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A low-carbon, reliable, and depoliticized energy sector remained a distant dream in the overwhelming majority of countries.
But, in addition to communicating with distant audiences by rhetoric and symbols, leaders need the ability to communicate one on one or in small groups.
And, though a formal offer of membership in either organization is at best a distant possibility, it has not been ruled out.
As a result, the prospect of closer cooperation remains distant.
All other central bankers, finance ministers, and even presidents run a distant second.
Coming in second – one might even say a distant second – was generating vigorous, sustainable, and inclusive national growth patterns.
If universal conformity to a rules-based international order still seems like a distant prospect, an important reason is that countries that should be leading the charge still so often behave like rogue states.
For the Shia religious hierarchy, long accustomed to relegating the advent of the Mahdi to a distant future, Ahmadinejad’s insistent millenarianism is troublesome.
Fears that the move would lead to Japanese involvement in distant US wars are similarly overblown.
At a time when we are confronted by Russian expansionism and the extremism of messianic thugs, the lessons from the Congress of Vienna may seem distant and irrelevant.
While we now have the ability to rent a car at a distant airport equipped with a Global Posting System to guide us unerringly to a hotel we have never seen, we still cannot put anywhere near the same of measure of reliance on any of our common economic measures.
And, with the Islamic State and other brutal extremist groups capitalizing on the anarchy created by the civil war, the prospect of peace is more distant than ever.
Zinky Boys: Soviet Voices from the Afghanistan War (1991) spoke of a distant fight – the nine-year Soviet war in Afghanistan – that eroded Russian culture and humanity, while Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster (1997) meditated on the global significance of the nuclear disaster.
Innovative firms face the uphill challenge of developing entire new products and selling them in geographically and economically distant markets.
Or they can decide to move toward Europe, perhaps in the distant future joining the EU as its largest – and perhaps most influential – member.
Inflation targeting is survived by the gold standard, an elderly distant relative.
It is not surprising that the greatest and strongest ideological opponent of the American way of life was not in distant Europe or Asia, but in Cuba, just 90 miles off the Florida coast.
A month before the Russian Revolution of February 1917, Lenin predicted that his country’s great explosion lay in the distant future.
But I will not forgo sharing my opinion of this monthly, to which, during the 1974-1975 Portuguese revolution, I submitted one of my first dispatches, but which today retains nothing of Le Monde except shareholders, nothing diplomatic except the word, and nothing respectable except the memory of its distant founders.
Second, Chinese aid does not require pre-project “missions” by bureaucrats who arrive from distant headquarters for a sort of development tourism that wreaks havoc on the routines of the local counterparts who must accompany them on their poverty excursions.
The countries closest to the markets of Western Europe (Poland, Hungary, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Croatia, Slovenia, and the Baltic States) have had a much easier transition to capitalism than the more distant economies of the former Soviet Union.
For South Koreans, whether to care for hungry North Koreans, who are kith and kin, will be a much tougher decision than for others who see only a distant security problem.
Now, with Israel’s existence under threat, peace with its Arab neighbors seems a more distant prospect than ever.
Both objectives were sacrificed in the interest of restoring the fortunes of the super-rich, perhaps with a distant hope that the wealth would “trickle down” someday.
Forty years after the Six Day War peace between Israelis and Palestinians seems as distant as ever.
They have made these technologies an integral part of their lives, but their relationship to science has remained distant.
So, while US troops may be leaving Afghanistan, an end to the violence spawned by America’s war remains nothing more than a distant dream – especially for Afghanistan’s South Asian neighbors.
Reinvigorating global growth runs a distant second.
“England in effect is insular, she is maritime, she is linked through her exchanges, her markets, her supply lines to the most diverse and often the most distant countries,” explained de Gaulle.
The US comes in a distant second, emitting about five billion metric tons annually.
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