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Its membership is chosen by only 7% of the total Hong Kong electorate, and its voting procedures seek to prevent the nomination of any candidates who may harbor democratic sympathies.
Two Lessons for the Next US PresidentNAGASAKI – Looking out of my window across the harbor of the remarkable city of Nagasaki, Japan, two thoughts of considerable relevance to the next American president come to mind.
This is not to say that the organizations linked with Greece’s communist left believe that all Germans harbor an inner Nazi.
But they should not harbor any illusions, either: there can be no such thing as a happy Grexit.
Yet there are still plenty of Brazilians – and foreign observers, including me – who harbor serious doubts, for two key reasons.
America and Europe Divided Over SaddamTalk is growing of a change in US defense doctrine to allow for pre-emptive strikes on states that harbor weapons of mass destruction.
So long as EU leaders cannot answer that question, financial markets will continue to harbor doubts about the euro’s long-term stability.
But Serbia’s authorities, facing economic turmoil, cannot harbor him much longer if the United States and the European Union exert adequate pressure.
These tiny organisms harbor codes for metabolic processes that have been preserved across eons – the same processes responsible for shaping the world.
The numbers tell us that 15-20 percent of Sun-like stars harbor worlds similar in size to the Earth, orbiting stellar parents at distances implying that their surfaces might be temperate.
Serendipity is providing us with access to an abyssal realm that could conceivably harbor life.
Even finding nothing in such places is important, because these new data have predictive power, narrowing the field of planets, or moons, that might harbor life.
Will the US increase its pressure by intervening militarily if Pakistan continues to harbor Taliban fighters operating from the tribal areas?
To buy half of the Piraeus harbor at a knockdown price may seem more advantageous than investing in the long-term consolidation of the Greek economy and its finances, but is that really the case?
This figure is far higher than levels of protection in even the wealthiest countries that harbor significant coral reefs, the US and Australia, where current levels of protection are less than 5%.
Second: they always harbor a dangerous explosive potential and can therefore, at any moment, grow into large-scale conflicts, threatening to engulf us all.
Finally, the Bush administration must ratify the Kyoto Protocol, in order to allow both global firms and Bolivian community entrepreneurs to create yet more rainforest ranches and other creative initiatives that reduce poverty, harbor biodiversity, and cool a warming world.
Today, some states harbor terrorists in order to attack their enemies or because they are too weak to control powerful groups.
After less than another half-billion years, it did indeed harbor life, in particular an entity, called the last universal common ancestor (LUCA), that gave rise through evolution to all known living creatures, including microbes of various kinds, plants, fungi, animals, and humans.
Many segments of society still harbor reservations about foreigners and foreign investors, not only in countries new to global markets, like Vietnam, but even in countries with decades of economic openness.
Those who are not will naturally harbor resentment toward those who are.
How can a country be expected to prosper if the majority of its citizens harbor only a secondary allegiance to the state?
The point is that eventually, despite strong regional loyalties and various cultural and religious differences, the majority can identify as being simply “Pakistani” – even though they may harbor radical differences about what this might mean.
The most reasonable explanation for Germany’s response is that many Germans harbor a deep mistrust of other European governments, and thus believe that they cannot be counted on to avoid insolvency.
Likewise, in the 1990s, economic malaise and high unemployment impelled Copenhagen’s leaders to get creative, consolidating the city’s old harbor area, as well as a former military garrison on the city outskirts, in a professionally managed public wealth fund.
Beyond transforming the city’s harbor district into a highly desirable area, the fund enabled the government to build a transit system, all without dipping into tax revenues.
By the end of this year, it will likely harbor close to two million refugees, driven from their homes by violent conflict in neighboring Syria and elsewhere.
To this day, many harbor deep resentment toward the outsiders, whom they regard as usurpers.
If we work together, guided by a sense of urgency and common destiny, these negotiations can help steer the ship of the global economy toward less turbulent, greener waters and into a safe harbor.
These littorals harbor most of the country’s wealth and allow it to tap into the global market via a dense bundle of shipping lines.
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