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Nomads were forced to live in ugly concrete settlements.
Regional identity, cultural diversity, and traditional arts and customs have been buried under concrete, steel, and glass all over China.
If the most concrete elements of the eurozone’s governance framework are not applied rigorously, what will compel member states to undertake reforms and stabilize their debt levels?
Looking ahead, we hope to see all global health organizations adopt concrete measures to address the shortcomings identified in the Global Health 50/50 report.
The New Grammar of PowerMADRID – Humanity’s main concerns today are not so much concrete evils as indeterminate threats.
Confronted with the prospect of a US veto, an increasing number of international observers flatly oppose the Palestinian plan, on the grounds that it is unlikely to generate concrete political gains and would merely deflect attention from the main requirement of Middle East peace-making: a return to the negotiating table.
But how can this “love-in” be made concrete?
Here, if all the expressions of good feeling cannot be made concrete, an incomparable opportunity to recast Sino-US relations around the issue of climate change will have been lost.
If Iranian President Hassan Rouhani is unable to offer citizens concrete economic returns on his engagement with the West – especially loosened international sanctions – by next year’s parliamentary election, hardliners will recapture their dominance over Iran’s foreign policy.
In concrete terms, the ECB is measuring its policy’s success today according to the expected inflation rate in 2020-2025.
The G-20 could not agree on coordinated fiscal stimulus or concrete steps towards banking reform.
Indeed this would not only make the break-up risk more imaginable; it would also make it much more concrete.
Although the short-term practical objectives of Zhao’s political reforms were limited by the circumstances in which they were proposed, the measures all aimed at containing Communist Party power and represented a concrete step toward returning, peacefully, power to China’s people.
While high-level meetings and speeches about AMR send the right message, they will mean nothing if we do not manage to translate the current momentum into concrete action, beginning at the G20 and UN meetings this September.
These steps would precede concrete legal and constitutional reforms, such as those proposed by Hizb al ghad.
It took some time for the silent revolution to show concrete results.
What, in concrete terms, would such an approach mean?
That can change, but only with concrete investments in homegrown talent.
But the European Council also created a Task Force under President Herman Van Rompuy to elaborate concrete proposals for reforming the monetary union.
This means developing consistent policies and putting in place concrete measures aimed at favoring a peaceful transition to democracy.
Bringing Serbia into the EU would permanently stabilize the regional order and – at the time when Europe is increasingly wary of indefinite military commitments -- offer the prospect of a concrete exit strategy for NATO troops in Kosovo.
In September, the AFD issued €1 billion ($1.2 billion) in climate bonds, with one goal being to contribute to the development of concrete quality standards.
It is up to those of us who defend free trade and globalization to prevent that, by offering concrete solutions that address the very real problems that now afflict so many workers.
Now is the time to translate good ideas into concrete action.
With the sovereign ground quaking, reinforcing a 100-story skyscraper of leverage with an additional floor or two of concrete will not bring back wary tenants.
Trump has also abandoned his base in the area of trade, where he has offered rhetoric but not concrete action.
The world is full of radioactivity – walls, concrete, even bananas contain traces – and our bodies have adapted to it.
In our work for the World Economic Forum’s Global Future Council on Economic Progress, we have produced a list of concrete actions that would advance such an agenda.
Reversing this trend will require concrete proposals and decisive action.
And the UN and Arab League’s special envoy to Syria, Staffan de Mistura, has created a set of working groups, chaired by Europeans, to “create a framework for concrete talks between Syria’s government and opposition.”
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