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Consumer price inflation is set to peak at close to 3% this year.
The water sector will have to react to developments in the energy and other sectors, over which, despite close ties, it has very limited control.
Relations between Russia and the European Union, and with the EU’s close ally the United States, are increasingly fragile.
Constantinescu’s government promised to close the gap between Romania and other postcommunist countries bidding to join the EU.
No wonder blockchain is ranked close to the peak of the hype cycle of technologies with inflated expectations.
In some cases, that close communication is more important than rhetoric.
Israel’s occupation of Arab lands in that war, and its subsequent deployment of military forces amidst the Arab population of the West Bank and close to the powerful military machines of Egypt in the south and Syria in the north, exposed it to Palestinian terrorism from the east.
For the Czech Republic, Hungary, and Slovakia, close cooperation with Poland may not be the best way to protect their interests in the EU, as their interests and the interests of a big, self-confident Poland may not be identical.
Russia took its assertive behavior to the skies, leading to a number of close encounters between Russian warplanes and Western jets (both civilian and military), and to the sea, boosting its submarine activity in the North Atlantic to Cold War-era levels.
Putin is hoping that Russia and its BRICS partners (Brazil, India, China, and South Africa) will become “the future leaders of the world and the global economy,” as he put it in July, at the conclusion of the BRICS and Shanghai Cooperation Organization summitsBut the plain truth is that neither the BRICS nor the SCO is remotely close to being a cohesive bloc capable of insulating Russia from the consequences of its behavior in Ukraine.
Asia Enters the StormBERKELEY – As 2011 draws to a close, there are growing signs that Asia is becoming caught up in the global slowdown, dashing hopes that the region’s economies would “decouple” from the prolonged recession in Europe and America’s lackluster recovery.
Even in the habitually Euro-skeptical United Kingdom, Prime Minister David Cameron has sought to boost his international credibility by highlighting his close ties with Merkel, rather than by emphasizing the UK’s “special relationship” with the United States.
Leaders such as Louis XIV and the Holy Roman Empress Maria Theresa relied on close advisers to do the work they couldn’t possibly do themselves.
One might be misled into thinking that, because 90% sounds awfully close to 100%, awful things start happening to countries that get into such a mess.
At their summit in Reykjavik in October 1986, he and Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev came tantalizingly close to eliminating all nuclear weapons.
Trump is simply too unpredictable for a close relationship with him to be anything other than a political liability.
Everything that dialogue and education can do to close the gap between immigrant and host communities should be done.
Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi has declared that China and Pakistan are “as close as lips and teeth,” owing to their geographical links.
This close collaboration delivered the polio vaccine to the poorest of the poor, from the child living on a windswept island in the Congo River to the infant living in a tiny alleyway in Delhi.
But, while America had a superior wage level in the 1700s, Britain nearly closed the wage gap with America by the 1880s, and Germany came almost as close by 1913.
Relations between the two allies have entered one of those periods of tension which have flared many times since World War II's close.
It can close the two countries’ principal border crossing, an important route for food, fuel, and other goods headed for Iraqi Kurds.
Empirical studies estimate that the overall impact of a weaker US dollar on the trade balance is close to zero.
Having been the mayor of Jerusalem for 10 years, you know the situation of Palestinians close up.
In some ways, the great ideological struggles of the twentieth century now seem about as close and relevant as the scholastic debates of the Middle Ages – especially, but not only, for younger generations.
We must close the wound from which flows the lifeblood of a fragmented society.
Many of his close advisers, however, seem intent to nudge him into war, and bellicose rhetoric has so pervaded official US statements that failure to attack Iraq could be construed as a failure of presidential leadership.
He almost certainly will pay even closer attention as the intelligence-fueled investigations into his presidential campaign’s possible collusion with Moscow in 2016 close in on him.
Washington is not Vienna, but the parallels deserve close attention nonetheless.
And, as with humans who mix only with their close relatives, the political gene pool weakens.
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