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As a consequence, law, which constitutes the foundation of institution-building, has been regarded as no more than a toolbox.
It is inability to remember that constitutes amnesia.
Continuing discrimination against them constitutes a Europe-wide scandal, and the EU, its member states, and candidate countries need to address it.
While overall trade in services is unlikely to suffer enormously from Brexit – the internal market for services never worked all that well, anyway – finance constitutes a special case, largely because of the passporting arrangements for banks.
The government was also wise to establish a special sub-commission to examine the history of the bloodshed, because disagreement about the past often constitutes an insurmountable obstacle to peace and reconciliation.
But these unconventional policies are turning out to be a classic game-theoretic bad equilibrium: each central bank stands to gain by keeping interest rates low, but, collectively, their approach constitutes a trap.
But that requires commitment to a real vision of what constitutes a minimally functioning Afghan state, beyond the obvious need for effective security forces.
But if such a system is to work, general agreement would need to exist about what constitutes a fair target for each country.
Some governments and individuals are likely to resist these suggestions, believing that such intervention constitutes an unwarranted intrusion into Iran’s sovereignty.
No matter how far apart their political views may have been, the two sides shared a common language about what constitutes evidence and – for the most part – a common approach to resolving differences.
The latest Greek bank bailout constitutes a cautionary tale about how politics – in this case, Europe’s – is geared toward maximizing public losses for questionable private benefits.
This land grab, which is occurring mostly in Sub-Saharan Africa, constitutes a major threat to the future food security of the populations concerned.
Devising sensible policies on this front will require that we first define the market, and then decide what level of concentration, and over what time frame, constitutes a threat to competition.
Implementing credible austerity plans constitutes the lesser evil, even if this aggravates the cyclical downturn in the short run.
China, which has just been celebrating with a martial pomp the sixtieth anniversary of Mao’s founding of the “People’s Republic” constitutes one of the most interesting cases of a nation evincing “short sightedness” towards its past.
Then there is the matter of security, which constitutes a huge tax on business in many parts of Mexico.
And democracy is an essential component of that strength, for it constitutes the most favorable ground for a responsible pedagogy of historical honesty.
While Singapore’s political system could not readily be transferred to a huge country like China, it constitutes a model that has helped to shape China’s recent move toward meritocracy.
But without the fine, coming late constitutes impolite, rude, or disrespectful behavior toward the caregivers, which self-respecting people would avoid, even without fines.
But for Japan, the question of whether to continue to aid in Iraq's reconstruction extends beyond the merits of this particular policy and goes to the heart of Japanese notions of security and what constitutes the national interest.
Europeans may be confused, inefficient, and slow to take decisions, but democracy still constitutes a wall of stability against economic and other uncertainties.
(The same is true of public investment, though this constitutes such a small proportion of GDP that transatlantic differences could not have had a large impact on growth over a three-year horizon.)
As a result, many doctors are unaware of the subtleties of what constitutes valid consent in the eyes of the law and their professional body – a task made more difficult by the evolving rules on consent.
This phenomenon constitutes a new kind of economic organization and changes the dynamics of how and where people earn their money.
This constitutes a remarkable advance in global governance.
Clinton vs. Trump constitutes a genuine battle, for example, as does the European Union vs. the Brexiteers; but the combatants are accomplices, not foes, in perpetuating an endless loop of mutual reinforcement, with each side defined by – and mobilizing its supporters on the basis of – what it opposes.
First, whatever the brutal style of the new Russia under Vladimir Putin and Dmitri Medvedev, the Soviet Union no longer exists and no longer constitutes the common threat that was the “glue” of the Alliance until 1989.
Moral Dilemmas for Fannie and FreddieNEW HAVEN – The United States government’s takeover of mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac constitutes a huge bailout of these institutions’ creditors, whose losses have ballooned as house prices continue to plummet.
And, judging from the tone of the other candidates, standing up for globalization constitutes electoral suicide in the current political climate.
This outside control is the principle cause of the present tragedy, which essentially constitutes a “proxy war.”
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