 1997-2003 (the date things began to go wrong!) as a trade
association
for the financial sector.
Tahoun analyzed the relationship between stock owned by congressmen and contributions their political campaigns by the relevant firms, and found a powerful positive
association.
This political
association
may have prolonged the bank’s saga for several years, until it had become so battered by inconsistent piecemeal interventions that a market solution became impossible.
The
association
of elites with foreignness, tolerance, and metropolitan cities is nothing new.
New types of loyalty and
association
are challenging the state’s traditional role.
Conversely, we may find ourselves in a world whose eastern half is organized into strong authoritarian state structures, with the West embracing post-state models of
association.
What is needed is a legitimate system of rules, norms, and institutions, devised by private as well as government stakeholders, that reflects the emerging global nature of economic, political, and social activity as the old state loses its dominance and must coexist with a patchwork of non-state structures of
association.
And last month, Sartaj Aziz, the Pakistani prime minister’s foreign-policy adviser, said that China has helped Pakistan to block India’s US-supported bid to gain membership of the Nuclear Suppliers Group, an export-control
association.
And China prevailed upon the Cambodian host of this year’s ASEAN summit to block a final communiqué that would have called for a code of conduct in the South China Sea – the first time in the ten-member association’s four-decade history that it failed to issue a communiqué.
Formal complaints to the justice ministry and the national bar
association
weren’t even acknowledged, let alone answered.
The ability to determine the principal genes that account for our variable response to prescription drugs has been advanced by a technique known as a genome-wide
association
study (GWAS).
The euro crisis has transformed an ever-closer union of equal sovereign states, willingly sacrificing a share of their independence for the common good, into an
association
of creditor and debtor countries, with the debtors struggling to meet the creditors’ terms.
It should be clear that it is inappropriate for a country, or
association
of countries, at war to pursue fiscal austerity, as the EU continues to do.
The passage of libel reform is attributable to a campaign launched more than three years ago by three organizations: English PEN, a writers association;Index on Censorship, a bimonthly journal that has monitored censorship worldwide and published the works of censored writers for the past four decades; and Sense About Science, an organization that promotes scientific knowledge and understanding.
Freedom of opinion, association, and assembly are the essence of democracy.
After all, following what admittedly would be a period of dislocation, the UK could end up with some type of
association
arrangement that preserves some of its current privileges, thereby limiting longer-term disruption.
NATO's Partnership for Peace, which offers close
association
with the Alliance without full membership (and which is acceptable to Russia), provides adequate guarantees for the security of Central Europe.
Circumcision has increasingly come under fire in Europe, because the definition of human rights has expanded to include children’s bodily integrity, while the definition of religious freedom has narrowed to include primarily worship and
association.
What these companies must recognize is that over time they may not be able to survive a steady stream of privacy gaffes – whether the result of their own mistakes or guilt by
association
– and constantly changing rules.
Even though there was no official guarantee, the US government’s failure to come to the rescue could destroy confidence in government debt, and, by association, other financial paper as well.
It was logical that Poland was the spiritus rector of the EU’s Eastern Partnership, which led to EU
association
agreements with Ukraine, Georgia, and Moldova.
Ukraine is a long way from achieving this, but signing an
Association
Agreement would pave the way toward entry talks, while also creating tremendous economic opportunities.
That
association
helped the SCO – still largely a Sino-Russian enterprise – to receive more publicity, but it left the BRIC countries with little space to start formulating a unified action plan.
That is why Putin put so much pressure on former President Viktor Yanukovych to abandon an
association
agreement with the EU.
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