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So reducing emissions today is very valuable to humanity in the distant future.
Even though actual enlargement of the eurozone remains in the relatively distant future - the earliest possible date being January 2007 - the accession countries must prepare their entry strategies well in advance.
After all, in a globalized economy, much of this liquidity spills across political boundaries, giving rise to inflationary pressures in distant lands and precipitating the risk of currency wars, while unemployment at home remains dangerously high, threatening to erode workers’ skills.
Colonialism, slavery, the splintering of Africa into small countries, and a long history of resource exploitation may be matters of the distant past to the perpetrators, but not so to those who suffered as a result.
Asia’s Future FarmsMANILA – Food shortages are a distant memory for many people in Asia.
Doing away with this illusion requires the creation of a global emissions market – still a very distant goal.
For example, forced solidarity will oblige any hard-working farmer in Benin who has accumulated some wealth over the years to share the fruit of his labor with his enlarged family, including distant relatives.
As the once-imminent promise of identifying “biomarkers” for depression recedes into the distant future, the APA is raising the stakes – and increasing pressure on the already vulnerable – by implying that, after two weeks, a person’s grief is no longer just grief.
(This would be like a family financing its down payment not from its own savings but from distant relatives about whom the family cares little.)
In May-June of that year, while the international community was still mooting potential land swaps for an increasingly distant peace settlement with the Palestinians, Israelis were focusing on a domestic battle over the regulation of cottage cheese.
The euro is a distant second.
The point of departure for Western students – freedom of speech and assembly, ideological pluralism, and a democratic political system – was, for their Eastern colleagues, a distant objective that they were unlikely to achieve.
The Japanese management, especially from head-office, appeared aloof and distant.
Hardly a day goes by without a major newspaper somewhere in the West offering sage and specific, but often not-so-friendly, advice to distant struggling democracies on what they “must” do to earn the “international community’s” approbation.
The world’s advice givers might try to keep this in mind when offering to help leaders of distant countries that are grappling with problems with which the adviser has little or no first-hand experience.
Japan must also meet the expectations of its more distant allies, especially the United States, so that it can assume a larger, more sustained role in global governance.
In contrast, it might be more difficult for a migrant in a distant country to assess the extent to which family members back home, knowing that they can always rely on the remittances, are responsible for other forms of income loss.
Running out of gas may seem like a distant prospect, but the risk of a security breakdown that jeopardizes supplies haunts us always.
Debt collection from poor nations is an absurdity, now and into the distant future.
But most people care far more about how well they are doing relative to their neighbors than to citizens of distant lands.
Reports of widespread sexual violence in India, South Africa, and recently Brazil have finally triggered a long-overdue, more systemic examination of how those societies may be fostering rape, not as a distant possibility in women’s lives, but as an ever-present, life-altering, daily source of terror.
Unfortunately, Eid and any surplus food are now distant memories.
"They still let me write what I want..."My job as bureau chief in Beijing isolated me from the struggles in the head office in distant Hong Kong.
Meanwhile, economic growth is no longer a distant promise in Africa, but a reality.
His natural shyness makes him seem distant, not unlike Hillary Clinton in the US.
Ripple, a platform championed by the banking sector to slash transaction costs for interbank and overseas transfers, is a distant third at $9 billion.
Rather, it entails a major, progressive reorganization of existing knowledge, without undermining the fundamental tenets of evolutionary theory: organisms alive today developed from significantly different organisms in the distant past; dissimilar organisms may share common ancestors; and natural selection has played a crucial role in this process.
Even when well run, democracy took little interest in the distant future, aristocracy took little interest in the well-being of those whom Simpson calls the “little people,” and monarchy took little interest in anything other than legitimate succession.
It is true, they say, that the Bush administration launched the Free Trade Area of the Americas, but hemispheric free trade looks as distant today as ever.
Political union may remain possible in the distant future.
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