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A major impediment to progress is the US administration’s strange policy that dialogue on
controversial
issues will be extended only as a reward for subservient behavior and will be withheld from those who reject US assertions.
That decision remains
controversial
in France, including among Socialists, but Hollande is well aware of the weaknesses of a European defense policy that simply cannot compete with NATO.
Don’t expect Obama to confront the most
controversial
aspect of US relations with Africa: the American military’s new African command.
This allows China to place officially authored content about
controversial
issues – such as its militarized island-building in the South China Sea – next to those publications’ editorial offerings.
Among his most
controversial
campaign statements were some suggesting that NATO was obsolete, a position that bodes ill for his attitude to other multilateral organizations and alliances.
In a world searching for providential leaders, the case of Ariel Sharon is both symbolic and paradoxical, for this universal man remains one of the most
controversial
figures of recent decades.
The company has a
controversial
past, faces a pending dispute with tax authorities, and is a party to several court cases involving the Chilean government.
But the Supreme Court made achieving that much harder with its
controversial
Citizens United decision in 2010, when it held that campaign donations – even from corporations – are a protected form of free speech.
Don’t Forget Wim Duisenberg’s LegacyThe most surprising and
controversial
thing about last December’s rate hike by the European Central Bank was that, after two and a half years of keeping interest rates at exceptionally low levels, the bank ventured an increase of only 25 basis points with no promise of more to come.
Although the meager rate hike was presented as a consensus of the ECB’s Governing Council, it soon became apparent that the decision had been
controversial.
Abe, too, has stoked tensions, particularly by visiting Tokyo’s Yasukuni Shrine – a
controversial
memorial that honors, among others, Class A war criminals from World War II.
In his
controversial
1961 study of WWII’s origins, the historian A.J.P. Taylor vindicated Hitler’s decision to take over the small successor states that were created at Versailles to check Germany’s power – a strategy by the victors that Taylor called “an open invitation for German expansionism.”
Already, Bangladesh’s Awami League government, which returned to power this year after a
controversial
election that was boycotted by the principal opposition party, has embraced an unprecedented level of cooperation with India on security and counter-terrorism issues.
Given that it is less
controversial
than unconventional monetary policies, and will take longer to produce results, it should be given top priority.
Erhard failed to gain support for this
controversial
idea.
It requires an increasingly
controversial
assumption: all human beings - whatever their achievements, competences, status, or health - are equally significant members of society, whose strength ultimately lies in what they can do together.
Africa’s Hidden HungerDAR ES SALAAM – Just over 20 years ago, South African photographer Kevin Carter shocked the world with a
controversial
photograph of a famished young Sudanese child being watched by a vulture during a famine.
Sharia law is undoubtedly
controversial.
After flirting with disaster last July, interest-rate spreads for eurozone bonds have generally been subdued, and financial segmentation has been slowly reversed (that is, at least before European officials embarked on the
controversial
path of trying to impose losses on guaranteed bank deposits in Cyprus).
Japan’s Obama ProblemTOKYO – When Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe visited Tokyo’s
controversial
Yasukuni Shrine last month, Chinese leaders predictably condemned his decision to honor those behind “the war of aggression against China.”
Thailand’s Stunted TransitionBANGKOK – One year after Thailand’s 12th military coup in its 83 years under constitutional rule, and as the
controversial
trial for criminal negligence of former Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra gets under way, the country’s future is perilously uncertain.
A system built on a strictly limited mandate could be both more efficient and less
controversial
than some single, all-encompassing financial regulator.
For a country like Chile, where large hydroelectric projects have been politically controversial, and where solar and wind power have been too slow in coming, gas imports from the US would be a tremendous boon.
To take one particularly
controversial
example, airlines now use travelers’ data to customize ticket prices in ways that essentially cancel out the savings once offered by online markets.
But the deal remains highly controversial, not least because of humanitarian concerns.
But as the British public accuses the left-wing party and its boss of encouraging anti-Jewish sentiment, an important psychological question needs to be addressed: Can we really blame Corbyn for failing to identify the
controversial
mural for what it was?
Similarly, Israel’s
controversial
policies and diplomacy risk leaving the Jewish state unprecedentedly alone.
In the 1990s, Alfa Group’s Pyotr Aven authorized Putin’s
controversial
commercial deals in St. Petersburg when he served as Minister for External Economic Affairs, and Alfa Group has employed both the son-in-law of Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and Putin’s own eldest daughter.
Finally, Turkey’s policy of engaging various actors in the Middle East – repudiated by some as controversial, extreme, and even terrorist – has played a significant role in bringing at least some of these forces into mainstream politics.
The list of
controversial
US demands is long.
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