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No organization that holds so much public influence and importance should be able to operate as a black box.
Iraqi Kurdistan holds significant oil reserves, and Catalonia is estimated to account for a fifth of Spain’s GDP.
In addition, new standardized forms have been introduced for declarations of assets and financial interests by anyone who holds an official position in government, parliament, public and local administration, and the judicial system.
But the tendency to apply old labels remains strong, so that everyday we hear gross simplifications like the current one that holds that Latin America is now undergoing a powerful leftist wave.
Anyone who holds freedom of the press and freedom of expression to be universal human rights will agree with Friedman’s position.
The fall of Qaddafi and his authoritarian regime holds great promise for a people bereft of freedom for 42 years.
If it were generally accepted, it would imply that the EU now holds official moral doctrines, and that allegiance to these doctrines is required in order to exercise the full right of citizens to serve in a public capacity.
Famously, few people know who even holds Switzerland’s annually rotating presidency.
China alone, with over $600 billion in reserves, holds more than enough dollars to recapitalize the IMF four times over.
This insight holds two possible policy implications.
China, by contrast, is governed by a political class that holds democracy in contempt.
Another, related issue that holds the potential for real danger concerns proposed revision of the Anti-Ballistic Missile (ABM) Treaty.
Nowadays, there are many adherents of the “Hubbert’s peak” theory of oil production, which holds that we have reached the upper limits of output capacity, the wells are running dry, and it is all downhill from here.
The Bank of Japan already holds government securities worth 40% of GDP, and it is committed to annual purchases worth 16% of GDP within the framework of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s economic revitalization agenda.
This, then, is the future that the TPP holds out: a kind of Potemkin democracy, in which citizens are free to choose their flags and holidays but cannot afford to enact any laws that might reduce international investors’ profits.
On the international side, his national-security strategy holds that “the burdens of a young century cannot fall on American shoulders alone.”
But when the adviser believes his work will benefit those whom the leader effectively holds hostage, he has a duty not to withhold advice.
The same holds true for further reforms of the labor market, which has been liberalized significantly in recent years, amid rapidly declining real wages.
The BOJ’s current governor, Masaaki Shirakawa, holds very different views on fiscal and monetary policy from those on which Abe campaigned.
On the contrary, its importance stems from the fact that China holds the key to global adjustment.
For example, Stein’s Law holds that if something cannot go on forever, it will stop.
Their study holds two lessons that should be considered in evaluating the latest overhaul of the UK’s welfare system.
Received wisdom holds the United States Treasury and Wall Street responsible for the push to free up global finance.
Grillo holds no official position in M5S, which bills itself as a “non-association,” and yet he owns the blog that has been key to the movement’s success, as well as the copyright to its official symbol.
Some officials argue that foreign investors’ appetite for US government debt – the rest of the world holds almost half of all outstanding Treasury securities, worth more than $6 trillion – insulates America from economic harm.
The system now holds the key to fairness liquidation.
Moreover, China, which holds nearly $2 trillion in foreign reserves, must be part of this rescue mission.
The word “decisive” holds important implications for key resources – including fuels, financial capital, and, of course, the currency – that historically have been subject to state-administered pricing.
European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker owes his position to the European People’s Party, the center-right political grouping dominated by German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s Christian Democratic Union, which in turns holds sway over the European Parliament.
Only Cuba holds out against the continent's push toward democracy and open economies.
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