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Should there be another referendum, passing the final decision back to the people?
In the end, many who fought to bring about Austria-Hungary’s demise would live to mourn its passing; as subsequent events would show, the old empire was still more of a necessity than they realized.
Furthermore, participation in and withdrawal from the clubs should require passing high enough hurdles to ensure stable membership.
And with every passing day, America’s position in the region is weakening further and the chances of a successful new political strategy become more remote.
Nowhere has this game of passing the blame been more visible than in the way EU governments have handled the deregulation of the product market.
Governments are passing stricter legislation, like the UK Bribery Act 2010, and broad oversight mechanisms such as the United Nations Convention against Corruption encourage further legislation and enforcement.
The US under President Jimmy Carter made an important contribution in passing the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, which made bribery by American companies anywhere in the world illegal.
In a boom-bust process, passing an early test tends to reinforce the misconception which gave rise to it.
As long as governments operate within these broad parameters, the US should look to itself before passing judgment on others.
But with every passing year, "balancing up"--rapid growth in the rest of the world boosting demand for US exports--has become less and less likely.
President Xi Jinping may smile and tell Putin how similar they are, but he will happily move to subordinate Russia with every passing year.
The technocrats in turn see their position confirmed with every passing day that the alleged crisis of legitimacy fails to appear.
Passing the hat when a crisis erupts is not the solution.
The Chechen war both masks and motivates the reestablishment of centralized power in Russia – bringing the media back under state control, passing laws against NGO’s, and reinforcing the “vertical line of power” – leaving no institutions and authorities able to challenge or limit the Kremlin.
In doing so, they are passing up an historic opportunity to take the lead on nuclear disarmament.
Moreover, the country’s strategic situation is deteriorating with each passing year, because the global redistribution of power and influence from the West to the East can only weaken Israel’s position.
The biggest risk stemming from the Dalai Lama’s passing is violent resistance to Chinese repression in Tibet.
None of the main speakers made even a passing reference to the rising wave of violence in Israel.
The questions that they are asking more loudly with each passing day demand answers.
This is no temporary or passing phenomenon.
To be sure, UNRWA has long been criticized by some for passing down refugee status across generations since 1948.
That’s why enacting, say, a constitutional amendment generally requires clearing far higher hurdles than passing a spending bill.
Already, there are 18,000 desalination facilities in more than 100 countries producing roughly 32 billion cubic meters (8.45 trillion gallons) of fresh water – about one-third of the volume passing over Niagara Falls annually.
Individual countries like Greece have limited incentive to invest in controls insofar as refugees are only passing through.
Indeed, democracy nowadays has embraced a pop culture of rapidly passing fads; today's hysteria-generating pop group is forgotten tomorrow, and there are always more waiting in the wings.
For several decades, that tendency has been offset by ever more intensive trading of tradable goods, often passing through many countries in complex supply chains.
This means more than passing a few virtuous sounding resolutions in the Duma.
But, instead of behaving like superstars, they worked together, passing consistently and creating opportunities for one another to score.
From years of analyzing the abnormal, I’ve developed a keen appreciation for the myriad peccadilloes that are quite normal: the dull co-worker whom others scheme to avoid, the eleventh-hour passing of the buck, the ex you promised to ‘stay friends’ with but never wrote to again, the small but telling things that really get under your skin.”
For Whom Syria TollsPARIS – With every passing week, the Syrian conflict increasingly resembles the Spanish Civil War.
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