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In 1994, the so-called Cigarette Papers, some 4,000 pages of internal documents leaked from the tobacco company Brown & Williamson, showed that the industry engaged for years in a public campaign to deny the addictive qualities of nicotine and the health hazards of smoking, despite industry-funded research showing otherwise.
Would he ever have engaged in peace talks?
Yet the very thing we are fighting is given license to grow in the education systems of many of the countries with which we are engaged – even in our own.
Both the PLO and Israeli militant groups active at the time of Israel’s creation moved away from violence once the international community engaged them.
And they have engaged in far-reaching market manipulation, by turning themselves into debt collectors, using share buy-backs to boost executive remuneration, and so forth.
As a permanent member of the Security Council, Russia thus has an obligation to act; it (and China) can no longer hide behind the argument that the UN should not be engaged in Syria’s internal affairs.
But Yemen, too, is engaged in its own destructive policies.
In an effort to save the financial system from collapse – and, later, in pursuit of economic recovery – the Fed has engaged in very active policies: near-zero interest rates, massive asset-purchase programs, remuneration of banks’ reserves, and so forth.
Radical Islamic groups have engaged in indiscriminate bombings, while groups with strong authoritarian tendencies have made inroads into President Megawati's inner circle.
Despite many years of rule by a theocratic establishment (or perhaps because of it), Iranian minds remain open and engaged.
Moreover, Russia in this time of weakness is interested in keeping the U.S. engaged in Europe, if only to balance Germany's potential might.
Algorithms are designed to learn what keeps users engaged so that they can be served more ads and produce more revenue.
Since completing their operation in Jarablus, Turkish troops have engaged with the PYD’s fighters east of the city.
As the CIA engaged with the rebel units, the Pentagon trained the Kurds.
The West must become actively engaged in reforming Ukrainian society, including the country’s armed forces.
We are multiple players, but we are engaged in a single game – a game that must be cooperative, not simply competitive.
Many people have long argued that democratization in the Middle East will not get far until Egypt becomes fully engaged in the process.
The North Korean regime, led by Kim Jong-un, is engaged in a remorseless quest to develop nuclear weapons and intercontinental missiles capable of delivering them.
Prompted by civic passivity, political parties not only came to dominate every aspect of Czech life but engaged in dubious practices that increased cynicism and public passivity.
This latest turn in our prime ministerial carousel has left Australians trying, yet again, to explain to bemused colleagues around the world how this stable bastion of Western democracy, and the world’s twelfth-largest economy, could be engaged in such a pantomime.
Both events reinforce Obama’s message to the Asia-Pacific region that the US intends to remain an engaged power.
China is the only power that has remained engaged with North Korea, through many ups and downs, whereas Russia, Japan, the United States, and South Korea have all come and gone.
Having received carte blanche from Qatar’s political leadership to support the Arab revolutions, Al Jazeera became fully engaged in live coverage of events in Tunisia, and then in Egypt, by relying on social-media networks away from the eyes of local security officials.
But the US needs to be heavily engaged politically in support of the central government, and confine its criticism of Maliki to private channels.
The more distant and neutral to the European project Germany becomes, the more its partners, especially France, must behave like engaged and responsible Europeans.
It depends on whether a people close themselves off in hope that the various winds of this world will pass them by; or, whether a nation takes the opposite tack and conducts itself as true inhabitants of this continent and of this planet, that is, as people engaged with the world and who assume their share of responsibility for it.
On the contrary, recent research by Nobel laureate economist George Akerlof and his colleagues suggests that pushing inflation too low may impede growth, and that the critical threshold is higher for countries, such as the post-communist transition economies, engaged in large structural changes.
Moreover, both Kushner, who has been accused of attempting to set up a back channel for secure communication between the White House and the Kremlin, and Ivanka would be subject to prosecution if they were found to have engaged in illegal communications or activities with Russian agents or officials.
Despite the ICC’s seeming powerlessness, many governments’ leaders are engaged in strenuous efforts to block the indictment.
The paper alleged that the men had been enticed into such practices by a Norwegian, who gave them money and gifts in exchange for photos of them engaged in homosexual acts.
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