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Some observers blame declining levels of commitment to anything that transcends the individual, including the political system.
At the same time, there is a double agency problem, as the ultimate shareholders – individual shareholders – don’t directly control boards and CEOs.
But, though nation-states and their politicians are more constrained than ever before, the records of women like Merkel and Rousseff suggest that individual leaders remain a potent force, for better or worse.
Individual needs vary significantly, and private companies are often unwilling to insure the very people who need the most care (such as those who are already ill, or who have conditions like diabetes, which predispose them to other health problems).
As well as happily receiving requests from individual social, political or military representatives within the target areas, the USAID-sponsored program invited NGOs to submit their own proposals.
Individual citizens should be free to live according to their beliefs; but an unaccountable theological vision must not be allowed to shape their behavior as civil servants and bureaucrats.
They will choke on the commission’s recommendation of a new criminal offense for reckless conduct that leads to taxpayer bailouts, reinforced by a new “senior persons” regime that would ascribe all bank functions to a specific individual, who would be held personally liable when things go wrong.
Greece, Ireland, and Portugal are off-limits because their bonds no longer rate as investment-grade, which means that banks are not allowed to sell them to individual savers.
Even in collective tragedies and extreme situations, the writer is searching, through his own vision, strategy, and style, for the destiny of the individual, for the human specificity of weakness and resilience and dreams, for the ambiguities and limits and surprises of individuality caught in the social deadlock.
China should rethink its insistence that negotiations over its territorial claims could be conducted only with individual ASEAN states, and not with ASEAN as a bloc – a stance that creates the impression that China is committed to bringing about the group’s breakup.
Applied to nutrition, nutrigenomics will allow us to understand, and perhaps more importantly, to manipulate our individual response to existing foods so as to benefit our health.
A loose system of individual commitments, in which each country unilaterally sets emissions targets, can help build trust and momentum for a more inclusive successor to the Kyoto Protocol, which many hope will be forged at the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Paris in 2015.
But, as negotiations proceed, this approach can allow us to evaluate whether the burden of reducing the harmful effects of climate change is being fairly distributed, and to judge whether individual countries are doing their part as they head into the 2014 UN Climate Change Conference in Peru next month.
Medical kits the size of a thumbnail can measure a million different biological factors on an individual with an infinitesimal amount of blood.
The Society of Jesus – whose spirituality is based on a seemingly discordant yet enduring combination of mysticism and realpolitik – has forged a paradoxical alliance of fidelity to corporate commands and willingness to give individual talents their due.
Death isolates every individual, because there is no such thing as collective dying.
"My life continues in the lives of my children," we say, but for an individual this is an empty phrase.
The success of women in e-commerce attests to the power of digital technologies to level the economic playing field, to the benefit of individual women, their communities and societies, and the world economy.
The FSF was not a scary creature, and the individual regulators, national and international, were largely left to their own devices, with all of the unhappy consequences with which we have become acquainted.
Before 2007, there was little political interest in tougher global standards, and individual countries resisted the idea that an international body might interfere in their sovereign right to oversee an unsound banking system.
And its peer review mechanism is prodding individual countries to strengthen their regulatory institutions.
Second, although an "amoral" international system may be necessary to support pluralism, an individual country's foreign policy need not be value-free.
Of course, the cities of England’s north are proud of their unique histories and eager to maintain their individual sense of identity.
The so-called “blue-card” process has so far been largely unsuccessful, because there was no incentive for individual states to coordinate their policies.
It should be obvious that an individual who participates in an exchange does so because he subjectively values what he is getting more than what he is giving up.
The central point of this crisis was the determined bid by the European Parliament to grab new, uncovenanted powers to criticise and censure individual Commissioners, not just the Commission as a collegiate body.
Formally, it still does not have a legal right to discipline individual Commissioners.
There seems little doubt that the new process of committee hearings, at which individual Commissioners can be grilled, could have the effect of prising apart the members of the Commission.
If individual Commissioners are vulnerable to targeted criticisms of the European Parliament, it follows almost automatically that the new Commission President could, for the first time, have the power to discipline, demote and even sack his 19 colleagues.
Thus socialists who propose the right to "free" education as a part of the constitution are cheating society and every individual about the balance of responsibilities that each really holds.
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