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It also helps to explain how Vladimir Putin, previously an unknown entity, cemented his power in Russia following a series of bombings in 1999.
Can the unfolding revolution in genomics (the study not of individual genes but of all genes as an entity) and biotechnology be harnessed to reduce these inequities?
And it was harder, because the US was an unknown entity, and there was little reason for confidence in the American non-nation.
A “Contact Group Plan” should be carefully worked out with Annan and his team (the only
entity
at this point that seems to have access to all sides).
A vote by a majority of British citizens to remain in the EU would have the opposite impact, highlighting that, whatever negative feelings people may have about a policy or entity, reason and logic cannot be tossed aside.
What does it mean to be a member of the EU, Nigeria, Iraq, Turkey, Switzerland, or any other political
entity?
The sense of us is a subroutine of the brain based on the sense of self, which is one of our brain’s many creations: a sensation of being an ongoing
entity
that experiences things, remembers its history, can act, and has feelings and goals – what the eminent neuroscientist Antonio Damasio calls an autobiographical self.
Over the past 10,000 years, as we moved from small hunter-gatherer bands to agricultural settlements, urbanization, and beyond, the network of people with whom we must interact and cooperate expanded, from small bands to nations-states and eventually to an
entity
like the EU.
This is why Europe’s future lies in a restructuring of the eurozone as a political entity, underpinned by more comprehensive cooperation.
Almost all of this happens automatically, without long, contentious negotiations among state governors and federal officials, assistance from the IMF, or calling into question the existence of the United States as a unified political-economic
entity.
The best place to consider that question would not be Brussels, but Tiraspol, the capital of the
entity
that calls itself the Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic, or Trans-Dniestr.
This political
entity
is a precise counterpart in the political world to a well-known physical phenomenon of splintering or fissuring.
That moment became a turning point for NATO, not only because it spurred the first invocation of the collective-defense clause, Article 5, but also because the clause was invoked against an amorphous non-state
entity
in the mountains of Afghanistan.
This is a difficult adjustment for any country to make, especially one like China, which has a history of imagining itself as being at the center of the world while also remaining an inviolable
entity
that can close its doors whenever it chooses to do so.
Indeed, the nightmare scenario haunting the world is the collapse of another shadow banking entity, causing global trade to freeze, as happened in 2008.
Just as the dollar is often the unit of account in debt contracts, even when neither the borrower nor the lender is a US entity, the dollar’s share in invoicing for international trade is around 4.5 times America’s share of world imports, and three times its share of world exports.
One objection to imposing conditions on the ECB is that the eurozone, as a regional entity, is not an IMF member.
On the contrary, the way in which the various religious and ethnic groups in Iraq responded to his execution is emblematic of the difficulty of holding Iraq together as a coherent
entity.
Yet the root causes of that failure go deeper, to Iraq’s creation as an artificial
entity
in the 1920’s by British imperialist planners, who stitched together three disparate provinces of the defeated Ottoman Empire into a state that never had a coherent identity.
For the French, as for all Europeans, the EU is not a foreign entity, and its decisions are an integral part of domestic policies.
Or is it irrationality, imperfection, and doubt – traits beyond the reach of any non-biological
entity?
Indeed, many thought of the Fund as an activist entity, because it focused on three devastating epidemics that have a common denominator: economic and social inequality.
It is now not only the largest and most important subnational
entity
in the Russian Federation; it also is a major European capital, a global business destination, and a large consumer market.
That body, which emerged from the old Financial Stability Forum in 2009 with few powers and no formal status, has only recently become a separate legal
entity.
But the preformist view that the
entity
transmitted across generations was the whole organism was contradicted by the impossibility of segmenting objects infinitely.
That deal would appear to favor Russia, with Moldova recognizing Transdnistria as a legitimate
entity.
The Lethal Deferral of Greek Debt RestructuringATHENS – The point of restructuring debt is to reduce the volume of new loans needed to salvage an insolvent
entity.
Creditors offer debt relief to get more value back and to extend as little new finance to the insolvent
entity
as possible.
Europe’s leaders must stop treating the eurozone as a homogeneous entity, imposing one-size-fits-all policies on vastly different countries.
The perpetrators are indifferent as to whether their victims, both direct and indirect, are Muslim or non-Muslim; their goal is to terrorize and eventually to destroy a way of life in the name of a nebulous Dar-al-Islam, a utopian
entity
that will supposedly solve all of life’s problems.
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