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Once in power, the DPJ will immediately
confront
the massive bureaucracy and entrenched mandarins, which usually sabotage any efforts at administrative reform that threatens their power and vested interests.
Many principles of cooperative engagement can – and should – be crafted from the difficult challenges that Asia’s two giants
confront.
Today, the G20, now meeting in Hamburg for its annual summit, must
confront
the challenge of inequality.
If one substitutes war for soccer, the comparison that comes to mind is that of the aging French military establishment, behind the Maginot Line in 1940, unable to
confront
General Heinz Guderian’s masterful command of blitzkrieg tank attacks.
Should Iran possess the ultimate weapon, it might embrace a new restraint in its foreign policy; nuclear-weapons states, precisely because they
confront
the prospect of nuclear retaliation, have historically tread with caution.
In other words, China must
confront
the sunk costs of bad local-planning decisions.
The People's Bank of China (PBOC) has attempted to
confront
this dilemma by differentiating reserve requirements according to sector or type of financial institution.
One special case is that of the Roma, a large minority in the Western Balkans whose members often
confront
vicious discrimination.
She will also
confront
these challenges with the added disadvantage of being female.
A president-elect typically uses the transition time to make cabinet choices and to study up on the issues he will soon confront, but keeps quiet on policy until he’s been sworn into office.
In the longer term, it would
confront
the threat of systemic fragmentation and proliferating trade wars.
In order to
confront
the challenges and meet the needs of one-sixth of the world’s population, India’s leaders must operate within a democracy that enables, rather than hampers, governance.
This is especially true in developing countries’ health-care systems, which often
confront
tighter resource constraints than health care in developed countries.
That effort should compel us to
confront
an uncomfortable reality underlying both the British phone-hacking scandal, with its penumbra of appalling cruelty and wanton corruption, and Fox News, America’s most popular news channel: too many people want what the News Corporation has been offering.
At the same time, in order to maintain a security framework fit to
confront
any conceivable security threat, Europe’s governments should preserve the entire spectrum of their naval assets.
It is easier to vote to spend millions of dollars to eradicate poppy/coca production in poor countries than
confront
addiction at home.
When such coalitions of convenience are not only possible but common, voters who try to behave rationally are forced to
confront
the irrational outcomes of their own behavior.
The economist Jeffrey Sachs, for example, has argued that the US economy needs to
confront
a plethora of structural impediments to sustained growth, including offshoring, skill mismatches, and decaying infrastructure.
To answer that question, several variables must be taken into account: demand growth, technological change, investment, and the commitment to
confront
global warming, among others.
But there has been far less constructive discussion of new ideas about how to
confront
these risks.
On the contrary, it would compel member states’ governments to look beyond narrow national interest, defend openness and multilateralism, and
confront
head-on the exclusionary political forces that have lately been gaining ground.
We need it – together with the multilateralism on which it is built – to
confront
many of the economic, environmental, and strategic challenges we now face, challenges that cannot be addressed at the national level.
But whoever is elected will
confront
difficult choices if a nuclear-armed Pakistan remains unable or unwilling to act as an American partner and meet its responsibilities in the effort against terrorism.
Food for AllBRUSSELS – What should the G-20 do to prepare us to
confront
food crises, now and in the future?
The event epitomized Kazakhstan’s foreign policy over the last two decades, at a moment when that policy is set to
confront
unprecedented tests.
The European Central Bank has shown that it can successfully
confront
pressure from financial markets, driving down bond spreads across Europe.
In the meantime, politicians are lulled into a false sense of complacency that undermines their incentive to
confront
the structural challenges they face.
But even $0.70 for every $100 is still not a lot with which to
confront
one of the great moral problems of our age.
Latin American journalists may face a diminished threat of murder nowadays, but many still
confront
a gauntlet of challenges designed to control them.
Smart TaxesATHENS/BERLIN – Governments throughout the European Union and around the world
confront
a seeming Catch-22: the millstone of national debt around their necks has required them to reduce deficits through spending cuts and tax increases.
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