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Such a policy should be relatively uncontroversial, at least as compared to more concrete foreign-policy moves.
Now, what Max Weber called the slow grinding of hard boards – leveraging a concrete program of structural reform onto a charismatic personality – begins.
The measures include concrete and relatively simple steps like “bidirectional screening,” which requires any person diagnosed with diabetes to be tested for tuberculosis and vice versa.
While the idea of a "return" expressed an idealised vision of the Europe of values and common heritage, its concrete expression was the desire to join the process of European integration successfully developed in the Western part of the continent.
The engagement aspect of the inclusive-growth mission may seem a bit nebulous, especially next to concrete analysis.
The most effective way to tackle that problem is to advance integration, through concrete policies that support education and social assimilation, as well as more open dialogue among various groups.
The relatively modest list of concrete priorities issued by Juncker and Commission First Vice-President Frans Timmermans is a good start.
Beginning in early 2015, the Bangladesh Priorities project commissioned dozens of teams of specialist economists from Bangladesh and around the world to study 76 concrete solutions to improve the country’s future.
Almost every day there are new warnings, with heavily armed policemen in the streets, concrete barriers appearing in front of embassies and public buildings, stricter controls at airports and elsewhere - each a daily reminder of the insecurity that surrounds us.
Similarly, to cultivate bio-fuels on land that would otherwise be used to produce sustainable construction materials would drive up the prices of these materials and encourage their substitution by non-sustainable materials like concrete and steel.
That, in turn, depends on an economic recovery in the occupied territories and a belief that concrete steps toward a negotiated political solution are being taken.
For the first time, a country in the region is matching its aspirations with the concrete steps needed to become a viable candidate for eventual membership in Euro-Atlantic institutions.
A concrete and credible program of tightening fiscal discipline and restructuring private-sector debt is essential.
Instead, we need decisive, concrete action that addresses tangible and discernible problems in governance and public policy.
But the country’s underclasses must see long-overdue and concrete changes in the right direction – that is, furthering what Thaksin tried to do.
I wanted to give a talk that would be of general interest but also concrete.
The IMF’s head, the Spaniard Rodrigo Rato, rightly insists that China, the US, Japan, Europe, and the major oil exporters (now the world’s biggest source of new capital) all take concrete steps towards alleviating the risk of a crisis.
During the past three years, the world's leaders have promised concrete action to cut global poverty by one half by the year 2015, in a series of commitments known as the Millennium Development Goals.
All of us involved in the campaign will work toward developing concrete solutions to the root causes of the homicide epidemic.
If there is a plan to clear the concrete rubble in and around the town, nobody seems to have any clue.
We welcome the extraordinary efforts that have been made to address the scourge of hunger and poverty, and we recognize the need to take concrete actions, including the need to respond rapidly with adequate humanitarian assistance in crisis situations.
The international community has an obligation to make sure that the coming year will bring concrete results.
In 2002, all donor countries committed to "make concrete efforts" to reach 0.7% of national income in development aid to poor countries.
Workers know that change is coming, but they do not know how skills requirements are evolving, and thus cannot base their choices on concrete data.
It is time for all of the relevant actors in the conflict between Israel and Palestine to address this challenge, and to take concrete, productive, and creative action to bring peace to Gaza at last.
Like a computer program, DNA does not preserve the final state of what it codes for; rather, it embeds in a symbolic but concrete way (it is a real “text”) the relationships between all the objects and agents that it specifies and controls.
But the hard part is yet to come: turning the agreement’s vague political commitments into concrete action to mitigate global warming.
In concrete terms, a country may have to choose between repealing a finance bill adopted by its parliament but rejected by its eurozone partners and losing the joint guarantee.
But now, at the plan’s halfway point, there has been little concrete progress, with last month’s negotiations producing no headway on two key issues being discussed: the acceptable level for uranium enrichment in Iran and the future of the heavy-water reactor at Arak.
In fact, given the SDR’s very limited role in the global economy, the move will have few concrete effects in the short term.
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