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There have also been extensive beatings and arbitrary detentions.
Moreover, the extensive use of fertilizers and pesticides – 99% of the world’s soy is genetically modified, and is routinely treated with pesticides – is also contaminating ground-water sources, destroying biodiversity, and eroding the soil.
They know that despite the extensive damage that they could inflict on the South, in the end, they would be destroyed by American and South Korean power if combat ever starts.
Furthermore, China’s banking system, which remains subject to extensive government control, lags far behind those of the US and Europe in terms of efficiency and transparency.
The state’s extensive environmental and energy regulation, including micromanaging carbon emissions, in combination with globalization, has driven away much of California’s manufacturing and many of its middle-class jobs.
This need not require the UN to acquire extensive in-house scientific competence, but the organization – especially the office of the secretary general – must learn to tap advisory services to identify, mobilize, and use the best available expertise.
Some state institutions dislike the idea of delivering more powers to the executive branch; magistrates, for example, fear a loss of judges’ extensive and unchecked powers.
Even more popular is the supply-side recommendation of a shift from extensive to intensive growth – that is, from a model based on capital accumulation to one propelled by gains in efficiency, measured by total factor productivity (TFP).
These recommendations are presumably influenced by Paul Krugman’s criticism in 1994 of Soviet-style extensive growth in East Asian economies (especially Singapore).
While capital has been the largest contributor to China’s GDP, the economy’s TFP performance has been impressive – something that cannot be explained by an extensive growth pattern.
In short, when it comes to Asian economies, the dichotomy of extensive and intensive growth is a red herring.
In the continental EU, establishment parties remain in power partly because their countries maintain extensive social welfare systems.
Ignorant of the extensive “deindustrialization” debate in 1960’s Great Britain, two Berkeley academics, Stephen Cohen and John Zysman, started a similar debate in the US in 1987 with their book Manufacturing Matters, which claimed that, without manufactures, a viable service sector is untenable.
In new cities across the country, urban plans already take into account such concerns, with riparian greenways and urban nature reserves complementing infrastructure projects that have environmental benefits (for example, extensive mass-transit networks).
The "catalogue of fundamental rights" included in the Constitution is extensive, centering on respect for human dignity, freedom, and equality, and also on the principles of democracy and the rule of law.
Reaching a proper answer to these questions requires extensive economic modeling, with different variables calculated and regional differences analyzed.
The list of unconventional measures has been extensive.
A second, broader objective should be to ensure a stable post-Assad transition that provides firm safeguards against the proliferation of Syria’s extensive chemical-weapons arsenal.
Corruption in Egypt, as in other Arab states, is so extensive as to undermine the possibility of economic advancement, higher living standards, a free media, independent courts, and democracy.
By the time the MDGs concluded in 2015, they had fueled some of the fastest and most extensive gains in global health and development the world has ever seen.
In addition, an extensive military operation in Darfur would not necessarily secure the region unless it also addressed the problems in the rest of Sudan.
After all, tax rates were higher in the 20th century and regulation more extensive.
Although inflation is now low in the United States, Europe, and Japan, households and institutional investors have reason to worry that the low interest rates and the extensive creation of bank reserves could lead to inflation when economic recovery takes hold.
The reach and relevance of social choice theory is extensive.
It turns out there that is extensive evidence that a sustained shift in share prices is followed by a gradual change in unemployment.
The British Foreign Office’s annual human rights report for 2004, the most comprehensive in the EU, condemns China’s extensive use of the death penalty (even for such crimes as corruption, pimping, drug offenses, and tax fraud), its systematic torture of dissidents, and its restrictions on freedom of speech – including the Internet – and religion.
Because of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s relentless revanchism, Russia’s borders with NATO are now the sites of the most extensive military buildup since the Cold War.
Indeed, the Egyptian and Saudi attitude contrasts starkly with that of two Western powers with extensive influence in Lebanon, the United States and France, which support the UN inquiry wherever it might go.
The good news, however, is that the ICG finds no evidence of an extensive Al-Qaeda network in Indonesia.
Although US airlines were "privatized" - freed from extensive state control - airports were not.
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