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Determining the validity of such fears requires understanding what is driving China’s economic slowdown.
By driving up energy prices, Bush was Putin’s greatest ally, with Putin returning the favor by refocusing Russia from its multiple problems to “terrorism.”
If the Obama administration succeeds in forcing India to strengthen its patent laws, the change would harm not only India and other developing countries; it would also enshrine a grossly corrupt and inefficient patent system in the US, in which companies increase their profits by driving out the competition – both at home and abroad.
Or he could post further inflammatory tweets about the evils of Islam, thereby driving disturbed and marginalized individuals into the arms of the Islamic State (ISIS) or other extremist groups.
That would increase the likelihood of ISIS-inspired attacks – for example, “lone wolves” blowing themselves up or driving trucks through crowded pedestrian areas – within the US.
People would say you look weak if you’re not cursing the opposition and driving around in a big black car wearing a tie.
Although social and economic developments are the main forces driving China’s rapid demographic transition, and population aging is an irreversible trend, there still remains scope for policy adjustment in order to balance the future population structure.
It stands to play an equally important role in driving the fight against inflation, asset bubbles, and deteriorating loan quality.
Nowadays, the country's communist leaders acted as if they believed that disclosing SARS would risk tarnishing China's "economic miracle" and driving away foreign direct investment--some $50 billion last year, or 80% of all FDI made in Asia.
The US worries that China is driving a wedge between its strongest Asian allies, South Korea and Japan, undermining America’s capacity to offset China’s rising military power.
In this context, it seems likely that historical grievances with Japan are far from the only issue driving South Korea toward China.
Today, the innovative technologies and ideas that are driving the Fourth Industrial Revolution belong to all of humankind, and they are proving Pasteur right in ways that he could not have imagined.
During the last two years, Washington has been obsessed with the need to cut the deficit and put the debt/GDP ratio on a “sustainable” path, even as global investors have flocked to US government debt, driving interest rates to historic lows.
On May 21, a brave woman named Manal al Sharif broke the silence and apathy, daring to defy the ban on women driving.
Indeed, not only do judges’ decisions support the system, but the reverse is also true: patriarchy has become the driving force of the law.
Now some clerics have pronounced driving by women to be foreign-inspired haram, punishable in the same way.
Yet, despite such threats, thousands of Saudi women joined “We are all Manal al Sharif” on Facebook, and countless other videos of women driving have appeared on YouTube since her arrest.
But Wajeha al Huwaider, Bahia al Mansour, Rasha al Maliki, and many other activists are nonetheless insisting that driving a car is their legitimate right, and are eloquently demanding the removal of restrictions and an end to women’s dependency.
Moreover, by providing detailed information on biodiversity and the interactions within ecosystems, genomics is driving the development of innovative environmental-protection strategies.
What is the compelling reason that provides the driving force behind "ever closer union"?
Economic union has benefited many; but it is not the type of driving force that inspires.
Given that social norms in much of the world discourage women from smoking, drinking alcohol, and, in extreme cases, driving cars and motorcycles, advertisers in these industries tend to target men.
For starters, they are responsible for public capital expenditure, driving the improvement in China’s physical infrastructure and yielding reasonable returns for private investors.
In fact, what appears to be driving Abe’s endeavors even more than the desire to revise the postwar order in Japan is a widely shared fear of China’s increasing regional dominance.
In fact, unions were a driving force behind last year’s Domestic Workers Convention, which seeks to protect the rights of the world’s estimated 50-100 million domestic workers.
This raises a basic credibility issue: how can Europe urge Colombia and Peru to reduce supply when its own drug habit is driving cultivation?
These parties’ extremist tendencies and narrow platforms are limiting governments’ policy flexibility by driving relatively moderate parties and politicians to adopt more radical positions.
But whatever economic benefits Russia can offer are dwarfed by those provided by the EU – a critical trade and business partner that has been indispensable in driving Turkey’s modernization.
Such aspirations will inevitably disrupt the labor market, beginning with routine white-collar jobs (such as customer service and telemarketing), followed by routine blue-collar jobs (such as assembly line work), and finally affecting some non-routine jobs (such as driving or even radiology).
In the current political climate, the more enlightened Russians would rather use their skills and talents for self-fulfillment abroad than be the driving force of Russia’s modernization.
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