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The 1999 pact has been revisited periodically, though since the most recent edition in 2014, most rich countries have taken a long pause, still leaving them with extremely high gold reserves.
His follow-up gave me pause.
At the least, prudence should give the reformer pause.
Similarly, long-term foreign investors have had reason to pause.
This year, there is another reason why Europe has pressed the pause button for August.
When nothing is moving in the right direction, the most appropriate step might be to press the pause button.
Today’s policymakers, so eager to draw a bold line under expansionary measures, should pause and consider the same question.
In deeply Catholic Poland this should be a disadvantage, but the recent vote gives reason to pause.
As there now seems to be a pause in the spate of suicide bombings and other terrorist acts--if only momentary--perhaps now is a moment to grapple with a fundamental question: What makes terrorist killings any more worthy of condemnation than other forms of murder?
The fact that NATO now considers its area of operations to legitimately extend all the way to the Hindu Kush has given pause even to many who once believed as fervently in humanitarian intervention as Blair still does.
Will we press the pause button on further discussion of how to integrate Russia fully into the international community?
The rest of the world should hope this will prove to be a pause rather than an end to progress on international tax cooperation, which began 13 years ago, at the first International Conference on Financing for Development in Monterrey, Mexico.
Statistics like these should give us pause: Are cities really the best way to organize human life?
How Press Freedom Is WonACCRA – Every year on May 3 – World Press Freedom Day – news producers and consumers pause to reflect on the state of global media.
But would a growth mandate give the BoE greater pause before raising rates when growth is anemic?
Such hyperbole, and the surging U.S. stock market based on these super-bullish views, should immediately give us pause.
The pause in the rise of surface temperatures is real.
The intensive scientific search for an explanation for the pause in global warming at the earth’s surface has led to a better understanding of the complex functioning of the climate.
Nobody knows how long the current pause will last.
In the meantime, whether the overall risk to our environment has been reduced by the pause remains an open question.
In fact, it is this characteristic of the Chinese system that should give other countries the greatest pause.
“I think, however, that those like Piketty who dismiss the idea that productivity has anything to do with compensation should be given a little pause.”
After a weather-related pause in the first quarter of 2014, GDP continued to grow at an annual rate of more than 4%.
Still, the booming US economy should at least give pause to those who favor the narrowly economic interpretation of the current wave of populism.
Voters vs. the Welfare StateSTANFORD – Canada’s Prime Minister Stephen Harper, by winning an outright majority of seats in his country’s parliament for the first time since assuming office, continues a remarkable series of national election victories, backed by voters demanding at least a pause, and perhaps some reversal, of the growth of the welfare state.
In the shorter term, the US and South Korea should offer to pause the deployment of America’s Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) system in South Korea, if China adopts and enforces additional sanctions on the North.
The 4D VAR algorithm will use the recently observed increase in Antarctic sea ice and the pause in global warming to improve the models further.
With a democratic government, highly educated workforce, vast natural resources, and increasing political stability (though the sacking of General Lebed gives one pause here), it should.
Assad ended up using the shock caused by his chemical-weapons attack as a bargaining chip in a disarmament deal – still to be executed and verified – that bought him a valuable pause in the efforts to topple him, if not salvation.
A Kafkaesque pause, some might say.
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