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A successful strategy against Al Qaeda will require close intelligence cooperation with other countries and policies that attract the support of mainstream Muslim opinion.
Thanks to the efforts of these suppliers and their close partnerships with the GAVI Alliance, multinational vaccine manufacturers, and international donors, more than 100 million children a year – more than ever before – are being immunized.
One can understand why, living in a foreign country they may perceive as hostile, immigrants opt to close themselves off, and some host countries – France, for example –may be too hasty in demanding that immigrants accept new ways of life.
Straw was saying that to wear the nijab is a decision to close yourself off from everyone around you.
Moreover, the US should impose targeted sanctions, including asset freezes on senior military officers who maintain particularly close ties to terrorists.
The US has learned by now that it is in the country’s best interests to pay close attention to its southern neighbors.
Despite the devastating effects of the earthquake and tsunami of last February, Chile’s economy is already growing at close to 6%, and we have created nearly 300,000 new jobs in the first nine months of my administration – the highest in our country’s history.
Hefty fines for currency-trading violations are not new (HSBC, for example, was hit with a $1.9 billion fine in 2012); but a fine close to $10 billion is.
This would have to be a formal arrangement, designed to allow for day-to-day dialogue and consultation and capable of establishing a tradition of close security cooperation.
Moreover, the reports will highlight the close links between biodiversity loss and climate change, which should be addressed simultaneously.
Pension expenditures account for over 16% of GDP, and transfers from the budget to the pension system are close to 10% of GDP.
But his party is as close to Cuba and Venezuela as one can get.
The armed forces are becoming increasingly politicized, and major civil-society organizations have been forced to close.
Many hospitals in Aleppo have had to close after being targeted during the siege.
Until mid-2007, the Target accounts were close to zero, but since then, they have grown by about €100 billion per year.
She argues that we need to close 75% of the planet’s coal-fired power plants, including all of South Africa’s, because they emit too much CO2.
I was also reminded of June 1992, when a narrow majority of Danish voters rejected the Maastricht Treaty in a referendum – a close parallel to what happened in Britain last month.
Despite the European Commission’s call for member states to apply more EU funds to programs aimed at integrating Roma before the close of the 2007-2013 EU budget period, none of these six countries has done so.
China, India, and Japan have also grown close to their potential.
If high-income countries close themselves – and their consumers – off from global markets, the world’s poorest people will suffer the most.
The causes and consequences of climate change demand close attention.
Unfortunately, only one of its four engines is functioning properly: the Anglosphere (the United States and its close cousin, the United Kingdom).
The World Economy’s Shifting ChallengesNEW YORK – As 2013 comes to a close, efforts to revive growth in the world’s most influential economies – with the exception of the eurozone – are having a beneficial effect worldwide.
In fact, on close examination, the data show that agricultural employment shrunk by around 26 million jobs from 2011 to 2015, while the number of non-farm jobs rose by 33 million.
Indeed, North Korea could close or destroy facilities yet never denuclearize if it continues to build capacity at the same time.
The best way to achieve this is through close consultation, a commitment to avoid surprising each another or entering into separate deals, and the forging of a comprehensive agreement on what diplomacy must achieve and what it would require in return.
Sooner or later, the gap between bond yields and nominal GDP growth will presumably close.
Asia’s Game Without FrontiersNEW DELHI – Nowadays, many people seem to be more relaxed than ever about nationality, with the Internet enabling them to forge close connections with distant cultures and people.
Moreover, two weeks later, all these markets outside of China were down from 4.3% to 7.8% compared to their close on February 26.
But now the task for the new member states - which account for 20% of the enlarged EU's population but only 5% of its GDP - is no less difficult: to achieve the rapid catch-up growth rates needed to close the economic gap with the EU's leaders.
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