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But, if the AIIB is to achieve its ambitious goals, which include a modern recreation of the ancient Silk Road trade route to Europe, China will have to overcome more than its neighbors’ reluctance; it will also have to contend with its citizens’ growing impatience with grandiose visions.
Having lived and worked long enough in Kosovo to see the outcome so far, I contend that such experiments require further research.
The BP spill was one of the first instances in which companies were forced to contend with the power of social media – and in which people realized the potential of the tools at their disposal.
Though the lack of such debt mutualization has caused weaker sovereigns to resist ESBies, while stronger sovereigns contend that ESBies still demand excessive risk-sharing, this solution could gain traction in the event of another crisis.
They contend that people should not be exposed to ideas with which they strongly disagree.
Closed political systems and stagnant economies in the Muslim world, they contend, are symptoms, not causes.
Critics contend that Obama has been all words and no deeds.
But in that effort, India must contend with its neighbor, China, which speaks with a louder voice and carries a larger stick.
Others, however, contend that a flat tax is intrinsically unfair.
But, with no environmental or labor standards to contend with, few doubt that the pipeline will proceed.
But, without common economic governance, northern Europeans contend, mutualization of debt would encourage free-riding by debtor countries.
Nor should free traders worry that trade openness resulted in no additional growth for some developing countries, as critics contend.
Finally, opponents of the EU’s scheme contend that developing countries’ contribution to emission reductions should be less significant than that of advanced countries, since they contributed much less to the stock of existing greenhouse gases.
Emblematic of the difference between the UN and the G-20 conferences was the discussion of bank secrecy: whereas the G-20 focused on tax evasion, the UN Conference addressed corruption, too, which some experts contend gives rise to outflows from some of the poorest countries that are greater than the foreign assistance they receive.
Indeed, critics contend that the international taxes – for example, on carbon emissions – that the Leading Group has identified as a potential source of finance infringe on national sovereignty.
Countries that still struggle with malnutrition and illnesses like malaria, tuberculosis, and HIV/AIDS, now must contend with an explosion of CVD's, diabetes, and obesity, as well as soaring rates of high blood pressure and high blood cholesterol.
Puerto Ricans already have plenty of challenges with which to contend.
While the US propitiates China, countries like Japan, India, the Philippines, and Vietnam are being forced to accept that they will have to contend with Chinese military incursions on their own.
Similarly, when it came to negotiating a new pact to mitigate global climate change, diplomatic efforts had to contend with international discord in 2009, forcing leaders to postpone their efforts yet again.
After all, the Republicans have traditionally been the standard-bearers of free trade in the US – in contrast to the Democratic Party, which has had to contend with skeptical voices from the trade unions that make up part of its constituency.
Critics contend that green technologies are not mature enough to replace traditional fuels for industrial-scale energy use.
Today, Europe needs improved capacity to combat terrorism and the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, deal with failed or failing states, contend with regional conflicts, and respond to humanitarian crises.
The western Balkan applicants have thus had to contend with a process that is now managed on a more intergovernmental basis than was the big bang of 2004, and which has, at times, been held hostage to member states’ selfish bilateral demands.
But one might also contend that Western medical workers deserve higher priority because they volunteered to expose themselves to the disease, in order to help those who had no choice.
The EU rushed in to broker a settlement that some contend was against Ukraine's interests.
It is this “triumphalist” foreign policy, as Henry Kissinger calls it, with which India has to contend.
Perhaps India and others should contend with China’s assertiveness by heeding Sun Tzu’s counsel: “Contain an adversary through the leverage of converting the neighborhood of that adversary into hostiles.”
In China and almost all Middle Eastern countries, foreigners are restricted to minority shareholdings and must contend with high import duties and numerous non-tariff barriers.
Some argue that the pursuit of justice impedes conflict-resolution efforts, while others – including International Criminal Court (ICC) Chief Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda – contend that justice is a prerequisite for peace.
Intolerance and fundamentalism form one choice for Muslims, but Islam has always had to contend with the question of secularism and the need for religious tolerance, as is evident from the ongoing reformist ferment in theocratic Iran.
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