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(Clinton has also turned against the TPP, but this can be assumed to be merely tactical; in Trump’s case, no such assumption is warranted.)
As pesticides are assumed to have adverse effects on natural capital they are inconsistent with sustainable development.
President Xi Jinping’s daughter, for example, studies at Harvard under an assumed name, and Bo Xilai’s son has been a student at Oxford and Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government; he is now studying at Columbia Law School.
When we started the Gates Foundation 15 years ago, we assumed that all of the obvious steps were already being taken, and that we would have to go after the expensive or unproven solutions.
But, the devaluation was much less important than is widely assumed.
The IMF and Greece’s other creditors have assumed that massive fiscal contraction has only a temporary effect on economic activity, employment, and taxes, and that slashing wages, pensions, and public jobs has a magical effect on growth.
This was a generalized phenomenon, not focused on particular countries, because it was still assumed at the time that all eurozone governments would be able to bail out their own banks.
In view of the serious risks that Europe has assumed, in full awareness of the consequences, it is of the utmost importance that a European “Grand Strategy” for the Eastern Mediterranean and the Middle East be developed, so that Europe can calmly and clearly define its interests.
Households were assumed to be ready to consume, although, in Spain and elsewhere, many were over-indebted.
They thus assumed that it was just the beginning of a protracted policy-induced depreciation.
Forty-one of the 43 victorious Hamas candidates who lived in the West Bank are now imprisoned by Israel, plus an additional ten who assumed positions in the short-lived coalition cabinet.
It is commonly assumed that a key impediment to Saudi Aramco’s international listing is that Saudi corporate-governance standards are low, and that the Saudi authorities are therefore “shopping around” for an exchange with similarly low standards.
It seems clear, therefore, that improvements to Saudi Aramco’s corporate governance do not rest, on which international venue the authorities choose for the secondary listing, as is commonly assumed, but on whether the company will be required to meet domestic standards.
Serenity in the South China SeaCANBERRA – Diplomats and alcoholics don’t always have as much in common as is sometimes assumed.
They assumed the result that they claimed to show.
Moreover, free labor mobility means that individuals can choose whether to pay their parents’ debts: young Irish can simply escape repaying the foolish bank-bailout obligations assumed by their government by leaving the country.
Credit risk in the mortgage market is being assumed by the government, and market risk by the Fed.
They say that the experts failed to foresee the financial crisis of 2008, put efficiency first in their policy advice, and blindly assumed that the losers from their policy prescriptions could be compensated in some unspecified way.
A few decades ago, it was widely assumed that progress in mass education would gradually bridge the gap between scientific knowledge and popular belief, thereby contributing to a more serene and more rational democracy.
But on other issues, Ban has failed to live up to the critically important precedent set by his predecessor as Secretary-General, Kofi Annan, who transformed the position to promote human rights and assumed the role of the "world's conscience" when necessary.
No one knew what happened, but it was assumed that the government had something to do with it, and businesses with which she had spokesperson deals cut ties with her.
But they also assumed that unconscious, unresolved psychological conflicts caused depression.
In order to abolish this unwarranted psychoanalytic assumption, the researchers abandoned the attempt to distinguish natural from disordered conditions by context or etiology and assumed that all conditions that met the symptom-based criteria were disordered.
It is assumed that since religion is a private matter for everyone, personal religious symbols are just that – personal.
If true, the implications for coordinating fiscal policies would be diametrically opposed to those implicitly assumed by the Commission.
Given the numerous barriers to justice that victims of rape and domestic violence continue to face, further progress in protecting girls and women should be a priority for Liberia’s government, which assumed full responsibility for the country’s security on June 30.
Early plans for military reconnaissance stations assumed that soldiers would be stationed on board.
But the longer she stayed in office, the more she assumed that she knew best.
In 1999, this task assumed critical importance due to the country's opening to democracy.
It is as if introductory physics courses assumed a world without gravity, because everything becomes so much simpler that way.
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