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When a would-be exploiter of trees stands before a politician and requests, or demands, the right to clear a forest, the politician, out of fear, complies.
And, though the cost in terms of human suffering has been extremely high, the Greek government’s recent proposals went a long way toward meeting its creditors’ demands.
When the stronger economies provided those bailouts, they included demands for austerity that impeded the recipients’ economic recovery.
Indeed, with every failed policy to aid economic recovery, Europeans have felt increasingly disenchanted, fueling populist sentiment and demands for a return to national sovereignty.
France has long pushed for this, but Germany – which spends a meager 1.2% of its GDP on defense – opposes it, claiming that it would open a Pandora’s box of other demands and exclusions.
It also demands new business models, a redefined concept of legal ownership and use, new public-tendering rules, and novel financing strategies.
Dealing with life’s predicaments sometimes demands, to borrow the language of former UK Cabinet Secretary Robert Armstrong, that we are somewhat economical with the truth.
Today, more than a quarter-century since the onset of transition, those earlier results have been confirmed, and those who argued that private property rights, once created, would give rise to broader demands for the rule of law have been proven wrong.
On the contrary, MAPs would put heavy demands on Ukraine and Georgia.
International law – and basic morality – demands nothing less.
Perhaps the princes believe that it is easier to kill “terrorist” criminals than to crush demands for social justice.
What began as protests over living conditions became full-scale demands for freedom and democracy.
Only a month ago, Mubarak dismissed demands for constitutional reform as “futile.”
Released during a two-day symposium on Islam and climate change in Istanbul, the Declaration explains why Muslims should be responsible activists for the welfare of the planet, and sets out a series of demands to world leaders and the business community.
It also demands determined efforts to reduce global imbalances by rebalancing Asia’s own sources of growth.
Instead of strident demands for restoration of untrammeled national sovereignty in March 2019, she is now pleading for a transition, in which nothing noticeable to voters will change at all.
The OECD demands a smorgasbord of reforms affecting corporate governance, private insurance markets, competition policy, statistics, health, technology, agriculture, and many other regulatory areas.
Indeed, terrorist attacks have been launched not only by the Islamic State, but also by Kurdish militants, whose demands for autonomy challenge the concept of an indivisible Turkish nation – a cornerstone of the Kemalist state.
But building that future demands a new digital zeitgeist, whereby social, cultural, environmental, and ethical values become part of the design process.
Defending Russia’s national interests, in their view, demands hard bargaining tactics, even if these now verge on the comical, as in the recent case of supposed British spies hiding secrets in a rock in a Moscow park.
So far, the army has acceded to only one of the protesters’ central demands – getting rid of Mubarak.
It has not endorsed the wide array of liberal demands voiced by the revolutionaries of Tahrir Square.
Mega cities put demands on regional economies, peacemaking efforts, and economic and human development.
But they rejected demands for formal acceptance of legal liability.
But, nowadays, research increasingly is misdirected toward lucrative prizes, professional recognition, and financial gains – rewards that are suffocating the creativity and passion that scientific progress demands.
With the current presidential term lurching to such a calamitous close that the incumbent is probably worried about being remembered as George Herbert Hoover Walker Bush, the correlation between presidential party and economic outcome demands some kind of explanation.
China has played a helpful role of late in encouraging North Korean cooperation with demands to limit its nuclear capabilities.
Its coverage was filled with Arab masses declaring their demands to the world.
It is never possible to satisfy the demands of all protesters, and regimes should not try.
Outsiders can assist – for example, with ideas for constitutional reform or voting procedures – but this should be done privately and as suggestions, not demands.
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