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His career as a union leader took him away from agriculture and into politics, where he stood out for his criticism of the United States, whose anti-drug crusade meant the eradication of a cash crop for poor peasants.
These constituted a unified package that was meant to be implemented in its entirety.
Although the postwar population boom and heavy regulation meant that real estate prices in many countries went up more often than down, a sudden collapse of the property market--such as happened in Japan a decade ago--may dramatically reduce the value of most people's savings.
The meeting was meant as a sign of Russia’s new business friendly climate, but the banner hanging over the hall - “Long Live the 80th Anniversary of Vladimir Lenin’s GOELRO Plan” - mocked that intent.
Data protection and privacy regulations are meant to return to us some of our lost autonomy regarding what we see, what guides our choices, and who knows what we choose.
The world’s “great powers” do not adhere to UN agreements meant to regulate industries that emit greenhouse gases and dump heavy metals in the sea and soil.
In the year since, Tymoshenko’s government has consistently acted to preserve international stability, even if that meant taking political hits at home.
But I also knew that investing in education meant investing in my country’s future, so I decided that, rather than sinking a great deal of money, sometimes unproductively, into these other areas, we would commit 20% of the annual budget to education.
This was not, he claimed, what he meant, and more importantly, “there is no scientific basis for such a belief.”
The one rule of the eurozone that is meant to be sacrosanct is the irrevocability of membership.
The growing concentration of wealth – and a significant reduction in taxes on it – has meant less money to spend on investments for the public good, like education and the protection of children.
The basic Marxist prerequisites that were eliminated, or meant to be eliminated, were freedom, property, the right to negotiate contracts, and to form associations under the law.
Now this competitive process, not only is capable but is actually meant to endanger existing structures and vested interests that no longer serve the purpose of demand.
There were also years of “Russia in China” and “China in Russia” cultural exchanges, meant to underscore that the two countries were tied together not just by geopolitical pragmatism, but by genuine cultural/historical ties as well.
Rejecting the culture of excuses, said Valls, also meant resisting the temptation to dwell on explanations of the jihadist impulse.
Sixteen years ago, business as usual meant almost no treatment of poor people with AIDS, because financing was not available.
Inspections meant to confirm compliance are conducted largely on the basis of information provided by host governments, which have been known not to reveal all.
As the two sides collide, the country suffers: the outcome of the water war has meant that the poor still use the same dirty and expensive water, while the result of the gas war could mean that we remain without new export revenues.
Institutional reforms meant the government could no longer use public resources with the same discretion as before.
The high-level meeting in September was meant to galvanize the world’s TB-eradication efforts.
While the basic risks originated outside the systems – a tsunami for Fukushima, over-investment in real-estate mortgages for financial institutions – design defects and bad luck meant that the system couldn’t contain the damage.
The conjurer thus resorts to the rosy scenario: since he cannot find enough tax loopholes to eliminate, he must claim that what he meant by closing the revenue gap was that stronger economic growth will bring in the additional revenue.
The EU’s executive body is meant to be the driving force behind Europe’s efforts to revive laggard industries and fight to reverse the long-term economic decline that the eurozone crisis appears to presage.
Better than BaselROME – The Basel Accords – meant to protect depositors and the public in general from bad banking practices – exacerbated the downward economic spiral triggered by the financial crisis of 2008.
Latin Americans recoil from Bush's faith-based presidency because it has meant thousands dead and wounded in Iraq, a more polarized world, and a hemisphere neglected.
A minimum 42-day wait for the first payment has meant that some families have been left penniless for as long as six weeks.
These promises meant a great deal to Sharon as he faced domestic political challenges.
On a date that meant so much to me personally as the colony’s last governor, and much more to the citizens of Hong Kong, I attended a magnificent production of Beethoven’s “Fidelio” on the grounds of a country house near Oxford.
Never meant to be confined to the European continent, it was, like Christianity itself, a universalist aspiration.
On this anniversary, with an era of geopolitical tension again descending on the European continent, it is worth reminding ourselves what the new normal has meant for the countries that joined the EU ten years ago – and what it could mean for Ukraine.
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