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If the US is serious about reaching a constructive outcome in Copenhagen, it must set radical and practical targets, take responsibility for its historic carbon emissions, and commit itself to support developing countries’ efforts by means of capacity building, technology transfer, and finance.
Such monetary systems can succeed only as long as the central bank can credibly commit to keeping inflation under control.
But as countries work to balance security of supply with environmental goals, they must also commit to getting their facts straight.
The implication is clear: punish only people who use guns to commit crimes, but do not penalize others as well by restricting their access to guns.
Obviously, there is a point where a leader must commit to a decision.
Third, we must commit to making the investments necessary to end TB, recognizing that the right thing to do also makes financial sense.
Finally, the international community must commit to more decisive and accountable global leadership.
Few people decide to commit terrorist outrages.
And yet, formal pronouncements aside, if China’s leadership is to meet growing popular demands and quell rising discontent, it will have to commit itself to the rule of law in fact.
If Asian countries other than Japan commit to binding caps on greenhouse gas emissions, a global deal on climate change will be possible at this December’s Copenhagen Summit, even if developing Asia’s caps are implemented more gradually than those for the developed world.
The Adaptation ImperativeNAIROBI – In the run-up to the recent United Nations meeting on climate change in Lima, Peru, much of the world’s attention focused on how strongly countries would commit to a framework for cutting greenhouse-gas emissions.
It was concern about the United Kingdom Independence Party’s capacity to erode the Conservatives’ political base that pushed Prime Minister David Cameron to commit to a referendum on the country’s continued EU membership.
“And we must not commit the fatal error of destroying the state.”
Consider this: A group of major companies based in various EU countries – the likes of Tesco, Shell, Barilla, and Philips – are insisting that whatever its final size, the MFF deal should commit to a proposed minimum of 20% of spending in 2014-2020 on green and low-carbon growth.
But what they have done is encourage their own radicals – a natural byproduct of Wahhabism, Saudi Arabia’s fundamentalist brand of Islam – to commit their terrorist acts elsewhere.
Stanley Sue, a professor of psychology at the University of California, Davis, has studied suicide, which is particularly common among Asian-American women (in other ethnic groups, more males commit suicide than females).
On its current policy path, unless oil prices fall, the ECB risks being forced to commit to substantially higher interest rates, and thus to a further increase in Eurozone unemployment.
Even the Copenhagen summit on climate change ended just the way China wanted: failure in its attempt to commit China, or any other industrial nation, to making significant cuts in carbon emissions, with the United States getting the blame.
That presents the West with a dilemma: Given its reluctance to commit its own ground forces to a war it knows it must win, it will have to arm the Kurds – not just the Kurdish Peshmerga militia of northern Iraq, but also other Kurdish groups – with more advanced weaponry.
More important, it calls upon policymakers worldwide to commit to new growth models that foster inclusiveness and sustainability, alongside prosperity.
The Iranian regime should, at the very least, commit itself to halt uranium enrichment at 20%, a figure short of the threshold needed to produce weapons.
The Millennium Development Goals commit the international community to achieve the target of universal primary education by the end of 2015.
Recently they could commit their crimes with impunity, bludgeoning their nation's judicial system into submission.
Germany must commit itself to the strengthening of the EU's role as a global player.
Moreover, Poroshenko should publicly commit more resources to the investigation, and forcefully condemn any attack on journalists.
Fine words are not enough; leaders must commit to putting them into action, and civil society must be vigilant in tracking progress and blowing the whistle when not enough is being done.
When governments commit themselves to take action by a specific date, they have tied their hands.
Global leaders must commit to enhancing the quality of education and reduce the education gap by increasing school resources, improving the efficiency of educational institutions, and seizing the opportunities afforded by technological innovation.
Many governments have already supported these objectives by endorsing the UN Sustainable Development Goals, which commit us all to delivering “inclusive and equitable quality education” for all children by 2030.
If the state cannot prove it beyond a reasonable doubt, the accused is “not guilty” – regardless of whether he or she really did commit the act.
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