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Even UN programs that deal with science-based issues – say, the environment – have not placed knowledge at the core of their operations.
Today, governments across the continent, including in Rwanda, this year’s host country, have placed agriculture at the center of their socioeconomic policies.
Emphasis should also be placed on establishing a new system for governing the global economy and finance, whose creation will be even more difficult if the confrontations of the Cold War are not resolved.
During Obama’s first year in office, his administration placed a high priority on cooperation with China, but Chinese leaders seemed to misread US policy as a sign of weakness.
China’s anxiety about a supposed US containment policy is on the rise again, now that Clinton is insisting that the country’s maritime disputes with its neighbors be placed on the agenda at next year’s East Asia Summit in Manila, which will be attended by Obama, Hu Jintao, and other regional leaders.
They placed “publication bias” about halfway down the scale – but it should have been much lower.
Failing to publish the results of clinical trials is a betrayal of the implicit trust that they have placed in researchers to use their contribution to increase and improve the stock of scientific knowledge.
The burden of creating integrated communities has been placed on a randomly assembled group comprising some of the least connected members of society.
I repeat: if a nation's identity is jeopardized, it is placed in that position primarily from within; it is placed in jeopardy by choice – often the choices expressed at the ballot box – and out of negligence or indolence.
Torn between its two objectives, China placed a higher priority on preserving the Kim family dynasty.
The Debt DilemmaLONDON/WASHINGTON, DC – Greece’s divisive negotiations with the EU have placed debt back at the center of debates about economic growth and stability.
Add to that the recent surge in fast-growing, innovative companies – such as Huawei, Alibaba, and Wanda – and China is well placed to implement Xi’s ambitious vision.
But poor nations could have shifted the “burden” onto rich countries, where, economic logic suggests, it ought to be placed.
It leaked to the London Sunday Times that it had placed nuclear-armed submarines off Iran’s coast.
And post-apartheid South Africa, for all its progress, has not fulfilled the expectations placed on it, and remains unlikely to become the continent’s gendarme.
Financial supervision has been placed at the EU level, rather than being delegated to national authorities.
It also requires the courage to step out of the world of pragmatic power and defend -- non-violently -- truth and justice wherever they are violated, whether or not profitable commercial contracts are placed at risk.
Organizations that have long combined PEPFAR aid with other funds to provide comprehensive reproductive health care to women living with HIV, and to prevent mother-to-child transmission of HIV, will now be placed in an untenable position.
Jimmy Carter may not go down in history as one of the best US presidents, but he did not threaten actions that placed the entire global system at risk.
Energy companies are among the best placed to seize the new business opportunities exactly because the energy sector is the most exposed to the global challenges.
As the PiS accelerates its takeover of the judiciary, many of those who oppose the new law have placed their hopes in the European Union.
By admitting 1.5 million migrants in just two years, Germany has also placed a massive burden on its welfare state, inadvertently encouraged the Brexiteers, and rallied all of Eastern Europe against it.
If the coverage is not complete, one can expect the regulated to complain that they have been placed at a competitive disadvantage.
Between the Bear Stearns crisis and the failure of Lehman Brothers, the United States government could do little to get ahead of the growing problem (though, of course, the government-backed mortgage underwriters Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac were placed under conservatorship in the interim).
The hope that many placed in the UN Charter was soon dashed by the onset of the Cold War.
Of course, wealthier, more stable countries like Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Kuwait, and the UAE are better placed than conflict-torn countries like Yemen, Libya, and Iraq to address the rapidly intensifying water crisis they face.
This is the question India has placed before the world.
And the so-called “three principles on arms exports” have placed absurd limits on what may be sold or supplied abroad, as even flying boats used for sea rescue have been viewed as banned from export.
Like under Reagan, the US is better placed to win the current competition with China – but the risks are sizable.
Nevertheless, much tighter constraints, with serious and enforceable penalties, must be placed on permissible budget positions and their transparency if the euro is to survive.
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