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Others see in the decision to postpone the taper an effort to pre-empt the negative effects on the economy of a possible congressional debacle over government funding and the debt limit.
Obama’s November trip to Asia was an effort to align US foreign-policy priorities with the region’s long-term importance.
China should continue to lead the effort to encourage reform and opening of the North Korean economy, with help from international financial institutions.
One effort – the Going Digital project, launched by the OECD in 2017 – is helping countries seize opportunities and prepare for technological disruption.
If the EU made a commitment to admit even a mere 300,000 refugees annually, most genuine asylum-seekers would view their odds of reaching their destination as good enough to deter them from seeking to reach Europe illegally – an effort that would disqualify them from legal admission.
Truck drivers, who protested against long waits at customs stations, helped spur the effort.
In fact, teachers reported that children who received laptops were significantly less likely to make an effort at school.
The growing role of the UN in this process puts the seal of international law and diplomacy over the global struggle against terrorism, and helps to reassure many countries that this is a true international effort, not just the US acting alone.
In an effort to revive growth in a difficult global environment and buffer exports against the impact of the Asian financial crisis, the Chinese government loosened monetary and fiscal policy beginning in November 1997.
Complicating this effort is the fact that, unlike in 1997-2002, China cannot absorb overcapacity by stimulating real-estate investment and exports.
China is seeking to alter the status quo gradually as part of a high-stakes effort to extend its control to strategic areas and resources.
Of the many necessary measures in this area, the most important include a vigorous effort to complete the Single Market, coupled with avoidance of economic nationalism at all costs.
(The European Union has yet to join the effort.)
While Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki should devote more effort to negotiating and compromising with the Sunni community than he has to cracking down on its leaders and activists, he nonetheless has before him the daunting task of consolidating a Shia-led Iraqi state with no natural allies in the rest of the Arab world.
To the uninitiated, the effort in 2010 to unite Sunnis behind the Iraq National Movement (Iraqiya) coalition, with a “secular Shia” as its leader, seemed like a promising step toward post-sectarian politics.
On the contrary, many Shia perceived Iraqiya as a thinly disguised effort to roll back Shia gains and restore Sunni rule.
Syria’s bloody conflict is often described as an Iranian war, an effort to keep Syria’s Sunni majority in check and build power and prestige throughout the Levant.
And, if funding is not a major issue, the mechanism of amplification of an idea (and thus its ultimate diffusion) nonetheless depends upon how appealing it is to some lobbying effort.
That effort benefited industry, agriculture, flood control, and conservation throughout the Tennessee Valley watershed, until then one of the country’s most disadvantaged regions.
Whether we arrive safely at our destination depends on the discipline of the drivers and the ingenuity of all those involved in the construction effort.
Against the backdrop of these two equally plausible scenarios, we will know only in a few years whether December’s Bali declaration on climate change was just rhetoric or the start of a global effort to counter it.
And governments will determine whether we should prepare for bitter competition or a true team effort.
Nine months later, Obama made another effort to kick-start the talks.
America’s effort to maintain decisive influence in the region was then supplemented by its close security partnership with Israel, and finally by the two large military interventions of the two Gulf Wars against Saddam Hussein’s Iraq.
The related emphasis on productivity, innovation, pruning excess capacity, and moving up the value chain in manufacturing and services are underscored as key building blocks of this effort.
Hezbollah, drained by its costly effort to support Assad in Syria’s civil war, is not particularly eager to engage in a showdown with Israel now.
His fight against poverty and social exclusion would be undertaken as part of that effort.
If the international community allows this scheme to go forward, it will have endorsed Russia’s effort to separate Abkhazia from Georgia.
Thus, Russia’s effort to entrap Georgia and its neighbors in the nets of its new “liberal empire” is part of a well coordinated attempt to reorient the South Caucasus as a whole towards the anti-Western coalition of Russia and Iran.
Moreover, like China, Russia has embraced extravagant spectacles like the Olympic Games, in an effort to showcase the country’s magnificence and the beneficence of its leaders.
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