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Even if the summit produces few specific results, it can make a difference if three demands are made of the summiteers:we should insist that the world's politicians recognize the overwhelming scientific evidence that points to the major environmental perils humanity faces;we should press these leaders to invest more public money in basic environmental research and in the development of new technologies to address environmental risks.
To the scientific community, the evidence on climate change has, of course, been overwhelming for more than a decade and a half.
Unsurprisingly, based on the evidence and the opinions presented at the Law Commission’s hearings, there was a general consensus that the courts are unable to adopt a fair and non-discriminatory approach to the death penalty, and support for its abolition was overwhelming.
In the US, President Ronald Reagan signed legislation in 1988 apologizing for the internment of more than 110,000 Japanese-Americans during WWII, an overwhelming majority of whom were US citizens.
Beijing and Shanghai are almost overwhelming in their scale and energy, lined with shimmering skyscrapers, adorned with bright neon lights, and teeming with increasingly cosmopolitan citizens.
Given that the Assad regime has overwhelming firepower, its consent is vital to achieving a ceasefire agreement.
How to Reform the IMF NowWASHINGTON, DC – More than four years have passed since an overwhelming majority of the membership of the International Monetary Fund agreed to a package of reforms that would double the organization’s resources and reorganize its governing structure in favor of developing countries.
The overwhelming majority of China’s poor live in rural areas, and, for most, hope for a better life lies in the cities, where better-paying jobs are easier to find.
All this has caused Bush to seek to accommodate – verbally, at least – the will of an overwhelming majority of Americans to conserve energy.
In today’s China, the overwhelming majority of bureaucrats like the status quo and have enough resources to protect themselves.
Countries without nuclear weapons – the overwhelming majority – took matter into their own hands.
In the last two years, the Global Fund’s biggest donors – the United States and the United Kingdom – have bailed out badly managed banks and other financial institutions, despite overwhelming evidence of unethical behavior, abuse of power, and bad governance by senior management.
If China is serious about reform, it will need armies of people like these, fighting for their rights, in order to balance the overwhelming political power of its entrenched elites.
But, in some cases, historical legacies can gain excessive influence, overwhelming leaders’ capacity to make rational policy choices.
Her response – “I would build a sports stadium” – was considered stupid by the judges, and the almost-certain crown (she was the overwhelming favorite) slipped from her grasp.
The price of the Chernobyl catastrophe was overwhelming, not only in human terms, but also economically.
A bulwark of secular government and anti-fundamentalism in a North Africa that is struggling to contain the spread of Islamic extremism, Libya is of strategic importance to Europe and the US beyond its oil riches, notwithstanding the overwhelming significance of its energy resources.
A recent survey showed overwhelming Pakistani opposition to US military incursions into their country.
Negative interest rates hurt banks’ balance sheets, with the “wealth effect” on banks overwhelming the small increase in incentives to lend.
Despite some legitimate concerns about safety, it is hard to overstate the overwhelming benefits.
The overwhelming standard for supplying official development assistance should therefore be whether official assistance actually promotes economic development.
These arguments are all part of the overwhelming economic case for free trade.
By affecting everything from the nature of work to what it means to be human, technological changes could prove overwhelming if we do not collaborate to understand and manage them.
A low-carbon, reliable, and depoliticized energy sector remained a distant dream in the overwhelming majority of countries.
This disparity represents an important opportunity for countries like the US and Japan, which are trying to discipline a delinquent China in the South China Sea by demonstrating their overwhelming naval power – and thus their capacity to deny China access to key sea-lanes.
Uncontrolled migration from today’s poor and conflict-ridden regions will become overwhelming, regardless of migration policies, if climate change, extreme poverty, and lack of skills and education undermine the development potential of Africa, Central America and the Caribbean, the Middle East, and Central Asia.
Today, however, China needs a new strategic doctrine, because the most remarkable aspect of Sri Lanka’s recent victory over the Tamil Tigers is not its overwhelming nature, but the fact that China provided President Mahinda Rajapaska with both the military supplies and diplomatic cover he needed to prosecute the war.
For to convince the world that they would continue reforming, Poland and Hungary’s postcommunists formed coalition governments despite winning overwhelming parliamentary majorities.
Until that happens, the children – the overwhelming majority of them Palestinian –will continue to suffer.
An overwhelming majority of states share this view.
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