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ASEAN’s failure to act on the South China Sea issue is leading member-state governments and citizens to question the organization’s ability “to maintain and enhance peace” – the first purpose listed in its Charter.
The Country Reports on Human Rights worldwide, published annually by the State Department, maintain the high standard of accuracy and comprehensiveness that they achieved during the Clinton administration.
The US could no longer maintain a fixed exchange rate between the dollar and gold – the cornerstone of the postwar Bretton Woods system.
Meanwhile, savers are being repressed, asset prices distorted, and incentives to maintain or even increase leverage enhanced.
Turkey has also tried, desperately at times, to maintain good relations with Bashar al-Assad’s regime in Syria, despite the Syrian government’s abominable behavior.
And his challenge implied a new dimension to policymaking: Governments may need to run deficits to maintain full employment.
At the same time, it is the only Muslim country that, while no less worried than Israel about Iran’s nuclear ambitions, can maintain excellent economic and political relations with Iran, regardless of American displeasure.
The Arabs’ capacity to maintain their pressure on Israel and to keep world opinion focused on the Palestinians’ plight made Israel’s quest for evading the consequences of the conflict, either through periodic wars or by forging alternative regional alliances, a futile exercise.
Turkey’s powerful military establishment may want to maintain close relations with Israel, but the widely popular change in Turkey’s foreign policy priorities, and the serious identity dilemmas facing the nation, send an unequivocal message that the alliance can no longer serve as an alternative to peace with the Arab world.
So maintaining NAM is not some nostalgic longing for an influential past; rather, it is a means for countries to maintain as much international influence as possible in our globalized world.
If NAM enhances a country’s power and influence, it will maintain its membership.
With Rafsanjani, either a real agreement or the pretense of cooperation would have been easy to maintain.
To maintain a cabal among developed countries, whereby the US appoints the World Bank president and Europe picks the International Monetary Fund’s head, seems particularly anachronistic and perplexing today, when the Bank and the Fund are turning to emerging-market countries as a source of funds.
Most water is used to grow food, so, if a nation’s economy is healthy, there is scope for saving water by importing a greater share of food, although every nation will want to maintain some assured food supply for security reasons.
Achieving this target requires functioning public services to provide registration facilities and maintain records.
These tend to be predominantly in the public sector, where oil revenues are used to maintain high pay and attractive working conditions.
This balance has often proved difficult to maintain.
Unilateral withdrawal from Gaza without the prior establishment of a local authority to maintain order has only led to renewed intervention.
They have also clearly understood the folly of violent resistance, and have made a dramatic shift to nonviolent action – with the acceptance (and possibly encouragement) of the international community – in order to maintain pressure on the occupiers.
With an economy about a quarter of the size of America’s, it was able to maintain rough military parity by spending four times as much of its national income on defense as the US did – to the detriment of the living standards of ordinary citizens.
Some critics have faulted him for not supporting the national aspirations of Soviet republics like Ukraine in 1991 (when he delivered his infamous “Chicken Kiev” speech warning against “suicidal nationalism”); for failing to go to Baghdad to unseat Saddam Hussein in the Gulf War; or for sending Brent Scowcroft to Beijing to maintain relations with China after the Tiananmen Square massacre of 1989.
This is partly because women are often subject to harmful traditional practices, such as early and forced marriage, female genital mutilation, and so-called “honor” crimes, enforced by families who want to maintain a link with their country of origin.
Partially delayed integration rather than transition periods or quotas is a market-oriented solution that can maintain Europe's welfare states and enable it to grow and develop to its true potential.
Or China can try to maintain an exchange rate that is slightly lower than it would be otherwise.
In fact, he opposes all kinds of cross-shareholding arrangements, which enable families with minority stakes to maintain control over their empires.
The chaebol will not easily abandon their efforts to maintain – and strengthen – the corporate-governance structure that has allowed them to dominate South Korea’s economy, while Park, Moon, and Ahn are ready to leave their mark on South Korean history.
It also requires effort to build four types of institutions required to maintain growth momentum and build resilience to shocks:Market-creating institutions (for property rights and contract enforcement);Market-regulating institutions (for externalities, economies of scale, and information about companies);Market-stabilizing institutions (for monetary and fiscal management);Market-legitimizing institutions (for social protection and insurance).
No one questions the generosity of this mutation, but it is far from clear that the nearly 15 million families receiving Bolsa Familia will maintain their current income level when the stipend disappears, or that it can be sustained indefinitely.
In the highly unlikely prospect that the US were to withdraw from the East Asian region, Japan might join a Chinese bandwagon, but Japan is more likely to maintain its American alliance to preserve its independence from China.
But, even if China’s overall GDP surpasses that of the US (by whatever measure), the two economies will maintain very different structures and levels of sophistication.
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