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In Ukraine, political forces resisting closer strategic links to the West have gained ground.
We have gained personal knowledge of the unspeakable misery that has innocently befallen 100,000 inhabitants of Austria.”
For mainstream parties in France, the Conservatives in the UK, and Trump’s more internationally minded Republican rivals in the US, there is nothing to be gained from copying the arguments of their extremist counterparts.
New York City did not have to foot the bill for the failed effort, but officials gained valuable knowledge about what does and does not work.
Over the years, Costa Rica, a country of fewer than five million people, has gained attention worldwide for its progressive leadership.
Why not postpone enlargement, they ask, until some of the states demanding to join Nato have gained EU membership, where elements of their security concerns may be met?
Nothing is gained - and much is lost - when a desired policy outcome is put first.
This is the extra wealth gained by rising monopoly power, and it is continuing to grow.
Perhaps the caterpillars gained so much pleasure from feasting on my arugula that their lives were worth living, despite their miserable deaths.
Indeed, the events and personalities that have so far gained attention seem to fill the void where the declarations of freedom and treatises on rights – where the ideas – should be.
A Human Rights Court for AfricaOne crucial insight to be gained from a century of establishing international courts and tribunals is that while momentum is vital, getting things right from the start is equally important.
Kicillof has gained international recognition as the public face of Argentina’s fight against the so-called vulture funds that want to extort full payment on Argentine bonds that they purchased for a few pennies on the dollar.
Europe would then lose nearly everything it has gained over a half-century from transcending nationalism.
Labor importers would have to vie for access to a collective market, rather than individual national markets, and countries that gained access would have a significant comparative advantage over those that did not.
The greater the crime in the past, the more compelling the rights in the present -- which are gained merely through membership in the wronged group.
But when a debtor is unable to pay, nothing is gained by forcing payment.
For example, Morocco’s Ouarzazate Solar Power Plant and its Drinking Water Efficiency Program were launched with €37 million ($50.6 million) from the EU’s Neighborhood Investment Facility; these projects subsequently gained additional funding totaling more than €600 million.
As the tragedy unfolded, however, scientists gained a greater understanding of the disease.
What, people ask, has Latin America really gained from the restrictive macroeconomic policies it has pursued, for the most part, since the debt crisis of the 1980's?
With Japanese voters becoming supportive of new parties after decades of LDP rule, Shinsei gained tremendous traction and drove forward the creation of the first non-LDP coalition government since the mid-1950’s.
In the US, it has been estimated that for every 1% market share gained by imports from low-cost producers like China, prices fall by 2%.
According to an online survey conducted by the national newspaper Mmegi, support for capital punishment remains high among voters, which explains why the issue has never gained traction in Parliament.
Billions of people have access to improved drinking water; and many have gained access to sanitation (though a billion people still have to resort to open defecation – a major health risk).
Our sponsors welcomed our recommendations, but that and similar efforts have gained little traction, leaving all countries rushing headlong toward a world full of uncertainty and risk.
Unfortunately, the recent exchange between Israel and Hamas, in which the Islamist organization gained the lion’s share of more than 1,000 prisoners in exchange for the Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit, does not augur well for the chances of an Israeli-Palestinian peace.
Gref's program was diluted only slightly but gained wide support and the President's backing.
Likewise, more ambitious demands from Britain’s smaller opposition parties for a second referendum on the final exit deal have gained no traction, even among committed pro-Europeans, who are intimidated by the witch-hunting atmosphere against unrepentant Remainers.
A highly Westernized leader, Bourguiba maintained the secular character of the state that he took over from France, as well as many of its economic ties with the West (particularly France, of course), in a much more committed way than Algeria did after it gained independence.
With the insights gained from following these patients, researchers are increasingly beginning to recognize that the same science may bring us to both a vaccine and a cure.
They define themselves through their religiosity, but they also have gained universal, secular knowledge.
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