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To help industries in the region upgrade environmentally, firms can now obtain special loans for which the Asian Development Bank assumes the risk – a program made possible by Hong Kong’s sound banking practices.
This “gender chore gap” limits women’s choices, as it impedes their ability to obtain formal education, secure good jobs, and achieve equal pay.
The World Bank and the WHO note that half of the world’s population still cannot obtain essential health services.
Was all of this a Chinese effort to obtain, in Henry Kissinger’s words, “strategic deterrence”?
In opting to become President Medvedev’s prime minister, Putin sees himself as coming closer to the machine of power, because he will obtain minute-by-minute control of the government.
In the embargo’s first year, companies importing Russian energy would be required to obtain licenses for the amount that they have imported to date.
Since the terrorist attacks of September 2001, entry visas are fewer and more difficult to obtain, stanching the flow of young talent into US universities.
It is only within this kind of renewed UN that NATO or other military alliances can obtain legitimized effectiveness.
It is particularly difficult to start a business in China (151st), pay taxes (122nd), obtain construction permits (179th), and get electricity (115th).
Pupils receiving a voucher, such as those used in Sweden or Chile, can obtain as much education as the voucher – not their family’s income – will allow.
It does so by requiring foreign companies that want to do business in China to form joint ventures with Chinese firms, allowing the Chinese partners to obtain US firms’ technology.
Even citizens from visa-free countries who have Middle Eastern-sounding names are being asked to obtain a visa prior to traveling to the US.
Analogously, both Papademos and Monti are certified European Union and eurozone elites, which will help them to obtain support for their countries abroad, but will leave them vulnerable to domestic charges that they are lackeys of foreign powers.
But one of its purposes was to obtain the Syrian-backed Hezbollah’s support for an IMF-style recovery program.
It is difficult to imagine a greater fiasco for German foreign and security policy than proposing a nuclear strategy and then failing to obtain parliamentary approval.
He was not notably excellent at school and college (unlike Marie Curie); in fact, he failed to obtain a university position after graduation.
Many large public-private consortia have been formed, including the Innovative Medicines Initiative and the Serious Adverse Events Consortium, but these efforts need to be coordinated and integrated in order to obtain the greatest possible benefit.
For example, the drugs used in forced lethal injections and devices for administering electrical shocks have become much harder to obtain and more expensive.
Even preeminent researchers may underestimate the significance of their findings at the time they obtain them.
This often implies illicit payments to obtain contracts or licenses outside official tender processes.
Now, too, as borrowers find credit increasingly difficult to obtain, and as resentment toward banks – and those responsible for regulating them – grows accordingly, we can expect demands for political intervention to alter the distribution of credit.
Countries may suspect that, by betraying their partners, they can obtain a better “deal” for themselves.
Most American journalists fully understand that Assange did not illegally obtain classified material; the criminally liable party is whoever released the material to the site.
Unlike the US dollar, there is no obvious way to put pressure on the European Central Bank to depreciate the currency in order to obtain a competitive advantage over other economies.
Even if some would-be parents are willing to break the law, the vast majority will be deterred by the penalties, including the risk that they will not be allowed to keep the baby or that they will be unable to obtain an exit visa for it.
Why do so many of us strive to obtain more money, if it won’t make us happier?
A new approach is needed to strengthen struggling schools, train teachers, and ensure that every child can obtain the necessary skills to succeed.
If the large states are to obtain similar gains, and their politicians are to recover voters’ respect, their governments will have to accept the small-state logic and abandon the Great Power posturing of the past.
Thus, even a quota that permits an offshore clearing bank to tap funding in China does not guarantee that it can obtain that funding at a reasonable price.
To obtain sustainable results, policymakers need to accept that sometimes “good enough is enough.”
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