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Depriving people of their citizenship is immoral – and ineffective.
That is ten times more than is spent by governments now, but remains a fraction of the cost of the ineffective carbon cuts that have been proposed.
After decades of unjust and ineffective rule, not to mention tragic foreign interventions, there is no shortage of disenfranchised and frustrated citizens for organizations like the Islamic State to recruit.
Given that the Saudis’ embargo against Qatar and war in Yemen have been ineffective, if not counterproductive, they are unlikely to do much better in Lebanon.
In the past, he has usually installed a loyal non-entity in that position, and he has many possible candidates, such as the remarkably ineffective Gazprom Chairman Alexei Miller.
Unfortunately, diagnosing XDR typhoid is difficult, and doctors often prescribe antibiotics that are ineffective.
But superbugs also pose a threat to the effectiveness of modern medicine; if left unaddressed, AMR could make more infections untreatable, cancer therapies ineffective, routine surgeries impossible, and even childbirth unsafe.
Squashing the SuperbugsLONDON – Current antibiotics are becoming increasingly ineffective, not only at fighting common illnesses like pneumonia and urinary tract infections, but also at treating a range of infections, such as tuberculosis and malaria, which now risk again becoming incurable.
Though they are often viral, rather than bacterial, they are frequently treated with antibiotics – an approach that not only is ineffective, but also fuels AMR.
A third answer is that policy instruments are simply ineffective in today’s conditions.
If this can take place without nullification (a big if), legitimately and in time, Russians can hope that today's ineffective, corrupt regime, rejected by almost the entire Russian population, will leave office.
The ruling right-leaning coalition (with “Solidarity” roots) is such a failure and the centrist Union of Freedom is so well known and ineffective, that people support the postcommunists simply because they have been in opposition for four years and might (just might) behave differently.
Today, as the Fed documents clearly demonstrate, the IMF has become marginalized – not least because of its ineffective policy process.
Yes, the WTO is still there, but it is increasingly ineffective.
In the end, the solution is neither to cultivate the nostalgia of yesterday’s order nor to place hope in loose, ineffective forms of international cooperation.
His verdict today is that “the system for regulating financial institutions in the US is highly fragmented, outdated, and ineffective.”
But the mechanism turned out to be ineffective: the absence of effective enforcement encouraged overstretched countries to renege on promises to exercise fiscal restraint, while condemning the eurozone to permanent instability.
When Khatami’s reform program was ineffective, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, an obscure officer of the Basij militia, was elected Mayor of Tehran in 2003 (after just 12% of the city’s voters turned out), and then defeated Rafsanjani in 2005 to become President.
In doing so, he would transform India, liberating it from the UPA’s exhausted and ineffective policies and thus improving the lives of millions.
And that leadership – whether civilian, military, and also the now politically active judiciary – has proven congenitally ineffective, leaving the country with a broken economy and a paralyzed political system.
In all of these cases, balance-sheet repair preempted a resurgence of aggregate demand, and monetary stimulus was largely ineffective in sparking classic cyclical rebounds.
Quickly out of ammunition when the Great Crisis hit in late 2008, former Fed Chair Ben Bernanke embraced the new miracle drug of quantitative easing – a powerful antidote for markets in distress but ultimately an ineffective tool to plug the hole in consumer balance sheets and spark meaningful revival in aggregate demand.
Putin knows that his old cronies are tired, ineffective, often excessively wealthy, and comfortably corrupt, which is not what he needs for a new presidential term.
As the new research shows, we should be especially cautious about the claims of politicians who use current events to justify the old, ineffective climate-change policies on the new and equally problematic basis of energy security.
But considerable resources are being channeled toward ineffective approaches or – worse – programs that have been proved not to work.
Any organization that has not provided democratic mechanisms for change and renewal tends to age and become monotonous and ineffective.
Draghi correctly points out that QE would be ineffective unless governments implement faster supply side structural reforms and the right balance of short-term fiscal flexibility and medium-term austerity.
On many of today's key issues, such as international financial stability, drug smuggling, the spread of diseases, or global climate change, military power is ineffective.
Diplomatic and humanitarian missions led by former United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan and current UN Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs Valerie Amos seem as ineffective as earlier efforts by the international community and the Arab League to mitigate the conflict or to facilitate a political solution.
But regional and international pressure on Assad has been ineffective.
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