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Putin’s close associates were just a few names on a long and varied list.
A run-off between the two women, following the October 5th first round, seems inevitable, as opinion polls give neither close to 50% of the vote.
I was thinking again about these old and seemingly unsolvable questions during my re-reading of a quite challenging novel by a close friend and a great writer, not very present in the vivid landscape of American letters of today.
The G-20 and the UN are finding new ways to work constructively together – not as rivals, but as increasingly close partners.
Implemented across the EU, the comprehensive program that we propose could close the output gap and return the continent to a sustained annual growth rate in the 2-3% range over the next decade, fostering investment of €250 billion to €550 billion per year, and creating more than 20 million new jobs.
(“There’s no need to panic” would be a close second.)
In 2007, the Russian Orthodox Church reunited with a breakaway branch, the Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia, which had split off in in protest against close ties with the Bolsheviks.
And what better photo opportunity than having the Vicar of Christ standing side by side with your close spiritual and political ally?
Beijing’s busy people, however, seemed not to pay close attention: for them, it was business as usual.
Nonetheless, extremist forces are dangerously close to taking political power in some European states, and are gaining traction even in formerly liberal bastions.
In fact, a series of protests and events held since the second half of 2009 suggests a close relationship between Twitter and contentious real-life politics, and thus invites new possibilities for reshaping China’s authoritarian regime.
Technology has helped close the gap in recent years.
Some of the earliest known epics, such as The Iliad and Gilgamesh , feature protagonists’ intense sadness after the loss of close comrades.
Just days before the vote, the outcome is too close to call, and there appear to be enough undecided voters to tip it either way.
Unfortunately, not all are equally interested in open borders and close cooperation: Turkmenistan stands aside and Uzbekistan’s borders remain substantially closed.
We will not know how close we are to the production of individually tailored stem-cell lines until the scientific investigations into Hwang’s research are completed.
Foreign Minister Abdullah Gul, a close associate of Erdogan in the AKP, pressed Turkey’s application to join the European Union.
To be sure, the environmental impact on those living close to Fukushima may take many years to remediate.
China’s dynamic renewable energy sector is worth nearly $17 billion and employs close to 1 million workers.
In Europe various homegrown “single issue” extremist groups need close monitoring.
Similarly – and this is the third critical reform priority – more aggressive action is needed to regulate financial markets, especially to prevent insider trading and money laundering, and to close down illegal financial centers.
They are Euroskeptic; they spurn NATO; they want to close their borders and stop free trade.
As military stalemate looms in Libya, there will be a growing temptation to stretch the UN’s legal authority – and the moral and political support that goes with it – to the breaking point, and NATO is now close to that line.
But with long-term interest rates now close to zero, bond purchases would not be able to lower them any further.
But now, with long-term bond yields already close to zero, it could not even be tried.
Net immigration to Britain was close to zero in the early 1990s.
Designing Regulatory FailurePRAGUE – At the close of last year, European Union finance ministers gave the green light to a new supervisory architecture for the EU’s financial markets.
The main challenge facing the OAS – if it survives the departure of the radical left – is to close the loopholes in its basic documents regarding the collective defense of democracy and human rights.
If anything, the US has been gradually loosening its close links with Taiwan, with no US cabinet member visiting the island since those missile maneuvers.
In the United States alone, the $3.8 billion in public funds invested in the Human Genome Project has already generated close to $1 trillion in economic returns and more than 300,000 jobs.
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