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Just why Trump chose this moment to make this gesture is a matter of conjecture.
King Abdullah pledged large numbers of new housing units, an important gesture in a country where young people, especially young married couples, cannot easily access the housing market.
So far, King Abdullah has shown no sign of opting for a policy of inclusion – not even a token gesture, such as a Shia minister.
Instead, “performance capture technology,” originally invented for the movie Avatar, enables a human actor, Andy Serkis, to play the role of the chimpanzee Caesar, not by dressing in a chimp suit, but by having every gesture and facial movement, even the twitch of an eyebrow, transformed into the movement of an ape.
This gesture elicited hundreds of Internet postings from Arabs condemning the award as treachery and lamenting the pitiful state of leadership in the Arab world.
The South should also urge its northern counterpart to coordinate the commemoration of Independence Day, a near-sacred day for all Koreans, as a symbolic gesture of a unified Korean past and possible future.
Not since President Bill Clinton sent a naval group through the Taiwan Strait in 1996 as a supportive gesture to the then-beleaguered Taiwanese has the United States so boldly defied China’s unlawful territorial claims.
As a symbolic gesture, the move is welcome.
If you are ashamed, you do not expose yourself to punishment, nor do you extend your hand in a gesture of repair.
As a gesture of goodwill, the EU should also support the UK’s efforts to “grandfather” its market access resulting from existing EU free-trade agreements and thereby avoid the need to renegotiate each and every deal.
Every gesture by the South toward one of the protagonists – China, the US, Japan, and North Korea – elicits so much pressure by the others that its government must then somehow devise a compensatory policy.
I thought about this sly gesture.
The EU has avoided any such gesture, seeking to avoid further tension with Russia.
The Globalization of JusticePARIS – When the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) was established by the United Nations Security Council 20 years ago, on May 25, 1993, many regarded it as a meaningless gesture.
To be sure, the significance of that gesture should not be overestimated: Hu only had six months left on an absurd sentence of three and a half years, and Ai is still under legal threat for supposed “tax evasion.”
But the gesture should not be underestimated, either.
But this gesture will come just ten days after Abe hosts Putin in his Yamaguchi prefecture hometown; and theirs will be a rather different sort of reconciliation.
While Russia has warmed to China in recent years, not least by entering into a big natural gas deal and engaging in joint military exercises, it has largely done so as a gesture of defiance against the US and the European Union.
And he has wisely ruled out the reduction of US troops in South Korea as an interim gesture.
The French entertainer Dieudonné M’bala M’bala – whose signature “quenelle” gesture, which resembles an inverted Nazi salute, has stirred controversy throughout Europe – personifies this overlapping discourse.
Without this gesture, further market turmoil is inevitable – and the eurozone’s collapse will become only a matter of time.
The fiscal compact is an empty gesture that may be the last attempt to pretend that EU members are moving toward political unification.
As a gesture intending to boost Kerry's chances, German Defense Minister Peter Struck suggested that his country might reconsider its position on troops in Iraq.
But forgiving poor countries’ debts without agreeing on a better framework for future aid flows is an empty gesture.
And Hu himself dined with Obama twice during his two-day stay in Beijing – a gesture never made to any visiting foreign leader, including Obama’s predecessor, George W. Bush.
India responded to Pakistan’s gesture by supporting its bid for membership of the United Nation’s Security Council, and by withdrawing its objections to the European Union’s grant of special privileges to Pakistani textile exporters.
Denationalizing “failed citizens” who have committed terrorist acts is also inappropriate as a symbolic gesture.
But Havel stops well short of an all-embracing gesture toward all who want to settle in Europe.
But as a gesture for peace and a better future, it certainly would allow Japan to claim the moral high ground.
The gesture of defiance would damage both its reputation and other territorial interests, not least its claims against Japan in the East China Sea, which rely on UNCLOS’s continental-shelf provisions.
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