Controversial
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Bill Gates is a
controversial
figure, but few doubt that he is smart.
More to the point, they shed light on why doctors continue to perform medically unnecessary, high-risk procedures on intersex children who are too young to consent, even though the practice has been
controversial
for decades within the medical community.
In Kyrgyzstan, a landlocked mountainous nation with a history of civil unrest and quick government overthrows, local politicians are furious about the US Defense Department’s recent decision to renew a
controversial
fuel-supply contract for the air base at Manas, a key hub for air operations over Afghanistan.
So the world may soon need to test whether the
controversial
principles it brought to bear in Kosovo have the same meaning in Africa.
Under those circumstances, identifying the poor can be costly, corrupt, complicated, and
controversial.
Its tough, no-nonsense approach to the Greek debt crisis contrasts with its confusingly nuanced and even pacifist stance on foreign-policy and security issues, or its
controversial
abandonment of nuclear energy.
Obamacare and Effective GovernmentBERKELEY – When historians look back on the United States’ Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA), President Barack Obama’s
controversial
2010 health-care reform, we predict that they will not devote much attention to its regulations, its troubled insurance exchanges, or its website’s flawed launch.
China’s recent announcement of an Air Defense Identification Zone covering the disputed Senkaku Islands (called the Diaoyu Islands in China), followed by Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s visit to the
controversial
Yasukuni Shrine, suggest that the bilateral relationship – already at its lowest point in 40 years – will continue to deteriorate.
The European Union has a
controversial
plan on the drawing boards that would tax a much broader array of transactions.
Moreover, the European Central Bank will have less space to use monetary policy to kick-start the economy: interest rates are already at zero, and a new asset-purchase program would inevitably be
controversial.
But unanimous approval is likely only when the content of agreements is not
controversial
– hence the proposal to abandon the rule.
This would strengthen the government’s resolve to strike deals on other
controversial
issues – precisely the opposite of the likely effect of Trump’s unilateral withdrawal from the JCPOA.
And while the reforms have at times been
controversial
– they touch on some of the most sensitive areas of the economy – they have also been successful.
That has been a highly
controversial
proposition in the West, where debates about education are highly politicized and often fall within familiar ideological boundaries.
This reversal is consistent with the pattern established elsewhere, including on the Yangtze: China temporarily suspends a
controversial
plan after major protests in order to buy time while public passions cool, before resurrecting the same plan.
His
controversial
and unconstitutional re-election to a third presidential term was condemned internationally and triggered anti-government protests across Russia.
Fortunately for the eurozone, it will enter this period of high employment and slow growth on sound footing – thanks, in part, to that
controversial
austerity.
In just 14 months, he has been able to forge a consensus to enact urgently needed but
controversial
reforms, overhauling the education system, for example, and opening the energy sector to foreign investment.
A
controversial
gag law on the press that was enacted last year has already ended a major newspaper’s print edition.
Chile is too small to go it alone, and Bachelet has her hands full with increasingly
controversial
tax, education, and constitutional reforms.
This response is understandably controversial, because it rewards those who bet on risky assets, many of whom accepted risk with open eyes and bear some responsibility for causing the crisis.
Meanwhile, legislators have said they will work to transform the
controversial
anti-pornography bill into a more targeted anti-smut ordinance.
The releases of Ba’asyir and publication of Playboy , however controversial, will not themselves alter this new discourse, but they offer an insightful glimpse into just how dramatically things are changing in Indonesia.
An elected president has a stronger mandate to be controversial, especially in areas of thought and culture that lie beyond the domain of quotidian politics but shape the quality of the public space in which politics plays out.
One aspect of the discussion, however, need not be so
controversial.
A de facto ECB guarantee to back all eurozone government debt will be more
controversial.
His answer remains
controversial
to this day.
The issues surrounding reform remain
controversial
and unsettled, but this time, the ministers laid their cards on the table.
The TPP’s most
controversial
provision, if adopted, would allow private corporations to sue foreign governments for adopting policies that adversely affect their expected profits.
Nowadays, the mantra of President Umar Yar’Adua, who took power in June 2007, following
controversial
elections, is to transform the country into one of the world’s 20 largest economies by 2020.
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