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The Constitutional Treaty provides solid
foundations
for our shared future.
And, in a world economy that had rested on the
foundations
of a “strong dollar,” the consequent financial market instability will be costly for all.
And it has testified to the good sense of those who have been arguing for years, in a variety of Asian and wider global contexts, that maritime search, rescue, and disaster relief is an ideal place to start in creating confidence building mechanisms aimed at laying the
foundations
for conflict prevention and resolution.
It is difficult to be optimistic about the success of an initiative built on such flimsy legal foundations, and lacking democratic legitimacy.
The 2008 global financial crisis deepened doubts about the ethical and logical
foundations
of the liberal world order.
The
foundations
of Spain’s current labor laws date to 1938, when the civil war was tearing the country apart.
In practice, however, the construction of legal
foundations
could weaken the Chinese government’s operational flexibility when responding to a Taiwanese move toward independence.
The Basic Law embodies this vision, laying the
foundations
for our development over a 50-year period and providing the freedom and the power for us to position ourselves as Asia’s world city – and to do it on our own.
Indeed, this concern will only become sharper and stronger, as citizens in rich countries fear that as the remaining barriers to international trade fall, industrial-core income distributions, social orders, and politics will be shaken to their
foundations.
Fortunately, Israel’s judicial system remains independent and rests on
foundations
of proven integrity.
Although markets may have been cowed into submission for now, the cracks in the eurozone’s political
foundations
are beginning to show.
In other words, the UN’s foundations, laid down in 1945, remain strong.
Reconfirming the connection between bad economics and political extremism – highlighted by John Maynard Keynes in the aftermath of World War I – a decade of austerity in Europe has weakened the
foundations
of the welfare state and driven millions of voters into the arms of populists.
Given that many Arab states are modern constructs invented by departing colonial powers, and therefore lack cohesive historical identities, their state structures often lack strong
foundations.
Likewise, the new federal Social Innovation Fund provides grants to social-sector intermediaries – foundations, non-profits, and social enterprises – that develop new programs to tackle problems like unequal educational opportunity.
Trump is not just challenging political convention to “shake things up”; he is testing the
foundations
of US democracy.
My
foundations
have been active in educating Roma for more than 25 years.
The Fund’s annual budget is only €12 million ($16.3 million), of which my
foundations
cover nearly half, and we find it difficult to secure additional funds.
Experts from the European Commission and from my
foundations
are developing a demonstration project to make private-sector internships available to Roma youth enrolled in vocational schools.
Back in 1957, the motive for “laying the
foundations
of an ever closer union of the peoples of Europe” was to make war between European nations obsolete, and, in doing so, to bring internal stability to all European nations.
Indeed, the crisis is calling into question the very
foundations
of the European Union.
Our civilization, despite its drugs, prostitution, alcoholism, incivility, and vandalism, will always be better than rule by Mullahs or soldiers, because its social problems can be allayed, if never entirely eliminated, without changing the
foundations
of the regime.
In the life sciences, for example,
foundations
find it hard to identify high-level Europeans for awards.
Zhao’s persecution was the persecution of a leader who dedicated himself for over a decade to groundbreaking efforts that became the
foundations
of China’s economic reform.
Today, much of America’s soft power is produced not by the government, but by civil society – including universities, foundations, and pop culture.
Private actors from
foundations
to pharmaceutical corporations to NGOs are actively experimenting with alternative ways to tackle transnational health challenges.
The
foundations
of such an approach – an internal energy market, the framework of an energy union, and a cohesive external voice – are emerging.
Beck doesn’t say so, of course, but what Soros has actually done is give support through his Open Society
foundations
to pro-democracy movements in many countries.
This new pattern – which persisted through the 1980s and 1990s, and accelerated after 2000 – caused inequality to rise sharply, weakening the
foundations
of globalization.
Her reforms laid the
foundations
for a period during which Britain’s per capita wealth grew faster than most of its competitors’.
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