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Only democracy could have engineered such remarkable change with the consent of the governed, and enabled all to feel that they have the same stake in the country’s progress, equal rights under its laws, and equal opportunities for advancement.
The right of return and freedom of speech were uppermost in Chen’s mind as he engineered his family’s departure for the US.
Long before Russia's armed annexation of Crimea and its invasion of eastern Ukraine, the Kremlin played similar games when it engineered the secession of Georgia's South Ossetia and Abkhazia regions and propped up the bandit territory of Transnistria in Moldova.
In 2003, the US Department of Agriculture announced onerous new rules for testing crops engineered to produce pharmaceuticals.
In late 2011, Merkel engineered the replacement of elected governments by technocrats in Greece and Italy.
This is the kind of frugally engineered product that can create enormous new consumer demand in emerging markets.
He is part of the proud generation that defeated apartheid – and then peacefully engineered a transition to durable black-majority rule.
Gene drives have been described as “genetic forcers,” because they literally force genetically engineered traits onto entire populations of insects, plants, fungi, and other organisms.
But the credit squeeze engineered by the IMF simply pushed the enterprises into bankruptcy.
This week, as Ukraine marked the 80th anniversary of the Holodomor, Stalin’s engineered famine in Ukraine, President Viktor Yanukovych’s government announced that it would not sign a Deep and Comprehensive Free Trade Agreement with the European Union at a summit in Vilnius on November 28.
This is reminiscent of what happened twenty years ago, when President Reagan engineered huge tax cuts that were supposed to pay for themselves, but which incited huge fiscal deficits, which in turn led to huge trade deficits.
Male mosquitoes do not bite, so their release presents no health risk, and, because their progeny die, no genetically engineered mosquitoes persist in the environment.
But, while SIT remains unregulated in most places, the regulatory reviews of genetically engineered living organisms have tended to be drawn out and excessive worldwide, with politics delaying – and sometimes even preventing – approvals.
Given the degree of suffering caused by mosquito-borne diseases, government leaders must not subject genetic-engineering solutions for controlling them to the same kinds of political and populist headwinds that have impeded the approval of genetically engineered agricultural products.
One simplistic explanation for the Yemen conflict is that it was engineered by Iran.
Since roughly 1994, when Newt Gingrich engineered the Republican takeover of the US House of Representatives, Republicans have taken to calling themselves “revolutionaries” – not a word often found on the lips of conservatives.
Understandably, the exposure of the IPL as a morass of deceit, discredited by “spot-fixing” episodes engineered by unscrupulous bookies and venal players, has deflated such heady notions.
Yet Europe has been struggling for years, even as other economies have engineered recoveries.
That helped to lay the groundwork for the China “opening” of 1970-1971, engineered by US National Security Adviser Henry Kissinger, who until then had no knowledge of the country.
For example, by planting scientifically engineered crops that grow faster, farmers can harvest them before, say, cyclone season, which will become increasingly violent as global temperatures rise.
Of course, holding the sun in a bottle is no small challenge, especially when one considers that the systems must be engineered so that they can create electricity for a price consumers are willing to pay.
Given modern communications, a cover-up of the kind engineered by Mussolini in 1931 would most likely be unsustainable today.
But, with no natural steam or hot water to bring the energy to the surface, an engineered solution is needed, and, during the past 35 years, more than $600 million has been spent worldwide devising one.
Of course, the renminbi’s recent depreciation was much smaller than the de facto currency devaluations engineered by the United States and the United Kingdom after the financial crisis of 2008.
Rather than shielding Russia’s private enterprises, he engineered a domestic liquidity freeze, which led to a sharp drop in GDP of 9.5% in the first quarter of 2009, despite Russia’s huge foreign reserves.
Automobiles can be engineered for much greater mileage through hybrid technology combining battery power and gasoline.
He also engineered an extrajudicial drug-suppression campaign that claimed 2,275 lives.
Most of these new crop varieties are designed to resist herbicides, so that farmers can adopt more environmentally friendly, no-till cultivation practices, and many have also been engineered to resist pests and diseases that ravage crops.
While it is unlikely that timber can fully replace any of these materials, new types of engineered wood are making it more competitive.
China implemented the policies that engineered history’s greatest poverty eradication program prior to, and independently from, the Millennium Declaration and the MDGs.
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