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Similarly, the rotavirus vaccine could be used to prevent outbreaks of diarrheal diseases, a chief cause of child mortality in developing countries and a major driver of antibiotic use.
In March, he sacked the chief justice of the Supreme Court, Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry, probably because Chaudhry objected to Musharraf’s seeking a constitutionally questionable third term as president.
Issing, the ECB’s chief economist in its formative years, knows more about how a monetary union operates in practice than any man alive.
A disobedient Sultan or tribal chief would be made to comprehend the error of his ways with a few gun ships moored offshore.
As ever, the chief problem is the EU’s 27 national governments.
But the EEAS’s chief weakness is not so much material as intellectual.
Its chief, Baroness Catherine Ashton, has also attracted criticism – not always fair, though it remains true that she has not gotten “European diplomacy” off to a fast start.
Nowhere was this perhaps more evident than in Gujarat in the west and Tamil Nadu in the south, where the two chief ministers ran singularly virulent campaigns against the Italian 'bahu' (wife).
The guest of honor at this consequential event was none other than Donald Trump’s former chief strategist, Stephen Bannon.
The chief advantage of this approach is its scale: it ensures that a huge share of the world economy is interconnected, with most of its constitutive economies adhering to a common set of rules and submitting to a dispute-resolution mechanism that enables these rules’ enforcement.
But scale may also be the WTO’s chief weakness, given the difficulty of getting so many countries to agree to a single set of rules.
Many policymakers, such as Andy Haldane, the Bank of England’s chief economist, believe that it is.
Some 180 generals and war heroes, chief among them Meir Dagan, one of the most revered former heads of Mossad, Israel’s intelligence service, came together to oppose the re-election of a man they described as a threat to Israel’s security.
Nearly 12 years ago, Jim O’Neill, then the chief economist for Goldman Sachs, coined the term “BRIC” to describe the “emerging markets” of Brazil, Russia, India, and China.
But politicization of the Fed should be viewed as just another part of Trump’s battle against what his former chief strategist, Steve Bannon, has referred to as the “administrative state.”
Our chief goal is to end the persecution and discrimination, including the ban on the Kurdish language and our exclusion from certain professions, and we believe that this can best be achieved through a decentralized political system that devolves power to the provinces.
Joyce Karam, the Washington bureau chief of the Pan-Arab newspaper Al-Hayat, believes that this is because “Muslim killing Muslim or Arab killing Arab seems more acceptable than Israel killing Arabs.”
Members of one extended family within the Dagomb organized the murder of the tribe's own chief.
The beheaded chief was appointed by Ghana's previous government in clear violation of traditional power structures.
With a new government in power, the chief's enemies seized the opportunity to redress the wrong, providing a reminder of the perils of prior efforts to de-tribalize Africa.
In February 2013, then-White House counterterrorism chief John Brennan testified at his Senate confirmation hearing to become CIA Director that, “in the interest of transparency,” the US must acknowledge mistaken killings publicly.
The main issues were legalization of the opposition, partially free elections, and creating the office of president to replace the Communist Party chief.
In 25 years, according to Fatih Birol, chief economist at the International Energy Agency, China’s emissions could be double those of the US, Europe, and Japan combined.
Trump’s chief strategist, Stephen Bannon, drew gasps recently when he told the New York Times that the news media represent “the opposition party.”
The situation in the Kremlin appears reminiscent of the spring of 1996, when a group of KGB men, led by President Boris Yeltsin's chief bodyguard, General Alexander Korzhakov, almost seized power.
Indeed, by alienating big business and letting his wily chief of staff, Alexander Voloshin, resign, Putin has deprived himself of crucial electoral resources.
His former chief political advisor has even accused him of using "Stalinist measures."
The salaries of Italy’s military chiefs of staff and chief of police are almost triple those of their American counterparts.
Peter the Great, in his eighteenth-century effort to Westernize Russia, invited Jean-Baptiste Le Blond to become the chief architect of his new capital, St. Petersburg.
In early June, I joined David King, a former chief scientific adviser to the British government, former BP CEO John Browne, and several other co-authors in a call for a Global Apollo Program.
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