Partly in sentence

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Young people are being forced to interrupt their education, and refugees are fully or partly barred from legal labor markets, owing to fears that they will compete for jobs with local inhabitants.

But significant progress has yet to be made, owing partly to excessive business regulations and labor-market inefficiencies.

My optimism is based partly on the history of the United States, founded by leaders who were highly concerned about corruption; by some accounts, they devised the Constitution with the specific goal of vaccinating the new republic against vice.

There are large numbers of soldiers and police among the casualties, as well as civilians; and, partly as a byproduct of the fall of Libya’s Muammar el-Qaddafi, Egypt is awash with weapons.

Developed countries’ currencies have been floating against each other for several decades, but this has been only partly true of emerging and developing countries.

Putin is only partly to blame for Syrians’ current plight, but he could end up owning the problem, and reprising the Soviet Union’s quagmire in Afghanistan 30 years ago.

It is partly self-defense, partly an assertion of the rule of law in difficult circumstances, and partly a constructive effort to redress the causes of frustration.

The declining average is partly due to a furiously trading fringe.

And, partly because an American child’s lifetime prospects are more dependent on his or her parents’ income and education than in other advanced countries, the US now has the least equality of opportunity of any advanced country.

In a sense, this is the definition of true leadership: to take a country and its people to a better future which is not yet clear to most but that has been partly discovered and partly created by those in power who hold an unerring sense of direction.

I felt an instant sense of loyalty to him, maybe partly because I sensed that he would be loyal, too.

This is partly because, under the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, which all of these countries have ratified, these outcroppings’ sovereign owners can claim a full 200-mile Exclusive Economic Zone (enabling sole exploitation of fisheries and oil resources) if they can sustain an economic life of their own.

To be sure, this partly reflects fatigue from decades of democracy promotion on the part of the West.

Within regions, however, there are significant disparities, owing partly to differences in political representation and policy priorities.

Indeed, it has simply taken new forms, partly owing to economic and technical progress - and with it an increase in available wealth - and partly owing to efforts aimed at allaying it.

Banks that failed the stress test and didn’t take the result seriously are partly to blame, but so, too, are regulators who did not sufficiently hold the banks’ feet to the fire to improve their balance sheets, and who may have applied stress tests that were too weak to detect financial frailty.

Indeed, the sharp acceleration in the debt-to-GDP ratio is partly attributable to the relative underdevelopment of China’s capital market.

Putting Asia's Gini Back in its BottleKLONG LUANG, THAILAND – Activists across Asia, inspired partly by the Occupy Wall Street movement in the United States, have been highlighting what they view as a widening divide between the haves and the have-nots, those with connections and those without.

But others are startling, which partly reflects skewed public perceptions of poverty’s prevalence and severity, as well as the challenge of acquiring accurate data.

This is partly because, initially, economies face high implementation and transition costs, which estimates of AI’s economic impact tend to ignore.

That reflects Saudi Arabia’s output increase of more than a million barrels a day, as well as mandated efficiency measures in the European Union, partly motivated by efforts to cut carbon dioxide emissions, which have contributed to a comparable drop in demand – by about 1.5% a year.

Governments may have strategic reasons to hold onto unprofitable assets, but investors who own shares in partly privatized state firms do not.

Many people attribute these failures partly to an absence of American leadership.

As for financial regulation, while the recent crisis has highlighted the need for stricter rules, agreement on many issues has proven to be elusive, partly because the Obama administration is too close to the financial sector.

President Vladimir Putin has just sailed to his own guaranteed electoral victory, thanks partly to his use of the security services and their friends in the Russian mafia to eliminate any potential threat to his regime.

The Chinese government has partly acknowledged this imbalance and says it will convert around 600 colleges into vocational schools by the end of next year.

The IMF’s blind spot in dealing with Europe until now is only partly due to European voting power.

But while that is unpleasant, it is not disastrous, especially given that the decline in prices is partly a result of a supply – not demand – shock, in the form of very low oil prices.

Now, partly in response to fears that Britons who have joined the fighting in Syria may return to carry out terrorism at home, the government has proposed legislation enabling it to revoke the citizenship of naturalized Britons suspected of involvement in terrorist activities – even if this makes them stateless.

Are anti-GM advocates not partly responsible?

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