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As they crowd into Hong Kong over a short period of time, their presence may cause some difficulties for Hong Kong’s highly respected civil servants who try to maintain the high standards of Hong Kong’s market environment, with its impartial enforcement of the laws and fair competition.
On the contrary, even if a number of large member states talk up about a common foreign policy, they prove by their actions that they are determined to maintain their own national foreign policies.
The ideal exchange rate for India is neither strong nor weak; it is the “Goldilocks rate” produced by market forces, with the RBI focusing on attracting long-term capital inflows and intervening only to maintain orderly movement of the rupee versus other currencies.
The system created by Generalissimo Francisco Franco following his victory offered workers job security and strong collective-bargaining rights, which helped to maintain social stability in the absence of democracy.
Though the government is seen as sympathetic to liberal intellectuals, it is also anxious to maintain law and order and avoid provoking the extremists.
That may sound disingenuous to some, but Hong Kong’s officials share a common mission to maintain the stability and prosperity of our city.
First, the US should take the lead in helping to develop and maintain international laws and institutions to organize collective action to deal with not only trade and the environment, but also weapons proliferation, peacekeeping, human rights, and other concerns.
This should give food for thought to those who maintain that deflation imposes unbearable economic costs.
Accordingly, advocates of this worldview regard fences and walls as insults to humanity, proof that those who build and maintain them have no trust in their countries’ vibrancy and strength.
To maintain coverage and protect the elderly from financial ruin, reforms are needed to create plans that are financially sound and drawn from a larger pool of subscribers.
Some Americans now maintain that NATO enlargement makes no sense.
So to maintain creditworthiness, the country has been forced to adopt pragmatic economic policies that today deliver an unusual economic openness -- this, and not the ephemeral benefits of "goulash socialism" is the longterm hope for the Hungarian economy.
But overall, increasing responsiveness--if clearly not in a democratic mode--has managed to maintain the instability that does exist at a level and within a scope that marks a game of unwritten rules -- one of complainants confining their choler within understood bounds and of the government watchful over an ever-simmering stew.
Who will pay to maintain a fragile Iraqi democracy?
In social interactions, and also in business dealings, Koreans maintain a hierarchy that seems to weigh age more highly than performance.
By pursuing such new business opportunities the energy company can contribute to untying the Gordian knot and produce low-carbon energy and maintain energy security at the same time.
Their preferred model calls for the UN to provide the funding and most other support for the mission, while allowing the AU to maintain its leadership role.
Yes, America may be able to maintain a competitive advantage at the very top , the breakthrough research, the invention of the next laser.
Will gold maintain its purchasing power value if inflation erodes the purchasing power of the dollar or the euro?
Today, NATO continues to maintain a safe and secure environment for all of Kosovo’s people, and is helping the entire region progress along the path of Euro-Atlantic integration.
The era when a Western hegemon could maintain control of the Middle East, by military force if necessary, is over.
Indeed, 83 countries and territories, including most developed countries, currently have fertility rates below the level necessary to maintain a constant population level.
To maintain its current population size, Japan, for example, would have to accept 350,000 newcomers a year for the next 50 years, which is difficult for a culture that has historically been hostile to immigration.
In Mongolia, rural herders receive information about disease outbreaks to help them maintain the health of their livestock.
If Germany is to maintain its economic dominance, it will have to do something far harder than keeping wages in check or restructuring hierarchies.
At the same time, the Sudanese government must be fully aware that only by adhering to past commitments and by cooperating in helping to prepare, deploy, and maintain the mission will the international community be encouraged to continue its support.
The world has two chief aims in the area between Cairo and Teheran: to maintain peace in the wider Middle East so that oil flows freely through the Persian Gulf; to steer the dispute between Israelis and Palestinians toward a settlement that guarantees the safety of Israel in its internationally recognised borders, while meeting the Palestinian people’s legitimate national aspirations for their own state.
Winning the PeaceAfghanistan’s future hangs in the balance as its weak national government struggles to maintain support and legitimacy in the face of a widening insurgency, warlords, the heroin trade, and a disappointed populace.
Yet the pressure for fundamental change – particularly of Article 9, which putatively pledges that Japan will never maintain armed forces – is such that there is a real chance that these obstacles can and will be overcome.
Japan needs to be able to back up the Security Council with men, and hence share the political risk, as well as the cost, of the UN’s efforts to maintain world peace.
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