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Moreover, they can provide a productive outlet for young people, keeping them focused and engaged and boosting their self-esteem, thereby reducing their vulnerability to harmful social influences.
Charges and countercharges on the cyber issue have focused primarily on motives.
Indeed, after spending several years focused on coping with economic crises, the EU’s influence and leadership in certain international decision-making arenas have waned.
Globalizing the Fight Against Non-Communicable DiseaseMONTREAL – Global health organizations and initiatives – and, in particular, the World Health Organization – have traditionally focused on infectious diseases, from malaria (their great failure) to smallpox (their greatest success).
Two programs were initiated: one serving Western Europe and another, called Inter-Health, which focused on a mix of countries, from Chile and Tanzania to Finland and the United States.
Whereas Japan and South Korea focused on industrialization, China has urbanization as an overt objective, and its system of financing local government – with cities dependent on land sales to cover their budgets – has intensified the bias toward real-estate development.
In a world of hyper-globalization – barring a protectionist relapse led by the America Firsters – treatment needs to be focused on the demand side of the equation.
After consultations between doctors, lawyers, and the girl’s family, chemotherapy eventually was begun, but not before attention had again been focused on the rigidity of many developing countries’ abortion laws.
In other words, US foreign policy spending is thirty times more focused on the military than on building global prosperity, global public health, and a sustainable environment.
Like Austria’s initiative, Luxembourg’s program is focused primarily on creating new jobs that will reinforce and add to existing social or public-sector activities.
For starters, medicine is more focused on keeping people alive than on maintaining their quality of life.
Meddling from Moscow has certainly focused minds in Kiev.
The NIC analysts did not neglect the possibility of a technological surprise, but they focused on the wrong technology.
Finally, the insurgency as a whole remains nihilistic, focused on destroying the new Iraqi government and the emerging economic and political system rather than articulating a coherent alternative.
Another global fiscal stimulus – focused on public investment in infrastructure and education – would deliver the adrenaline shot needed for a robust recovery.
Ironically, although central banks are now focused on the problem of deflation, the more serious risk for the longer term is that inflation will rise rapidly as their economies recover and banks use the large volumes of recently accumulated reserves to create loans that expand spending and demand.
Indeed, the paradox of America’s pernicious policies in Iraq is that they have created favorable conditions for an Arab-Israeli peace, as the emergence of Iran and the threat of a fundamentalist tsunami have focused Arab minds on the urgency of a settlement with Israel.
Obama has understandably focused on competing priorities, including the troubled US economy and ongoing wars abroad.
Hence, the Russian reformers focused on land reform - which is very difficult - rather than the total liberalization of agricultural trade - which is much easier.
He focused on how to organize our activities and use our prosperity to create a world fit for the good life.
Tocqueville focused on the consequences of the destruction of caste as a principle of social and political order.
But, with the world’s media attention focused on Argentina, Dutch journalists were able to publicize the plight of the Madres of Plaza de Mayo – the mothers of the disappeared – thus revealing to the world the regime’s grotesque nature.
Here, China could find an excellent partner in Europe, either in a G-3 format with the US or in focused bilateral cooperation.
In recent years, much political activity has been directly or indirectly focused on exchange rates in ways that imply new economic and political divisions.
This year’s forum focused on the changing nature of work.
Such an approach is, however, poorly focused and unlikely to be cost-effective.
They will be relatively narrowly focused and designed to lay the groundwork for further progress.
Russia’s Eurasian VisionNEW YORK – The escalating conflict in Ukraine between the Western-backed government and Russian-backed separatists has focused attention on a fundamental question: What are the Kremlin’s long-term objectives?
Yet Europe has focused more on enforcing shared values in the tech sector – namely, by strengthening data privacy regulations – than on developing a long-term strategy to become competitive.
As the Commission’s report argues, all major powers need to adopt a more pragmatic and patient approach which is focused not on long lists of impossible objectives, but on local needs and capabilities.
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