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Such a compact would enable governments and donors to express their shared
intention
to build a national statistics system over a period of several years, with clear and verifiable milestones.
The Case Against International Financial CoordinationCAMBRIDGE – When US President Barack Obama announced in late January his
intention
to seek tough new rules for banks, he wasn’t expecting to make friends on Wall Street.
Despite Barack Obama’s promise in 2009 – one of his first as President – to shut down “Gitmo,” the US evidently has no
intention
of doing so anytime soon.
That was the express
intention
of the Morgenthau Plan, devised by US Treasury Secretary Henry Morgenthau Jr. and co-signed by the United States and Britain two years earlier, in September 1944.
At last, he lost patience and announced that for the moment the US had no
intention
of stabilizing the dollar.
Democracy in Inaction at the World BankJames Wolfensohn, the president of the World Bank, has announced his
intention
to leave, and the search is on for a new head of the world’s most important multilateral organization promoting development.
In September, Armenia, which has been locked in a conflict with neighboring Azerbaijan over the breakaway region of Nagorno-Karabakh for more than two decades, suddenly halted its integration talks with the EU and announced its
intention
to join Russia-led structures.
This month, the country closed the United States’ military transit center near Bishkek, and declared its
intention
to join the customs union that preceded the EaEU by the end of this year.
After it bought the 67,500-ton, Soviet-era Varyag carrier – still little more than a hull when the Soviet Union collapsed – China repeatedly denied that it had any
intention
to refit it for naval deployment.
Winston Churchill, who in many ways is Johnson’s model, always made sure to carry a big cigar, even when he had no
intention
of smoking it.
It could do so by buying Italian and Spanish bonds in the secondary market with the pre-announced
intention
of keeping their sovereign interest rates below a certain threshold for a certain time.
First, the ECB’s renewed bond purchases must express the clear
intention
of reducing sovereign interest rates to sustainable levels, which are at least 200 basis points below their July averages.
In June 2012, eurozone leaders announced their
intention
to establish a European banking union.
That makes the 69-year-old Juppé, who has announced his
intention
to run in 2017, the country’s most popular political figure.
After all, “fake news” can take many forms, and sometimes it is disseminated without any malign
intention
to manipulate voters or sway an election.
While the United States has declared its
intention
to veto a declaration in the Security Council, several European countries, including the United Kingdom and France, intend to back the Palestinian move should negotiations with Israel remain elusive.
The QE PlaceboBRUSSELS – It has now been nearly half a year since the European Central Bank declared its
intention
to buy some €1.1 trillion ($1.3 trillion) worth of eurozone bonds.
More recently, Trump announced his
intention
to withdraw from the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty, a bilateral arms-control deal dating back to the Cold War.
His
intention
is quite clear: “Man’s active nature, flagging, seeks too soon the level;Unqualified repose he learns to crave, Whence, willingly, the comrade him I gave, Who works, excites, and must create, as Devil.”
For example, Abe threatened to rescind the official apologies issued by former leaders or officials for abuses and atrocities committed by Japan’s army during WWII, and stated his
intention
to visit the controversial Yasukuni Shrine, which honors not only Japan’s war dead, but also many of its war criminals.
He has declared his
intention
to pull out of the Paris climate agreement, aimed at reducing greenhouse-gas emissions and staving off catastrophic climate change.
During the meeting, Onodera and his Indian counterpart affirmed their countries’
intention
to “strengthen the Strategic and Global Partnership between Japan and India,” including “measures ranging from regular joint-combat exercises and military exchanges to cooperation in anti-piracy, maritime security, and counter-terrorism.”
When the US intervened militarily in Iraq in 1991, the
intention
was to effect fundamental change in the entire region.
It is China’s firm
intention
never to seek hegemony, nor to support global domination by a small minority of countries.
The terrorists’
intention
is to sow mistrust and stoke fears; their aim is to weaken the democratic rule of law and to shatter citizens’ confidence in public institutions.
Suu Kyi’s announcement of her
intention
to contest a by-election to the new parliament offers a glimmer of hope that democrats could use the fledgling political process to create something resembling genuine representative government.
The judges rightly held that there is no international rule preventing a group from stating its
intention
or wish to form a state.
But they said nothing about the terms and conditions that apply to following through on this
intention
– i.e., the act of secession itself.
A mere statement by the US that it has no
intention
to press this military advantage will not assuage China’s fears.
But the preventive measure is extremely costly, and it might have an effect opposite to our
intention.
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