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On July 5, government- backed paramilitary forces, in collusion with the National Guard, attacked the opposition-controlled National Assembly.
Whether an “establishment” figure – one backed by the party leadership, such as former Florida Governor Jeb Bush or New Jersey Governor Chris Christie – can catch on with voters will become clearer only after Iowa and New Hampshire have voted.
Backed by adequate financing, political will, and the engagement of stakeholders, the convention can help address the water challenges that we are all facing.
It would be far preferable to exchange them for Eurobonds, backed by the full faith and credit of all eurozone countries.
Juncker is also indebted to the Axel Springer media group, the publisher of Bild, Germany’s best-selling tabloid newspaper, which strongly backed him last summer when Merkel was wavering.
Putin’s unwillingness to heed popular discontent, and his failure to develop relations with the West during his 12 years in power, has backed him into a corner – and he is running out of ideas.
It is likely that this operation was propelled from Pakistan through the Lashkar e Tauba, a terrorist organization sustained by hatred of secular India and backed by shadowy Pakistani agencies and street support.
Backed by $3.8 trillion in currency reserves, China has provided infrastructure investment in exchange for commodities, thereby becoming the world’s largest provider of financing for developing countries, with the China Development Bank already offering more loans than the World Bank.
Rebels know that if they succeed, they will gain immense personal wealth, be able to reward those who backed their coup, and have enough arms to keep themselves in power, no matter how badly they rule.
Trump’s policies embody mean-spirited priorities that are widely backed by the Republican Party in the US Congress: slash taxes for the rich at the expense of programs to help the poor and working class; increase military spending at the expense of diplomacy; and allow for the destruction of the environment in the name of “deregulation.”
That behavior has also won him a stamp of approval from the BJP’s ideological parent, the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), which apparently strongly backed him for the chief minister’s position.
Equally important, China is wary of the prospect of Korea being unified under South Korean rule and backed up by continued strategic support from the US.
Adhering to the gold standard during the Great Depression implied a deflationary monetary-policy bias, since it required keeping interest rates relatively high to encourage investors to hold deposits in banks rather than demanding the gold that backed them.
The center-right Christian Democrats and their allies still have the support of about 33% of the electorate; the center-left Social Democrats have 20% support; and the Green Party is backed by some 13%.
The jewel in its crown is to be the appointment for a 30-month term of a full-time president of the European Council, which groups the heads of EU member governments, along with a foreign policy chief who will be backed by an embryonic EU diplomatic service.
The solution must be to use firmness backed, if necessary, by military strength, to enable Karzai to face down Marshall Fahim.
In Germany and Italy, fascist parties came out on top, while elsewhere, dictators were backed by armies or kings.
But would such a referendum, now backed by a recently launched campaign for a “People’s Vote,” simply mark another descent into populism, instead of a genuinely democratic conclusion to the Brexit debate?
It thus makes sense for the new coast guard, backed by EU funds, to start there.
The deregulation and rapid expansion of banking in the US in the early years of the twentieth century was in many ways a response to the Populist movement, backed by small and medium-sized farmers who found themselves falling behind the growing numbers of industrial workers, and demanded easier credit.
In the United States, introducing computers has even been detrimental when not backed by parental supervision and teacher guidance.
The key to educational progress is to focus on interventions backed by credible scientific evidence.
At the same time, expansionary fiscal policy increased effective demand, while the government, backed by its strong public-finance position, was able to tackle nonperforming loans effectively, thereby increasing commercial banks’ willingness to lend and firms’ ability to borrow.
Only by enlarging the scope of EU decision-making, backed by the commitment of equally responsible partners, can Europe meet the shared challenges of a common future.
After all, when she was US Secretary of State, she had strongly backed the TPP.
Fortunately, Ambassador Ekéus backed it and supported the inspectors during the siege.
One recent poll found that 66% of Republican voters backed Trump’s threatened tariffs against China.
Until November, Nicaragua was on the way to developing a healthy electoral tradition, backed by high levels of participation.
While the Japanese government has backed the Osprey deployment, it has failed to allay residents’ anger.
Of course, diplomacy needs to be backed by strength, but the US has plenty without militarizing the Asia-Pacific region more than it already has.
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