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The second principle is subsidiarity, which holds that decision-making should be decentralized whenever possible.
Someone who holds a Judeo-Christian-Islamic view of human nature is naturally going to worship God and follow the guidance of religious commandments.
None of these legal grounds holds water.
The opposite holds true for those who call themselves economically “liberal.”
A Georgian Marshall Plan, with a strategic economic development plan and specified milestones, holds promise because the government would be able and willing to design and implement a viable program.
Corruption, in the widest sense of the word, is the glue that holds the “system” together, that ensures that moneyed and powerful interests are free from rules that are meant to hold them in check.
Chemobyl holds out another message: a radioactivity that ignores national boundaries reminds us that we live -- for the first time in history -- in one interconnected civilization wrapping the planet.
In Africa’s wealthiest nation – but also the nation where wealth is most unequally shared – a bold populist now holds ultimate power over government policy.
As of the end of 2015, the share of Treasuries held by foreign central banks is more than 1.5 times what the Fed holds.
Broadly, this arrangement still holds today, though hints of its erosion became evident some time ago.
There is a very strong correlation between rising labor productivity and economic growth, which holds for countries with trade surpluses as well as those with deficits.
Even in the face of deeper political polarization than the US has seen in many decades (and, in many places, a visceral hatred of the country’s first African-American president), Americans and their politicians understand that breaking the rules means dissolving the constitutional glue that holds the polity together.
A wise political doctrine known as subsidiarity holds that public-policy challenges should be assigned to the lowest level of government able to address them, thereby ensuring maximum democratic participation in problem solving and the greatest opportunity to tailor solutions to genuine local needs.
But resigned acquiescence in whatever Putin’s regime chooses to do would only confirm it in its belief that it now holds all the cards.
The same holds true, though at a more modest level, even for energy-intensive industries, like chemicals.
The pattern of Republican deficiency holds up when the span of historical analysis is extended by using stock returns to measure economic performance.
But the lesson still holds: the choices made by established elites, as much as the challenges posed by insurgent outsiders, determine the fate of democracy.
The Stability Pact holds another important lesson: casting in stone institutional arrangements designed to address the problems of the past is a recipe for failure in the future.
There has been pressure to impose targeted sanctions aimed at impeding the financial operations of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard, which holds a virtual monopoly over strategic industries such as banking, defense and construction.
The same holds true for China.
But Germany’s defeat, however widely celebrated, holds much cause for concern.
Myriad Genetics, the sole test provider in the US – it holds a patent on the genes themselves , not just on the diagnostic test – did not accept her insurance, and Ceriani could not afford to pay for the test.
None of this holds true for Mexico, Central America, and the Caribbean islands – mainly the Dominican Republic, but eventually Cuba, too, and, in its own way, Haiti.
This division still holds in the age of Macron and Le Pen.
This holds important implications for efforts to revive multilateralism.
(The Watts Bar 2 reactor in Tennessee holds the record, having been under construction for 41 years.)
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The Japanese experience holds important lessons for Europe, where the demographic future looks a lot like Japan’s past.
Their plight, symptomatic in many ways of the plight of women around the world, holds lessons for us all.
The Cyprus crisis holds important lessons on all three counts.
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