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On the military side, simmering tensions between two officers are frustrating combat strategy.
A more subtle danger is that the fund will be seen as a direct means to combat the so-called "Dutch disease."
Both symbolically and practically, the widespread backlash against the proposed fuel tax frustrates necessary and urgent efforts to combat global warming.
As US security interests shift to the Pacific, Americans now rely on increasingly vulnerable forward land bases and carrier fleets with tactical aircraft that have a combat radius of 300-500 miles (482-805 kilometers).
The US has not agreed to accept such sanctions for failing to meet emissions targets; but, without penalties, the exercise is largely futile and only encourages cynicism about the effort to combat climate change.
Joint efforts to combat drug trafficking in Afghanistan, for example, could help dilute the mutual antagonism and distrust that contribute to blockage on the nuclear front.
Many clinical trauma theorists believe that combat, rape, and other terrifying experiences are seemingly engraved on the mind, never to be forgotten.
Fighting for transparency also implies confronting states that refuse to collaborate on financial issues at a global level or to combat money laundering or prevent financial risks.
They heard from health experts who said that communicable diseases were rampant and that mosquito nets would be a great way to combat malaria.
The world could fight back with general health services in at-need areas along with more focused efforts to combat HIV and malaria.
Establishing significantly freer trade would help the world combat almost all of its biggest problems.
It is interesting to contrast global skepticism about free trade with support for expensive, inefficient methods to combat global warming.
What China Can Gain from Trump’s Trade WarBEIJING – The world’s two largest economies – China and the United States – are engaged in a full-blown trade war, and what US President Donald Trump hoped would be a blitzkrieg has turned out more like trench combat.
And we have an action program through which young people work with those of another faith to raise awareness of the Millennium Development Goals, the United Nations-led program to combat world poverty.
Without collective efforts to combat it, corruption will continue to erode public confidence in institutions and governments, impeding economic, political, and social development.
The operation, held annually and comprising 5-10 combat vessels, 1-2 auxiliary ships, and 2-4 maritime-patrol aircraft, includes forces from 26 European navies, and has undoubtedly helped to discourage, if not end, pirate attacks.
Even though the SDF still cannot participate in combat, the Anti-Terrorism law is the first that allows Japan to dispatch armed forces to join in military operations outside Japanese territory and territorial waters while the shooting war is on.
Today, against the new propaganda of hatred, our challenge is to harness the power of new communication technologies to empower pluralism and human dignity for all, to combat all forms of anti-Semitism and Holocaust denial.
Now, Iraq is demanding that American combat troops leave within twelve months, with all troops out in 2011.
The mass outpouring of support for the quirky Hazare reflected the genuine frustration that most Indians feel over the corruption that assails their daily lives, rather than a clear understanding of Hazare’s proposals to combat it.
It is important that we learn the lessons of Fukushima and incorporate them into our strategy to combat nuclear terrorism.
Even with dozens of compelling investments to choose from, Nobel laureate economists poring over the data found that measures to combat malnutrition were among the most powerful options.
But China can best avoid similar tragedies not by flexing its muscles, but by building greater multilateral cooperation to combat transnational crime along the Mekong.
Italian, Greek, or Portuguese public debt is so high that any attempt to use fiscal spending as part of a strategy to combat the economic crisis is doomed to fail.
But street-fighting requires even more training, cohesion and leadership than open-field combat.
Half of the Guard's divisions are lighter forces with more foot soldiers for street-fighting, but the rest are armored or mechanized and thus depend on tanks and combat carriers that can be easily targeted with precision weapons.
More people died of cancer in the US last year than in combat.
It embraced macroeconomic prudence, liberalized its economic policies, signed the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), invested in education, and implemented innovative policies to combat poverty.
Only a new European debate that embodies the common action of European citizens and institutions can combat “alter-Europeanism” effectively.
The benchmark’s third category concerns biotech firms, which conduct research into drugs that can combat the “priority pathogens” identified by the WHO.
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