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The world economy now has functional international institutions – such as the International Monetary Fund and the World Trade Organization (WTO) – that it lacked prior to the Second World War.
And interminable reorganizations, politicized appointments, and the changing priorities of successive presidents have contributed to the perception that the institution is less than functional.
As leader of the nationalist Likud opposition to the governments of Yitzhak Rabin and Shimon Peres, his tactics in opposing the Oslo agreements between the Labour led government of Israel and the PLO was to characterize both Mr. Rabin and Mr. Peres as traitors, the functional equivalents of such infamous collaborators as Petain and Quisling.
The implicit argument is that this move from price to quantity adjustments is the functional equivalent of additional monetary-policy easing.
But they share one insight: There is a deep longing for the creation of communities defined by shared values, not functional needs.
The proteins have the same structure and functional properties as those found in natural breast milk, and the process for extracting them is analogous to that used routinely for the production of therapeutic proteins from organisms like bacteria and yeast.
At that point, the international community would be obliged to begin acting against any party that was denying Palestine the right to behave as a fully functional and sovereign state.
The result would be the functional equivalent of a tax hike on beleaguered middle-class US families.
Polarization may have proved functional to winning an election, but Humala will have to broaden his support in order to forge the consensus he needs in order to govern.
Although the UK would remain a member of NATO, we have yet to see how functional the Alliance will be in the era after US hegemony.
In fact, relations between the two sides nowadays are purely functional; a new Cold War has started.
The legislature today comprises a mix of directly elected members and those representing functional constituencies: corporate interests and groups of employees.
Some civic groups have advocated increasing the number of directly elected legislators and opening up the functional constituencies to broader electorates.
Moreover, the brake that the functional constituencies can put on legislation should be scrapped, leaving decisions to a simple majority.
Another strategy would be to relocate some of the staff, including those in functional departments, to “regional offices” in the field.
More important, given that some regions now face interest-rate spreads that are the functional equivalent of having their own currencies (without a central bank), some eurozone members might at some point wonder why they should not formalize what is de facto a reality.
Studies of functional brain imaging in people experiencing pain tend to confirm this view.
In essence, while all of Iraq’s factions have a strong interest in promoting a central government that appears fully functional, that government’s powers will in fact be limited.
Morale and functional capacity collapsed along with spending.
As the 2009 UN climate-change summit in Copenhagen demonstrated, meetings of 192 states are often unwieldy and subject to bloc politics and tactical moves by largely extraneous players that otherwise lack the resources to solve functional problems.
That would be the functional equivalent of a tax hike on middle-class families – precisely the constituency that so concerns Congress.
The brain interprets what is threatening and, therefore, stressful; regulates behavioral and physiological stress responses – the latter through the autonomic, immune, and neuroendocrine systems; and is a target of stress, undergoing structural and functional remodeling of its circuits that affects its performance.
The new tariffs will boost the price of foreign-made solar panels – the functional equivalent of a tax hike on energy consumers and a setback for efforts to boost reliance on non-carbon fuels.
The Trump deal would shift the Chinese piece of America’s multilateral imbalance to higher-cost imports from elsewhere – the functional equivalent of a tax hike on American families.
There must be normalization in our relations in order for the Caucasus to coalesce into a functional region.
The same phenomenon can be observed in the brain using functional magnetic resonance imaging (FMRI).
Establishing joint management and overhauling conventional defense capacities will be a two-pronged challenge: functional, owing to the traditional schema of defense organizations, and political, inasmuch as a cession of state sovereignty will be required.
Piketty’s theory concerns what economists call the functional distribution of income, or the split between providers of labor and owners of capital.
The other 30 seats, however, are chosen through functional constituencies, which represent specific interests, such as banks, insurance companies, stockbrokers, chambers of commerce, and transport operators.
Indeed, at the close of nomination on August 4, eleven functional candidates were chosen without opposition, including those representing banks and the Chinese chamber of commerce.
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