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Young, aspiring populations, whose criticism of the old regime was at least as much economic as political, need their tourist industry back on its feet, their business entrepreneurs feeling confident, and eager foreign investors.
And ISIS has served as the ideal monster for many colonial occupiers eager to appear less villainous than they are.
But Trump seems eager for state and local governments, which are in the strongest position to assess the needs of their communities, to shoulder much of the burden.
Private investors have long been eager to invest in public infrastructure – such as transportation or energy – in exchange for a share of those projects’ future revenues.
The US can and should make clear to Iran that it is eager to put aside 30 years of mutual mistrust and hostility and establish a new tone and context for the relationship.
Moreover, Russia is eager to hail its countrymen killed in battle as heroes.
They have become eager to stoke publicity from the public outrage at their methods, even transmitting images of their crimes around the world.
The Chinese government had just released its 13th Five-Year Plan, and officials were eager to explain what it means for China’s future.
The public is eager for cleaner air, rivers, and land.
Drug companies and other firms may well be eager to buy biobanks on which they can test their products for differential responses according to patients’ genetic make-up.
But it is also true that although some people are eager to take pills that make them feel better or think faster, it is not so obvious that people would really want to take pills that would make them morally better.
Yet, because beneficiary governments are so hungry for aid dollars, they are usually all too eager to follow the agendas prepared by donors and their contractors.
In the old days – think of the 1980’s Latin American debt crisis – one could get creditors, mostly large banks, in a small room, and hammer out a deal, aided by some cajoling, or even arm-twisting, by governments and regulators eager for things to go smoothly.
The Bush administration, eager to have a democratically elected government in Pakistan to continue the fight against terrorism, was believed to have brokered the agreement.
Populist leaders, in particular, have been eager to manipulate the migration debate, using inflated figures and other gross exaggerations to stoke popular fears.
China opened itself to the world in 1978, when Xi and his contemporaries were young men eager to understand the world outside China.
The country’s new leaders want the world’s applause, but they are more eager for domestic ovations.
With their neighbors embroiled in internal conflict or in the midst of difficult transitions, and with discontent rising at home, the Gulf states are eager to stem the tide of revolution.
So it is well suited to an invented history--and who better to supply it than a Ukrainian Diaspora eager to boost the land of their forefathers?
Given their disagreements with the Obama and George W. Bush administrations, the Saudis were eager for a new friend in the White House, and they greeted Trump by adorning Riyadh’s streets with massive posters of his visage.
China was so eager to provide space technology to Africa’s most populous country that it beat out 21 other bidders for a contract worth $300 million.
To postpone enlargement beyond 1997 would not only disappoint eager East Europeans, it would confirm a widespread notion in Moscow that the West will always bend to pressure.
This raises a simple question: Why have so many people – first in the United States, and then around the world – seemed so eager to support ALS research while ignoring a far more urgent public-health (if not humanitarian) crisis.
Both of them are 14-year-old Syrian refugees in Lebanon, eager for an education, but unable to go to school.
For China’s “miracle” to truly become miraculous, Party leaders could do worse than study the record of a man whose legacy they now seem eager to push into oblivion.
For this reason, Africa is following Sudan’s evolution with intense interest – and is eager to see this country “at the heart and crossroads of Africa” give substance to al-Nimeiry’s vision.
While breeders are eager to defend their trade, economists have debunked the myth that a legal domestic market in rhino horns will conserve wild populations.
Certainly men were everywhere eager to dare.”
But his talks with India will be trickier, and extremely difficult with China (though not with Russia, which is eager to make mischief for the EU).
Given that the price of oil is likely to remain low, Asian financiers – even the Chinese – do not seem eager to refinance Russian companies, and sanctions are unlikely to be lifted, investors clearly wanted a bigger and bolder solution.
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