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Most importantly, however, it will serve to emphasize the importance of collective action.
The investors are "rational" individually, but their collective action leads to tragedy.
These cases will eventually collapse under the weight of their collective absurdity.
Voluntary self-restraint, a voluntary sharing of our own rights and privileges with a wider collective, is paramount here.
Delve deep and the EU’s collective altruism towards the East has often masked the pursuit of national advantage.
Inaction would ignite fires throughout the Middle East, and would violate the international community’s now-accepted responsibility to protect, through timely and decisive collective action, populations at risk of genocide, ethnic cleansing, and other major crimes against humanity and war crimes.
Our ability to prevent “water wars” will depend on our collective capacity to anticipate tensions, and to find the technical and institutional solutions to manage emerging conflicts.
Croatia's opposition was for a long time limited to NGO's such as the Helsinki Committee, which challenged the government on the slippery terrain of human and minority rights, an area where the parliamentary opposition kept its collective mouths shut.
Proliferators must know that the NATO allies are unwavering in their commitment to collective defense, including nuclear deterrence.
A true joint Euro-Atlantic missile defense would demonstrate NATO’s collective will, not only to defend against the new threats of today and tomorrow, but also to send a clear message that there is nothing to be gained from missile proliferation.
At the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, last month, he asserted that multilateralism is critical to our collective future.
On the other hand, intra-regional ruptures were an indication of the deterioration of Latin America’s current collective negotiating power, despite the inclusion of Argentina, Brazil and Mexico in the G-20.
At the same time, his government raised taxes, increased social expenditures, and strengthened collective bargaining in a deal with the unions.
In this framework, there is no collective sense of a communal “we” that has agreed to live together under rules that apply equally to all.
Now, however, they have fueled a collective sense of outrage that demands civil disobedience as the only possible moral stance.
Despite some expected protests, the new anti-terrorism legislation enjoys wide support among the French, who seem willing to accept certain limitations to personal freedoms in the name of collective security.
Moreover, now that knowhow is becoming increasingly collective, not individual, diffusion is becoming even slower.
That postcommunist Boris Yeltsin, however, although he sometimes declared allegiance to a hazy collective sense of Rossiyane (citizens of Russia), deprived – or freed, it’s a matter of opinion – Russians of all collective life; both the real life of shared hardship and the imaginary half-life of communist solidarity.
It is also the G-20’s role, but neither the US nor the emerging countries are keen on collective constraints.
The fourth problem is collective anchoring.
In the absence of a global Leviathan, stronger domestic legislatures are the key to resolving the world’s collective environmental problems.
Such leaders are using religion for their own highly modern political purposes; they use it to organize and mobilize their supporters - to commit individual or collective suicide, if need be.
The euro is an important collective step forward, but to insure its credibility as a truly common currency, it should be treated as the embodiment of a true and whole-hearted solidarity.
This would be fair , as it would ensure collective compensation for the use of tissue in general, rather than for individual tissue donors, and it would be wise in that it would not block scientific and technological progress.
The country’s Sparkassen – savings banks with a collective balance sheet of some €1 trillion ($1.1 trillion) – are outside the European Central Bank’s supervisory control, while thinly capitalized mega-banks, such as Deutsche Bank, and the country’s rotten state-owned regional lenders have obtained an implausibly clean bill of health.
It is as if the United States unilaterally decided that NATO’s principle of collective defense was now conditional on doing whatever the American government dictated.
Moreover, parts of Africa possess massive latent potential for agricultural development, which it is in our collective interest to encourage.
In Germany we have reached an intervention status that can be easily expressed by the fact that 50% plus of GDP in Germany is controlled directly or indirectly by the state: 30% through the collective social security distribution systems, and about 23% through direct taxes.
What We Owe Refugee ChildrenBEIRUT – Last year, images of desperate refugees, many of them children, stirred our collective conscience and prompted world leaders to take action.
Only recently has it become clear that these seemingly disparate issues are a collective manifestation of a dysfunctional energy system.
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