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To defend its legality in hearings before Germany’s Constitutional Court, the ECB itself has argued that the OMT program is a less potent instrument than many believe.
When he offends, we should defend.
America must defend itself against terrorist attacks, but that cannot be allowed to become the overarching objective of its existence.
So Uribe could not defend the new military agreement.
His basic strategy was a standard one: bet against any central bank that tries to defend an inconsistent macroeconomic policy.
To succeed, however, the government will have to slay two dragons at once: The incompetence of Greece’s public administration and the inexhaustible resourcefulness of an oligarchy that knows how to defend itself – including by forging strong alliances with the troika.
This time, the non-Pashtun communities are better armed and prepared to defend their interests after the US withdrawal.
The mere fact that high-level Russians reappeared in Davos to defend themselves may be a small but healthy sign.
The same thing is true of international arrangements and institutions, whose survival depends on the willingness to defend them.
Europeans are completely unprepared to defend themselves, owing to inertia, complacency, and lassitude.
The Kremlin continues to support Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s regime, maintaining a strict aversion to military intervention and seeking to defend its strategic interests, including its naval base in the Syrian city of Tartus.
US pledges to defend Japan against a nuclear attack from China or North Korea have played a decisive role in dissuading the Japanese from seeking their own nuclear weapons.
BRUSSELS – At high-level gatherings of the European Union elite, one often hears the following type of statement: “Europe must integrate and centralize economic governance in order to defend its social model in an age of globalization.”
As a result, its leaders believes that China ought to be able to project military power and defend what it regards as its strategic space – just like the US.
The best way to defend public space is to occupy it, even if you are championing a cause different from that of the person standing next to you.
But almost every Jew will defend the right of others to live according to Jewish dietary laws.
Beyond fundamental freedoms and economic prosperity, do we have a specific civilization to defend?
“If you want to defend me… Don’t send the Israel Defense Forces for us in order to ‘win,’” Michal Vasser wrote in Haaretz on November 15.“Start thinking about the long term and not just about the next election.
Israel is, of course, entitled to defend itself from rocket attacks.
Since I have never had either the benefits or misfortunes of adhering to any religion, it might smack of hypocrisy for me to defend those who have.
The longer the crisis continues, the more obvious it becomes that the common currency and the ECB alone are not enough to defend the Common Market and European integration.
Donald Trump’s Unexamined LifeMADISON – In the Euthyphro, one of Plato’s early dialogues, Socrates travels to the Athenian court to defend himself against trumped-up charges that he has corrupted the city’s youth and does not believe in the gods.
One cannot simultaneously defend the Alliance in the name of Europe and weaken Europe with fits of populism and economic nationalism.
When he sought a lawyer to defend his rights, his mother, who had been made his legal guardian, had him locked up in a psychiatric hospital for seven months.
With the rise of the Tea Party, Republicans may rail against raising the debt ceiling, but they are likely to back down in the end, because, among other things, debt-funded wars – say, in Afghanistan and Iraq – are easier to defend than pay-as-you-go wars that voters must finance up front with taxes.
After decades of reveling in broad global acceptance of the rules-based liberal world order, the stewards – and, in many cases, key beneficiaries – of that order have been forced to defend it from high-profile assaults, most prominently by US President Donald Trump.
It thus set the stage for UN officials to establish the “Rules of Engagement” (ROEs) for its peacekeepers, which dictate when and under what circumstances UN troops can fire their weapons to defend themselves.
But it is difficult to defend the current line between what athletes can and cannot do in order to enhance their performance.
All French universities go on strike to defend them.
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.”
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