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Individuals often lack willpower or access to healthy food or convenient exercise facilities, and are surrounded by poor examples that encourage instant gratification rather than effort and restraint.
If most community members work for just a few employers and obtain health care from just a few providers, the effort of corralling the players will be easier.
In an effort to stem the weakening of the exchange rate, the authorities have made it more difficult to convert RMB to dollars.
In fact, much of what happened in Bosnia – including the effort, in its aftermath, to realize concepts of universal justice – has applications for the contemporary world.
The Syrian conflict calls for a similar international effort and focus.
For example, while Italy and Greece would still have to register asylum seekers and provide them with medical and social assistance, their European partners would support that effort, because they would benefit from a stronger frontier, policed by a European force.
In this respect, the current effort to prop up the Syrian government counts as a twofer.
Then there is the Islamic State and its effort to establish a caliphate – a goal that not only implies dragging the Arab world back to the seventh century, but that also takes dead aim at many of the region’s modern borders.
But, though the Houthis’ effort to consolidate political control is far more complex than a sectarian narrative would suggest, for the Saudis it represents yet another frightening emergence of Shia power on their borders.
But that effort must be accompanied by a similar focus on holding the Saudis close, as Obama’s recent visit (in which he wisely included many Republicans) to meet King Salman suggested.
The slowdown in China’s growth rate is, to a certain extent, a reflection of the success of the government’s effort to rein in the real-estate bubble, as well as of other official policies aimed at rebalancing the economy.
It will take time and effort to integrate them – and many voters will be skeptical of the process, especially given that successful integration or assimilation will not come cheap.
On the contrary, France should be one of the leaders of that effort, adding its voice and centrality as a country halfway between Europe’s north and south and acting as a model for many other countries on social issues.
To inspire more such initiatives, there must be a deliberate effort to engage with youth in a way that supports real political engagement, not tokenism and empty rhetoric.
Of course, getting the right TV coverage takes some effort.
Next, the Government must lead a massive effort of reform.
A new UN mission began to deploy in Libya – the vanguard of the international community’s effort to help a newly liberated and, one hopes, democratizing country emerge from conflict and 42 years of despotic rule.
In time, he agreed to “share” power with the winner, Morgan Tsvangirai, who was subsequently named the country’s prime minister – but only after he and his top aides faced violence and death threats as part of an effort to make him back down.
The enormous effort expended to bring the Protocol into force nonetheless indicates how much work will be required to produce the next treaty, due to be agreed in Copenhagen in December 2009.
Any government effort to sustain dying industries or to allocate investment by picking all sorts of "innovative" projects will be a recipe for economic disaster.
With just 10-15 years of estimated oil reserves remaining, the United Arab Emirates last year dropped visa requirements for most Westerners in an effort to accelerate the development of a viable tourist trade.
However foolish that stance may be, it is even harder to understand why China, Brazil, and India have not made a more determined effort.
At best, Russia is a potential partner in the effort to manage globalization’s challenges; at worst, it is a potential problem.
Given that Europe led the recent rise and fall of financial globalization, any effort to reset the system should focus on measures to restore confidence and put European financial integration back on track.
That's a financial effort that the world can and should join.
There is reason to believe that concern in the US about its worsening opioid epidemic, which supposedly originates in the poppy fields of Mexico, will intensify the war effort – and, with it, human-rights violations.
Thus, the effort to contain and destroy the Islamic State has become yet another referendum on President Barack Obama's stewardship of US foreign policy.
For now, the Islamic State's main focus is the creation of its would-be caliphate and the frenetic and bloody effort to force all under its rule to live accordingly.
Obama's opponents are delighting in picking apart the threads of the draft resolution in yet another effort to discredit his administration.
But Obama's effort to universalize the problem of extremism has exposed him to the charge of relativizing the Islamic State – and thus ignoring its true nature – by claiming a moral equivalence between it and political extremism elsewhere in the world, including in the US.
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