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There were massive transfers, and national resources were devoted to gigantic infrastructure projects.
But there is an even more politically divisive question facing NATO’s leaders in Warsaw: its eastern members continue to perceive Russia as the biggest threat facing the Alliance, and thus demand that more attention and resources be devoted to their protection.
We estimate that literally billions of dollars every year are devoted to promoting this view of religion.
As for the impact on lives in Gaza, Hamas – like Yasir Arafat – has again shown itself to be more devoted to the idea of Palestine than to the welfare of Palestinians.
They have better uniforms and higher pay than ordinary soldiers - and officers too close to the intrigues of Iraq's palace politics to remain blindly devoted to Saddam.
It has a huge budget devoted to deterring and detecting fraud, and it can simply ban fraudsters.
To minimize that risk, the Troika reserves currently devoted to the Greek bailout should be used to limit exchange-rate overshooting; capital controls would help, too.
The more resources that are devoted to achieving this goal, the more effective the post-2015 development agenda will be.
Much public debate is devoted to child poverty and how to relieve it.
Like the unemployed, they do not want a political party devoted to their plight.
In the 1990's, the US devoted 2.8% of GDP annually on R&D, compared with 2.3% in Germany, 2% in the UK, and 1.9% in France.
If too many resources and too much brainpower are now devoted to finding slight underpricing or overpricing of stock, Clinton’s program might be a good thing, as it would help to reallocate those resources.
All that is necessary is for Ukrainian voters to bring to power people devoted to this task.
In 2012, the organization Open Doors, which is devoted to focusing on the plight of Christians, designated Muslim-majority countries – including Afghanistan, Saudi Arabia, and even the Maldives – as some of the world’s worst offenders.
The consultation processes on rules and regulations were highly structured, and much effort was devoted to ensuring balanced representations from providers and users of financial services.
Monetary policy would have been more effective in the US had more attention been devoted to credit blockages – for example, many homeowners’ refinancing problems, even at lower interest rates, or small and medium-size enterprises’ lack of access to financing.
Preventing the Euro’s Next CrisisLUXEMBOURG – Much dedication and energy are currently being devoted to institutionalizing a crisis-management mechanism for the euro area.
In part, poor countries make these large investments because they are devoted to improving the quality of diagnosis and treatment.
Nations that make large investments in hospitals and physicians who are devoted to improving quality of care clearly expect to see improved patient outcomes.
It is a legacy still mired in the murky world of “front organizations”: real “foreign agents,” apparently independent and devoted to worthy causes, but secretly controlled from abroad.
Check out the elaborate and informative website ( www.edge.org ) devoted to the promotion of a "third culture" that bridges the humanities and the natural sciences.
The inquiry devoted particular attention to a Russian law passed in March 2006 allowing the state to kill those, such as Litvinenko, deemed to jeopardize national security.
Yet insufficient attention is being devoted to a critical factor – time, and who controls it – that could well mean the difference between an orderly global resolution of today’s growing inconsistencies and a return to a more troubled phase.
On July 2, 1996, at a meeting of the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC), which was devoted to extensive discussion of the appropriate inflation target for the Fed, Greenspan posed a simple question: “Are we talking about price stability or are we talking about zero inflation?” he asked.
Moreover, in most of continental Europe a person can be discharged of his or her debt only after a lengthy period, often 5-7 years, during which almost all income must be devoted to debt service.
A fundamental discovery has been that the brain has multiple memory systems, each devoted to different kinds of memory functions.
Baba Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh Insan was flown to prison in a luxurious helicopter with an “adopted daughter” in devoted attendance; he nibbled abstractedly at a piece of chocolate as a police escort carried his bags.
Furthermore, Netanyahu’s unsentimental assessment of the Middle East does not line up with that of the Obama administration – in thrall to its collapsing romance with moderate Islamists – and its devoted supporters among Jewish Americans.
What is needed is a "World Organization of Democracies," devoted to promoting the original values of the UN, including democracy, the rule of law, and respect for human rights.
“The new presentation,” write Mikhail Danilovich and Robert Coalson, “is devoted not to the repressive forced-labor practices of the Stalin era but to the timber production at the plant and to its contribution to the Soviet victory in World War II.”
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