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Officials and opinion shapers must understand that this perilous state of affairs will worsen if they fail to take their responsibilities more seriously, tone down their rhetoric, and adopt a balanced approach to Israel.
Nigerian officials are careful to disavow any link between this financial gift and Johnson’s turn away from AFRICOM.
Trump administration officials, for their part, have since suggested that they helped convince May to roll the dice on a hard Brexit.
Anti-gay laws were imposed on massive, culturally disparate territories worldwide, in which homosexuality had never been criminalized – or even treated as a discrete moral crime (indeed, in colonial India, British officials were stumped by castes of men who dressed as women).
That was the role that such legislation played under British colonial rule, when a small number of imperial officials had to find novel ways to control millions of new, culturally diverse subjects.
Since the crisis erupted, there has been no shortage of opportunities – in the form of inadequate conclusions and decisions by officials – to nurture one’s anxiety about that prospect.
As the New York Times reported just before the announcement, Trump administration officials believe the decision, which entails moving the US embassy in Israel to Jerusalem, could actually hasten the peace process, “by removing a source of ambiguity from the American position.”
European officials have been at pains to prevent the EU’s enlargement from creating new dividing lines between Belarus and its neighbors to the west and north – Poland, Lithuania, and Latvia – that joined the Union in 2004.
Similarly, Belarus must, in turn, respond positively to the EU’s steps to normalize relations, one of which should be rescinding travel restrictions against Lukashenko and other senior officials.
But, after the terrorist attacks of September 2001, is it “frenzy” for Americans to demand greater public safety and national security from their elected officials?
According to recent reports, Hamas’s senior officials are currently hiding in hospitals.
Official forecasts for Russian GDP growth in 2009 remain positive, but most analysts, including government officials, are bracing for a severe recession – which, indeed, appears to have started in the fourth quarter of 2008.
The growing recognition of banks’ true function will be a game-changer in areas like monetary policy and financial regulation, enabling officials to tackle effectively problems like recurring banking crises, unemployment, and underdevelopment.
Russian officials have expressed some interest in these projects (some of which were originally proposed by the Kremlin), but they have insisted on first achieving consensus with the US on underlying strategic principles.
American officials stress that they will not try to negate Russia’s strategic deterrent – an impossible effort, given the size and sophistication of Russian’s offensive nuclear forces.
Although constraining future US BMD programs with legally binding agreements is politically untenable, US officials could inform their Russian counterparts of their long-range BMD plans without much difficulty.
One hopeful sign is that Russian officials have recently acknowledged the impracticality of the sectoral BMD plan that Medvedev proposed at last November’s NATO-Russian Council summit.
NATO officials persuasively argued that their collective-defense commitment could not be delegated to a non-NATO member.
Russian officials need to retreat from their politically impossible demand for legally binding limitations on US BMD.
We have taken steps to root out corruption and remove unscrupulous officials.
He never shrank from taking on Washington or letting officials there know what he thought.
But, for all the recent PLA and other activity, when the country’s leadership transition (which has made many key central officials nervous) is completed at the end of this year, there is reason to hope that a more restrained Chinese position will be articulated.
As for industrial policy, the economist Stephen S. Cohen and I argue in our 2016 book, Concrete Economics, that officials should recognize and capitalize on America’s interlinked communities of producers and their deep institutional knowledge of engineering practices.
Although Colombia’s government announced a few weeks ago a strategy based on important infrastructure work, its impact will be limited: most of the investment was already in the budget last year, and the officials in charge of public works have consistently demonstrated inefficiency when executing large-scale projects.
Government officials should not demonize private enterprise and entrepreneurial activity, nor penalize them with excessive, capricious taxation.
When Vietnam launched free-market reforms in the 1980’s, senior government officials pored over his writings.
But the wave of prosecutions that Xi has unleashed is discouraging Chinese officials from making decisions, owing to their fear that they could face criminal charges in the future.
At the same time, the number of attacks – from insults to property damage to bodily harm – against elected officials tripled in 2016.
But, to hear it from Chinese officials, China is an aggrieved partner in the region.
In my meetings with government officials around the world, I have seen this firsthand.
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