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Retired high-level officers from all branches of the US Armed Forces have taken this logic a step further, telling congressional leaders that combating terrorism requires addressing its causes, such as lack of opportunity, insecurity, injustice, and hopelessness.
Muslim scholars added to the body of knowledge and developed new disciplines, such as astronomy, geography, and new branches of mathematics.
Neelie Kroes, the retiring EU Competition Commissioner, was surely right to demand some divestiture of branches from the biggest groups, though arguably she did not go far enough.
In dozens of other countries where JP Morgan operates subsidiaries, branches, or other kinds of business, there would be “plain vanilla” bankruptcy – while some governments would jump in with various ad hoc arrangements.
Originally set up to coordinate reforms across ministries and monitor their implementation, it has come to serve as an important tool to discuss and ensure coherence among the different branches of government.
For example, in the traditional “tree of life” representation of evolution, the branches always move apart, never merging, implying that species’ ancestry follows a linear path, and that all evolutionary changes along this path occur within the lineage being traced.
The various branches of Iran’s complex government -- which is headed by supreme religious leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who all but announced that he was voting for the parliament’s Ali Akbar Nateq-Nouri -- will find it hard to ignore the excitement generated by Khatami in the most contested presidential poll ever.
Rafsanjani, who has always been a major power in whatever position he held, is scheduled to become head of a revitalized Expediency Council, a small group that reviews legislation, mediates between the executive and legislative branches, and advises the supreme ruler.
But intolerance of debate, of discussion, and of particular branches of scholarship should never be tolerated.
Consider the evidence: In 2005, an American Bar Association survey found that 50% of Americans could not correctly identify the country’s three branches of government.
To the three constitutionally established branches of government (executive, legislative, and judicial), a fourth power has been added: the provincial governors, the "barons of peronismo ."
In conformity with the international community’s efforts to secure peace and stability, the draft also creates a core unit within each of the military branches, and establishes an integrated operational system.
Moreover, when Ahmed Qaddaf al-Dam and Said Rashwan, two leading figures in the regime, visited Egypt and attempted to recruit tribes with Libyan branches to attack the Qaddafi-free East from Egypt’s western desert, they came away with nothing.
Sharif has offered India olive branches of his own, and with good reason: Rapprochement with India is essential to strengthening his position in Afghanistan and improving his capacity to suppress violence at home.
Recent agreements to establish more border trading posts and bank branches are good starting points, and Pakistan has already made some moves to reciprocate India’s offer of Most Favored Nation trading status under a different name.
He emphasized that Brussels has neither the funds nor the desire to rescue the motor industry, and sees little similarity between the systemic risks of the financial services sector and the problems faced by the manufacturing branches.
As the leader of the Liberal Democratic Party, Abe should instruct local party branches to choose more female candidates to run in next April’s local elections.
And the structural transformation of the advanced economies, implied by the need to move labor out of traditional manufacturing branches, is occurring very slowly.
If Drummond is right, those engaged in the fight against TB could look for ways in other branches of medicine to shorten treatment duration, lower dosing frequency, reduce side effects, lower costs, and improve compliance, all at the same time.
Traditionally, the role of ruling Emir alternated (according to a tacit agreement) between two rival branches of the Al Sabah family – the Al Jaber and the Al Salem.
Nevertheless, if Livni becomes Israel’s prime minister in a few weeks, then Israel will become the world’s first country where all three branches of governments are led by women.
Service sectors stand to make up for much, if not all, of the growth lost to lower output in export-oriented manufacturing branches.
The negotiators still must be able to deliver their governments’ full backing, and this is never automatic, especially when it comes to democracies such as the US, where different branches of government are often controlled by different political parties.
So it is no surprise that a huge volume of bank loans has passed through the local branches of state-owned banks to finance local public-investment projects.
As a result, most nineteenth-century US banks did not have branches, and were limited to one state.
Gone are the days when banks could set up branches all over the planet, with support from the parent’s balance sheet.
Finally, in a year in which the Democrats are certain to increase their majority in both houses of Congress, an Obama victory would offer the Democrats control of both the legislative and executive branches for the first time since 1994, and with it the possibility of legislative achievement after years of stalemate.
Yet the Trump administration is weakening the checks and balances between the executive and legislative branches of government, and his indifference to the rule of law could pose a direct challenge to the judicial branch.
At the management and staff level, the private-sector branches of MFIs frequently have expertise in a wide range of areas.
Maduro’s party controls all three branches of government and most of the major domestic media outlets, and there are no upcoming elections that might break the deadlock and resolve the worsening power struggle.
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