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And, because the violence tends to come in dribs and drabs – rarely since 2004 has any one day’s casualties reached double figures – the South has never risen back up the news agenda.
The Council of Nice in 2000 sought to restructure the Union for the time when enlargement will double its membership to 27.
The US federal deficit is an alarming 12% of GDP, and public debt as a share of national income is already projected to double, to 80% of GDP.
The late British economist Angus Maddison once estimated that whereas global per capita GDP did not even double between 1 AD and 1820, it increased more than tenfold between 1820 and 2008.
Yet the Senate’s leading Democrat, Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, is ready to double down on this approach, calling for the suspension of direct investment from China.
In this sense, the cartel would double as an international workers’ union, lending bargaining power to employees in countries where unions are weak or not permitted at all.
In an exciting experiment in Lebanon, schools have been put on double shifts in order to accommodate the country’s Syrian refugee population.
Moreover, by putting a price on pollution, governments can generate revenue for investments like clean energy, schools, and health care, making it a double win.
A double layer of decision-making would only cause an already ponderous organization to seize up.
Health care now accounts for about one dollar in every six of all US spending – private as well as public – and is on track to double by 2035.
Innovation will also be needed in African cities; by 2050, Africa’s urban population will more than double, to 2.4 billion people, and insulating these communities from climate disruptions will not be easy.
Imports are expected to double and the trade surplus to drop to $35 billion in 2004 as a result of equipment and technology imports -- precisely the pattern a country growing strongly should have.
This would offer the double benefit of capturing greenhouse gas pollution and saving the world’s wildlife from oblivion.
All Western Muslims possess a double sense of belonging, a double cultural capital.
Because they have a double cultural capital, they can circulate relatively freely between different activities and spaces--home, school, youth associations, and urban leisure space.
Now Putin seems to want to double down on these trends and create a new Sino-Soviet axis.
But if this rate of growth were sustained over a period of just ten years, per capita income would double, which underscores the need for sustained high growth rates.
And, following the commitment, made by Obama and 19 other world leaders at last December’s climate change conference in Paris, to double public investment in green-energy research, ARPA-E seems set to receive a welcome boost in funding.
In 2001, workers from low- and middle-income countries sent home a staggering $43 billion--more than double the level of a decade earlier and $5 billion more than that year's total official foreign aid to these countries.
In Jamaica, remittances from workers abroad make up more than 10% of annual GDP on average--more than double the level of foreign direct investment.
Over the past decade, China has accounted for an average of 1.6 percentage points of world GDP growth per year – more than double the combined 0.7-percentage-point contribution of the so-called advanced economies.
In order to do this, we must take back as state revenue the profits from the exploitation of our natural wealth, double the budget, and guarantee everyone's real right to free education and healthcare.
After all, trade growth has typically outpaced GDP growth; in the years before the 2008 global financial crisis, the average increase was double that of output.
And price growth in health-care services, which had slowed in recent years, has jumped to 3.9%, double the rate recorded a year ago.
Indeed, just 100 miles inland, in California’s Central Valley, unemployment rates remain in the double digits (11.2% in Fresno and 10.4% in Modesto), with average family income amounting to less than half of that in Palo Alto, the heart of Silicon Valley.
This is forecast to rise to 3.5 billion bushels in the coming 2007-2008 marketing year, and more than 70 new ethanol plants are under construction, which will double the amount of maize consumed for ethanol production.
Moreover, there is an urgent imperative to raise food productivity in poor countries, especially in Africa, which needs its own “Green Revolution” to double or triple its food production in the coming few years.
The Vatican’s position is an application of what is known as “the doctrine of double effect.”
According to the doctrine of double effect, two doctors may, to all outward appearances, do exactly the same thing: that is, they may give patients in identical conditions an identical dose of morphine, knowing that this dose will shorten the patient’s life.
The doctrine of double effect, properly understood, does not justify what the doctors did; but, by inuring them to the practice of shortening patients’ lives without obtaining consent, it seems to have paved the way for intentional killing.
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