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Yet no country can rely on soft power alone to
defend
its interests.
Whereas many oil market participants have blamed speculation, most economists
defend
how oil markets have performed and point to economic fundamentals.
That means redistributing some of the economic benefits of free movement to communities bearing the burden of it; strengthening control of external borders and cooperation against terrorism; ensuring greater flexibility for eurozone integration and migration; and returning to the idea that EU institutions’ highest calling is to
defend
Europe’s nation-states, not to develop their own power.
Palestine must be granted legal status so that, at the very least, its people will have access to the international legal court, with the understanding that international support is required to aid and
defend
this young state.
And there is the risk that the tech giants will use their vast armies of programmers to develop a nearly identical product, and their vast legal resources to
defend
it.
Viewing the situation from the ground – which is essential if security is to be restored and economic recovery is to be achieved – local militias must be able to
defend
themselves against rivals or criminal gangs.
Moreover, the central bank’s decision not to
defend
a sharply falling ruble, together with Putin’s prohibition of Western food imports, will lead to a sharp decline in living standards and a growing sense of global isolation.
For their part, emerging powers like India, Brazil, South Africa, and Turkey must, at the very least, loudly and categorically
defend
the fundamental rules of the international system that has enabled them to grow and prosper.
The United Kingdom is torn on whether to exit or not – a reflection of its political establishment’s own chronic unwillingness both to
defend
the EU and to confront its authoritarianism.
Speaking to Muslims exclusively in their own religious terms also excludes them from broad ethical frameworks that
defend
essential human values, most notably the protection of innocent civilians.
Anyone who does so will find it hard to
defend
the ECB and its stubborn inaction in the face of events.
Countries as diverse as Peru, Vietnam, and Mexico would have signed on to labor laws enshrining workers’ rights to form independent unions and engage in collective bargaining, as well as intellectual property protections to
defend
against counterfeiting and unfair subsidies to state-owned enterprises.
Their first inclination is to
defend
these electoral democracies on the grounds they no longer engage in killing or in torture.
But, then, in this last meeting, Wiesel learned, bit by bit, that Mitterrand the Marist prince had blithely gone off to play golf the day his loyal lieutenant, Pierre Bérégovoy, committed suicide, and that Mitterrand had continued, to the very last, to
defend
René Bousquet, head of the Vichy police and denouncer of Jews.
Let them come to Kyiv and speak to the people, young and old, factory worker, farmer’s wife, the lawyers and doctors and teachers who stood and stayed in the cold and snow for weeks on end last winter to
defend
their freedoms.
Communists (instructed by Stalin), but also the non-Communist left in 1920s Germany, refused to
defend
the fragile Weimar Republic when it was under assault from the right.
And Saudi Arabia, the largest member of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC), has increased production to
defend
its market share.
Today, with no fixed exchange rates to defend, the raison d' tre for the IMF has vanished.
Clinton’s Administration has done much more, however, than
defend
the economy against ideological extremists.
For starters, there was Kennedy’s vow to
defend
freedom for its friends and from its enemies: “Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty.”
But at the same time, here and now, we must also prepare to
defend
against another, less encouraging trend.
A true joint Euro-Atlantic missile defense would demonstrate NATO’s collective will, not only to
defend
against the new threats of today and tomorrow, but also to send a clear message that there is nothing to be gained from missile proliferation.
Quintarelli emphasizes that, “Effective competition is a powerful tool to increase and
defend
biodiversity in the digital space.”
Many people in South Korea and Japan now worry about the strength of America’s commitment to
defend
them from external attack.
Independence was also easier to
defend
when central bankers’ task was limited to keeping inflation low and stable.
They preferred less competition in credit markets not out of concern for the unwitting farmers, but in order to
defend
powerful lenders’ profits.
China’s reprisals were not launched against the US, which deployed the system to
defend
against North Korea’s emerging missile threat and has the heft to hit back hard.
While some Gilani loyalists continue to
defend
him, Zardari has already moved to name an old PPP stalwart, Makhdoom Shahabuddin, as the new prime minister.
But the US has flatly rejected China’s proposal, ostensibly because it seems to morally conflate North Korea’s quest for weapons of mass destruction (which it appears fully prepared to use) with America’s right to
defend
itself and its allies.
The other parties made it easier for him by discrediting each other, failing even to
defend
their own achievements over the previous 20 years.
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