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Diplomatic ties could be damaged, too, if a more inward-looking UK closes its doors to African travelers and students seeking to enroll in British universities.
Judgment in Phnom PenhThree decades after the Khmer Rouge killed a quarter of Cambodia’s seven million people, a court to try the most responsible surviving leaders is set to open its doors.
A third priority is to improve women’s access to digital technology, which can open countless economic (and social) doors – including into finance.
It is not as though they were angling for lifetime White House cafeteria privileges, or that having said “yes” to George W. Bush will open any doors for them in the future.
The young feel the old have hijacked their future, while the old feel that their accumulated wisdom and legitimate concerns are being ignored by insiders striking bad deals behind closed doors on behalf of vested interests.
And when the Nazis came to power in the 1930s, Nazi lawyers carefully studied the US’s long history of policies to close its doors to non-whites.
But now America’s debt ceiling has become the subject of intense political posturing and touch-and-go negotiations behind closed doors.
Asia is rising because Asian countries are increasingly opening their doors to modernity.
By actually opening borders, or at least announcing a real date and actual modalities, Turkey would open doors to a shared future.
Do people seriously believe that the US has accomplished its majestic trade deficit by shutting its doors to foreign goods?
For example, in the United States, the recessions of 1857-8, 1860-61, 1865-7, 1882-85, 1887-88, 1890-91, 1893-94, 1895-97, 1899-1900, 1902-04, 1907-8, and 1910-12 all ended without help from the Federal Reserve, which opened its doors only in 1914.
But it has done so only slowly – far more slowly than other countries opened their doors to Chinese exports and investment.
Japan, Germany, and Russia all saw large outflows of their populations before the First World War, but these flows slowed to a trickle as countries like the US closed their doors to immigrants in the wake of the Great Depression that began in 1929.
If more jobs do not appear in these places, and doors to immigration remain shut, it should be no surprise that events born of frustration and hopelessness will occur with ever-greater frequency.
But since 2015, when Chancellor Angela Merkel announced her policy of Willkommenskultur (“welcoming culture”) and opened Germany’s doors to refugees fleeing the conflict in Syria, unease about resurgent anti-Semitism has been growing in the German establishment, and particularly in the Jewish community.
India’s private sector is a far more important player, and the government often confines itself to opening doors and letting African countries work with the most efficient Indian provider that they can find.
Clinton has reopened the doors for Obama in Asia with charm and confidence.
Nevertheless, the traditional doors separating academia from industry are being quietly dismantled - sometimes even smashed down.
Specious free-market doctrines are devaluing the public services that those doors protected, not least the free flow of well-informed, critical speech that is vital to open inquiry.
At the same time, closing the doors to the Union's newest citizens will not solve the problem of welfare access and will certainly hurt economic growth.
Instead, NATO expanded to Russia’s doorstep, the European Union barred its doors, and membership in the World Trade Organization seemed out of reach.
So will those who, while not jumping aboard the venality train themselves, hold the doors open for others, by failing to defend ethical standards.
Even if serious dialogue with Uzbekistan is taking place behind closed doors – and the Pentagon’s new initiatives suggest that it is – its low, almost undetectable, profile sends mixed signals that fly in the face of the open, transparent, and collective ethos of America’s big OSCE push.
Thinner, better dressed, and more soft-spoken, she developed a kind of charisma that enabled her to appeal to a wider variety of supporters, from unemployed young people to the disenchanted middle class, from policemen wary of losing control to second- or third-generation immigrants who wanted to close France’s doors to foreigners.
This is why I am hopeful that something really significant might come out of the deliberations currently taking place behind closed doors.
Like the rich in Jakarta and Rio de Janeiro, isolated behind steel doors at night and with armed guards on the watch, perhaps we too should begin to fear the everyday squalor from which we avert our eyes.
In what could have been a landmark victory that would open the doors of opportunity for Europe’s Roma, the Strasbourg Court instead chose to keep Roma locked out of a decent education.
Today, we need to unlock the same doors to ensure that governments, philanthropists, the private sector, and others step up to meet the world’s education needs.
Such a declaration would mean that Europe is not closing its doors on Ukraine, a country with a European cultural identity and a long tradition of struggle for democracy and human rights.
A Theory of Boardroom JusticeLONDON – There is a real danger that corporate leaders, making decisions that seem correct behind closed doors, end up being tone-deaf in a soundproof room.
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