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Trump’s protectionist campaign rhetoric may not have been meant literally, but if he fails to deliver any of the trade curbs that he promised, Republicans will suffer a backlash from what is now their core voter constituency, voters in declining industries and regions.
The program was clearly meant to indoctrinate, not educate.
Henceforth, their business-as-usual approach to the Balkans essentially meant maintaining the status quo.
Endorsing a two-state solution meant recognizing Israeli sovereignty over 78% of our homeland and exercising our right to self-determination on only the remaining 22% that Israel has occupied militarily since 1967: the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, and the Gaza Strip.
The recently revived Central European Free Trade Agreement (CEFTA) is meant to be the main regional engine for trade and business generally, and will adhere both to WTO rules and the parties’ obligations towards the EU.
One hopes that he meant it.
The doctor commented: “I believe he meant what he said.”
From this long process, in which surviving and thriving meant acquiring and adhering to the local social rules, we emerged as potent social learners.
My teachers explained to me why Mandela’s freedom, after 27 years in prison, meant so much to Africans – from big cities to small villages.
He wrote for white men who knew their nationality, knew what caste membership meant, and knew the privileges such membership brought.
The Pakhtuns, who constitute about half of Afghanistan’s population, believe that the US invasion meant a loss of power to their ethnic rivals, the Tajiks and Uzbeks.
The new concept also made clear that international protective action meant military coercion only in extreme and unavoidable cases.
The forces of globalization may have aggravated these trends, but the point so often lost in the debate – and dismissed by so many on all sides – is that trade agreements are meant to tame the forces of globalization, not accelerate them.
Was it right to allow self-determination for the Sudeten Germans, even if it meant stripping Czechoslovakia (which Germany dismembered six months later) of its military defenses?
To be sure, mini-grids are not meant to operate in isolation for perpetuity; they are at their best when feeding power into larger distribution networks.
None of this is meant to deny that we are living in challenging and uncertain times.
In several towns, accepting a visitor into your home meant the risk of a heavy fine.
ISIL probably knows that Japan has historically placed the safety of its own citizens above all other considerations – even if it meant bowing to terrorists’ demands.
This was what I meant by drawing a "thick line" between the past and the present.
Decommunization meant for me, above all, the decommunization of the regime, of the system itself.
But the German establishment credibly maintains that a European army is meant to supplement and strengthen NATO.
Some ANC leaders took corporate jobs, while other South Africans benefited from laws meant to encourage black economic empowerment.
Stopping Women’s Next Biggest KillerGENEVA – For women, the act of bringing life into this world has historically meant risking their own lives, with the real prospect of death during childbirth.
Not to worry, said Premier Wen Jiabao: the Chinese government has “adequate ammunition” to add to its $586 billion stimulus package, a plan meant to create millions of jobs via enormous government investment in transportation, energy infrastructure, housing, and other large-scale projects.
The presence of two US aircraft carriers off the Korean Peninsula – the first time in 20 years that US naval maneuvers included two carrier groups – was meant as a “message of reassurance” against any aggression by North Korea.
The European External Action Service (EEAS), which is meant to enable the EU “to speak with one voice,” was launched only at the end of 2010 and many senior positions remain unfilled.
Moreover, only fifteen years ago, eight of the ten new members had state-controlled economies, which meant that a period of painful transition toward a market economy was followed by, or overlapped with, sometimes painful reforms necessary for EU membership.
Similar losses at the Kuwait Stock Exchange prompted the Kuwait Investment Authority to invest $5.4 billion in a new fund meant to provide liquidity to the local market, and to purchase a 24% stake in Gulf Bank for $1.5 billion.
For Kim Kyong-hui, this has meant overseeing proposals from the Korean Workers’ Party, the military, and the government.
It has meant revising, supplementing, and ratifying other policies, as well as setting the KWP’s general direction.
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