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The simplest way to contain many of these problems would be to forbid certain activities from being delegated or outsourced to private actors at all.
All of this disagreement raises doubts about the capability of the West to define a “long term, patient but firm” strategy to contain Russian President Vladimir Putin’s dangerous behavior.
Yes, the bilateral deficit is much higher than even that level; but that is partly because China’s exports to the US contain so many imported inputs.
Achieving the fourth, along with social and economic measures aimed at creating better jobs and improving people’s standard of living, would at least make it possible to weaken, contain, and control Mexico’s drug trafficking organizations, thereby strengthening civil order and governability.
The Kingdom has supported proxies in Lebanon, Syria, and Yemen to contain Iran’s machinations.
Saddam's numerous secret police contain many clerks, executioners, and torturers, but not many trained soldiers.
But by that point, it will be much more difficult and expensive to contain, resulting in far more casualties.
The military dictatorship established by Park Chung-hee in 1962 adopted an aggressive economic development policy, partly to contain North Korea.
Add to that sprawling urban slums – semi-governed, overcrowded, and poorly sanitized – and it is not surprising that these countries have struggled to contain the epidemic.
Moreover, their macroeconomic fundamentals are sound, and they have used macro- and micro-prudential tools to contain surges in capital inflows and minimize their destabilizing effects on asset prices and credit conditions.
Who would have dared, even a few weeks ago, to predict that in the end it would be the divided Europeans, not the United States, who determined how to contain the global financial crisis?
But proteins, which contain thousands of atoms, were far too complicated for this to work.
Forests contain huge amounts of carbon.
In Asia, it was meant to contain communism, while allowing allies, from Japan to Indonesia, to build up economic strength.
Both perceptions distort reality, though both contain a kernel of truth.
Such practical proposals address key global issues, including international terrorism, strengthening of mechanisms for arms control, arms reduction, and non-proliferation, efforts to contain attempts by North Korea and Iran to develop nuclear weapons, encouraging transparency in China’s military, restraining Russia’s imperial ambitions, and building a global ballistic missile defense network against missiles that could be launched by rogue regimes.
When Populism Comes Home to RoostROME – Debates about the euro usually contain proposals for complex financial arrangements to build “resilience” against the next economic shock.
But in the meantime, we can reflect on what lessons there may be for Europeans as they attempt to contain the populist tide.
In Sweden’s case, Russian agents are accused of feeding false narratives into the Swedish social-media mill, which, because they contain grains of truth, are then shared by Swedes themselves.
The proposal, furthermore, focuses exclusively on raw ores and metals, and excludes products that contain the relevant minerals, such as mobile phones, vehicles, and medical equipment.
According to scientific experts, one SS-18 rocket could contain a hundred Chernobyls.
The Indian idea is that a nation may contain different castes, creeds, colors, convictions, cuisines, costumes, and customs, yet still rally around a consensus.
A bulwark of secular government and anti-fundamentalism in a North Africa that is struggling to contain the spread of Islamic extremism, Libya is of strategic importance to Europe and the US beyond its oil riches, notwithstanding the overwhelming significance of its energy resources.
In the second case, the Supreme Court wants Pakistan’s military intelligence agencies to account for hundreds, if not thousands, of missing people who were detained as part of the agencies’ campaign to contain the rise of Islamic extremism, or to undermine separatist aspirations in restive Baluchistan.
Its collections contain some of the largest and most comprehensive records of plant diversity in the world, and are a global point of reference for research.
Based on this history, it seems likely that Russia’s effort to contain perceived enemies will lead only to economic collapse and political disarray, forcing the country’s elites to step away from their geopolitical aspirations and turn to urgent domestic issues.
If, however, central banks can contain domestic and global inconsistencies long enough, the combination of endogenous healing and eventual political progress would significantly improve the probability distribution.
Only by adjusting to the international system’s practical constraints can the EU stay the course of economic transformation, remain relevant internationally, and help to contain global warming.
Already, various local social programs in Latin America contain elements of the UBI idea, though they are targeted at the poor and usually conditional on certain behavior, such as having children regularly attend school.
For much of the crisis, beginning in 2014, we lacked the equipment and materials needed to contain the deadly virus.
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