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There is an alternative – but the clock is ticking.
The four-month clock began ticking on May 3, following the first meeting of Iraq’s new parliament.
The objective must be to slow the political clock.
To slow the clock is not to stop it, however.
By contrast, he contends, Switzerland’s 500 years of democracy and peace produced little more than the cuckoo clock.
If need be, the army should guard these schools around the clock.
Food Security’s Social NetworkMINNEAPOLIS – In 2015, when the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals were officially adopted, the clock began ticking on an ambitious goal: ending global hunger by 2030.
As the game clock ticked down, the team’s concentration seemed to wane.
And the clock is ticking.
David Cameron’s EuropeSTOCKHOLM – The next 18-24 months are likely to decide the shape of Europe for decades to come, and the United Kingdom has now started the clock on that process.
Since the patient’s duration of survival is calculated from the time of diagnosis, more sensitive screening starts the clock sooner.
In Pittsburgh, with the clock ticking on talks to adopt a successor treaty to the Kyoto Protocol this December in Copenhagen, the G-20 will have a real opportunity to show that the color of serious money to meet both climate and development goals really is green.
But the aging clock can also be slowed down – 20 minutes of daily exercise will extend life expectancy by two microlives per day (unless done in the smog), and drinking two or three cups of coffee daily saves an additional microlife per day.
They will agree that our ability to distinguish right from wrong is something precious that we should safeguard, not a broken clock that scientists should fix.
There is still time to react – by demonstrating strong leadership and prioritizing growth over short-sighted policies – but that time is limited and the clock is ticking.
Besides, turning back the clock is impossible.
Such thinking goes back at least as far as Max Weber’s argument that an effective business environment requires a legal structure as predictable as a clock.
If authorities set the clock back several decades on banking regulation, can we be so sure they will not also set the clock back on income?
Maybe the answer is that the clock starts ticking on the five years when the crisis is fully over, which is not yet true in Europe.
As the global health community resets its annual clock – and I begin cataloguing the big health stories of 2018 – we should take a moment to reflect on the 12 months recently ended.
But the Saudi dream of turning back the clock and to a minority Sunni-ruled Iraq made realistic diplomacy impossible.
It is now too late to turn back the clock and suddenly force banks to get rid of their excessive holdings of public debt.
By freezing its short term debt - some $60 billion - Russia stopped the clock.
Coordination between the central and local governments has always been a source of strain especially, and the clock is ticking down to the next election.
Meanwhile, the clock is ticking for concluding negotiations with the other 27 EU members on the UK’s withdrawal from the European Union.
It is an attempt to turn back the clock to the interwar period, when the focus was on closing off: imposing onerous trade restrictions and persecuting or expelling minority groups.
Yet three centuries ago there was also technological progress, from the mechanical clock and the watermill to the cannon and the caravel, and on to strains of rice that can be cropped three times a year in Guangzhou and the breeding of merino sheep that can flourish in the hills of Spain.
The 18-month clock is ticking.
But, following a recent 64% devaluation of the currency, the clock appears to be running out on his prolonged misrule.
It is easier to use than wind or solar power because it can produce electricity around the clock, without reliance on weather conditions.
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