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As a rising, rapidly modernizing power, China – already a permanent member of the UN Security Council – is now on the verge of coveted G8 membership and a powerful role in the World Trade Organization.
Given this, oil producers would be well advised to treat recent oil-price gains as a temporary windfall, not a permanent state of affairs or even – unless there is a notable geopolitical shock – a trend that is likely to intensify in the year ahead.
Why did this switch occur and is it permanent?
Even with sanctions in place, the frozen conflict in Ukraine looks increasingly permanent.
But, as a world leader of one of the United Nations’ five permanent Security Council members, he is failing to mind his international responsibilities, and historians will judge him accordingly.
Now that she is a permanent US resident, the Dutch government no longer wants to pay for her protection.
He also noted that countries like Germany and Japan that aspire to permanent UN Security Council membership have a particular responsibility of global stewardship in reaching the target.
Foreigners with less developed skills, on the other hand, must work diligently for several years to obtain permanent residency.
It would be impractical and socially undesirable to depend on labor mobility to help overcome temporary shocks, and an independent monetary policy can do little to address the permanent shocks that labor mobility can ameliorate.
The late effects of cancer treatment include permanent organ and tissue damage, hormonal and reproductive dysfunction, and second cancers.
Left unchanged, this persistent poverty threatens to become a permanent drag on European prosperity, which would be a tragedy for Roma and non-Roma alike.
By blurring the borders between Israel and the Palestinian territories, Israel has created the conditions for permanent civil war.
Although their supporters wanted to make them permanent, claiming that they were temporary allowed for the circumvention of procedural requirements in the legislative process that Democrats had created in a vain effort to guarantee fiscal sanity.
The Trials of ManThis week, the United Nations began discussions on creating a permanent "War Crimes" tribunal.
This permanent diet of paranoia has created something akin to a nationwide insane asylum, where ignorance, terror, and suspicion rule.
As impressive as Europe’s history has been since the Treaty of Rome established the European Economic Community in 1957, by no means should it be assumed that the EU has become permanent.
Significantly, France has proposed that all five permanent members of the Security Council renounce use of the veto in cases of alleged mass atrocities.
But, given that Mali lacks political parties with popular support, candidates who command respect, and a permanent polling-station system, an election held so soon would probably bring an international civil servant to power – an outcome that could reignite internal conflicts.
Britain boasts a world-class and readily deployable military, permanent membership of the United Nations Security Council, a nuclear deterrent, and a robust relationship with the United States.
Without these five components, any immigration proposal will not cut back on the number of deaths among those seeking to cross the border, or the existence of an abused underclass, or the persistence of temporary and legal employment that becomes permanent and illegal employment.
It would be in the long-term interest of the permanent members to do so.
When Japan’s government tried to become a permanent member of the UN Security Council, few African countries backed its bid, despite receiving economic aid for decades.
Should ISIS succeed in establishing a permanent state-like entity in parts of Iraq and Syria, the disintegration of the region would accelerate, the US would lose its “global war on terror,” and world peace would be seriously threatened.
The migrants from North Africa who have reached the shores of Italy fled war in Iraq and Syria, forced conscription in Eritrea, permanent conflict in Afghanistan, and criminal violence in other parts of Africa.
Their shared premise is correct: complacency about the euro crisis is misguided, the fixes adopted so far do not go far enough to ensure lasting stability, and the current respite should be used to design the bloc’s permanent architecture.
Americans in Riyadh are repeatedly asked whether Obama’s approach represents an exception or a permanent feature of US policy toward the Gulf.
Last September, the court allowed the German government to sign the Treaty Establishing the European Stability Mechanism (ESM), the eurozone’s permanent intergovernmental rescue facility.
Nothing comes easy in this world: if the Union cannot manage a multicultural society in Europe, then it ought to prepare itself for permanent stagnation.
However, although about 15 Battlegroups have been created – two of which are, at any time, on permanent call for six months – none has actually been deployed since the Artemis “prototype” mission to the Democratic Republic of Congo in 2003.
A decade on, it bears mentioning that many “global cities” like London, New York, Sydney, and Hong Kong now have home prices that only a very small minority of their permanent residents can afford, owing to the growing demand from wealthy investors abroad.
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