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And, though the 2003 SARS outbreak was contained, causing fewer than 1,000 deaths, the disease was on the verge of deeply disrupting several East Asian economies including China’s.
We spent 15 years adding millions of people to the globalized legal system, by bringing the knowledge contained in marginal ledgers into the legal mainstream – all without the help of computers.
The upheavals in Tunis and Cairo were first called the Arab Spring, because they seemed to be contained to the Arab world.
I searched the Lexis-Nexis database of English-language newspaper stories around the world that contained all three of the words "outsourcing," "jobs," and "India."
Sometimes her expression is briefly clouded by a streak of stifled pain, obstinate and not wholly contained.
The proposals contained in China 2030 could provide a framework for Chinese policymakers as they seek to achieve their goal of sustainable and harmonious growth.
They are contained in three concepts: freedom, solidarity, and mutual respect.
Still, protectionism was contained, partly due to the World Trade Organization.
Inflation remains contained, but, more to the point, China’s government has an arsenal of other weapons (from taxes on capital inflows and capital-gains taxes to a variety of monetary instruments) at its disposal.
The album contained photographs of the windows of the old monk’s cells to which the Soviets had affixed bars; for years these cells imprisoned Catholic clergymen, such as those arrested after State Prosecutor Nikolay Krylenko proclaimed the Catholic Church “an enemy of the people” in 1917.
Real-estate bubbles can be contained through regulatory means, such as loan-to-value or loan-to-income ceilings for housing loans.
Some of the concepts the Constitution contained were so alien to Japanese tradition that new ideograms had to be created to express them.
Prime Minister Koizumi testified in the Diet that the Constitution contained obscure and unclear terms and that Japan must interpret them with common sense.
Of course, the Soviet Union has been, one might say, permanently contained.
Although the financial crisis appears to be contained in the United States and Europe, its full repercussions will not be clear for some time.
Any Chinese military move is portrayed as an expansionary and aggressive act that must be contained.
Soon, the gulag was virtually emptied; a political thaw began, spurring whispers of freedom that could not be contained.
Urban’s dictum contained a kernel of truth: the Catholic Church played a major role in the rebellion against communism.
Such funding will support the steps needed to fulfill the promise, contained in our country’s constitution, that the state will “provide free and compulsory secondary education within minimum possible period.”
Instead, Germany got a government that will implement a predetermined set of policies, contained in a 170-page agreement hammered out behind closed doors – one that promises more of the same.
Even if the nuclear threat is contained, the twenty-first century could confront us with grave new global perils.
As in these cases, the collateral damage to Greece of a euro exit will be significant, but it can be contained.
If the outbreak is not contained soon, most of the economic and social gains achieved since peace was restored in Liberia and Sierra Leone, and since Guinea’s democratic transition began, could be reversed.
The voluntary emission-reduction commitments contained in the so-called Intended Nationally Determined Contributions (INDCs), submitted by 187 countries by the end of the talks, will not be enough to prevent dangerous climate change.
The records contained firsthand accounts of the anger felt by Americans at the ISI’s unwillingness to confront the insurgents, in particular those who were attacking US and NATO troops near the Pakistani border.
The new consensus is stated succinctly by Nouriel Roubini: the backlash against globalization “can be contained and managed through policies that compensate workers for its collateral damage and costs,” he argues.
For example, after 1960, when the University of Chicago started creating a Univac computer tape that contained systematic information about millions of stock prices, a great deal of scientific research on the properties of stock prices was taken as confirming the “efficient markets hypothesis.”
For all these reasons, the institutional reforms that are contained in the constitutional treaty are still urgently needed.
America’s inflation would be contained but for the fact that so many countries, from the Middle East to Asia, effectively tie their currencies to the dollar.
The tariff proposal – contained in the central piece of global warming legislation now before Congress – would impose emission controls on domestic industries starting in 2012.
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