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Better to let the Americans do it, though of course these Shi’a leaders prefer a slow strangulation of al-Sadr to a
direct
and bloody assault.
It goes on to establish
direct
parallels with the abuses committed by American soldiers at Iraq’s Abu Ghraib prison, presenting much of the social science research illustrating the power of social situations to dominate individual dispositions.
The Hamas VetoGAZA CITY – The resumption of
direct
peace talks between the Palestinians and Israelis has broken 20 months of stalemate, and marked the entry of Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu into this round of diplomacy.
Hamas refuses all
direct
peace negotiations with Israel, and has vowed to derail the current talks through violence.
Rhetoric aside, Hamas’s opposition to
direct
talks with Israel is intended to make clear to the US that Hamas is central to the political reality of the region and cannot be ignored.
The future of these
direct
peace talks thus depends not only on Netanyahu and Abbas, but also on how they relate to the extremists within their camps.
On that day, the ECB, pressured by Germany, rescinded an important part of its exemption, thereby cutting off Greek banks’
direct
access to the ECB and diverting them to pricier financing from Greece’s central bank (so-called emergency liquidity assistance).
This will create considerable opportunities for obstruction and delay from the anti-Brexit majority there, at a time when a slowdown– a
direct
result of the Brexit vote – will be sapping the government’s popularity.
Private companies struggle to gain credit from state-owned commercial banks and are at a disadvantage in the
direct
financing market.
Putin called NATO membership for Ukraine “a
direct
threat” to Russia.
Policymakers must
direct
just as much effort and resources toward realizing social sustainability as they do toward getting the Basel III financial reforms right.
As it stands, there is far less
direct
investment between China and the EU than there is between China and its other large trading partners, including the US and Brazil.
Specifically, beyond
direct
help for Tunisia at this critical moment, the EU must breathe new life into the Mediterranean partnership.
Earlier this year, Rosneft signed three agreements with ExxonMobil, Eni, and Statoil exceeding $700 billion in total – an amount that dwarfs all other recent foreign
direct
investment in Russia combined.
Inward foreign
direct
investment is growing.
But many members of today’s thriving global Armenian Diaspora have
direct
ancestors who perished, and carry an oral historical tradition that keeps the memories burning.
Unless countries are using
direct
intervention to pursue contradictory exchange-rate goals, a “currency war” that generates widespread inflation is highly unlikely.
Fear of “Talibanization” of the Caucasus prompted the Kremlin’s recent announcement that Russian Muslims should be protected from extremist propaganda from abroad, and that Russian Muslim education and spiritual life should be controlled in order to
direct
them away from extremism.
Moreover, the
direct
annual hospital costs attributable to ADR’s run into the billions of dollars, and this does not include all the suffering that ADR’s cause that does not lead to hospitalization (or death).
Demonstrations by unemployed young people in southern Algeria, the center of the oil industry, drew a
direct
link between high unemployment and the military’s control of the country’s natural resources.
Usually, bailouts calm markets; but this one recalled early post-Soviet experiments, when the CBR issued
direct
loans to enterprises – invariably fueling higher inflation.
China now ranks second in the world in terms of GDP, consumption, and foreign
direct
investment, and first for manufacturing, trade in goods, and foreign-exchange reserves.
Foreign
direct
investors have hardly fared better.
In addition to
direct
investment, governments can also create incentives for the formation of these kinds of funds – for example, by guaranteeing bonds issued for biopharma research.
Africa’s share of global flows of foreign
direct
investment (FDI) also fell, from 1.8% in 1986-90 to 0.8% in 1999-2000.
But the new investment provisions embedded in the trade agreements that the Obama administration is negotiating across both oceans imply that accompanying any such foreign
direct
investment comes a marked reduction in governments’ abilities to regulate the environment, health, working conditions, and even the economy.
It is critically important that all UN members, whether big or small, insist that these global agreements still
direct
the world’s actions, regardless of what Trump does.
Whatever form it takes, the message should be
direct
and transparent, and it should also target US corporations taking advantage of any relaxation of domestic environmental and emission standards.
The fact that all five of these candidates are well known in diplomatic circles, and four have
direct
UN experience, refutes the old canard that Eastern Europe does not have a credible candidate to offer.
Instead of representative or
direct
democracy, it offers what she and Polonski call “liquid democracy” – a system that combines the best of both.
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