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Just as free trade and open markets stimulated political cooperation in Europe, TTIP has the potential to contribute to strategic unity across the Atlantic – an objective that is as important now as it has ever been.
When it comes to the real-estate sector, China’s government has consistently had the right objective and the wrong strategy.
Whereas the airstrikes in Libya were mandated to protect civilians from imminent attack, in Kony’s case the sole stated operational objective is his removal from the battlefield, so that he can be brought to justice at the International Criminal Court in The Hague.
Civilians may not be targeted; the principle of proportionality requires the avoidance of excessive force in pursuing a legitimate military objective; and prisoners must be treated humanely.
The Treaty’s objective was widely thought to be laudable – but realizable only in the indefinite future.
But the broad range of proposed schemes to bolster resources for development assistance raises hard questions about the appropriate balance between objective needs and sound and effective financing.
The “Dear Leader’s” key objective is most likely to secure his own position, given the North’s dire economic condition.
The democratic movement’s main objective is to bring about a non-violent, constitutional process to replace Lahoud with a new president in free and open elections.
For German voters, this objective matters much more than the details of Greek structural reforms.
For Greek voters, this objective matters much more than detailed calculations about the net present value of national debt in 30 years.
As a result, it failed to accomplish its primary objective of preventing another world war.
And Europe can help the Middle East – its neighboring region – achieve this strategic objective.
Boko Haram, whose primary objective is to compel Nigeria to adopt Sharia law, has proved surprisingly resilient since declaring war on the government in 2009, in response to the military’s execution of its leader, Mohammed Yusuf.
Even “official” statistics cannot be assumed to stand for objective, eternal “facts.”
While the net-zero objective was dropped by the negotiators in Paris, it should be endorsed by individual countries in their plans, reinforced by the G-20, and eventually enshrined in the UN agreement.
The great paradox is that their view of economics was so stilted, so ideologically driven, that they failed even in their narrower objective of bringing about economic growth.
For the US, the primary objective is to maintain the status quo, by dissuading Taiwan from actively seeking independence and discouraging China from forcing Taiwan into a speedy reunification.
The EU partly shares America’s strategic objective here, because it, too, has grievances against emerging powers in terms of market access, compliance with intellectual-property rights, access to government procurement, and subsidies to state companies.
Chinarejects India’s argument that per-capita emission levels and historic contributions of greenhouse gases should form the objective criteria for carbon mitigation.
But it cannot achieve this objective by simply offering more arms to Saudi Arabia or its Sunni proxies.
Among philosophers, the view that moral judgments state objective truths has been out of fashion since the 1930’s, when logical positivists asserted that, because there seems to be no way of verifying the truth of moral judgments, they cannot be anything other than expressions of our feelings or attitudes.
Other defenses of objective truth in ethics made no appeal to religion, but could make little headway against the prevailing philosophical mood.
Thus, the book is an intellectual treat for anyone who wants to understand not so much “what matters” as whether anything really can matter, in an objective sense.
What we gain from Parfit’s work is the possibility of defending these and other moral claims as objective truths.
Second, where they do consider harmonization, they could favor the less stringent of the original standards, unless there is credible evidence that it would not support the relevant regulatory objective.
One main objective should be to transform Afghanistan’s vast underground economy, which has thrived, despite the large number of NATO forces, by creating profitable opportunities for Taliban and other groups involved in the fighting.
Finally, ensure that the political or peace objective prevails at all times, even if it delays economic stability and development.
Without a new unifying objective – one based on shared material gains, not on fear of Vladimir Putin’s resurgent Russia – the European amins will soon be out of business.
The available evidence suggests that when the Russians began their intervention in the American presidential election in 2015, their objective was to sully and discredit the US democratic process.
While reform of China’s single-party state has always been viewed as an important objective in modern China – from the so-called Fifth Modernization of Wei Jinsheng in the late 1970’s to recent speeches by Premier Wen Jiabao – meaningful progress has been limited.
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