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That is why emissions cuts should receive the lion’s share of resources devoted to combating climate change.
Multilateral summitry lends itself to familiar gibes about wildly expensive photo opportunities, set-piece speeches endorsing pre-cooked lowest-common-denominator communiqués, and more time devoted to parading around in silly shirts than to policy substance.
They concluded that, “an increase of three or four percentage points in the share of GDP devoted to equipment investment is associated with an increase in GDP per worker of one percent per year.”
Great efforts, including countless international meetings, working papers, and communiqués have been devoted to this end.
President Bush and his wife Laura, herself a lover of books, have declared this US administration to be one devoted to education.
With all the attention devoted to strained transatlantic relations, it is easy to overlook how often our preoccupations overlap.
The danger is that this week’s EU summit will not be devoted to finding a solution to the dilemma of the French and Dutch “no” votes, but instead will be turned into a confrontation between Britain and the rest about the budget.
The question seems to presuppose, not only that Russia was lost, but also that if someone in America’s government, the IMF, or EU headquarters had been paying more attention or had devoted more resources towards helping Russia’s government, the results would have been better.
The petition, initiated by Luca Coscioni Association, an NGO devoted to the promotion of the freedom of scientific research, called on governments to reject prohibitions in favor of “rules that protect the right to life and health by ensuring freedom of research, choice, and knowledge.”
There is, of course, widespread consensus against cloning devoted to the reproduction of human beings, and most of the world has outlawed the technique.
One unforeseen consequence of the hefty budgets now devoted to science is that such vast funds have increased the pressure for practical outcomes.
Indeed, the efforts to rescue them devoted so little thought to the kind of post-crisis financial system we want that we will end up with a banking system that is less competitive, with the large banks that were too big too fail even larger.
As technological progress makes us ever richer in terms of many basic goods and services – whether cars or household appliances, restaurant meals or mobile phone calls – it may be inevitable that more human activity is devoted to zero-sum competition for available income and assets.
Eventually, almost all human work might be devoted to zero-sum activities.
There are two possibilities: one is a dramatic increase in leisure; the other is that ever more work would be devoted to zero-sum competition.
Given the scale of the threat posed by the Islamic State to Iraq and the Middle East, and its emergence at a time when the marathon 2016 US presidential election campaign is getting underway, the attention devoted to the implications of American policy is understandable.
And most capital spending will continue to be devoted to labor-saving technologies, again implying limited job creation.
One type of aquaculture is devoted to the farming of bivalves such as oysters and mussels, or to freshwater fish such as carp and tilapia.
Of all the forecasts the last century devoted to ours it is probably the most accurate and certainly, at least in the West, the most often quoted.
If every individual devoted as much energy and resources as the rich do to avoiding their fair share of taxes, the tax system either would collapse, or would have to be replaced by a far more intrusive and coercive scheme.
Of course, centuries of scientific research have been devoted to ensuring that enough food is produced for growing populations.
Campaigns routinely planted spies – interns, household staff, or even lovers – in the opposing camp, and devoted vast numbers of man-hours to combing through private records in opposition research.
From 2002 to 2006, the share of the American economy devoted to residential construction rose by 1.2 percentage points of GDP above its previous trend value, before plunging as the United States entered the greatest economic crisis in nearly a century.
By the reckoning of Freedom House, a think-tank devoted to monitoring democracy worldwide, the number of "free" countries around the world increased by nearly three dozen over the past 20 years.
It will also be a government without the Greens, who continue to have a devoted, if limited, clientele, but are now regarded by many as a luxury that Germany can no longer afford.
Swiss citizens roundly rejected that approach in a recent referendum, but the energy devoted to more radical approaches to help those who need it is welcome, even if the specifics of UBI and its cost have yet to proven.
Since the $310 million devoted to improvement of partner capacities does not really amount to much, the potential recipients – including my country, Poland – are eager to secure as much as possible to invest in their own infrastructure.
He never addressed that question, but another founder, James Madison, devoted considerable attention to it.
The Kremlin, devoted to its key fetish –Putin’s approval ratings – proved completely unprepared to curtail public spending in the wake of falling state revenues.
Europe will suffer in the short and medium term as well, as considerable political energy is likely to be devoted to Brexit for the next five years, at a time when the EU needs the strength to confront internal and external dangers.
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