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As the United Nations prepares to adopt so-called Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) as the post-2015 successor to the MDGs, the high-stakes business of large-scale water infrastructure should be placed front and center.
Plans call for dozens of dams to be placed along their serpentine courses through the mountains of Yunnan.
But it is also true that Chilean President Michelle Bachelet’s government has placed greater emphasis on social indicators than on economic indicators.
Moreover, European leaders have placed these new policies within a coherent longer-term framework that may also include “the issuance of common debt.”
But she confessed that the SEC had many other items on its agenda, and had placed the issue on the back burner – a polite way to say that the SEC, like the heroic students in Tiananmen Square, had surrendered under irresistible pressure.
Given the risks, the widespread proliferation of drones will demand strict regulation of ownership and usage to ensure that terrorist groups or other hostile actors do not obtain this technology – just as guns are regulated in most jurisdictions and stringent checks are placed on nuclear and chemical weapons.
It took an exceedingly long time for Europe’s leaders to realize that all of the trust they had placed in Putin, and the tolerance they showed for his politics of violence and intimidation, has led only to further escalation and expansion of the crisis in Ukraine.
Regarded as an urgent problem until recently, the federal deficit is now being placed on the back burner of American politics.
It is the expression of a contribution to a vision of a unique project and process, and of Denmark's ambition to accomplish a task that has been placed in our hands.
A strong international peacekeeping force, agreed by the UN, and perhaps led by the US or NATO, must be placed between the warring sides, and must be prepared to suffer losses to terrorists in the service of peace.
In Bosnia and Herzegovina, reconstruction programs introduced after floods in 2014 placed a high priority on housing grants for single mothers and channeled redevelopment funds to businesses with large women workforces.
It should be followed by an agreement that all new enrichment and reprocessing activities will be placed exclusively under multinational control, and that all existing such facilities will be converted from national to multinational control.
The older spent fuel that has cooled for about five years is placed in hardened, dry storage casks, and the younger, more radioactive, and hotter spent fuel is cooled in pools of water surrounded by strong containment structures.
Likewise, the police have removed bollards and barriers that the US Embassy had unilaterally placed on the street in front of its complex in New Delhi, creating an obstacle to free circulation on a public road that India had tolerated in a spirit of friendship.
Morell thus placed himself squarely within one of the two principal schools of thought in the policy debate on Syria (a debate that is articulated almost exclusively in geopolitical terms and ignores humanitarian issues).
For example, Obama initially placed the Islamic State in the “good” category, as it undermined Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s rule and Iran’s interests in Syria and Iraq.
But the constraints placed on young women originate from the patriarchal norms that dominate the community and the household.
“Pathological gambling” would be placed in a new super-category of “behavioral addictions,” opening the way for “internet addiction” and many other behaviors to be deemed pathological.
Others, as in Brazil or South Korea, select large companies that are best placed to make profits.
Solar cells and wind turbines require less than 1% of the area of forests to reduce CO2, they become increasingly efficient, and they can often be placed on non-productive land (such as wind turbines at sea and solar panels in deserts).
Smoking Out Big TobaccoBOSTON – Recently, the tobacco industry’s lack of respect for people’s lives, international law, and national sovereignty has been placed under a spotlight.
China has also placed new limits on Chinese corporations’ foreign direct investments, and it is scrutinizing other cross-border transactions.
In a stirring speech at the United Nations last September, Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff placed her country at the forefront of this movement by promoting Brazil’s historic Marco Civil bill.
With the presentation of the Global Strategy, those in favor of moving the European project forward have placed an initiative on the table.
German Foreign Policy Comes of AgeBERLIN – Germany’s reunification, nearly 25 years ago, once again placed at the heart of Europe a large power whose location, economic potential, and, yes, history, raised suspicions of revived hegemonic ambitions.
As such, it is well placed to set the standard for research required to show a drug’s safety and efficacy in patients of Middle Eastern ancestry.
For example, the authorities placed a high priority on a high-speed rail project that has already surpassed several cost estimates and has not yet left the planning stage.
While highly desirable, such changes will materialize only if greater constructive pressure is placed on politicians.
They had fled their homes in Syria, traveled halfway across Turkey, and placed their lives in the hands of a gang of people smugglers promising to get them to Europe.
Artificial intelligence will allow basic network functions to be placed on autopilot, and simple economics will make this a necessity.
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