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President Bush’s warning that “the transfer of nuclear weapons or material by North Korea to states or non-state entities would be considered a grave threat to the United States, and we would hold North Korea fully accountable of the consequences of such action,” is meant to deter this outcome.
Everywhere, this has meant massive pauperization of the least favored part of the population.
As rates of economic growth have declined, this has meant growing unemployment.
At home, Salman’s reign so far has meant a marked increase in the number of sentences of death by decapitation, often carried out in public – a method emulated by the Islamic State.
Abroad, it has meant a clear preference for violent solutions in Bahrain, Iraq, Syria, and Yemen.
The downturn in Southeast Asia has meant a decline of Japan’s exports to the region.
The lack of far-sighted decision-making on the part of central bankers meant that economic policy lurched from stop to go to accelerate to slow down.
One initiative is a high-speed rail line between Belgrade and Budapest, which is meant to connect the Greek port of Piraeus with Central Europe.
It is easy to be nostalgic for the days when tourism meant long stays and deep encounters with vastly different cultures.
This gave the public a stark sense of what Taliban justice really meant.
But there is no conflict between encouraging free speech and exchange of views, which these rules are meant to support, and the university making its own values clear.
This meant never allowing a popular (or even parliamentary) vote on what kind of Brexit May’s government should pursue, let alone a second vote on whether Brexit should happen at all.
Watching students from Serbia, Croatia, and Bosnia confront their memories of the Balkan wars, “European students” had first-hand experience of what true “reconciliation” meant and what the rules of the game were in the greatest success the EU had known – transcending the Cold War and nationalist animosities.
Deng’s formulation really meant that the arrangement is designed to be kept for at least two generations.
Indeed, whereas Germany, owing to its deep involvement in Central and Eastern European economies, was a key player in the Minsk agreements that were meant to end the conflict in Ukraine, it has little influence in the Middle Eastern countries that are occupying the world’s attention today.
Even while many developing and emerging economies lifted millions of people out of extreme poverty, the perception that growth meant greater inequality was always bubbling below the surface.
After the Munich Agreement in 1938, the Sudeten Germans seceded from Czechoslovakia and joined Germany, which meant that the mountainous frontier fell under German control – a terrible loss for Czech defenses.
Moreover, researchers at Rutgers University have shown that more than 50% of millennials would consider a pay cut if it meant working for a company that shared their values, while the Society for Human Resource Management notes that 94% of young workers want to use their skills to benefit a good cause.
As it stands, major differences among countries’ asylum policies have meant major disparities in refugee numbers.
But this is not what markets believed the “strong dollar”policy meant.
Second, vast geographic differences across ethnic homelands in many African countries, together with these countries’ sprawling size and inadequate infrastructure left by the colonial powers, has meant that national governments have struggled to govern effectively beyond the metropoles.
Crown Prince Abdullah’s initiative is meant to be made official during a speech at the Arab League summit in Beirut of 27-28 March.
Gorbachev’s presence on the ballot meant that there was at least one lever to pull that was not purely cynical.
She interviewed people in both countries and asked them what it meant to be a “worthy person.”
Instead, that self-imposed red line, like the referendum itself, was meant simply to appease the Conservative Party’s most right-wing elements.
Neutralizing the perceived threat from Khodorkovsky meant depriving him of the means to achieve his ambitions by separating his Menatep Group from Yukos’s future cash flows.
The very announcement of the Fund’s creation was meant to deter speculative attack.
A Surfing ReflectionMELBOURNE – For me, as for most Australians, summer holidays have always meant going to the beach.
Britain might well have been better off had Churchill held power earlier, but that would have meant costly rearmament, which was unacceptable so long as there was a chance that Hitler proved to be a paper tiger.
And, of course, it would also have meant entrusting Britain’s fate to a politician who, though now regarded as an indomitable leader, was widely distrusted at the time.
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