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Otherwise, the distribution of income, wealth, and opportunities in the region will continue to worsen, with social and political repercussions that could be difficult to contain.
In 1989, the Communists had managed to make illegal and contain, but not to stamp out, Solidarity.
Failure to contain local outbreaks, develop tools and strategies for identifying and treating XDR-TB, and invest in longer-term improvements in TB control could transform our pharmacological magic bullets for TB into blanks.
However, the problem of drug resistance has persisted, and efforts to contain it globally have not been sufficient.
Europe faces real threats, which France alone cannot contain.
PDVSA bonds have all been issued in the US and, as legally required of all corporate bonds, they do not contain CACs.
Torture and the Politics of AmbiguityEach new revelation of physical abuse, maltreatment, and sexual humiliation of Iraqi prisoners by American and British soldiers shocks international public opinion, leaving officials to scramble desperately to contain the damage.
Strong international pressure helped to contain the Second Gaza War quickly.
While both the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights contain de facto prohibitions on capital punishment, the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) recognizes a state’s authority to retain the practice.
The key to that method is distinguishing between normal genes, which contain both coding and non-coding elements, and artificial genes, which contain only the coding elements.
But even if Iraq does fall apart after US withdrawal, it will be of vital importance to contain the consequences of its disintegration within Iraq’s own borders.
Faced with these remarkable numbers, most Europeans, in particular the French, have responded almost viscerally by looking for flaws in America's performance: surely these numbers must conceal some dark blemish; surely they must contain some artificial economic growth.
That is why it is so intent on achieving annual economic growth of 8% or higher – the magic number that it believes will contain social strife.
Indeed, though the US encouraged the trilateral meeting, it seems to worry that successful cooperation would undermine its ability to contain an increasingly powerful China and protect its own interests in Asia.
But the move failed to contain M2 growth; on the contrary, M2 grew faster last year than in 2012.
The report did, however, contain two surprising facts.
Most are seeking ways to contain public indebtedness, trim deficits, and cut spending without making their poorer citizens worse off.
Some health-care systems are simply better managed than others, because expensive equipment is used more intensively, patients are provided with generics instead of premium drugs, and timely prevention helps contain treatment costs.
If Western leaders are to contain, and ultimately quell, the political convulsions that their countries are now experiencing, they have no choice but to respond by crafting new, inclusive growth models.
The existence of a US resolution authority does not help contain the damage or limit the panic arising from a big global bank in trouble.
The primeval foundations of all religious systems contain, in different forms, the same basic principles, the same moral imperatives.
Moreover, in an attempt to contain these overdrafts, Northern European countries granted their southern neighbors massive fiscal bailouts.
If threats and violence from the Taliban prevent too many Afghans from casting their vote, the legitimacy of the outcome could be questioned, possibly inciting even more turmoil, which Afghanistan’s fledging security forces would struggle to contain.
It is swaying in fierce electoral winds, it was made exclusively in the USA without Mexican help, and it doesn't contain enough candy.
Political sensitivities in the predominantly Muslim north have forced Jonathan, a Christian southerner, to tread lightly in his efforts to contain Boko Haram.
That is what the new constitution would allow, because the Shia-majority provinces in the south – which contain the greater part of Iraq’s oil reserves – could form their own regional government.
Both sides urgently need to cool off, especially in order to contain their extremist elements and prevent them from taking over the issue and setting the policy agenda.
It should also contain a standard procedure for managing the aftermath when behavior by citizens of either country forces the two governments into unexpected situations.
The second “mistake” came the following November, after Musharraf’s government failed to contain the legal community’s impressive civil-disobedience movement to pressure the government into reinstating Chaudhry.
Without having intended it, the EU now seems to be encouraging the very forces that postwar European unity was designed to contain.
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