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Everyone who believes in the EU must step up to strengthen it, not just by offering ideas, but also by fighting for their realization.
Today, in areas most affected by the fighting, it has dropped to below 30%.
A more humane and effective way to ensure the validity and usefulness of animal experimentation would be to provide conditions that minimize stress-related activities such as excessive grooming and fighting.
Nor is it at all clear to what degree the Iraqis retain a stake in the idea of a united Iraqi state worth fighting for.
Rather than take the diplomatic initiative to end the fighting and restore stability in Yemen, the Trump administration has continued to fan the flames of an ongoing Saudi-Iranian proxy war that is causing untold suffering and roiling the region.
Trees are one of the most effective tools we have for fighting climate change, and they also make economic sense for small farmers.
The last days of former president Carlos Menem's political career, furiously fighting his own political extinction, has offered a pathetic example of this tradition.
The Nationalists did most of the set-piece fighting between 1937 and 1945, and the stands their armies made at cities such as Changsha and Wuhan are now commemorated with museums and statues.
We should not underestimate the tremendous potential the sun and wind have for building global wealth and fighting poverty.
Indeed, only when Pakistan is no longer perceived as fighting a US war will local militants stop thinking of the conflict as a jihad against foreign intervention.
The discovery of resistant strains of malaria meant not just that it would be harder to treat, but that the overall approach to fighting the disease would have to change.
Throughout the fighting, attempts to stop the killing have come and gone, and the war's innocent victims – not to mention much of the international community – have grown weary and cynical.
Why?Europe has no policy responses open to it to respond to such a calamity because its fiscal situation is already weak and the new European Central bank is tangled in ineffectiveness and a dated obsession with fighting inflation.
Monetary subsidies to consumption are also often granted in developed countries for a variety of purposes, not least of which is fighting tax evasion.
Consider Strike Debt, an offshoot of the Occupy movement, which calls itself “a nationwide movement of debt resisters fighting for economic justice and democratic freedom.”
New combat scenarios – smaller units, higher fighting power, faster deployment – are not covered by today’s existing arms-control regimes.
Civilizing the Marketplace of IdeasCAMBRIDGE – “When men have realized that time has upset many fighting faiths,” US Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes wrote in a famous dissenting opinion in 1919, “they may come to believe…that the ultimate good desired is better reached by free trade in ideas – that the best test of truth is the power of the thought to get itself accepted in the competition of the market, and that truth is the only ground upon which their wishes safely can be carried out.”
The priority in fighting terrorism should be police and intelligence service cooperation, which produces much faster results and limits the capacity of extremists to mobilize.
As a young boy in Sierra Leone, years that should have been playful and carefree were spent fighting in someone else’s war.
With few options for fighting deflation, countries have resorted to competitive devaluations.
This view was reinforced when Pakistan became the essential conduit of weapons to Afghans fighting the Soviet occupation of their country.
In the UK, where older, alienated working- and middle-class voters (mainly in England) pushed through Brexit, the new prime minister, Theresa May, is fighting to hold her party together.
To be sure, slow economic growth in the years since the 2008 global financial crisis has sapped voters’ enthusiasm for traditional parties fighting over the middle ground.
They will need to adopt a fighting spirit and signal confidence in their cause, rather than succumbing to complacency or resigning themselves to a long-drawn-out retreat.
The fighting would last until the end of the decade, claim thousands of lives, and twice require the intervention of NATO (in Bosnia in 1995 and Serbia in 1999).
The recent fighting in Macedonia, which left eight police officers and 14 Albanian militants dead, raises the specter of renewed violence.
China does have some common interests in fighting Islamic extremist terrorism, and it did not try to block America's path to the Iraqi war in the UN Security Council.
The insurgents in eastern Ukraine are fighting alongside Russian troops (bearing no insignias).
In lieu of openness, Le Pen – who now casts herself as a Gaullist – wants to deepen “great power” relations with Russia and the United States, as she focuses on defending “traditional” Christian values and fighting terror in the context of a multipolar world order.
While we are all working to assist in finding an Afghan-led political solution to this conflict, the fighting is not going to stop immediately.
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