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In an age of contempt for international cooperation, not to mention entrenched climate-change denial in the Trump administration, is achieving the SDGs wishful thinking?
As enemy opposition remained light, the advance continued until Townshend's army encountered a Turkish force of equal strength entrenched on both banks of the Tigris at Kut.Crossing the river, the British attacked from the north on September 28 th , routing the Turks, who lost 5,300 men and all of their artillery.
But if China’s national imperative today is reform, the greatest threat to that goal is the massive influence and institutionalized corruption of the country’s entrenched elites.
If China is serious about reform, it will need armies of people like these, fighting for their rights, in order to balance the overwhelming political power of its entrenched elites.
But the forces of darkness in Iran are well entrenched.
With the Republican-controlled Congress seeking to make the tax cuts for the rich permanent, the world is beginning to realize that America’s budget deficits are now entrenched, with no end in sight.
Its use can therefore help to break down the hierarchical, bureaucratic barriers that are entrenched in Japanese society and reflected in Japanese conversation, which could boost efficiency.
Their success will require an innovative strategy that upends entrenched assumptions about – and approaches to – water-related problems.
On a recent visit organized by the European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR), the coexistence of entrenched tradition and rapid transformation was starkly apparent.
Faced with an entrenched status quo, many Sikhs of less privileged backgrounds became disillusioned.
France and Italy are lacking young people who want to be new entrepreneurs or innovators, and those few who do are impeded by entrenched corporations and other vested interests.
A culture of “results” has become central to economic modernization in France, so shouldn’t the same be true of French governments, with their entrenched inclination toward passivity and aloofness?
Ahn’s economic beliefs, formed mainly by his experiences as a CEO fighting against the entrenched power of South Korea’s chaebol (vast, politically well-connected industrial conglomerates), has rekindled a debate on both the right and the left about whether the chaebol are still capable of leading the country’s economy effectively.
That helps preserve the political power of entrenched veto-wielding players, closing the trap.
And yet criminal networks – entrenched relationships between legal and illegal agents engaged in organized criminal activities – continue to play a large role in these countries’ formal and informal economies and political institutions, rending the social fabric and threatening further progress.
The military had developed an entrenched distrust of her, given her position as a popularly supported pro-Western leader who wanted peace with India.
Empowering refugee doctors to become part of the solution will help overcome entrenched dogmas toward refugee diversity and social identities.
But that was before tech valuations soared into the stratosphere, giving entrenched players a massive funding advantage.
For example, the data that Doing Business provides can help to generate the political will and public support needed to overcome opposition to competition-boosting measures from entrenched actors that have an interest in maintaining high entry barriers or procedural bottlenecks.
That much was understood widely by entrenched Arab dictators, who saw to it that their intelligence and security corps extinguished any flame before it could spread.
But it will take courage and sheer determination to tackle what is perhaps the biggest obstacle of all – resistance from deeply entrenched local and provincial power blocs.
America’s European settlers committed a two-century-long genocide against the native inhabitants, and established a slave economy so deeply entrenched that only a devastating civil war ended it.
But any reforms they might attempt would necessarily threaten powerful entrenched interests, and thus destabilize the existing balance of power.
The UK’s trade, finance, and immigration arrangements are far too complex and entrenched to be renegotiated quickly.
In the face of fierce domestic political opposition and an entrenched culture of mismanagement and corruption, the government is bringing about all the reforms asked of it.
This renewed embrace of the market, reminiscent of Deng Xiaoping’s original turn to capitalism in 1979, will be hard medicine for China’s entrenched business and government elites to swallow.
Mexican governance is undermined not only by narco-traffickers (who have gained a stranglehold on some Mexican states), but by industrial and business cartels, as well as other entrenched interests which have impeded implementation of reforms even after they become law.
Official corruption, for example, has become so entrenched that President Xi Jinping has made an anti-graft campaign a central objective.
While most countries have made improvements on these fronts, the tribal business tradition remains entrenched, and will take time to dislodge.
A new public-opinion survey by the German Marshall Fund (GMF) reveals that anti-immigrant sentiment stems largely from misinformation, not entrenched animus.
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