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The plan recognizes that reforms must be comprehensive, consistent, and concrete, with clear objectives, executable programs, and effective implementation capacity.
Germans – for once not so ironically – often present themselves as world champions at “coming to terms with the past”; and their new capital’s architecture – derided by some as “antiquarian masochism” – literally gives this ethos concrete expression.
So a more concrete undertaking, one that preserves South Korea’s bedrock security concerns, is needed.
Though the last two Commissions, led by José Manuel Barroso, espoused a commitment to rationalizing, clarifying, and compiling rules, little concrete action has been taken.
The agenda specifies the needed laws and regulations and offers concrete suggestions for change.
A deformed box of concrete packed with dilapidated classrooms, the school is pockmarked with age and neglect.
With voters unconvinced that European Parliament elections have any concrete impact, domestic political calculations dominate, with citizens using their votes – when they bother to vote at all – to send signals to national parties and punish incumbents.
The frustrations of dealing with an undecided Europe have led Turkish policymakers to focus their efforts on an area where the expected return on their investment is more immediate and more concrete.
Belief in vampires in Eastern European societies served its own historical purposes: uniting communities and identifying outsiders, giving concrete form to death fears, explaining mysterious events, and, last but not least, providing a means of resistance to the encroachment of Western ideas and patterns of thought.
The revolt in Libya provided the first concrete challenge to Turkey’s policy.
This kind of destructive populism is far less common at the local level, where debate focuses on concrete solutions to citizens’ real problems.
But it must be made concrete.
In order to succeed, they must look beyond the reconstruction of any single province, and plan, in concrete, practical steps, for the development of the region as a whole.
Only when we understand this can we develop appropriate and concrete policies.
The European Arrest Warrant is already producing concrete results, and we are moving towards the "free movement of judicial decisions" in the EU, through which judicial decisions - such as arrest and surrender of suspects, confiscation, and freezing of assets - will be mutually recognized.
The only concrete things to result from the vast inflow of money are to be found in Russian-owned villas on the French Riviera, a money-laundering scandal at the Bank of New York, and the secret Swiss accounts of Kremlin officials.
One concrete contribution – above all others – would be to make clear that there would be significant benefits for those in Sudan who choose peace, and clear consequences for the party that plunges the country back into war.
They lie on bare concrete without straw or any other form of bedding.
This is concrete evidence that the old, imposed division of the world into two gigantic camps is, at long last, being replaced by a new division, far more logical, far more fitting for the present-day world and far more beneficial for humankind.
The Swedish EU Presidency will concentrate on starting up the concrete work – the nuts and bolts – of the Partnership.
Although Obama has endorsed the goal of abolishing nuclear weapons, he has described this as a long-term effort, and offered no concrete time-line for achieving it.
The fund would serve as a concrete risk-sharing mechanism and would be a modest, yet meaningful step toward overcoming the deadlock over EU initiatives, if not toward mutualizing defense and security, as some scholars recommend.
And, unlike the first such declaration, made at the 2009 Summit of the Americas, this one was followed by concrete action, with Obama removing Cuba from the US list of states that sponsor terrorism.
The accusatorial system is designed for those relatively rare cases when error slips through the peer-review net, resulting in some concrete damage to health or the environment, or causing the corruption of later research that assumes the validity of fraudulent work.
The agenda for next month’s G20 summit in China includes discussion of concrete measures to reduce inequality.
It has set for itself a concrete territorial goal, and has ample financing, sophisticated weapons, and a highly competent military command.
Their ceiling is made of concrete, and it is pitched far lower over their talents and their mobility.
This culling should be combined with a concrete strategy to restructure salvageable firms; recognize and allocate creditor losses; account for displaced workers and other social costs; and further open private-sector markets.
Moreover, buildings and houses constructed of concrete with thin glass windows are inefficient to heat and cool.
There is still the remote possibility, however unlikely, that Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas will come to Annapolis with a concrete plan (a divided Jerusalem, a return to the 1967 borders with minor alterations, compensation for refugees), and a calendar to dismantle West Bank settlements.
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