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What made this statement not just
controversial
but potentially counterproductive is that the Trump administration has spent a good part of its first year putting together a plan to resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
Abe has a reputation as a nationalist, and recently visited the Yasukuni Shrine, a Tokyo war memorial that is
controversial
in China and Korea.
To put it bluntly, given the World Bank’s importance, consideration of either putative US candidate, Assistant Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz or former Hewlett-Packard CEO Carleton Fiorina, have been highly
controversial
around the world.
Controversial
“sovereign wealth funds,” which invest funds for governments in the Middle East, Asia, Russia, and elsewhere, are just one manifestation of the search for alternatives to low-yielding, rapidly depreciating, dollar bonds.
And Chancellor Angela Merkel’s leadership is now under threat in Germany, following her courageous but
controversial
decision to allow almost a million asylum-seekers to enter the country.
To that end, one of our most
controversial
proposals was what we called “pay or play”: a $12 billion pot would be financed by a surcharge levied on the overall sales of pharmaceutical companies that were not developing new drugs.
When Netanyahu traveled to Washington, DC, to deliver his
controversial
speech on Iran to the US Congress, he was described by his American supporters as “Churchillian,” the lonely courageous voice warning a complacent world against an evil force.
Though the media almost exclusively covered his most hyperbolic and
controversial
statements, it was largely his economic message that won him support.
To resolve the complex and often
controversial
issues that arise, broad agreement is needed, and securing it requires clear ground rules.
Pushing for greater capital market liberalization after the debacle of the 1990’s will be
controversial.
All applications of CBA are
controversial
when economists with different explicit or implicit biases study the same topic.
But it has also been highly
controversial.
In Germany, many
controversial
political issues are taken to the Constitutional Court by minorities defeated in parliament.
A second complication is the
controversial
issue of net neutrality.
But, until then, Macron’s
controversial
proposals – which, to be sure, some 79% of French people favor, according to a recent poll – will at least prompt citizens to start thinking in stark terms about an issue that touches the very foundation of Western democracy.
Greece’s highest administrative court has called into question the legality of this containment policy, a result of the
controversial
EU-Turkey agreement.
An honest offer of engagement would allow Ahmadinejad’s pragmatic opponents to show that it is Iran’s president and his
controversial
policies, not the West, that are at fault.
Yet this option is
controversial
for a few reasons.
Given the benefits of preventive care, the test has become highly controversial, because its manufacturer, Myriad Genetics, holds a genetic patent that gives it a monopoly – and huge profits – on all testing.
There has been no answer yet, though there does seem to be some recent movement between Russia and Iran on the provision of nuclear fuel for Iran’s
controversial
reactors.
Iran pursued mass prosecutions of government critics following President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s
controversial
reelection in 2009, and it now appears that some of Ahmadinejad’s allies may themselves become collateral damage in his conflict with Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Hosseini Khamenei, facing politically motivated criminal trials.
Roosevelt’s first case, against Northern Securities in 1902, was immensely
controversial.
Such proposed solutions assume that regulators will be able to identify excess risks, prevent banks from manipulating the regulations, resist political pressure to leave the banks alone, and impose
controversial
corrective measures “that will be too complicated to defend in public.”
Compassionate drug use (the provision of experimental drugs in urgent circumstances) remains
controversial.
But the proposed US-India accord is attracting notice for a second, and far more controversial, reason: concern that it could weaken, rather than advance, efforts to resist the further worldwide spread of nuclear weapons.
For example, Abe threatened to rescind the official apologies issued by former leaders or officials for abuses and atrocities committed by Japan’s army during WWII, and stated his intention to visit the
controversial
Yasukuni Shrine, which honors not only Japan’s war dead, but also many of its war criminals.
The most
controversial
issue, within the committee and in Germany, relates to financing infrastructure via public-private partnerships, a seemingly promising solution that nonetheless has proved to be far from a panacea.
In a
controversial
decision issued in 2010 – Citizens United vs.
What makes the Nuffield report
controversial
is its precedent-setting argument.
That would be the kiss of death, following Blair’s
controversial
mimicking of US policy in Iraq.
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