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Replicating this program – described as something between a “volunteer fire department and the national guard” – on a national level could bolster US capabilities.
A public person must be on constant guard against causing offense, whether intentionally or not.
There has been no sign of this yet, but these are areas that almost all EU national governments jealously guard, even though they lack the EU’s collective clout.
For once, the Pakistani military appeared to have been caught off guard by Indian action.
That means putting in place a genuine European asylum and migration strategy, establishing a European coast guard and border force, and providing legal and safe routes for both asylum-seekers and migrants.
But if Russia acts as a reliable rear guard and provider of energy and military hardware, China is unlikely to seriously object to expanding Russian influence.
To guard against abuse and capture, industrial policy needs be carried out in a transparent and accountable manner, and its processes must be open to new entrants as well as incumbents.
The Central-Bank Song Remains the SameLONDON – The changing of the guard that is taking place at the systemically important central banks in 2018-2019 will mark the beginning of a new era of monetary policy.
Despite the importance of Cyprus, it is the possible war with Iraq that poses the most severe test of the delicate balance that now exists between Turkey's conservative old guard and the more liberal reformers within the ruling Justice and Development Party.
Against the odds, the independent centrist won the French presidency by a decisive margin, beating the far-right populist Marine Le Pen – and vanquishing the old guard of the French establishment along the way.
MOSCOW – Millions of people have now watched a video of a Russian coast guard vessel ramming a Ukrainian tugboat in the Kerch Strait.
But it would also go some way toward redressing the growing external imbalances and help guard against any souring of market expectations.
And the best way to guard against that is to establish an EU-Ukraine customs union.
By 2014, he had taken over the presidential palace and surrounded himself by a guard meant to evoke Ottoman splendor, a fairly transparent effort to compensate for his inability to shape regional developments according to his – much less his country’s – interests.
The PLO’s old guard – men like Yasser Arafat and Abbas, who led the liberation organization from exile and returned home with the Oslo Accords – dominated the Palestinian political landscape up to now.
Developments in Morocco, Bahrain, and Jordan certainly seem to suggest that this changing of the guard can help soften rigid political structures and allow for broader participation.
Unfortunately, existing international institutions, like the UN, are ill-suited to safeguard universal interests because they are associations of states, and states jealously guard their interests.
This clash of perceptions has caught the world’s policy experts and analysts off guard.
The result is that an old guard now confronts a new wave, and the two sides think entirely differently and speak at cross-purposes.
Such a system would be the political equivalent of letting the inmates guard the prison.
When, during a simulation, I asked an imaginary guard to take away the detainee's chair, the instructor feigned being removed violently.
When I told the non-existent guard to hit the detainee, the instructor played along.
Stock markets were caught off guard, and immediately fell by around 1.5%.
With the common enemy – the secularist old guard – defeated, there was little to hold the alliance together.
Sensing the bitter frustration of Moscow’s middle class-in-waiting, Yeltsin quickly gained a reputation as a harsh, if not always coherent, critic of the party’s old guard.
There have been mass protests and resistance from the old guard of the governing party, but the general public seems ready to accept austerity as long as it sees progress in correcting budgetary abuses – and there are plenty of abuses to allow progress.
Tom Paine, the great American revolutionary and author of The Rights of Man, wrote: “He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach himself.”
During the 1990’s, however, Anwar increased his influence within the party, unsettling many of the old guard.
Two thousand European Union officials run the country, and 16,000 NATO troops guard its security.
Still, clashes between the army and the Republican Guard are further eroding the regime’s coherence.
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