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After all, a fragile Turkey makes for a more vulnerable West – and an even more vulnerable Middle East, which desperately needs
pillars
of stability.
-- the traditional
pillars
of morality cannot do their job alone and must be supported by strict laws.
Some issues are non-negotiable, because they are
pillars
of the European model that we seek to share with the world.
The three countries that served as
pillars
of regional stability for the past several years – Nigeria, Kenya, and South Africa – are now too pre-occupied with political troubles of their own to provide the peacekeepers, reconstruction funds, and political pressure that often limit the damage from conflicts elsewhere in the region.
No countries in sub-Saharan Africa will have the economic heft and political self-confidence to replace Nigeria, Kenya, and South Africa as
pillars
of stability anytime soon.
The resurrection of Shinzo Abe and Japan’s Liberal Democratic Party –
pillars
of the political system that has left the Japanese economy mired in two lost decades and counting – is just the latest case in point.
Building independent, non-partisan regulatory bodies was one of the key
pillars
of the 2001-2002 reform program.
Still, the Arab Spring revolutions did fundamentally undermine the
pillars
of the old regional system with which the Kingdom was so comfortable.
One or more of these
pillars
of complacency will, I suspect, crumble in 2018.
She recognized that peace, strong governance, and growth would be the
pillars
of her country’s future.
Multilateral institutions that served as
pillars
of German foreign policy for almost half-a-century have been weakened: the European Union's hopes for common foreign, security, and defense policies have been gravely jeopardized.
Such a grand strategy would have four key pillars: (1) providing security for the US and its allies; (2) maintaining a strong domestic and international economy; (3) avoiding environmental disasters (such as pandemics and global flooding); and (4) encouraging liberal democracy and human rights at home and, where feasible,abroad where feasible.
Most share a preference for socializing risk and an aversion to inequality – the
pillars
of the “European social model.”
To assess the risks and options for China and the world, one must understand China’s “Made in the World” production system, which rests on four distinct but mutually dependent
pillars.
The first of these pillars, the China-based “world factory,” was largely created by foreign multinational corporations and their associated suppliers and subcontractors, with labor-intensive processing and assembly carried out by small and medium-size enterprises (SMEs) that have direct access to global markets through a complex web of contracts.
With the onset of the current global crisis, and given dramatic changes in social media, demographics, urbanization, and resource constraints, all four
pillars
are now under stress.
Last but not least, the three
pillars
could not have remained standing without the anchor provided by the fourth.
There is general recognition and consensus that the path of reform requires profound re-engineering of all four
pillars.
The real challenge for Chinese officials is how to balance creativity and institutional innovation with order, thereby ensuring the integrity of all four of its economy’s
pillars.
The WBG report points to four foundational
pillars
of development financing: domestic resource mobilization; better and smarter aid; domestic private finance; and external private finance.
In the long term, the liberal global order will endure only if supported by both
pillars
of the transatlantic partnership.
To meet this challenge, we have designed an economic strategy that rests on three pillars: Europe, fiscal consolidation, and competitiveness.
To defend post-utopian values in the longer-term, politicians (and generals and spymasters) cannot seek security by drastically curtailing fundamental freedoms, because to do so risks forfeiting public support and a weakening of the
pillars
of the post-utopian market order.
Humanitarian relief must stand alongside economic development and good governance as the
pillars
of Africa’s drive to achieve its true potential.
NATO is often described as a construction with two
pillars
and an architrave symbolizing the common values that form the basis of the alliance.
I hope to see Korea assume more responsibility in the world, commensurate with its growing economic clout – especially in the area of development, one of the three
pillars
of the UN Charter.
Indeed, the rules have changed, and Israel cannot say that it was not warned that this is an era in which international law and universal justice are being forcefully promoted as
pillars
of an improved world order.
The Ghost of AppeasementPRAGUE – One of the fundamental
pillars
of Europe’s political architecture is a strong and enduring belief in the universal validity of equal, universal, and inalienable human rights.
And there was the response of Simone Veil: no collective culpability, German as the language not only of Nazism but also of anti-Nazism, and a belief that Europe is possible, with France and Germany, both mourning their ghosts, as its
pillars.
The resolution’s “three pillars” asserted, first, the responsibility of a state to its own people not to commit or permit such mass atrocity crimes; second, the responsibility of other states to assist them; and, third, the responsibility of others to respond with “timely and decisive action” (including coercive military force, authorized by the UN Security Council) if a state is “manifestly failing” to protect its people.
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