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With US/UK ground forces outnumbered in most fights, and with many terrain obstacles to overcome, this dual offensives would be highly risky were it not for air power.
On the European level, legitimacy is essential and – let’s be realistic – won’t be achieved unless and until Europeans overcome certain antiquated ideas about sovereignty.
Yet information technology and global social media have empowered people to overcome social fragmentation along occupational, residential, and national lines.
To overcome the challenges we face and fulfill our promise to our children, we need active support from the international community.
While any rapidly expanding city experiences public-service bottlenecks, these can be overcome.
But what Europe forgets is how those ideologies were overcome.
This gap cannot be closed overnight, but countries that do nothing to overcome it could very well fall behind.
To put 130 million additional girls into school, we will have to overcome an array of stubborn barriers.
Yet these problems can be overcome.
Companies based in developing countries can overcome local market constraints and connect with customers, suppliers, financing, and talent worldwide.
This phase culminated with the collapse of communism in 1989, but the chance to overcome the Continent’s historical divisions now required a redefinition of the European project.
This would make emerging markets and developing country members regard reserve accumulation as expensive and extravagant, thereby helping to liberate those resources to help the world economy overcome today’s crisis.
The Commission is thus establishing itself as a friendly venue for businesses that cannot overcome competitors in the market, and seek a second chance in court.
Of course, the crisis has not been overcome.
But Vietnam has largely overcome its grudge against Japan.
But if any US president can overcome that historical shadow hanging over the UN, Obama can.
Already, China has been experimenting with the development of offshore renminbi markets in key financial centers, as a way to overcome its currency’s limited liquidity.
The parliamentary elections to be held on March 31 st will provide an answer to the main question everyone asks about Ukraine: can we overcome our lack of belief in ourselves, overcome our fears, to win a true democratic independence?
It seems that involving so many sectors in so many countries actually made it easier to overcome resistance, as it diffused the opposition and prevented any single specific interest from getting the upper hand.
This is why Western politicians fool themselves in claiming that joint efforts in Bosnia will bring both cohesive purpose to the Western Alliance as well as overcome Russian opposition to what is today’s only unifying Alliance mission: fostering stability everywhere in Europe.
But imaginative policy design is essential to overcome political resistance and avoid adverse distributional effects.
There are those who believe that technology will help to overcome such disruptions, by spurring enough growth to generate the resources needed to mitigate their impact.
Labor rules that favor job creation – what Scandinavian countries call active labor-market policies – are needed: a combination of information, training, and subsidies that help overcome what are typically serious failures in the market for young workers with limited skills and experience.
Only then might the political, economic, and social roadblocks to creating modern, accountable security services be overcome.
But they are still struggling to overcome blind spots and biases, both conscious and unconscious, stemming from structural and behavioral obstacles that women face, especially when trying to secure senior positions for which they are amply qualified.
South Africa will need much more than improved economic governance if it is to overcome its challenges and unleash its full potential in an increasingly uncertain global economy.
So we must try to reconcile the “yes” and “no” countries if we are to overcome the crisis into which Europe has been plunged.
The reformers could not overcome conservative opposition, while the radicals could not defeat the domestic economic realities wrought by their foreign and nuclear policies.
To overcome the dangerous fissures that are tearing its society apart, the US must find a president who can bridge the cultural divide.
To overcome its economic deficiencies and attain social stability, the North has no choice but to abandon its nuclear weapons program and move toward reform and greater openness.
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