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And, with each passing day, the European Commission will be running out of time to pursue any new initiatives that could realistically be finalized before 2019.
As the Ebola crisis has demonstrated, passing the hat once a pandemic has taken hold is far too time-consuming and carries huge economic and, more important, human costs.
Sovereignty BoundPRAGUE - Glorification of the nation state as the climax to the history of every national community, as the only thing in whose name it is permissible to kill or for whom it is worth dying for, is passing.
And the risks from climate change grow more real and become more urgent with each passing day.
LONDON – In times of political turmoil, events can move from impossible to inevitable without even passing through improbable.
But they are liable to being overturned suddenly in the face of passing bad news, because “there is no firm basis of conviction to hold them steady.”
The passing of authority in Iraq from the US-led coalition to an Iraqi government and the need for a much stronger UN role now offers the chance and imposes the need for everyone to stop posturing and get serious.
With each passing day, it becomes more apparent that a restructuring of Greek debt is unavoidable.
But with each passing day, that initial cheer diminishes.
For example, the planned Delhi-Mumbai Industrial Corridor, a project with Japanese collaboration entailing more than $90 billion in investment, will link Delhi to Mumbai’s ports, covering an overall length of 1,483 kilometers (921 miles) and passing through six states.
Former US Trade Representative Mickey Kantor recalls Clinton’s horse-trading with congressional Democrats to persuade them to join Republicans in passing NAFTA, overcoming both parties’ protectionist wings.
In this context, the next meeting of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), set for the end of November in Durban, South Africa, is passing totally unnoticed.
Now the axis has crushed hopes of passing a new European constitution in Brussels by demanding the so-called "double majority" rule, which would seriously weaken medium-size and smaller countries' voting power by comparison to what was agreed three years ago in Nice.
Russia’s key problems – the absence of real property rights, rule of law, and democracy – were mentioned this year, notably by former Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin, but only gently and in passing.
Havel’s passing reminds us that the value of life will eventually gain respect.
With the EU’s popularity waning, the firmness with which its leaders crack down on what voters view as tax-dodging corporate fat cats will be of more than passing interest.
Too often, UN peacekeeping missions require passing the hat among the advanced industrial countries, giving them virtual veto power over when, where, and how the UN acts.
State legislators responded by passing a bill that prohibited policymakers from using the panel’s findings, thereby undermining officials’ ability to fulfill their fundamental duty to protect their state’s coastline, resources, and citizens.
The eurozone crisis is not a passing phase but the symptom of a serious ailment.
India’s Deadly Entrance ExamsNEW DELHI – In late April, a 17-year-old girl named Kriti Tripathi leaped to her death in Kota, India, shortly after passing the country’s examination for admission to the prestigious Indian Institutes of Technology (IIT).
In both Rome and Moscow, there is growing hope that a road to Christian unity can be built, but it is increasingly clear that the road can be completed only by passing through Berlin.
This is not merely a passing concern: vibrant economies have been derailed by zealotry many times throughout history.
Will convergence remain rapid, or will it be a passing phase in world economic history?
The classic example of rent-seeking is that of a feudal lord who installs a chain across a river that flows through his land and then hires a collector to charge passing boats a fee (or rent of the section of the river for a few minutes) to lower the chain.
There is a real risk that a price for passing a domestic cap-and-trade bill will be potential trade sanctions on big emerging-country emitters that refuse to accept mandatory limits of some kind.
Particles get from A to B without passing through the intervening space, where they have insufficient energy to exist; they briefly “borrow” the energy, because we are “uncertain” about what their energy is.
Information gets from A to B without anything passing in between – what Einstein called “spooky action at a distance.”
Would these crops be safe to eat?Might they not cross-pollinate with wild plants, passing on the special qualities they were given, such as resistance to pests, and so create new “superweeds”?
Worse, Modi’s administration is passing all responsibility for dealing with the pandemic and its consequences to India’s state (provincial) governments, but providing them with no additional resources to do this.
It is for Europe’s citizens to decide whether Europe and the values of progress that it embodies are to be more than just a passing episode in history.
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