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Protests, or civil resistance, in the face of government force, rarely have immediate, tangible results.
So far, the international community has focused mainly on the immediate concern of denuclearizing North Korea.
This may not be in the immediate individual interest of every state, especially big and powerful ones, but is, in the long run, in the enlightened interest of all of humanity collectively.
But the demonstration effect would be immediate.
In addition to immediate uncertainties, investors are being held back by a shortage of incentives and a surplus of factors that reduce returns.
Much to his credit – and in contrast to his immediate predecessor – Obama tried, from his first day in office, to work towards a resolution of the conflict between Israelis and Palestinians.
An indefinite building freeze would lead to the immediate end of Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s coalition government in Jerusalem, without giving Israel or Netanyahu anything tangible in return.
That is why the question of violence is more pressing than that of immediate recognition of the state of Israel, something that Hamas has already done in practice.
Perhaps, given the ongoing turmoil in the Arab world, security services that had previously – though sometimes reluctantly – shut down these money flows are now distracted by other, more immediate, problems.
But universities have always been hard-pressed to justify their existence in such immediate cost-benefit terms.
But this means that a university's value must not be measured only by the short-term benefits it provides for immediate clients.
The immediate and medium-term prospects for economic growth in the United Kingdom are severely diminished, and the impact on the rest of Europe will be negative.
Rather, the doves should highlight the need for an immediate end to settlement expansion, which is an essential condition for their participation, in their various factions, in a third government led by Binyamin Netanyahu.
Consolidating a strong transport network of road, inner waterways, air, and sea would produce a cascading effect while offering significant – and immediate – economic gains by helping to optimize supply chains.
Neither side wants any ambiguity in their message before the election, thus ruling out the possibility of any immediate changes in tax expenditures or future Social Security pensions.
Fourth, the cost of rushed austerity is that it generally relies on immediate fixes, such as indiscriminate spending cuts and tax hikes that are expected to yield revenue in the short term, but that have an economically damaging impact.
Not so long ago, in the immediate postwar years, Eastern European Jewish Holocaust survivors fled from the murderous anti-Semitism of their Polish, Hungarian, Slovak, or Romanian neighbors to the safety of displaced persons camps in, of all places, Germany.
Nonetheless, all countries share a strong and immediate interest in reducing them.
It is time for immediate action.
The consequences are multifaceted, involving immediate personal anguish, rising social and political tensions, economic losses, and budgetary pressures.
The meltdown of a 500-megawatt reactor located 50 kilometers (31 miles) from a city would cause the immediate death of an estimated 45,000 people, injure roughly another 70,000, and cause $17 billion in property damage.
Ending the Syrian HorrorRIYADH – No issue in the world today is of greater immediate importance than the need to end the civil war in Syria.
Other war crimes courts have taken place in the immediate aftermath of conflict.
So, as Putinism atrophies, the great hope among his immediate circle is that they will be able to do what the communist elite did in the early 1990’s – hijack whatever new system emerges and put it to work in the service of their own interests.
That country of 93 million people is one of the only two immediate neighbors the United States have, and a problematic as well as a promising one: it produces a stream of immigrants which cause increasing social problems along the Southern border of the US, and it promises to be a major market for American goods in the future.
Quarterly earnings cycles, real-time pricing, and constant scrutiny by shareholders have pushed pharmaceutical companies toward projects with clear, immediate payoffs – at the expense of more speculative, but potentially transformational research.
In the United States, academic economists repeatedly warned that Trump’s economic plans were little short of lunacy, and in the aftermath of his shocking election victory, some prophesied immediate economic catastrophe.
Not even then do you get an immediate crisis.
Unlike the immediate military threats back then, today’s challenges – such as climate change, cyber security, and global health – can be addressed only through collaborative strategic engagement.
The notion that poverty is more than a question of relieving immediate needs applies even to rich countries where malnutrition and other basic material deprivations are nearly eradicated.
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