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Or are these powers (now including India) prepared, by joint agreement, to commit themselves to creating a world without nuclear weapons?
Indeed, the most common of these illnesses, unipolar depression, is the least complex in terms of its symptoms, but also the most lethal: 20% of depressed patients are estimated to commit suicide.
One problem seems to be conditionality, with countries unwilling to commit to complementary fiscal and structural reforms.
Academic institutions, research centers, and science-related employers must commit to diversifying their bases of recruitment, and improve efforts to recognize and respond to discrimination.
Despite these shocks, central bankers, chiefly then-Fed Chair Arthur F. Burns, were hesitant to commit to achieving price stability.
For countries that are following agreed reform programs, the ECB should commit itself to bringing down interest rates to levels compatible with projected inflation and growth rates, and announce how long (say, nine months) this will continue.
Policymakers worldwide must commit themselves to dismantling these barriers, and enabling the BRICS to fulfill, finally, their true potential.
At its spring meeting, the Fund failed to commit itself to choosing its head on the basis of merit, regardless of nationality, and it did not ensure that voting rights are allocated on a more limited legitimate basis.
At NATO meeting after NATO meeting, Germany would commit to spending 2% of its GDP on defense.
Major developing countries must also commit to nationally appropriate mitigation actions.
The only way to demonstrate Atlantic cohesion to its own members and to the world outside is to commit itself to a common project.
It is as if they were trying to commit suicide by jumping from the basement.
The next opportunity for governments to commit to reversing these losses comes at the 65th UN General Assembly in New York this September, followed by the meeting of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) in Nagoya, Japan.
But armed might is of little use to democratic governments attempting to protect the rights of citizens if they must fear that their troops will commit abuses that foster separatist tendencies.
The EU is about to commit a grave strategic error by allowing its report this autumn to be guided by the short-sighted domestic policy considerations of some of its important member states.
They should heed Albert Einstein’s warning: “The world is in greater peril from those who tolerate or encourage evil than from those who actually commit it.”
Most significantly, it would commit signatories to protecting “those displaced by natural disasters and climate change.”
Arizona law allows any interested party to report an individual’s bizarre or threatening behavior to the authorities, who can involuntarily commit the individual for psychiatric evaluation.
The EU and its member states must commit themselves to finding a viable strategy to end a conflict that is now well into its seventh decade.
Officials were wise to acknowledge their country’s vulnerabilities and to commit the resources and capital needed to build resilience.
But he will likely crack down only on undocumented immigrants who commit violent crimes, rather than trying to deport 5-10 million people.
I hate to say so, not wanting to commit the sin defined by their “syndrome,” but this time might be different because all of the modern examples of past crises came during a time when many economists worldwide were extolling the virtues of the “rational expectations” model of the economy.
(Japan's Finance Minister had threatened to commit hara-kiri if the revaluation rate was set at 17%.)
But governments, medical associations, and hospitals must also commit to tackling the antibiotic crisis together.
As sensible as this two-pronged approach – spend now, cut later – may be, it is made virtually impossible by the absence of any mechanism whereby President Barack Obama can credibly commit himself or future administrations to fiscal tightening.
In return, the highly indebted countries must commit to multi-year programs to restructure fiscal institutions and enhance competitiveness – reforms that can be implemented and bear fruit only over the medium term.
It is equally important that citizens should consider it their duty to commit themselves to the principles of liberal democracy.
Loners, often with paranoid tendencies, commit these heinous acts as part of their own suicide.
It did sign the Kyoto agreement, albeit as an “Annex I state,” meaning that it did not commit to any defined limits on carbon emissions.
Unlike China, the US must commit to absolute limits on emissions.
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