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The law must contain specific provisions regarding such matters in order to ensure successful listing of restructuring firms.
Similarly, American and European clothing companies have been struggling to contain the reputational damage caused by lethal working conditions in Bangladeshi garment factories.
The Friedman-Simons view that businesses’ sole social responsibility is to increase profits assumes that competent, non-corrupt governments both provide the public goods necessary for a prosperous economy and contain the negative externalities, like pollution and climate change, that result from private economic activities.
As an illustration, current regulations for GM foods, if applied to non-GM products, would bar the sale of potatoes and tomatoes, which can contain poisonous glycoalkaloids; celery, which contains carcinogenic psoralens; rhubarb and spinach (oxalic acid); and cassava, which feeds about half a billion people, but contains toxic cyanogenic alkaloids.
That is why the UN and its partners issued the Cholera Inter-Sector Response Strategy for Haiti, a $164 million funding appeal to support the international community’s efforts to contain the outbreak.
Climate change directly affects the hydrological cycle, which means that all of the efforts that are undertaken to contain greenhouse-gas emissions will help to stabilize rainfall patterns and mitigate the extreme water events that so many regions are already experiencing.
The challenge for policymakers on both continents is to contain the rise of terrorism without eroding hard-won freedoms.
The US needs fiscal measures that both curb the deficit and contain rising income inequality – and the inequality of opportunity that it begets.
Meanwhile, global efforts to slow climate change, promote trade, set new rules for the digital age, and prevent or contain outbreaks of infectious diseases are inadequate.
Today, as protests mount and multiply, the government of every Arab state in the Middle East and North Africa probably believes that, if left to its own devices, it can contain internal dissent.
But as the country’s industrial structure matures – Chinese-assembled iPhones now contain more Chinese-made parts than they did just a few years ago – it will move closer to the US and the EU in value-added terms, not the other way around.
But even a virtual one-party state could not contain the agenda-setting power of a hardened opposition, namely PAS, which lost its home base, Kelantan, to UMNO after eight years of political cohabitation.
To contain today’s financial and economic crisis, Europe will also need to continue the cooperation that it has shown up to this point.
What is becoming clearer by the day is that the formula defining Western policy towards Russia since communism’s collapse – “Let’s engage Russia if we can, let’s contain Russia if we must” – must now be completely rethought.
I stand by my testimony before the US Congress of 1995 in response to those who, even then, wanted a policy of containment rather than engagement: “Only China can contain China.”
The new mosquitos contain a gene that produces high levels of a protein that stops their cells from functioning normally, ultimately killing them.
Some of these concerns may contain a rational core.
The truth: countries that do not have an independent central bank, like India, manage to contain inflation as effectively as those with independent central banks.
These are the absolute minimum steps that must be taken to contain Europe’s credit crisis.
The alarm bell was first rung in 1992 at the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro; but over the last generation, little was done to contain emissions.
He has also worked successfully to contain inflationary pressures.
China, for its part, has made clear that it does not intend to inspect cargo moving in and out of North Korea across their long common border to ensure it does not contain items prohibited by Resolution 1718.
Then there is geography: France’s massive urban concentration around the capital – Paris and its suburbs contain nearly 20% of the population – is unique in Europe.
And when members of the international community cannot contain the epidemic, the richest and most powerful actor, namely the US, has an obligation to step in and try to do so.
Nobody can or will contain China, there is just too much eagerness to have the business.
An alliance between the US, Japan, Australia, and possibly India designed to contain China would be greeted by the Chinese with that history firmly in mind.
PARIS – Squeezed by low oil prices and Western sanctions, Russia’s fiscal position is crumbling fast, forcing the government to take increasingly drastic measures to contain the budget deficit’s growth.
All of the world's religions contain some doctrines and practices that are potentially harmful to the emergence of democracy, and others that are potentially beneficial.
All major non-US developed countries – Japan, Germany, France, the United Kingdom, Spain, and Italy – are facing long-term fiscal crises, though each has managed to exercise much better control of its health-care spending, and has taken or is taking major steps to contain other spending.
In the past, small member states used to gravitate towards federalist positions, because they calculated that they needed strong central institutions to contain the power of the large member states (especially France).
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