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These are occasions for mutual flattery and strutting in front of the cameras.
Singh’s second principle, often erroneously attributed to Wen, who subsequently repeated it on several occasions, is that “the world has enough space for the growth ambitions of both countries.”
Second, when have those deficits been “temporary,” apart from the occasions when later Democratic administrations reduced them by reversing the underlying tax cuts (as Clinton did after Reagan, and Barack Obama did after George W. Bush)?
In his own way, though, he is an engaging, polite man, hip to contemporary cultural icons, and even given to singing at public occasions with wry lyrics and verses.
On other occasions, protests such as May Day marches were transformed into widespread social mobilization, as happened in France on May 1, 1968.
The authorities also want to ban demonstrations on state occasions.
Perhaps eliminating the occasions on which this question is asked for no good reason would not only make life easier for those who can’t be squeezed into strict categories, but would also help to reduce inequality for women.
But it had political checks and balances that constrained even the military, and power changed hands on numerous occasions through increasingly fair and free elections.
The fact that Israel could always count on US backing, especially on such public occasions as congressional speeches by an Israeli leader, only confirmed the assumption of many people around the world that Israel and the US are joined like Siamese twins.
As I have stressed on many occasions, the OIC is guided by the principles of moderation and modernization.
As has become a ritual on such commemorative occasions, the death toll is tallied in the hundreds of thousands, and fresh reports are made of elevated rates of cancer, birth defects, and overall mortality.
On these occasions existing members pretended that they need not fundamentally change the EU's institutional arrangements.
The Dutch populist leader Geert Wilders, for example, has denounced Queen Beatrix on several occasions as a leftist, elitist, and multiculturalist.
On several occasions, we have also been instrumental in facilitating peace and reconciliation.
And on still other occasions, it will mean pushing for structural changes, such as a return to the Fairness Doctrine by broadcasters in the US.
Turkish officials have stated on various occasions that change in the Arab world is inevitable and must reflect people’s legitimate demands for justice, freedom, and prosperity.
Since those occasions, Hollande has been embroiled in a damaging debate about revoking French terrorists’ citizenship; and he committed a serious PR blunder by candidly commenting on the French political scene for a book by two Le Monde journalists, appropriately titled A President Shouldn’t Say That.
Until recently, investors hoped that the US Federal Reserve would do whatever it takes to avoid a recession, because that is what it did on previous occasions.
But on the few occasions when he was called in for an interview, employers first told him he was “too expensive” or “overqualified.”
Our brains are primed to register such events; so on rare occasions the brain makes a mistake and reconstructs unrelated sounds (such as people talking indistinctly) into a false perception of the spoken name.
But the problem for Cowen (and for the EU) is that this level of support does not seem to translate to the ballot box: the Irish rejected EU treaties on two of the last three occasions when they were asked to vote.
As is usual on such occasions, there will be a lot of lofty speeches about Europe.
What struck me on both occasions was the sustained, and evidently successful, attempt to reach out to the two target groups upon whom the future of science and technology will depend.
In Afghanistan, America’s military was so tactically dependent on Pakistan that, on several occasions, the US encouraged India to curtail development projects, such as rebuilding Afghanistan’s infrastructure.
Then he explained a better course of action, admonishing that “pique is no substitute for policy,” a line I always remembered – and had many occasions to use.
The argument against is moral hazard: If we admit that modest ECB-financed deficits are possible and appropriate now, what will prevent politicians and electorates from demanding large and inflationary ECB-financed deficits on other occasions?
On every one of these occasions, the effort triggered processes that reduced employment and output far more than the Fed’s staff had anticipated.
As a result, it is harder for a dishonest official to find occasions to demand bribes or skim from government payouts.
On two occasions when I suddenly had to cut spending to comply with the EU’s Stability and Growth Pact (SGP), a 1997 agreement among EU member states to enforce fiscal responsibility, I had few options other than to cut the defense budget.
On several occasions in the post-WWII period, the US has learned with great pain that there are limits to the effective use of military power.
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