Extract
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Not so much an iron lady as a stubborn and dogged one, May has begun another round of effort to
extract
a few further concessions from European leaders to make her divorce agreement more palatable to her party, if not a majority of the public.
Argentina could choose to follow Bolivia’s lead: kick out the foreign companies and then fail to
extract
the gas.
CCS was originally developed for enhanced oil recovery (EOR), whereby pressurized CO2 is pumped into older oil reservoirs to
extract
otherwise inaccessible crude oil, significantly boosting production, and thus greenhouse-gas emissions.
Everything we extract, grow, design, build, make, engineer, and transport – down to brewing a cup of coffee in a restaurant kitchen and carrying it to a customer's table – is done by roughly 30% of the country's workforce.
He became one of the outstanding policy economists of our time, displaying the same rare talent demonstrated in his theoretical work: the ability to
extract
the essence of a complicated problem and explain it in terms that made it appear simple.
The project emerged from a research question that goes to the heart of the debate on the proper role and actual motivations of the state in regulating markets: Does regulation exist to achieve some laudable social goal or mainly to
extract
rents?
If the sheikhs are stubborn and continue to
extract
as much as they had planned to
extract
without the G8’s restraint, the price of fuels will fall sufficiently to induce so much extra consumption among the non-participating countries that the net effect on aggregate CO2 emissions will be nil.
If they do not
extract
it today, they will have to do it in the future if they want to make a profit.
Second, and more difficult, the oil sheikhs and other producers of fossil fuels must be talked into postponing their extraction plans or, better yet, not to
extract
some of their resources at all.
The bad news is that this is unlikely to happen in the foreseeable future, and that the owners of natural resources will therefore make every attempt to
extract
their resources and thus pump the fossil carbon into the atmosphere before the UN finds a way out of this impasse.
But Lukashenko has long tried to play Russia against the West, to
extract
the best deals for his country.
This is no time for Europe to rest on its laurels – particularly with the United States moving to
extract
itself from two wars and confronting isolationist urges.
Rapid advances in technology, particularly in the field of exploration and the ability to
extract
hydrocarbons in new places, eventually upended such narratives.
Rather, North Korea’s aim was to postpone the six-party talks as long as possible in order to force direct bilateral negotiations with the US, in which it would presumably
extract
energy assistance and other aid while demanding a security guarantee for “Dear Leader” Kim Jong-il.
Kiotech, a British biotech firm, harvests human sweat to
extract
pheromones for a product called "Xcite," towelettes saturated with a sexual hormone that "boosts the wearer's sexual smell signature."
Stranger still is "GeneLink," which markets DNA kits to funeral directors to help them
extract
DNA from the deceased.
In theatre, the wealth and complexity of being are compressed into a simplified code that attempts to
extract
what is most essential from the substance of the universe and to convey this to its audience.
Such policies are deployed not to
extract
advantages from other countries, but because other competing domestic objectives – distributional, administrative, or related to public health – dominate economy-wide motives.
An unsigned memorandum, believed to have been written at Haqqani’s suggestion, was sent to Admiral Mike Mullen, then Chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff, seeking American help in exchange for fighting extremists in Pakistan’s tribal areas who were complicating America’s efforts to
extract
itself from Afghanistan.
Gathered into pension, investment, and hedge funds, shareholders can place considerable pressure on companies to
extract
dividends, using performance-based bonuses to gain executive support for their preferred policies.
As a result, Microsoft cannot
extract
anything close to its full monopoly rents unless it sells upgrades.
According to research from 2014, there is an inverse relationship between the grade of ore and the amount of water and energy used to
extract
it.
According to a recent survey of industry practices by CDP, a non-profit energy and environmental consultancy, mining companies from Australia to Brazil are beginning to
extract
resources while reducing their environmental footprint.
(To
extract
energy from shale, millions of gallons of water must be shot into it.)
On the other hand, economic life flourished earlier in the American zone, whereas the British tried to
extract
direct benefits by, for example, dismantling steel works and bringing the parts to Britain.
The only way to simulate an income tax on behalf of Nexus is to use Ken’s last annual income as a reference salary and
extract
from Luke’s revenues income tax and social security charges equivalent to what Ken paid.
In the colonial era, it was the official purpose of imperial power to
extract
wealth from the administered territories.
Big Russian companies pay most of their taxes with off-sets, which means that they
extract
right there a subsidy of 80% of the taxes they actually pay.
Nor has he been willing to confront the business lobbies that are willing to hold the Doha Round hostage in order to
extract
ever more concessions by other countries, even though they know that the trade talks are about to be sucked into the Bermuda Triangle of the 2012 US presidential election.
For the Trump administration, concerns have focused on issues such as the growing bilateral trade deficit, the displacement of US workers by Indian information-technology professionals, and India’s alleged use of the Paris climate agreement to
extract
billions of dollars in assistance.
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