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A powerful lobbying effort included millions of dollars spent to support passage of one of the crowning achievements of Bush’s foreign policy: the United States-India Civil Nuclear Cooperation Agreement.
The European Space Agency announced in September 2007 that satellite photos showed that the Northwest Passage appeared clear of ice for shipping for the first time ever, and that the Northeast Passage is almost clear.
They got an elected president (who for a while was trapped in his headquarters), a parliament and government (whose MPs and ministers are not guaranteed passage from Gaza to the West Bank), and passports (whose numbers must be entered into Israeli computers).
Despite the incoming president’s popularity and an all-out political effort, the Recovery Act passed by the thinnest of margins, with doubts about its ultimate passage lingering until the last moment.
It is estimated that the GST’s passage would add 1-2% to India’s GDP instantly.
One particular passage resonates with me as I contemplate Ukraine’s plight.
This summer has given us one such example: the climate-change bill, for which President Barack Obama had pushed so hard, will not even be presented to the United States Senate, because it stands no chance of passage.
On a crowded planet with threats to our climate, oceans, forests, food production, and water supply, and with global travel and high population densities increasing the risk of worldwide disease epidemics, we must turn to the best of our scientific and engineering knowledge to find a safe passage.
The Chinese also responded furiously to the passage of a US naval warship through disputed waters in the South China Sea last month, a move that the foreign ministry called a “provocation” that “severely undermines China’s sovereignty and security.”
The unity agenda should include early passage of these bills.
Tests might also make the passage to citizenship meaningful, a ritual similar to the solemn swearing of an oath of allegiance, which can be integrated as a major event into the story of one’s life (to be sure, some will always dismiss such ceremonies as political kitsch).
The passage giving his controversial speech its name alluded to inner city riots in the United States and invoked Virgil: “Like the Roman, I seem to see ‘the River Tiber foaming with much blood.’”
As this current situation plays out, the government of Rwanda will focus its efforts on treating those who seek refuge in our country with the dignity to which they are entitled, and will take the necessary steps to facilitate their safe passage home when the time comes.
But, with the passage of time, the Barroso-led Commission has also come under fire for being unadventurous and lacklustre.
So far, West Africa has avoided the worst of the endemic and routine violence that accompanies the passage of drugs through Central America.
Following the passage of America’s Smoot-Hawley Tariff in 1930, countries raised trade barriers in a tit-for-tat frenzy, with no rules to constrain their behavior.
That crisis, and others before and since, showed that tensions in the Middle East rarely dissolve with the passage of time.
While it would be difficult for Iran to seal the strait for long, if it managed to do so at all, it could easily make passage unsafe with attacks by small boats, sea mines, and missiles launched from coastal mountains.
In Libya alone, an estimated 500,000 to one million additional migrants are awaiting passage to Europe.
However, there is no likelihood of passage anytime soon.
With the passage of time, enlargement has become more unpopular, not less: at last count, only 20% of Germans are keen on the idea, and 68% are unenthusiastic.
And the Northwest Passage in the Arctic became ice-free for the first time in living memory.
An East German construction crew was knocking a new passage through the Wall, and it was tough going.
Obama’s Passage to IndiaCAMBRIDGE – Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s vigorous foreign policy in the seven months since he took office has surprised observers.
Observers interpret al-Khatib's comments as a reference to the passage of vast amounts of luxury goods through Jordan into Iraq, one of the means by which Saddam has been able to reward his followers.
After every country has received its “opt-out,” and the Competitiveness Pact’s targets have been sufficiently diluted to ensure its passage, there will most likely be very little of substance left.
The US Congress’s deep reservations regarding the passage of a climate bill has been exacerbated by China’s positions, especially on issues such as international monitoring and accountability for its emissions, which China considers an affront to its sovereignty.
Making that difficult passage from closed to open society was a necessary step for the states of Central and Eastern Europe to become candidate members and - perhaps soon - full members of the EU.
By raising the bargaining power of agricultural labor, the act’s passage has led to higher farm wages, greater purchasing power for the rural poor, and lower distress migration.
After the narrow passage of the Waxman-Markey climate-change bill in the United States House of Representatives, Krugman said that there was no justification for a vote against it.
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