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The issues that divide India and China, however, extend beyond territorial disputes.
“We will extend a hand,” he said, “if you are willing to unclench your fist.”
The same people and governing methods that the “Rose Revolution” of November 2003 sought to defeat have reemerged at the center of power by using their personal networks, which extend outside Georgia’s borders, as well as their tremendous wealth and finely honed skills at political scheming and manipulation.
Kim’s appointment is a breakthrough for the World Bank, which I hope will extend to other global institutions as well.
The European Central Bank will likely extend its bond-purchasing program; but it has reason to question the results of its quantitative-easing policy, given that eurozone unemployment still averages around 10%, indicating a sizeable output gap.
The day after the Durban conference, Canada officially withdrew from the Kyoto Protocol, which Russia and Japan have already declined to extend, leaving only the EU’s member states and a few other countries committed to further reductions.
We must work to extend the coverage of international conventions and codes of conduct.
First, enlargement will take the EU right up to the frontier of Russia and the former Soviet Union; if Turkey joins, the EU will extend to the heart of the Middle East as well.
Denmark, together with the government of Greenland, now claims that it is the former, giving it the right to extend its economic zone across a huge area at the top of the world.
LONDON: The glow of optimism at the European Union's Helsinki summit last month, when EU leaders decided to extend membership negotiations to all ten candidate countries from Central and Eastern Europe, plus Malta and Cyprus, is fading fast.
And Turkey wanted Assad gone to extend its strategic reach and stabilize its southern border.
If the world is serious about mitigating the worst effects of climate change, especially its disproportionate impact on vulnerable communities, both the public and private sectors should support efforts to extend microfinancing to SMEs.
Israel rebuffed US President Barack Obama’s peace initiatives, and even refused to extend a freeze on settlement construction for a mere three months, despite a lavish offer of strategic compensation.
It also wants technical changes that would effectively mean much longer patent terms for pharmaceuticals, make the approval process lengthier for generic drug makers, and extend protections for biologic medicines.
Those challenges extend far beyond migration and the enduring euro debate.
Unlike United States Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke, most emerging-market central bankers are in no position to extend blank checks across their economies without a boomerang effect on interest rates and exchange rates.
But technological advances have enabled the exploitation of resources to extend farther and deeper than ever before.
In much of the West, DST has long been used as a way to save energy and extend outdoor time for workers during the dark winter months and the hot summer months (though the European Union is now considering the elimination of DST, in the belief that it costs more than it saves, and owing to the effect on the human biorhythm).
But while America’s commitment to nuclear power was quickly reaffirmed by President Barack Obama, some European governments took the knee-jerk decision to freeze all new nuclear-energy projects immediately, and, in the case of Germany, not to extend the life of existing reactors.
Of course, the differences between France and Germany extend beyond economic philosophy, to actual performance.
If she should cease to do so, there will, after all, not be much to extend.
Central banks had to inject an unprecedented amount of money and extend credit on an unprecedented range of securities to a broader range of institutions than ever before.
For example, supervised sports programs for schoolchildren can be strengthened as part of efforts to extend the school day – an accelerating trend across Latin America and the Caribbean.
In 2010, for example, he bowed to Putin’s pressure to extend the Russian lease on naval facilities in Crimea to 2042, whereas Tymoshenko and others pointed to the treaty’s unconstitutionality.
But it is not in America’s interest to accentuate and extend its payment deficits at the expense of an internationally competitive economy with strong industry and restrained consumption.
These zero-carbon solutions will extend beyond any country’s borders.
And we believe that as open-data practices become more widespread, the benefits of sharing and collaboration that they enable will extend much further.
Yet economists, not noticing that their logic is less applicable to rich countries, continue trying to extend it to more and more areas of life.
Indeed, nowadays political parties dangle the carrot of reservations to ever more castes, and even promise to extend the policy to admissions into elite educational institutions and the private sector.
Additional measures to improve vocational training or extend part-time work, for example, could prove to be invaluable.
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