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But, in confronting today’s growing disorder and escalating violence, the leaders we have would do well to draw some inspiration from their forebears, who 200 years ago this week opened the way to nearly a century of peace.
Yes, the initial disequilibrium shock of the industrial revolution was and is associated with rapidly rising inequality as opportunities are opened to aggressiveness and enterprise, and as the market prices commanded by key scarce skills rise sky-high.
Meanwhile, US weakness has opened the door to Russia’s resumption of Cold War practices in the region.
But the 350,000 refugees who crossed European borders, and the more than 2,600 who drowned trying to reach them, in the first eight months of this year have opened our eyes.
Funding sources must be opened to allow for multi-year commitments.
And education can even help ensure the peaceful and sustainable development of the communities that have opened their doors to displaced families.
Openness and the principle of solidarity belong to the very substance of NATO and, as such, they are rooted also in the text of the Washington Treaty that opened the door to NATO expansion.
Before the meeting opened, many wondered whether the five parliaments could possibly find common ground.
So far, he has abandoned the 12-country Trans-Pacific Partnership – which his election opponent, Hillary Clinton, had also promised to do – and opened negotiations with Mexico and Canada to update the North American Free-Trade Agreement, which President Bill Clinton signed into law in 1994.
This question has opened the door for a new, more overt truthiness, espoused by the likes of Trump, who seems to introduce freshly invented “facts” on a daily basis.
Drawn by the region’s culture and expertise, Rakuten opened its US headquarters in the San Francisco Bay Area in 2011.
A window of opportunity opened at the beginning of Bush’s first term, and closed shut after the terrorist attacks of September 2001.
One reporter joked that the next press Christmas party would be held at the recently opened Trump International Hotel down the street from the White House, and there would be a cash bar.
Russian cities like St. Petersburg and Moscow opened themselves up and began to boom.
On his first foreign trip, he visited Saudi Arabia, a decadent theocracy where, ironically, he opened the Global Center for Combating Extremist Ideology.
The Decline of the West RevisitedLONDON – The terrorist slaughter in Paris has once again brought into sharp relief the storm clouds gathering over the twenty-first century, dimming the bright promise for Europe and the West that the fall of communism opened up.
Immediately after apartheid ended, the removal of discriminatory hiring practices opened new routes to prosperity for many black South Africans.
Moreover, the economy was opened, state enterprises were privatized, and the country participated in an important regional free-trade initiative.
China’s Modernization AmbitionsBEIJING – Last October, as he opened the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, President Xi Jinping vowed that the country would have a “fully modern” economy by 2035, and would reach high-income status by 2049 – the 100th anniversary of the founding of the People’s Republic.
Although one could quibble whether the countries with which negotiations were opened in 1998 (Cyprus, Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Poland, and Slovenia) had really jumped these hurdles, the threshold was set high.
Previously, once negotiations opened, all prospective entrants were kept more or less on the same track as the Union went through a set list of areas (referred to as “chapters” in the Brussels patois) to be negotiated with each candidate.
Phare programs ought to encourage this by being more competitive, opened to all who qualify, and, whenever possible, regional in scope.
After agreeing to establish an office in Qatar exclusively to host the talks, in June the Taliban opened a quasi-embassy of the “Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan.”
Just as the fall of the Berlin Wall on November 9, 1989, signified the Cold War’s end, al-Qaeda’s attack on the United States opened a new epoch.
The recent scandal, however, has opened the public’s eyes to the threat that inaction poses to democracy itself.
Some 14.3 million new stock-market trading accounts were opened in China last year.
In fact, internationalization of the RMB has opened a new hole in China’s wall of capital controls.
But the making of Morales as a leader able to combine these three dimensions reflects two institutional reforms in the 1990’s that expanded social participation and opened up opportunities for new leaders and political movements.
Most concretely, the long-anticipated New Development Bank, run jointly and equally by the five BRICS countries, opened its doors in Shanghai in July.
Bartholomew’s conference opened at the Acropolis, the very heart of ancient Athens, where 2,300 years ago Aristotle defined ethics and politics as the quest for wellbeing.
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