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A policy of partial, delayed integration is preferable to quotas, not only in view of the Treaty of Rome but also on economic grounds.
At the same time, to deny Turkey a European future on religious grounds is to deny our Union’s diversity.
About four million northerners were denied political participation or land ownership on the grounds that they were descendants of migrants from neighboring countries.
But there are grounds for skepticism about Lula’s legacy, and the fact that they are rarely mentioned does not diminish their significance.
On most of these grounds, the dollar has been the world’s most attractive currency since 2009; but as economic recovery spreads from the US to Japan and Europe, the tables are starting to turn.
Natasha Walter, who works with refugee women in London, reports that most of the persecution they are fleeing is sexual – and that the law does not validate the grounds for their asylum applications.
But little in the current stimulus programs is justifiable on either of the grounds mentioned above.
It also follows from these legal and moral first principles that once there are reasonable grounds for confidence that the threat to civilian populations has been removed or neutralized (as seems now to be largely the case, at least in the east), military action should cease.
Confronted with the prospect of a US veto, an increasing number of international observers flatly oppose the Palestinian plan, on the grounds that it is unlikely to generate concrete political gains and would merely deflect attention from the main requirement of Middle East peace-making: a return to the negotiating table.
Likewise, in Poland, following a Constitutional Court ruling in November 2012 that struck down on technical grounds a provision permitting religious slaughter, the government promised that the practice would remain legal.
So politicians like Sarkozy may have grounds to argue that central banks should intervene to limit such swings.
One could criticize the Chinese regulator on the grounds that the effect of its moves to increase margin requirements did not last long; or one could criticize it on the grounds that its moves caused the recent crash.
But there has always been another, much smaller, group of asylum-seekers – those individuals forced to flee their home countries by persecution, often on religious or ethnic grounds.
Both candidates said that they would support Israel and not allow Iran to develop nuclear weapons, but there was no discussion of solutions to the Israel-Palestine conflict, or of the grounds on which countries that possess nuclear weapons might be justified to use force to prevent others from developing them.
When Wilson Center researcher Haleh Esfandiari was arrested in Iran, Hamilton wrote to Khamenei, pleading for her release on humanitarian grounds.
Those who used to say that they favored a debate on the issue now support legalization; those who opposed it now accept the need for debate; and those who continue to oppose legalization do so on moral, rather than rational, grounds.
All of this provides grounds for hope that 2016 may be the year when real change gets underway.
It is plausible that the wealthy consume smaller shares of their income, and recent trends in income and wealth distribution certainly are troubling on many grounds.
When the king of France created the Sorbonne in the thirteenth century, it was granted special privileges, one of which was maintaining order by itself; the police were not allowed to enter the university’s grounds.
A Brexit Gentlemen’s AgreementBRUSSELS – In her latest speech on Brexit, British Prime Minister Theresa May rejected the prospect of the United Kingdom remaining in the European Union’s customs union, on the grounds that the UK wants its own trade policy.
Is it entirely relative, or are there objective grounds to characterize a behavior or act as evil?
But what objective grounds are there to say that the Nazis were evil?
The Rajput community is also rumored to have delayed the release of the film on the grounds that it “distorted history,” though Bhansali has denied this.
Is it necessary to go further just because the indicators linked to national origin are not enough to identify discrimination – especially indirect discrimination – based on ethnic grounds?
In fact, none other than George Kennan, the originator of America’s Cold War containment strategy, opposed NATO enlargement in the 1990s on precisely these grounds.
On purely technical grounds, euroization will push the inflation risk premium--the difference between the average short-term interest rate and the inflation rate--to the level prevailing in the eurozone, implying lower real interest rates.
In any responsible press organization, the publication or broadcast of even one of these genuine examples of fake news would be grounds for dismissal of the editors responsible – not least because of investors’ outrage.
If ABC had fired Barr for something her comic character had said, she would have grounds to protest.
But to forgive Kim, Trump, and Putin on these grounds would be sexist, and this is not a gender issue.
In a world where anti-Semitism and racism fester, where prejudice on national, religious, colored-based, or ethnic grounds foster discrimination, that is the view that best nurtures the rights of all.
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