Fifth
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Likewise, the United Kingdom and the Netherlands rank, respectively,
fifth
and sixth on the Innovation Index, but only 28th and 29th on the Peace Index.
A few days before Gates’s visit, official Chinese media published a photo of the J-20 Black Eagle, a
fifth
generation stealth, twin-engine fighter aircraft made in China.
Only a
fifth
of the 200,000 soldiers remained, worn out, battered, but defiant.
A
fifth
American advantage that is likely to outlast the Trump era is the role of the dollar.
They reject the widely accepted view, based on early sacred texts, that ancient believers did not ban the slaughter of cattle, and that such a ban probably became part of the Hindu moral code only around the
fifth
and sixth centuries AD, when the later Puranas were written.
Through experimentation, adaptation, and evolution – a process that has been described as “crossing the river by feeling the stones” – China has been able to evolve a higher-order, or fifth, supply chain in political decision-making.
One of his consorts memorably and colorfully stated, “If a strong man were to throw four stones – one north, one south, one east, one west – and a
fifth
stone up into the air, and if the space between them were to be filled with gold, it would not equal the value of the Kohinoor.”
In fact, it houses four of the PLA’s five mechanized army corps, with the
fifth
protecting China’s strategic nuclear forces in Sichuan.
While Spanish parliamentarians were sympathetically considering the rights of animals, however, in Austria ten leaders of lawful animal-welfare organizations were beginning their
fifth
week in prison.
In India a decade ago, students who chose careers in public service could expect lifetime earnings of between a
fifth
to a third of their private sector counterparts.
Last year, it tested its
fifth
nuclear device just after the exercises were held.
By 2017, India could surpass Italy and Brazil to become the world's seventh largest economy; by 2020, there is a reasonable chance that it will overtake France and the United Kingdom to become the
fifth
largest.
A
fifth
lesson pertains to the distinction between tactics and strategy.
In 2002, it covered a
fifth
of the Mexican population, delivering payouts that added up to 20% of beneficiaries’ total expenditure.
India ranks
fifth
in the world in total production of wind power and third in terms of wind power added in 2008.
This week, when conservationists from around the world gathered at the
fifth
annual Our Ocean Conference in Bali, the Federated States of Micronesia (FSM) unveiled a bold promise and issued an even bolder challenge: full transparency in tuna fishing by 2023.
In Rome, the army’s sit-down strike in the
fifth
century B.C. opened politics to the lower classes.
The
fifth
one wanted to become a chemist, so that he could set up a cocaine laboratory.
A
fifth
report will address the state of land degradation and restoration at regional and global levels.
According to the World Economic Forum, which released its annual report on economic competitiveness last month, the US is the
fifth
most competitive economy in the world (behind the small economies of Switzerland, Sweden, Finland, and Singapore).
Four wars – in Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Kosovo – had to be fought and a
fifth
one – in Macedonia – had to be prevented at the last minute by NATO and the EU in order to put violent Serb nationalism in its place.
China’s growth miracle, benefiting a
fifth
of the earth’s population, is the most important economic event of the last quarter-century.
This month in Accra, Ghana, we convened the
fifth
annual Symposium on Financial Inclusion, bringing together hundreds of financial services providers, policymakers, academics, and development experts to examine how to broaden and deepen financial inclusion.
The fourth chief negotiators’ meeting was completed in Beijing in late April, and the
fifth
will take place in Singapore in late May.
Writing in the
fifth
century b.c., Hippocrates provided the first known definition of melancholia (what we now call “depression”) as a distinct disorder: “If fear or sadness last for a long time it is melancholia.”
As James Fishkin of Stanford has written, “deliberative democracy” has a long history, extending back to the original democracy in Greece in the
fifth
century, BC.
The fifth, and most recent, factor is the US Federal Reserve’s signals that it might end its policy of quantitative easing earlier than expected, and its hints of an eventual exit from zero interest rates, both of which have caused turbulence in emerging economies’ financial markets.
The state has already failed: Assad's regime controls only a
fifth
of Syria’s territory, and the remaining four-fifths will never willingly resubmit to its terrifying control.
And then there has been the creation of something akin to a political
fifth
column across Europe.
A
fifth
lesson is that reforms are unlikely to succeed unless the government is committed to seeing them through.
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