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“The danger of that situation is why the Founders adopted the Second Amendment, which is meant to restrict domestic policing to militia – the National Guard and civilian police – that are answerable to the people.
Machines meant to authenticate Aadhaar holders have often failed, particularly in rural parts of the country, owing to a lack of Internet connectivity or electricity.
But it is not clear what these resources are meant to be.
But because arrest no longer meant execution but long imprisonment, dissidents acquired a reasonable chance to emerge from prison or labor camps.
After all, the very success of that attack meant that such limited intervention could never be repeated, because would-be proliferators learned to bury, hide, or duplicate their nascent weapons programs.
For example, in addition to investing heavily in African countries, it created the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank in 2015, and, in 2013, announced the “Belt and Road Initiative,” meant to integrate Eurasia through massive investments in highways, ports, and rail transport.
By focusing on checks and balances, the US Constitution’s framers created a kind of safety valve for the political system, meant to protect it from unexpected shocks arising from any of its many moving parts.
The problem is that President Bush meant it literally.
In the past, the Confucian tradition of filial piety meant that children supported their parents in their dotage.
The good collateral meant that banks could hold these debts at par on their balance sheets.
This meant active encouragement by information, by political education, for example.
As far as education was concerned, it often meant committing resources to financial assistance for students, such as subsidized loans or scholarships.
Wanting real citizenship for all meant that more had to be done than offering legal guarantees, information, or even financial support.
Presumably, Sahin meant to say that a professor cannot claim special treatment under the law.
But when you dug into their argument, it turned out that what they really meant was the second: whenever private-market instability threatened to cause a depression, the government could avert it or produce a rapid recovery simply by purchasing enough bonds for cash to flood the economy with liquidity.
Trinidad has successfully implemented such a strategy – doctors who train overseas are required to return home for five years in exchange for their government scholarships – and the US has a similar program meant to encourage students to practice in particular geographical areas around the country.
None of this is meant to minimize the consequences of political polarization in the US.
And at the same time, laws meant to support legitimate journalism usually offer only scant protection against those who are determined to act in bad faith.
Traditionally, low-income countries’ creditors were rich-world governments and multilateral organizations that found it politically unfeasible to call in debts if this meant that borrowers had to cut vital public services such as education or health.
“Fordism” meant that workers had to be rich enough to buy a car from his factories.
For decades, the MAFF’s power meant that Japan’s trading partners would not even contemplate free-trade discussions.
But the Copenhagen climate summit was always meant to be a transitional step.
If he meant those who lived within Russia’s contemporary borders, the number would have been much lower.
Moreover, while the Munich Agreement cynically blessed Hitler’s dismemberment of Czechoslovakia, it was a public document that meant what it said.
According to this view, US and Saudi intervention is meant to stymie the Islamic Republic’s geopolitical ambitions.
As this UK-sponsored resolution was meant to bring the Iraq issue back to the Security Council after the withdrawal of the UN weapons inspectors and subsequent American air strikes of December 1998, hope for progress on Iraq within the Security Council was scant.
It would have meant accepting in 2012 what has been called “redenomination risk” – economic newspeak for a eurozone breakup.
Brazil’s economic success during the Lula years stems from the decision to maintain the previous government’s macroeconomic policy framework, which meant resisting more radical views within Lula’s Workers Party.
Of course, Greenspan’s behavior meant that under his watch, the economy performed better than it otherwise would have.
The Coming CLASS WarHONG KONG – The eighteenth-century German military strategist Carl von Clausewitz defined war as the continuation of politics by different means, and, like the ancient Chinese strategist Sun Tzu, believed that securing peace meant preparing for violent conflict.
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