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Moreover, countries that have committed to ratifying the 1997 UN Watercourses Convention – which establishes basic standards for the use and conservation of waters that cross international boundaries – must compel their uncommitted counterparts to follow their lead.
While Israeli military intelligence is on record that Iran is expected to cross the red line on the path to nuclear power between 2010 and 2015 at the earliest, the feeling in Israel is that the political window of opportunity is now, during the last months of Bush’s presidency.
And, when goods cross borders, does the consumer or the producer pay the mitigation cost?
Despite registration systems such as those in Russia and China that restrict movement, people can come and go from cities much more freely than they can cross national borders.
Translators are essential to complex transformation efforts that cross many business functions.
Last August, US President Barack Obama warned Syria’s government that any move toward chemical-weapon deployment would cross a “red line,” giving the conflict a broader strategic dimension and, in turn, increasing the likelihood that the United States would intervene.
In fact, thousands of migrants cross Asia’s numerous and porous frontiers each year with the help of expensive brokers who secure their passage.
Unfortunately, globalization/liberalization and institutional development often work at cross purposes because of their different time horizons.
Until now, Israelis and Palestinians have insisted on various “red lines” that they proclaimed they would never cross.
It is when this image is invoked in politics that critics cross the line between the constructive and the vicious.
In areas like agriculture, energy, forestry, and municipal planning, decisions are taken daily without regard for their implications for water availability and sustainability – a situation that becomes even more complicated when water resources cross national boundaries.
European financial institutions and markets cross national borders on an unprecedented scale, but national authorities still dominate regulation.
For example, in Argentina, certain forms of cross ownership were banned.
Borders will become harder to cross for both people and goods.
On the weekend of July 16-17, Venezuelans were given the opportunity to cross the border into Colombia for up to 12 hours.
China, the transit route for most of what goes enters and leaves North Korea, understands that were North Korea to cross this red line, it would risk US military reprisal and possibly lead Japan and/or South Korea to rethink their nuclear weapons policy.
You can be “a granny” smelling of perfume and wearing a pearl necklace, but you can also be “a nanny” smelling of smoke and oil and with a cross on a string under your brown dress.
Sanctions imposed on journalists, lawyers, and others who cross an invisible line often involve punitive legal action, though in many cases the authorities dispense with formalities to ensure their line is toed.
But to cross it, Indians must craft a new idea of India – as the flagship of a modern global economy that unleashes the dynamism of all citizens.
You shall not crucify mankind upon a cross of gold.”
Beyond reducing the incentive for asylum-seekers to risk their lives and life savings to cross the Mediterranean, such an approach would show solidarity with the frontline countries, which will continue to host most of the refugees.
It must not cross it if it wants to preserve its own credibility, and the world’s capacity for intervention in similar conscience-shocking cases.
Obama’s proclamation that the use of chemical weapons in Syria would cross a “red line” – and his implicit threat to use force if that line were crossed – reflects the commitment that the US has made during the past four decades to promote human rights worldwide.
Fortunately, it seems to be choosing the path of flexibility and adjustment, as it pursues an ambitious reform plan that, it is hoped, will enable it to edge closer to – and eventually cross – the high-income threshold.
Moreover, a trade agreement with Afghanistan that allows Afghan goods to cross Pakistan en route to India may be one step towards an improvement of economic relations with that large and rapidly growing neighbor.
So, even if not a single new person were to cross a border, the challenges would still be with us.
These are the intolerable moments, the social red lines that female leaders must cross.
So we should stop analyzing women’s management style as if there were some foolproof way to cross the minefield of power.
So, as enlargement approaches, the EU faces a cross roads.
This is the best way to stem refugees’ dangerous efforts to cross the Mediterranean.
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