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Economic growth is slower in many cases than the historic norm.
It is, as NATO’s new Secretary General Willy Claes has said in his inaugural statement last October, "a historic duty."
A Nation KidnappedThe editorial published in the Colombian newspaper Diario del Sur on July 6 (“A Slap in the Face of Violence”) was ecstatic: “Never before, in spite of the violence that has oppressed us during so many years, has Colombia lived a day like yesterday: historic and unforgettable in every aspect.”
In honor of this historic event, statues of two leaders in the struggle for women’s suffrage, Millicent Fawcett and Emmeline Pankhurst, are to be erected in British cities.
According to the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), “perceptions, attitudes, and historic gender roles” limit women’s access to health care and education, and lead to disproportionate levels of family responsibility, job segregation, and sexual violence.
It is a historic relic, bust but still bragging.
This development may be of historic importance if it not only leads to a deepening of US-Indian technical and economic ties, but also strengthens their ability to tackle regional and global challenges, ranging from the proliferation of nuclear weapons to climate change.
But, like most cities, Boston reports its assets at book value, which are tied to the historic cost.
This role also plays to Iran’s historic strengths as a land of bazaaris, one of the three pillars of society, along with the military and clergy.
And that is what we are doing, as action on three issues of historic consequence demonstrates.
Netanyahu’s right-wing coalition simply is no partner for a historic deal, on Jerusalem or on any other element of the dispute.
Although the agreement with Iran objectively makes Israel safer, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu considers it a historic error.
The historic agreement with Iran is just one of many that will be required to bring peace and stability to the Middle East.
The second reason is historic: the painful and still vivid memories of the Vichy regime of WWII, when citizens’ “racial” and religious origin was stamped on national identification documents and was used as a key tool in rounding up French Jews for delivery to the death camps.
Finally, modest amounts of money, directed at practical problem solving, can make an historic difference.
That is tragic, because many unique and even historic opportunities are not being seized.
Serbia’s application for EU accession provides a historic opportunity to achieve just that.
With global interest rates at or near historic lows, now is a particularly good time to utilize the EU’s triple-A credit.
The middle class has grown to historic levels; poverty has been cut almost in half; access to education and health care has been expanded; and prosperity is being shared more widely than ever.
For Germany and South Korea, however, relationships with historic allies – NATO and the United States, respectively – appear to be changing before our eyes.
In both Germany and South Korea, the idea that historic alliances may offer fewer tangible benefits than tacit neutrality – particularly in terms of exports – appears to be taking root, especially among business elites.
Today’s historic meeting between Pope Francis and Russian Orthodox Patriarch Kirill in Cuba is another occasion that Putin will seek to turn to his advantage.
In 1963, Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev, a devout atheist, sent his son-in-law and adviser Alexei Adzhubei for a historic audience with then-Pope John XXIII.
In particular, after 2001, many developing countries overcame their historic pattern of using periods of capital inflows to finance large fiscal and current-account deficits.
Unfortunately, policy backsliding is jeopardizing this historic “graduation” from pro-cyclicality.
He is a diplomat by training, a brilliant linguist with a first-class policy mind, who in government won plaudits internationally for his leading role in the G20 response to the global financial crisis of 2008, his efforts on climate change, and his historic apology to Australia’s indigenous peoples.
The historic breakthrough is recorded in the final G-7 communiqué.
Here, too, the G-7 made a historic breakthrough by declaring its readiness to “develop long-term national low-carbon strategies” to get to a decarbonized future.
Even with normal crop production around the world, we will end this year with stocks-to-use ratios near historic lows.
If the US is serious about reaching a constructive outcome in Copenhagen, it must set radical and practical targets, take responsibility for its historic carbon emissions, and commit itself to support developing countries’ efforts by means of capacity building, technology transfer, and finance.
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