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The country is facing a severe shortage of money, which could lead to a serious financial crisis, in addition to the ongoing and dramatic military crisis.The EU’s difficulty in devising a concrete financial commitment stems from its dearth of financial means.
The EU’s difficulty in devising a concrete financial commitment stems from its dearth of financial means.
Convinced that the Japanese would attack from the sea, the British defenses were encased in impenetrable concrete bunkers, with fixed artillery that could fire only to the south.
But the concept of community is also composed of concrete things.
Nor can they be kept on bare concrete without straw or some other material that allows them to satisfy their natural instinct to root.
A concrete demonstration of its commitment is the request to make better use of the European Instrument for Democracy and Human Rights.
Personally, I cannot shake off the intuition that minds and sensibilities shaped by aesthetics, by their identification with fictions, by their enchantment with the past, may be inhibited from any active, concrete involvement in the anguish and demands of the present.
These new partnerships benefit both sides: partners make concrete, valuable contributions to the Alliance’s success, while NATO improves their security.
To ensure that this effort does not end up being dragged out interminably, as so many EU discussions do, we should begin with concrete objectives.
One concrete strategy to achieve these goals would be to create a country-donor compact for better data.
Almost the only concrete outcome was the commissioning of a report by a group chaired by a senior French civil servant, Philippe Jurgensen, on whether intervention was an effective instrument against the volatility that seemed to be undermining trade relations.
There are already concrete results.
Bush “did present himself as a conservative...[and] conservatism is hostile, for reasons ranging from the abstract and philosophical to the concrete and practical, to high spending and high taxing....”And then she falls into near-complete despair: “Mr.
This makes it a good deal for everyone - for people who expect more cooperation and more concrete results from the Union, but also for those concerned about excessive interference by Europe in questions that can be better dealt with by the member states themselves.
But he has been unable to integrate these individual measures into a more concrete vision that could address the neo-colonial links that still beset Franco-African relations.
Especially troublesome is Israel’s construction of huge concrete dividing walls in populated areas and high fences in rural areas – located entirely on Palestinian territory and often with deep intrusions to encompass more land and settlements.
What does this mean in concrete terms?
While recent developments raise the risk that the crisis could escalate, they also present an opportunity to enhance US-Russia cooperation, and give the “reset” of bilateral relations strategic substance and concrete impetus.
Achieving SDG 14 therefore demands that the international community reaffirm its commitment to the Paris climate agreement, and to announce concrete steps toward achieving net-zero carbon emissions by 2050.
Building a nation demands more than steel and concrete.
But, to make this scheme more concrete, I would suggest augmenting it with a “pact for labor and skills” between the EU and the Arab countries that choose a path to democratic transformation.
People need ideals, but they also need sensible, concrete measures.
The new system was undoubtedly based on high-minded idealism, but it was an idealism that corresponded to concrete and realistic – even cynical – measures and institutions.
Public acceptance of ideas is itself progress of a kind, but what really matters is that it provides leverage that can be used to bring about more concrete progress.
Meanwhile, in the years since the Copenhagen summit, there has been a surge of concrete progress on the part of the “non-state actors” whose cooperation will be needed to implement an international agreement.
Moreover, concrete discussions on constitutional reform are underway within both the ruling Liberal Democratic Party (with Koizumi himself in charge) and the opposition Democratic Party.
“Break up Citigroup” is a concrete and powerful idea that would move the financial system in the right direction.
If these three steps – an ECB bond-buying program to hold down sovereign interest rates, concrete progress on establishing a real economic union, and realistic revision of current adjustment programs – could be achieved as a package, the resources that the ECB would need to use for its bond purchases would drop, because credibility would be restored.
But, despite well-intentioned statements and narrow gestures, China’s new leadership has yet to establish a concrete, bold reform plan capable of resolving the economy’s deep-rooted problems.
The Deep Cuts Commission, comprising US, German, and Russian arms-control experts, recently made some concrete proposals to address the challenge at hand.
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