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One way to ensure that a friendly regime holds sway in Kabul after the US withdrawal would be to introduce into the governing structure a group with close ties to Pakistan.
The EU must forge close cooperation with Russia's leaders and the Kaliningrad Oblast in designing a viable future for the enclave.
As a former mandate power, France had always had a keen interest and presence in Lebanon, and its influence has been deepened by the close personal rapport between President Jacques Chirac and Lebanon former Prime Minister, the late Rafiq Hariri.
Their close aides have confessed that they forged documents and perjured themselves to protect their political boss.
They fail to ask whether there is, in fact, a close correspondence between historical circumstances and current facts.
The Nazis paid close attention.
In a monetary union, there are only two ways to close a competitiveness gap between countries: transfers from the more competitive to the less competitive, or internal devaluation, which means real wage cuts.
Give the local community enough control over its own affairs, Tocqueville argued, and one “will see at a glance…the close tie which unites private to general interest.”
With the decision about raising rates such a close call, one would think that the Fed would be inclined to do it this year, given that the chair and vice chair have pretty much told the market for months that this will happen.
It’s wrong to vilify the Fed for hiking, and it’s wrong to vilify it for not hiking; if it is such a close call, it probably doesn’t matter so much.
The US was running a deficit of more than 6.5% of its GDP, and China had a surplus of close to 10% of its GDP.
The fact that companies in these sectors benefit from operating close to one another may boost economic development at the expense of peripheral regions.
To close that gap, we need help from our African partners and the broader international community.
A similar analysis of many other advanced economies suggests that, as in the US, the bottom is quite close but it has not yet been reached.
Brazil is not the kind of country where a president can manipulate the constitution or close newspapers at will.
The probability that North Korea will accede to the US demand is close to zero.
A 2013 University of Oxford study estimates that close to half of all jobs in the United States could be lost to automation over the next two decades.
The average Swede, for example, believes that 18% of the country’s population is composed of migrants; the actual number is close to 13%.
One result is that no direct channel for security cooperation among Asian countries was ever established, which has contributed to the low level of trust in East Asia, even among close US allies like Japan and South Korea.
The median age may be as high as 49.6, quite close to Japan’s 53.3 and higher than in the Sweden, the United Kingdom, European Union as a whole, and the United States.
Our home is far, far away from us.”That’s how it feels to live in Mexico nowadays: far from democratic normalcy; far from a health system that inspires confidence; far from a government that builds trust; far from home and close to everything that imperils it.
At the same time, governments and private citizens from several Gulf countries – including Kuwait, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and the UAE – have close ties with al-Nusra.
Zardari and his close political associates have shown little respect for the constitution or the rule of law throughout his presidency.
Fear-mongers are calling for the US to close itself off to Chinese goods and Chinese companies, claiming that global trade itself undermines American supremacy.
At least for the Obama administration, the rush to conclude the TPP negotiations is doubtless driven by the desire to close the deal well ahead of America’s midterm election in November.
In fact, the United Nations Sustainable Development Goal (SDG 15) on sustainable ecosystems acknowledges many developing societies’ close relationship with nature when it calls for increased “capacity of local communities to pursue sustainable livelihood opportunities.”
Indeed, Santos and Uribe, members of the same political party and once close allies, are now embroiled in a bitter dispute, with Uribe emerging as Santos’s most visible opponent.
Yet, according to all public-opinion polls, close to 70% of the French support the demonstrators who are taking to the streets to block the very modest reforms introduced by President Nicolas Sarkozy’s government.
Close examination suggests that the single biggest difference between those at or above the top tenth percentile of the income distribution and those below the 50th percentile is that the former have a degree or two while the latter, typically, do not.
“Once this Pandora’s box is opened, it will be hard to close.”
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