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Contrary to claims that investments aimed at improving the lives of children and poor households are not affordable, especially during this period of global adjustment, policymakers do have options, even in the poorest countries.
On the contrary, “the Turkish Question” will be resolved on the basis of the current political preoccupations and concerns for the future.
Contrary to those who regard the discussion of an alternative monetary framework as premature, there are good reasons for China to begin right now to build the institutional foundation for the transition to an independent monetary policy.
On the contrary, in Israel, surging nationalism has become a major obstacle to any negotiation.
On the contrary, they still have plenty to worry about, not least rising protectionist sentiment and trade tensions among major global powers.
On the contrary, these memos make clear that torture was a tactic formulated in minute detail.
Contrary to claims that the “Chinese century” is at hand, we have not entered a post-American world.
On the contrary, wealthy people and businesses in countries throughout the world compete with each other and with other interest groups for political access and influence.
On the contrary, the ice is expanding.
On the contrary, private consumption fell to a record-low 45% of developing Asia’s GDP in 2010 – down ten percentage points from 2002.
On the contrary, it cleared the way for increasingly radical agendas.
On the contrary, its policy shift amounts to its last chance to stop China before it secures the critical technologies it needs to gain the upper hand geopolitically in Asia and beyond.
On the contrary, they have switched to other movements like fair trade and trade justice.
On the contrary, some of the biggest stock-market crashes have occurred during periods of rapid growth, usually triggered by accelerating inflation and rising interest rates.
On the contrary, we must build on existing institutions.
On the contrary, we long for interaction with the West.
On the contrary, as Secretary of Defense Robert Gates stated before Congress in January, “If we set ourselves the objective of creating some sort of Central Asian Valhalla over there, we will lose.”
None of this is exactly a secret in Western capitals; on the contrary, Putin’s ultimate goal – a far-reaching revision of the post-Cold War strategic order in Europe – has become increasingly clear as Russia has moved closer to achieving it.
For a monk to involve himself in politics or to hold a political post is contrary to the ethical code of Theravada Buddhism.
These developments, though controversial, were never fully challenged; on the contrary, they became de rigueur for legislative politics in Germany, causing the Bundestag to shift focus from conducting open debate to enacting previously agreed decisions.
Despite claims to the contrary, there is no possible threat to US interests from the islanders’ return to the outer islands, hundreds of kilometers away from Diego Garcia.
They are, on the contrary, a specifically modern phenomenon.
Quite the contrary: resistance to diplomatic solutions is a common thread in most of today’s major conflicts.
On the contrary, neither biotechnology nor genetic engineering are new, and consumers, government, and industry all have had long, extensive, and positive experience with both.
On the contrary, they need relief, and Europe should insist that its programs, and those of the IMF, take their needs into account.
Contrary to campaign rhetoric, simple protectionism would harm consumers.
On the contrary, it has fueled frustration in economically challenged southern Europe, in the geographically vulnerable Eastern Europe, and in Germany itself.
They should ask whether aid for Georgia contributes to peace and stability or, on the contrary, whether it will impede a political solution to the conflict and keep investors away.
On the contrary, the constitution’s preamble includes a pledge to protect the human rights, culture, traditions, languages, and institutions of the “peoples of Spain.”
But these talks, stalled since the end of the Cold War, are threatened by America's bid to establish National Missile Defense, which Russia regards as menacing and contrary to the US/Soviet Treaty banning most missile defenses.
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