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Instead, millions of people are caught in semi-permanent crises, becoming less able to break free with each passing year.
In a sense, these “ghost cities” resemble the Russian empire’s Potemkin villages, built to create an impressive illusion for the passing Czarina; but China’s ghost cities are real and were presumably meant to do more than flatter the country’s leaders.
In a recent international comparison, America’s retirement system received a passing grade of C; but, for a large and growing number of Americans, the system is failing.
Without Democratic support, Trump will have a hard time passing the legislation that he has chosen to define his presidency.
The law, originally enacted in 2005, now bars all such goods from passing through EU territory and ports, and from being promoted at fairs and in industry publications.
In London, the two players were ensconced behind polarized glass walls to prevent anyone in the audience from passing computer advice through signals.
But for the financial community, pioneering formulas that paved the way for modern hedging strategies should get just as much credit for the passing period of rapid global growth as cell phones, computers, and the Internet.
The difficulties that President Barack Obama is having in passing his basic program, whether in health care, climate change, or financial reform, are hard to understand at first glance.
On the night of October 15, 2011, I lay awake listening to the Kenyan military convoys passing through the border town of Dadaab on their way to Somalia to launch the first foreign military campaign in Kenya’s history.
Men and women who had known her only from magazine features or television coverage claimed that Diana’s death had affected them more deeply than the passing of their own parents.
Sometimes, a public figure’s death makes us mourn the passing of our own lives.
The current generation, a gifted group of policymakers, will step down in or around March 2018, passing the baton to a new generation.
Is it correct that Swedish judges contact the United States Justice Department before passing judgment in politically sensitive cases?
The risk of passing to 1.7% in the year ahead motivated the ECB’s recent 50 basis point hike.
India Embraces the Welfare StateNEW DELHI – In recent weeks, India’s parliament, often justifiably derided for the frequent disruptions that mar its work, has surprised its detractors by passing two crucial pieces of legislation that could transform the lives of hundreds of millions of people.
Even the Germans play the passing game with flair and imagination.
Indeed, Chinese President Hu Jintao’s recent trip to Washington was seen by many – particularly many Chinese – as the passing of the torch.
At the height of the Soviet-Afghanistan war in the 1980’s, Pakistan was the covert conduit for Filipino Muslim militants passing to and from Afghanistan and back to the island of Mindanao, which has long been a stronghold of Muslim rebels.
To be sure, some progress is already being made, with governments increasingly passing laws aimed at protecting women.
The catalyst would be amendments to the Brexit legislation now passing through Parliament.
Instead, the new parliament soon got out of control by passing laws that destroyed the Communist monopoly on power and undermined Gorbachev's authority.
A passing familiarity with the Realpolitik of climate change suggests that this is an intimidating – if not intractable – challenge, displaying elements of the most difficult political and social quandaries: the prisoner’s dilemma, the free-rider problem, and the tragedy of the commons.
The victory of the famed opposition trade-union movement, Solidarity, in Eastern Europe’s first free election since 1946 was eclipsed by the violent crackdown in Beijing and Khomeini’s tumultuous passing.
This is not, and should not, be surprising; our complex world cannot be changed overnight simply by passing a declaration.
The EU’s Kyoto Shell GameRIGA – With each passing year, the impending crisis of global warming looms closer and closer.
In fact, as audacious as it may sound, passing on the interest costs to recipient countries could actually bolster their debt sustainability.
The Republicans must now choose between passing their tax cuts (and adding $2 trillion to the public debt) and pursuing a much more modest reform.
Responsibility for overseeing the global economy is passing rapidly from the G-7/8 to the G-20, as it should.
Last year, women made up 60% of all students passing university exams, and women have done well in traditionally male-dominated disciplines like engineering.
Passing a comprehensive Immigration Bill that normalizes the legal status of millions of Latin American workers in the US may help.
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