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Bush may be right on guest workers, but his
controversial
proposal to have a Dubai-based company run six US ports is a big mistake.
This is a highly
controversial
technology, with potentially far-reaching ecological effects and as-yet-unknown health consequences.
The legally and diplomatically
controversial
options of preventive strikes (against a gathering threat) and preemptive strikes (against an imminent threat) make them easier to propose than to implement.
Calls for an agreement on the most
controversial
elements of a final peace settlement are unrealistic.
The recent
controversial
bailout deal – likened by some to the 1919 Versailles Treaty, with Greece in the role of Germany – offers the latest twist in the eurozone’s existential saga.
Another
controversial
issue also has also come to the fore in connection with the current nuclear conflict with Iran: discrimination-free access to nuclear technology.
In fact, many companies are being forced to make firm and public choices about where they stand in relation to Trump, his seemingly endless stream of
controversial
executive orders, and the politicians who ultimately back him.
Despite a long history of alliance dating back to the American Revolution and including two world wars, France has always had a somewhat ambivalent attitude toward the US, and the Iraq War was not the first time that a
controversial
security policy undercut America’s attractiveness in France.
While few question the immorality of Serbs' behavior, future moral crusades may be more
controversial.
But that didn’t stop him from tackling a
controversial
subject.
In Germany, debt restructuring would be the most
controversial
component.
In terms of civil liberties, examining the content of a message from a suspect non-American source is less
controversial.
Such a solution could also incorporate other, less
controversial
elements, such as additional powers for eastern Ukraine’s regional authorities, which they could exercise in Russian.
Reforming Employment ProtectionThere may be no labor market institution more
controversial
than employment protection regulation--the complex set of laws and procedures that govern how firms hire and fire workers.
While he has since shifted away from the unusual and
controversial
rhetoric of neutrality, the fact remains that his core constituency – enraged white working-class men – cares little about Israel.
This was among the problems that the EU’s
controversial
Lisbon treaty was designed to fix.
But posting the Afghan war reports was its most
controversial
move yet.
Unfortunately, these topics are often politically
controversial.
This can be
controversial
because of its perceived marginalization of low-achieving students.
Even Trump’s non-family appointments – often
controversial
or radical figures who would not have a place in any administration except his – reflect an emphasis on personal loyalty.
Why?Business loved the first paper, because it shifted the conversation from how much executives were paid (a very
controversial
topic) to how they should be paid (a more technical and less contentious issue).
But they could re-energize the security dialogue between the two countries and lay the foundation for future accords on other, more
controversial
issues.
And he has acknowledged that he is no “fan” of Israel’s right-wing prime minister, Binyamin Netanyahu; indeed, Sanders was among the legislators who boycotted Netanyahu’s
controversial
address to Congress last March.
America’s concern with Made in China 2025 is understandable;China’s approach to technology development has been controversial, to say the least.
The Japanese intervention was immediately
controversial.
For starters, Japan's leaders should either forswear visits to Tokyo's
controversial
Yasukuni shrine, or find a creative way to have the souls of the 14 Class A war criminals that it honors moved elsewhere.
Or if an attack were carried out ostensibly to protest
controversial
US policies in the Middle East?
Just a few months ago, the bilateral relationship had sunk to an all-time post-war low, owing to a toxic cocktail of territorial disputes over the Diaoyu/Senkaku Islands, Japan’s handling of its wartime history (particularly prime ministerial visits to the
controversial
Yasukuni Shrine), and Chinese fears about Japanese rearmament.
The decision was based on a
controversial
law that, among other things, requires any Web site publishing news and commentary about Jordan to appoint an editor from the closed journalists’ union, which electronic-media journalists cannot join, and to be licensed by a government body.
But the
controversial
legislation to outlaw Taiwanese secession has proved anything but routine.
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