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became the slogan, one enthusiastically backed by a majority of their populations.
But critics are agitating for a stronger agreement backed up by the threat of trade sanctions.
With the financial crisis worsening, the London summit in 2009 agreed to unprecedented fiscal and monetary stimulus and backed a stronger, more coherent regulatory and supervisory framework worldwide.
We have lived in a purely fiat money system ever since – meaning that our money’s value is not backed by gold or any other physical item.
Only with the strong commitment of the national government and its international partners, backed by genuine action, can girls and women in Liberia avoid the fate of Martha’s daughter.
If ratings are not backed by the force of law, so the argument goes, regulators need not worry about rating quality and can leave the monitoring of raters to the market.
It rests on market-oriented regimes of trade liberalization, increased capital mobility, and appropriate social-welfare policies; backed by American security guarantees in Europe, the Middle East, and Asia, through NATO and various other alliances.
South Korea has beefed up its military alliance with the US;Japan has backed away from an effort to persuade the US to move its Marine base out of Okinawa;Singapore has allowed the US Navy to station ships;Australia is hosting US Marine and other deployments; and India, Vietnam, Indonesia, and the Philippines, among others, have drawn closer to the US as well.
A Bilateral Foil for America’s Multilateral DilemmaNEW HAVEN – The good news is that the United States and China appear to have backed away from the precipice of a trade war.
But China now has enough commercial clout, backed by more than $2 trillion in foreign-exchange reserves, to play a decisive role in advancing or impeding global problem-solving, from the G-20 agenda to efforts to rein in North Korea’s nuclear ambitions.
My own five-point plan to achieve this goal begins with a call for the NPT Parties to pursue negotiations in good faith—as required by the treaty—on nuclear disarmament, either through a new convention or through a series of mutually reinforcing instruments backed by a credible system of verification.
Despots like to be backed by plebiscites, because they do not only pretend to represent the People; they are the People.
Today, the claims are supposedly backed by advances in real molecular science, in genetics.
With violent crimes on a shocking upsurge, with the hideous crimes of child rape and abuse on the increase, there are nowadays frequent calls – backed by wide public support – to restore capital punishment.
Though he has since backed away from that pledge, he has just appointed a climate-change-denying, anti-science diplomat as foreign minister.
Weaker countries sometimes attack when they feel backed into a corner, such as Japan did at Pearl Harbor or China did when it entered the Korean War in 1950.
So did the meteoric rise of the Nasserist candidate Hamdin Sabbahi to third place, and the fourth-place finish of Abdel Moneim Aboul Fotouh, who was backed by liberals and hardline Salafi Islamists alike.
When Coca-Cola, backed by the military, sets national policy in what is supposed to be a free society, a new and darker page in the fight for freedom has been turned.
Mazowiecki backed Balcerowicz, and the success of economic reform underpinned Poland’s relatively smooth political transition.
Polling after Fillon’s victory put his support at 26%, with Le Pen backed by 24% of respondents.
The terrible wars in the Middle East today, pitting revolutionary religious sects and tribal chiefs against ruthless dictatorships backed by one great power or another, have much more in common with the Thirty Years War that devastated much of Germany and central Europe from 1618 to 1648.
Mercenary soldiers, Protestant or Catholic, switched sides whenever it suited them, while the Vatican backed the Protestant German princes, Catholic France backed the Protestant Dutch Republic, and many other alliances were forged across sectarian lines.
This was true of Mao's guerrilla war against the Japanese occupation, the Civil War against Chiang Kai-shek's Nationalists, the Korean War against the US, and even the Vietnam War, where China backed the North.
The sanctions were backed by all other members of the Security Council’s anti-terror committee, not least because India had presented evidence linking Azhar to the terrorist killings at its two military bases.
Backed by evidence from large empirical studies, some claim that belief in religion is good because it boosts economic performance.
Hereditary monarchy, often backed by divine authority, has worked in the past.
But, as long as Abe, backed by Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga, remains committed to his stated objectives, Japan’s economic future will remain bright.
In this election, Berlusconi decided to open the door to Gianfranco Fini’s right-wing National Alliance, with which he founded a new group, People of Freedom – the only party allied with Umberto Bossi’s Northern League – in an effort to ensure that the government is backed by an even stronger and more cohesive core party.
When some of these parties refused, the government backed down and financed AIG’s payment of all of its derivative obligations in full.
The insurance subsidiaries were not responsible for the obligations of their parent company, and their claims toward policyholders were backed by required reserves.
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