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Meanwhile, proposals for pre-adoption assessment of national budgets by the EU have attracted criticism in France and elsewhere, which serves as a reminder of the distance there is between calls for coordination and actual acceptance of its implications.
In short, our subsidies create the worst kind of state establishment — in which a closed canon is remorselessly repeated despite its increasing distance from the anxieties and concerns of most citizens.
The reds will need to distance themselves from Thaksin’s abuses of power as much as the yellows will have to accept some of Thaksin’s policy legacy, particularly grassroots opportunities for jobs, education, and upward mobility.
This is contrary to what would be predicted by the so-called gravity model of trade, which is based on both the size of the trading partner and its distance.
Le Bon believed that crowds need strong leaders, to distance them from their natural madness and transform them into civilizations of splendor, vigor, and brilliance.
As a result, Hatoyama’s administration seems to be trying to emulate South Korea’s former Roh Moo-hyun administration, which foolishly sought to distance that country from its main defensive partner, the US.
In the photographs presented to the world of the newly public couple, they stand chastely, but contentedly, next to each other but at an appropriate distance, or she follows a few steps behind.
Yet Turkey is also succeeding in keeping an equal distance between both the EU and the US.
Yes, the Internet allows people to connect – one to one – across cultures and distance.
Any candidate claiming to represent the interests of developing countries must distance himself from these policies.
I hope that when millions of overseas passengers pass through T3, including those who do so during the Beijing Olympics, they will pause and reflect upon the distance China has traveled over the past three decades in its reform and opening to the outside world.
The distance between the Army and young democratic activists grew further on April 11, when a military court sentenced the first blogger since the fall of Mubarak to prison for criticizing the military.
The eurozone’s flaws reflect its conceptual distance from the US, which is the only model of a well-functioning monetary union.
Could distance be a prerequisite for a more balanced view of the continent’s predicament?
Across the English Channel, British Euroskeptics rejoice that they have kept their distance from a “sinking ship.”
The most critical issue facing Brown is whether he chooses to distance himself from Blair’s self-satisfied and delusional claim that the invasion of Iraq was “the right thing to do.”Britain has already reduced its forces in southern Iraq, and is on course to reduce them still further as they hand over “security” to the Iraqi police and military.
The ICT sector had developed by virtue of its distance from, rather than proximity to, government.
The strain of trying to meet this impossible standard of cool curiosity about one’s own fate imposes an unbearable distance between the scientist of the body and mind, and the body and mind of the scientist.
Soon enough, drones will take over the task of spraying pesticides; livestock will be equipped with sensors to track milk quantities, movement patterns, and feed rations; tractors will be controlled by GPS; and app-controlled sowing machines will assess soil quality to determine the optimal distance between rows and plants.
While he has seemingly lost touch with the French people, he is deeply aware of and wounded by his declining popularity, and no one should underestimate his ability to reinvent himself with a new government after the municipal elections and greater distance from his immediate entourage.
Many who have been observing these trends from a distance – or even from within Germany – are listening for echoes of the 1930s.
Gravity explains how celestial bodies attract each other at a distance, but it does not tell us why.
This may give him room to distance himself somewhat from American policy.
He was so confident that his call would be heeded, and that he would emerge as an indispensable regional leader, that he felt free to distance himself from the West and toughen his stance toward Israel.
This has put distance between Turkey and its Western allies, which view the Kurdish question as a domestic issue.
The fact that the world’s most wanted man lived for a half-dozen years in a large house within spitting distance of Pakistan Military Academy, where the country trains its officers, has provoked a reaction that Pakistanis should have expected, but did not.
If European governments today distance themselves from America, as their citizens frequently demand, they will both antagonize and further weaken the US.
Even if some Nato members want to distance themselves from this strategy, the Bush Administration unambiguously supports Nato’s role as a stability network.
I had other arugula plants, some distance away, that would give me plenty of leaves for our salads, and I didn’t want to use an insecticide, so I just left the caterpillars alone.
But it is still enough to be capable of performing and interpreting the famous “waggle dance” that conveys information about the direction and distance of flowers, water, or potential nest sites.
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