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Instead of defining our research objectives narrowly, we must open our minds to completely different and more exciting discoveries that may be lurking at the periphery of our field of view.
And in 2008, the party narrowly escaped being shut down by the country’s top court for “anti-secular activities.”
The thaw engendered by the two prime ministers – meeting, devoid of rancor, at a major sporting event, which Pakistan narrowly lost to India’s eventual world champions – recognized that simply talking can achieve constructive results.
UKIP’s rapid rise has been built on the promise of a return to a British past that never was: mostly white, God-fearing, law-abiding, culturally insular, and narrowly focused on its own national interests.
While programs in industrial and emerging economies aimed at addressing the financial crisis have been broadly debated at the national and international level, the debate about Afghanistan and Iraq has been narrowly focused on military and security issues, undermining the need for a major effort at effective reconstruction.
(The US may still top the EU on this front, but only narrowly, as that country’s normative pull is deteriorating rapidly.)
For years, the “digital divide” was narrowly defined in terms of Internet connectivity.
In order to address this problem at the root, the US should have taken a political approach, rather than focusing repeatedly on concluding a narrowly defined military-security deal.
Moreover, Europeans do not narrowly equate national security with military spending.
In 1963, when the world narrowly escaped nuclear catastrophe, the physicist Max Born wrote: “World peace in a world that has grown smaller is no longer a Utopia, but rather a necessity, a condition for the survival of mankind.”
This lack of effective coordination, collaboration, or knowledge sharing carries through to investments, which often end up narrowly focused on a single project, sector, or geographic area – often weakening their effectiveness.
The need for narrowly specialized firm-specific workers is disappearing as service sectors like telecommunications, computers, software, and finance expand.
EU policymakers (the ECB, the Commission, the majority in the Council) generally have a narrowly defined "mission": price stability, enforcing the single market, holding prices of agricultural commodities stable.
They will note that analysts and regulators were narrowly focused on fixing the financial system by strengthening national oversight regimes.
In fact, as my own research shows, the World Bank has already been misdirecting education reform in developing countries for three decades, by pushing for increased privatization and narrowly defined educational outcomes and accountability based on excessive testing.
So far, however, policies aimed at shoring up the euro have been narrowly technical, in an effort to isolate Europe’s financial travails from popular discontent over its direction.
First, the agreement would have to define the relevant cases clearly – neither too widely nor too narrowly – and build on well-established R2P language.
That is precisely what happened in Colombia recently, when voters narrowly rejected a laboriously negotiated peace accord between the government and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC).
Japan's Leadership MuddleOSAKA – Having seen a new prime minister every year for five consecutive years, Japan has just narrowly avoided having its third in 2010.
In addition to all of this, the possibility of the UK’s break-up – narrowly avoided by the result of the Scottish referendum on independence in 2014 – is now back on the table, but this time with a context much more credible for the pro-independence cause.
Narrowly defined, these activities account for 12% of Chinese value added.
Before DSM IV, autism was among the most narrowly and clearly defined of disorders.
One journalist, Hector Ramirez, died of a heart attack while fleeing from the mob; others narrowly escaped lynching.
But if the conference focuses too narrowly on Al Qaeda’s presence in Yemen, it will do more harm than good.
Last June, they decided – albeit narrowly – to withdraw from the European Union.
Rather than comprehensive reform, it emphasizes policy experimentation and relatively narrowly targeted initiatives in order to discover local solutions, and it calls for monitoring and evaluation in order to learn which experiments work.
By contrast, the Millennium Development Goals, which ended in 2015, were more narrowly focused, and primarily targeted at issues affecting poor countries.
Most losses in resilience are unintended consequences of narrowly focused optimization (like an “efficiency” drive) that fails to recognize feedback effects on the focal scale that stem from changes produced by such optimization at another scale.
Nevertheless, today’s debates about how to achieve sustainable, inclusive growth are too narrowly focused on the role of governments and policymakers.
Unfortunately, when use of force has been justified on humanitarian grounds, interventions have focused narrowly on tactical military considerations.
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