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But he has long-term responsibilities - both to Mexicans in Mexico and to Mexicans in the US - that go beyond obtaining a short-term political victory.
He is more adept at exercising power than he is at obtaining it.
Decisions about data-center specifications are important for managing costs, obtaining a reliable supply of energy and water, and lowering reputational risks, particularly given the increasing global regulatory focus on climate change.
The status quo – opaque rules, arbitrary decision-making, and lack of accountability – allows insiders to enrich themselves, especially by obtaining a share of commodity-export revenues.”
This was, after all, the idea behind colonialism, which succeeded economically by underpricing resources or even obtaining them for free.
But soft power will become increasingly important in preventing terrorists from recruiting new supporters, and for obtaining the international cooperation necessary for countering terrorism.
China’s failure to meet GATT standards may catalyze any number of disputes, enough to overload the WTO dispute settlement process, and the processes of obtaining decisions and implementing them could be very time-consuming.
This can be achieved by obtaining privileges or special rights from government or the legislature, privileges that may come in the form of monopoly rights, subsidies, protectionist privileges or other kinds of preferences.
Despite the dangers of false flags and the difficulty of obtaining prompt, high-quality attribution that would stand up in a court of law, there is often enough attribution to enable deterrence.
The goal is to give residents a legal means of obtaining biometric identification cards, essential documentation needed to access government services and register to vote.
Spies versus ScribesNEW YORK – The recent guilty plea by Donald Sachtleben, a former FBI bomb technician charged with leaking classified information, after government investigators identified him by secretly obtaining the phone logs of some Associated Press reporters, represents the latest chapter in the ongoing drama over United States security officials’ behavior.
As the famous “LuxLeaks” of 2014 revealed, from 2002 to 2010, the firm assisted its multinational clients in obtaining at least 548 tax rulings in Luxembourg, enabling them to avoid corporate income tax globally.
Obtaining that history requires consent from the individuals whose genomes are sequenced.
Over the past decade, a new kind of war has been invented: a war designed to stop a country from obtaining nuclear weapons or other weapons of mass destruction (WMD).
One can quibble with the percentage, but Allen’s insight is important: You have to get in the game – be a player – to have any chance of obtaining your objectives.
Modern developments in desalination have brought the cost per unit of desalinated seawater to levels comparable to obtaining fresh water from natural sources (approximately US$0.05 per cubic meter).
For some of these countries, especially those that have adopted many new vaccines, obtaining adequate and sustainable financing is one of the most daunting challenges posed by the transition.
In effect, New START is the sine qua nonfor effective US leadership on the arms-control and non-proliferation issues that matter to Europe – from reviving the CFE treaty to preventing Iran from obtaining nuclear weapons.
And when prostitution is illegal, its practitioners may struggle to move on from the profession, because criminal records prevent them from obtaining other forms of employment.
They provided a highly efficient means of obtaining information about markets, suppliers, and sources of finance.
They are people who in some ways lacked full citizenship, who demanded it, and who redefined the political order by obtaining it.
American children raised in affluence succeed in obtaining an excellent education and have good job prospects after a bachelor’s degree.
Politics is about obtaining and holding power and the perks of office, not about solving problems, even life-and-death environmental problems.
The DB index aims to measure, across countries, the ease of starting a business, obtaining the relevant permits, accessing essential infrastructure, and so forth.
The hard part is obtaining the fissionable materials – plutonium or highly enriched uranium.
Indeed, thousands of Argentines reacted to the crisis by lining up at the embassies of North American and European countries in the hopes of obtaining a visa that would allow them to leave.
In 2011, more than 13,000 women posted on such websites with the intention of providing or obtaining milk, either for free or for payment.
Not only will finding the staff to care for an aging population become more difficult; obtaining sufficient revenue to fund social security systems will also become harder as the dependency ratio rises.
Moreover, China is pumping foreign investment into economies across Africa and South Asia, obtaining military bases and other geostrategic assets in return from its heavily indebted commercial partners.
The government could easily avoid this by obtaining parliamentary agreement to suspend the law temporarily, as it did in 2010, when a second sovereign-debt exchange was conducted.
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