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A leading Commission official was dispatched to
confront
the central bankers.
France’s elites need to own up to the mistakes of the past and find better ways to
confront
today’s challenges.
Many financial institutions, for example, are inadequately prepared to
confront
the new players entering their markets.
The EU’s traditional foreign-policy tools – “promoting civil society” and “encouraging trade” – are no substitute for a strategy to
confront
the new power game in the Mediterranean.
To mitigate the threat, the countries of the Indo-Pacific must
confront
three key challenges, beginning with the widening gap between politics and economics.
Mauritania left in 1979, leaving Morocco to
confront
the Polisario Front, which had announced its claims to the territory in the last years of Spanish control.
Unwilling to
confront
that issue, the eurozone authorities are consumed with tweaking trivialities like the degree of “flexibility” in the fiscal rules and the ECB’s dubious plan to purchase asset-backed securities.
Well before the detailed history of this campaign – disastrous and magnificent, senseless and miraculous – is written, France’s new president will have to
confront
the challenges posed by circumstances of his victory.
With a commitment to truth – scientific, ethical, and personal – a society can overcome the many crises of poverty, disease, hunger, and instability that
confront
us.
Children everywhere should learn the SDGs as a way to understand the challenges that they will
confront
as adults.
But the French must
confront
the new reality.
Few are eager to self-disrupt, a process that takes us out of our comfort zone, forcing us to
confront
our long-standing blind spots and unconscious biases and adopt a new mindset.
It was in her name that concerned Filipinos mobilized families and neighbors to
confront
the tanks, guns and barbed wire of the dictator's cohorts.
Still, it is ultimately up to Mexico to
confront
its productivity and inclusive-growth challenges.
And his provocation highlights a sad reality that Europeans must accept and confront: Europe no longer interests America.
Yet afew facts are incontestable:Srebrenica was a UN protected zone, a Muslim enclave in a Serb-held region;When the Bosnian Serbs, under General Ratko Mladic, occupied the town, the Dutch Battalion, though obviously outnumbered, did not oppose the military Serb action: such opposition was also not in its formal mandate -- after all, the Dutch were supposed to be "neutral";Dutch officers were present when the Serbs gathered together the Muslim civilian population of Srebrenica and separated the men from women and children, taking the men away; the Dutch did not object, nor did they try to
confront
the Serb forces with the idea that what they were doing is unacceptable;It is obvious that the Dutch Battalion could not militarily stop the Serbs from doing what they were doing; yet there are always other options besides shooting -- or washing your hands and doing nothing.
Unfortunately, there is little to suggest that policymakers are yet ready to
confront
this genuine threat.
Worse, just as a failure to consider interests is a refusal to
confront
the “real world,” failure to consider values would be undemocratic, the kind of thing Russian President Vladimir Putin would do.
Either way, Iran’s activities
confront
the world with difficult choices.
He taught me to
confront
harsh reality rather than to submit to it passively.
In other words, his efforts to reorient Russia's military to
confront
the most likely threats of the 21st century are being frustrated at the highest level.
He thought that it was important to
confront
the fact of our insignificant place in the universe, because he did not want us to live under the illusory comfort of a belief that somehow the world had been created for our sake, and that we are under the benevolent care of an all-powerful creator.
Some in the kingdom argue that Saudi Arabia must
confront
Iran, stand up for Sunni Arab interests, and become a hands-on regional power.
In several European countries that now
confront
fiscal and growth challenges, the pattern was somewhat different: most of the excess consumption and employment was on the government side.
But Yar’Adua might soon
confront
a big short-term problem.
Beyond the problems that almost all developing economies
confront
– for example, weak institutions and poor governance – each of the BRICS countries faces a unique set of challenges.
It is often taken for granted that poor countries are poor because of the terrible scarcities they confront; that they remain poor because they lack the resources needed for economic growth.
In short, Russia will soon have to
confront
diminished macroeconomic health, with few options for restoring it.
Rather than
confront
the political obstacles, Europe’s leaders are hiding behind a mountain of pious, nonsensical rhetoric.
The Financial Education of the EurozoneLONDON – In 2017, Europe’s leaders will
confront
an array of severe tests, including tumultuous elections featuring populist insurgencies, complex negotiations over Britain’s departure from the European Union, and a new American president who thinks that the transatlantic alliance is “obsolete.”
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