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If they can significantly degrade the militia’s strength, or at least contain its influence within Baghdad’s Shi’a slums, the Iraqi government will have a somewhat better chance of developing a credible security force and Bush can claim some success.
So one way to contain evil is by attacking the lies on which it is based and condemning those who propound them.
It distinguishes between anonymous files from random samples and established for scientific purposes, which may contain data about a person’s origins, and files that are not anonymous, which have direct consequences for the people concerned – and for which it is strictly forbidden to register any information about ethnic origins.
In his opinion, some interventions in the exchange market by the Ministry of Finance may need to be pursued to contain the extraordinary fluctuations.
Obviously, it would be a crisis that no one could control or contain.
US-led raids and airstrikes have helped to contain ISIS fighters within Afghanistan.
For its part, Novartis recently announced that it will invest more than $100 million in antimalarial R&D over the next five years, to help contain emerging resistant strains of the disease.
For Iraq’s disintegration would be hard to contain; indeed, it could bring about a thorough balkanization of the region.
Berlin is consumed not with the question of what Europe might need in this historical situation, and what Germany’s role should be, but with fear – of the conservative and tabloid press, of further losses in state elections, and of the possibility that the German constitutional court will intervene and overturn the existing programs to contain the euro crisis.
In the long run, this would reduce Europe’s total spending to contain and recover from the refugee crisis.
In order to contain the shock and control inflation expectations, Brazil’s central bank was driven to increase interest rates.
True, economic growth in China is slowing somewhat as authorities belatedly try to contain a credit bubble, but many other emerging markets – notably including India – are set to grow faster this year.
As a result, Britain, France, and The Netherlands contain deeply entrenched subcultures of alienated, radicalized Muslim youth.
Ukrainians are being reminded of the consequences of this mindset right now – by a government that has slashed health benefits for the men who heroically fought to contain the Chernobyl disaster.
The world is full of radioactivity – walls, concrete, even bananas contain traces – and our bodies have adapted to it.
Moreover, Iran remains eager to contain Azerbaijani revanchist claims over the large Azeri minority in northern Iran.
Most (though not all) religious faiths today contain extremist groups, all capable of producing discord among previously settled communities.
Failure to contain the impact of regional conflicts and bilateral frictions may lead to more than just supply shocks in areas like energy.
To avert Chinese dominance, the US has already started to build countervailing influences and partnerships, without making any attempt to contain China.
It pursued growth-boosting investment in infrastructure and real-estate development to eliminate deflation, while maintaining artificially low interest rates to contain the rise of public debt.
In the infamous Sledgehammer case, a military-coup plot was found to contain glaring anachronisms, including the use of Microsoft Office 2007 in documents supposedly last saved in 2003.
Producing countries have also tried to contain price volatility by forming international cartels.
And what looks like a defensive imperative to the US and its Asian allies – building further military capacity in the region to manage China’s rise – could be perceived by China as an aggressive attempt to contain it.
Given how few foods contain vitamin D naturally, reaching these levels may require conscious effort.
On the contrary, the ECB is adamant that the only aim of its “outright monetary transactions” (OMT) program, which will buy distressed eurozone members’ government paper, conditional on agreed reforms, is to contain the currency-redenomination risk that contributes to elevated interest rates in southern European economies.
The new court is empowered to reconcile or revoke laws that contain conflicts and duplications.
Acting early and aggressively to protect the system once the bubbles start deflating would help contain future crises.
Even if extremist parties are not all that extreme in their behavior, their ability to channel and contain their most extreme supporters is somewhat limited.
If a major oil spill in Haiti were threatening the Gulf of Mexico, wouldn’t we want the best technology (and not just the technology available in Haiti) to try to contain it?
Philospophie’s take on the French presidential election may contain some truth, but reality is far more prosaic – and far less intellectual.
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