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Senior government officials take their cut of opium revenues or bribes in return for keeping quiet.
He noted that the oil companies are engaged in “the continued search for new fossil fuel reserves, whereas the Paris Agreement clearly urged keeping most fossil fuels underground.”
Under tremendous strain, Tymoshenko’s government succeeded in keeping the budget deficit under control.
For keeping Ukraine afloat over the past 15 months, Tymoshenko deserves the West’s thanks, not the cynicism that we are currently seeing.
Keeping Africa's Turnaround on TrackMONROVIA – For more than a decade, much of Africa has been moving forward.
Much of the shotgun’s ammunition comes from the United States, which perceives keeping the military in power as being necessary for the short-term battle against the new Taliban groups.
In the US, educational attainment levels are not keeping pace with technology’s demands.
Any future commitments are conditional on keeping a majority of the committee in line.
In sum, the pragmatists would limit Iranian-American dealings, keeping them focused on an agenda that largely reflects Iran's domestic concerns.
Current conditions are keeping economic performance well below potential.
In 2016, the British people voted to leave the European Union while keeping “the exact same benefits” they enjoyed as EU members.
But, crucially, the Liberals and Scottish Nationalists would enthusiastically support a referendum as long as it offered voters the option of keeping Britain in the EU.
The most notorious chapter of The Prince, Chapter XVIII, which explains the circumstances in which it is permissible – and even desirable – for rulers to break promises, appears to argue that the most successful rulers think “little about keeping faith" and know “how cunningly to manipulate men's minds."
Learning the great art of Orientalism, the classical empires knew how to keep talking while keeping their distance.
Since then, China has been North Korea’s quasi-protector, and the US has protected South Korea, not least by keeping a large military deployment in the region even after the Cold War ended.
Maintaining anonymous charges enables the military authorities to avoid keeping comprehensive records, which in turn allows officials to evade responsibility for transparent reporting of assaults and of prosecutions – and thus not to prosecute sex crime in any serious, systematic way.
The Reagan tax cuts of the early 1980s came at a time when the unemployment rate was climbing to post-war highs, the economy was in recession, and the Federal Reserve battling inflation and keeping interest rates at or near record highs.
Beyond lobbying, the current system is upheld by mythology: the belief that keeping older people in the workforce worsens unemployment.
As the only regional platform that brings all of the key stakeholders to the table, the OSCE plays a vital role in keeping the lines of communication open and finding opportunities for joint action.
A prolonged and sustained central-bank policy of keeping short-term Treasury nominal interest rates low is essential to keeping the many interest rate-sensitive components of aggregate demand from falling even further below potential aggregate supply.
Strangely, it has not done so, though, fortunately, the ICC Prosecutor has announced that he is keeping the situation in Georgia “under analysis.”
With its anticipated bond purchases keeping a lid on interest rates, the net effect is that investors do not see an adequate real return from holding dollar assets, which is perhaps one reason the dollar has been depreciating.
Adhering to the gold standard during the Great Depression implied a deflationary monetary-policy bias, since it required keeping interest rates relatively high to encourage investors to hold deposits in banks rather than demanding the gold that backed them.
Moreover, she is so capricious and self-centered that even Kim Jong-il had trouble keeping her in check.
In the United Kingdom, for example, supposedly “temporary” factors have been keeping the inflation rate well above the target for almost two years.
But reducing uncertainty about prices by keeping the inflation target at 2% or more might actually increase a sense of uncertainty about real things like home values or investments.
Most important, from Russia’s perspective, the competition with the EU over Ukraine’s trading alignment is trivial compared to the imperative of keeping NATO – that is, the US military – out of the country.
Moreover, Russia in this time of weakness is interested in keeping the U.S. engaged in Europe, if only to balance Germany's potential might.
These measures will require international cooperation and investment in development, peace keeping, humanitarian assistance, and migration management.
By statute, the Fed is responsible for keeping US unemployment and inflation low.
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