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The authorities were willing to enter into yet another set of commitments knowing that they had consistently over-promised and under-delivered, and that the country had failed to make any progress on restoring growth, halting its competitiveness decline, and containing the rise in debt.
Isolation of patients and safe burial of the dead are crucial to containing Ebola, but both need to be introduced with cultural sensitivity – not just explanations of the science behind them.
Against this background, US claims that its strategic rebalancing is not about containing China are not particularly convincing.
Unfortunately, this is not surprising: as has been true so many times in the past, the West currently has no credible strategy for containing Putin, even when he has no clear exit strategy or endgame in mind.
A Universal LibraryMELBOURNE – Scholars have long dreamed of a universal library containing everything that has ever been written.
But such tariffs, not to mention the border adjustment tax that Congress is considering, would disrupt cross-border supply chains, reducing both US exports of intermediate products to Mexico and Mexican exports – containing sizable US value-added – to the US and other markets.
Some Americans argue that China’s rise cannot be peaceful, and that the US, therefore, should now adopt a policy of containing the People’s Republic.
Gore told the world in his Academy Award-winning movie (recently labeled “one-sided” and containing “scientific errors” by a British judge) to expect 20-foot sea-level rises over this century.
America’s design for Asian trade is inspired by the goal of containing China, and the TPP template effectively excludes it, owing to the non-trade-related conditions imposed by US lobbies.
More recently, researchers have learned that certain cancer drugs are ineffective in fighting tumors containing the mutated variant of the gene KRAS.
And that means that these companies’ stock-market valuation is inconsistent with containing global warning.
Containing the increase in average surface temperature to two degrees requires developing clean technologies, and even more important, a four-fold increase in investment in energy efficiency over the next ten years.
Though health-care workers have focused on containing the epidemic for nearly four decades, infection rates remain stubbornly high.
Her “College Compact” would grant federal subsidies to states if they commit to – and succeed in – containing the costs of higher education, including by providing free enrollment at two-year community colleges.
Israel would give up some territory containing settlements that could not be easily defended.
In effect, the rice plants’ inputs are carbon dioxide, water, soil, and the sun’s energy, and its output is a rice kernel containing large amounts of the proteins.
Containing populism, it follows, requires more than fine-tuning the electoral system.
In 2001, Berlusconi signed a “contract with the Italians” containing promises that have gone unfulfilled.
Indeed, the Obama administration’s nuclear policy has changed substantially since 2009, when containing nuclear proliferation was among its central foreign-policy concerns.
According to a 2010 study, fields of insect-resistant GM corn have an “area-wide suppression effect” on insects, benefiting neighboring fields containing conventional corn varieties.
The Three Tribes of AusterityATHENS – No policy is as self-defeating during recessionary times as the pursuit of a budget surplus for the purpose of containing public debt – austerity, for short.
The first, containing the aims and general principles of the Union, plus the citizens' rights and the institutional framework, would be the real Treaty and could only be changed by unanimity, and with national ratifications.
The second, containing detailed and workaday policy provisions, could be changed by the Union institutions, perhaps by majority vote.
Even more irresponsible are attempts to undermine a requirement for adequate due diligence on securitization positions prior to investing – with some amendments containing wording that would make it virtually impossible for supervisors to monitor compliance.
Drugs such as Erbitux and Vectibix work only in tumors containing the normal version of a gene called KRAS.
At various times, the US avoided scrutinizing the internal workings of friendly countries in the interest of ensuring a steady flow of oil; containing Soviet, Iraqi, and Iranian expansionism; addressing issues related to the Arab-Israeli conflict; resisting communism in East Asia; or securing military bases.
Containing Financial TurmoilToday’s ongoing financial market turmoil comes as no surprise to those who have been warning about the risks to the world economy from the end of the housing market bubble in the United States.
Containing China will therefore require, first, efforts to restrict the country’s maritime activities – such as measures to safeguard vital sea lines and build maritime domain awareness – and, second, geo-economic initiatives to counter China’s coercive leverage over smaller countries.
Anticipating this, these states have already sought reassurances from the US, while following a more hard-nosed policy in Yemen or Syria, where they consider themselves to be containing Iran’s hegemonic ambitions.
For that, firms should look to liquefied natural gas (LNG) – the precursor to shale gas – which enables the production of helium from natural gas containing just 0.04% helium.
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