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NGOs focused on human rights and peacemaking are scrutinized as foreign agents.
It is, they claim, focused exclusively on extracting maximum, short-term profit, with little regard for governance standards, let alone host countries’ longer-term development goals.
In the aftermath of the Madrid bombings, the EU focused on internal aspects of the fight against terrorism.
Here, the ECB’s task is all the more difficult because, having focused so narrowly on inflation stabilization, markets would read adoption of a more flexible stance as a change in position.
To my surprise, when the Conservative Party started to renew itself under May’s predecessor, David Cameron, it focused on celebrating an inclusive national identity.
The biggest are not always the legal ones on which the World Bank and development agencies have focused; rather, they are the business risks of a company that fails or a polity that implodes.
Although political leaders are not focused on climate change, a big international event can capture their attention, as the Copenhagen conference did.
They must be focused on stability and security, regardless of the security situation or the nature of the conflict.
Working with a network of partners focused on helping Syria’s refugees, ECW is addressing structural challenges, such as teacher remuneration and certification processes, while helping to create a new curriculum based on coexistence.
A range of policies focused narrowly on GDP and fiscal prudence has fueled this insecurity.
For example, a New Zealand government focused on wellbeing would direct more of its attention and resources to childhood poverty.
Had the US, for example, focused more on health, rather than just on GDP, the decline in life expectancy among those without a college education, and especially among those in America’s deindustrialized regions, would have been apparent years ago.
Then, too, Muslim intellectuals focused on the "decadence" of Muslim societies, their debilitating political and social corruption.
Thus, a sharp, focused challenge to the assertions of religious orthodoxy has emerged in the work of such important thinkers as Abdolkarim Soroush (Iran), Abdelmajid Charfi (Tunisia), Fazlur Rahman (Pakistan), and Mahmud Muhammad Taha (Sudan).
As one of the co-conveners of the International Commission on Financing Global Education Opportunity – which brings together world leaders to mobilize support for solutions to the education crisis – I have long focused on how to improve educational access.
Whereas the SPD has focused on the need for more redistribution and public spending, the CDU/CSU has promised “tax cuts for all” and a more restrictive refugee policy.
Some clinicians and scientists have begun to question whether researchers should be so heavily focused on the brain’s reward systems and the high that their activation by drugs can produce.
China's President Jiang Zemin has recently focused on consolidating his leadership base at home.
Much of the coverage of the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China (CPC) focused on President Xi Jinping’s consolidation of power.
Early work, including mine, was based on investor perceptions in the early 1980s, and was thus focused on market economies (understandably, the consulting firm that surveyed perceptions at the time did not analyze communist countries).
Now the recovery is focused on China, and increasingly involves India, lifting hundreds of millions of people out of poverty in the process.
Meanwhile, Germany is focused on organizing the reception and settlement of a massive influx of refugees.
In its design and implementation, it is focused almost exclusively on immediate measures and short-term outcomes.
Instead, as the DPJ had promised its voters, the government focused on increasing spending, including huge new grants to households and farmers.
Admittedly, the strategic conditions in the region are far more complex today than they were eight years ago, when Israel’s requirements for a deal with Syria focused mainly on security arrangements on the Golan Heights, and on Syria using its leverage in Lebanon to permit an Israeli settlement with that country.
So far, the international community has focused mainly on the immediate concern of denuclearizing North Korea.
It is also why there exists an “organic connection of India to Central Asia,” the key to that link lying in the Himalayas, which is where the India-China rivalry is currently focused.
Missing the Forest for the XiLONDON – In recent weeks, Western media commentators have focused extensively on the Communist Party of China’s (CPC) decision to abolish presidential term limits, which will allow Xi Jinping to remain in power indefinitely.
They focused particularly on the longer-term benefits of infant-male circumcision, arguing that there is massive untapped potential to introduce this very cheap practice across Africa.
Despite numerous difficulties, recovery from that earthquake was faster than expected: there was no tsunami to complicate matters, and rebuilding efforts could be focused on buildings that had collapsed in the earthquake.
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