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Obama has understandably focused on competing priorities, including the troubled US economy and
ongoing
wars abroad.
But creating that architecture is a daunting task, which has taken Europe decades and is still
ongoing.
Despite the
ongoing
tensions between Russia and the West – or perhaps because of them – Putin enjoys remarkable support among some European intellectuals and politicians.
To its protagonists, however, it is a product of today’s
ongoing
global power shifts, and has the potential to evolve into a major instrument in shaping the architecture of global governance – the midwife of a new international order.
India, for its part, needs to open up its economy further in order to take advantage of its continuing rapid population growth and the
ongoing
changes in the structure of the global economy.
Indeed, only an
ongoing
skepticism of fashionable political nostrums - both of the statist and market fundamentalist variety - can promote pluralism and tolerance, and avoid a ballooning of the bureaucracy that enfeebles our economy.
But, once again, people there told me about an
ongoing
real-estate bubble, and my driver showed me around the seaside resort town of Cartagena, pointing out, with a tone of amazement, several homes that had recently sold for millions of dollars.
Owing to the
ongoing
operations in Iraq and Afghanistan, any future British government will inherit a military that is overstretched, undermanned, and working with worn-out equipment.
The
ongoing
pension reform – both extremely sensitive and of paramount importance for the future of the Greek social-security system – has been the most heated subject of debate.
The Trapdoors at the Fed’s ExitMUMBAI – The
ongoing
weakness of America’s economy – where deleveraging in the private and public sectors continues apace – has led to stubbornly high unemployment and sub-par growth.
With
ongoing
international support, we will do just that.
Despite the PiS’s constant nepotism scandals and
ongoing
conflicts with the EU, the judiciary, and business and civil-society groups, its support has not fallen below 35%.
Some have already been forced to do so, and many could conceivably be targeted in connection with
ongoing
campaigns to draw international attention to various human-rights issues ahead of the Olympics.
Thus, although Obama also inherited two
ongoing
wars, nuclear-proliferation threats from Iran and North Korea, and the continuing problem of Al Qaeda’s terrorism, his early months in office were devoted to addressing the economic crisis at home and abroad.
What they do not include is an effort to address the largest obstacle to lasting peace: the
ongoing
attacks against civilians and other atrocities that are intensifying divisions among the Syrian factions who will eventually have to govern together.
The
ongoing
fight in the Muslim world between Sunnis and Shi’a recalls the struggle between Protestants and Catholics in seventeenth-century Europe.
While most of the world may have missed it, there is an
ongoing
competition between Iraq’s Najaf and Iran’s Qom over which city is holier.
If Turkey’s
ongoing
political-military trials ever find their way to the screen, there will be no shortage of such denouements.
Another investigation confirmed similar allegations in 2010, and last month the BBC reported that Bagram’s prison population had reached 3,000, while an Afghan-led investigation found still more allegations of
ongoing
torture, including freezing temperatures and sexual humiliations.
While the obstacles are not yet sufficiently serious to derail the
ongoing
recovery, only a fool would gloss over them.
While
ongoing
for weeks or months, these events have not yet produced their full disruptive impact on the global economy.
There is only one way out of the Gaza tragedy that can provide justice to its many victims: The parties to the conflict and the regional actors now vying to act as mediators must leverage the
ongoing
calamity into a grand peace agenda.
The issue is coming to a head in
ongoing
World Trade Organization negotiations.
The
ongoing
sovereignty disputes in the South and East China Seas – involving China, Taiwan, Japan, the Republic of Korea, Vietnam, Brunei, the Philippines, Indonesia, and Malaysia – are particularly poisonous, because they also carry a heavy burden of historical grievance.
Their releases and the public debate to which they have contributed, however, cut straight to the heart of the
ongoing
struggle for Indonesia’s self-identity – a struggle which has taken a dramatic turn of late.
We hope that this
ongoing
work will inform a new approach to disaster-risk management in the run-up to the UN World Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction to be held in Sendai, Japan, next March.
This is an old story, but also an
ongoing
one.
In the
ongoing
round of negotiations, the two key players, Iran and the United States, have seemed willing – if not desperate – to bring the talks to a successful conclusion.
But it also triggered civil war and regional turmoil (including
ongoing
Shia protests in Bahrain).
On the other hand, in Brazil, despite an
ongoing
corruption scandal that has toppled one president and could topple another, investors recognize that the country’s institutions are working – albeit in their own cumbersome way – and they have priced risks accordingly.
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