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For starters, it can counteract and even neutralize the top-down pressure placed on courts and police by the authorities – typically, the executive.
For 53 years, Palestinians have placed their hopes in this principle.
Given the sectoral and occupational distribution of these opportunities, women may be slightly better placed to take advantage of them.
In February, the government released 100, but they were immediately placed under house arrest, leaving the ACJD unsatisfied.
The successful policies placed special emphasis on export orientation, and held firms accountable for the support received.
And Chinese or Indian steelmakers, or companies in other high-emission sectors, are as well placed as their European or US peers to adopt new technologies that reduce the carbon content of their exports (and thus their liability to border carbon taxes).
The national security system established under Dwight D. Eisenhower, designed to prevent such reckless measures, is broken to non-existent, with ever-greater power placed in the hands of the president.
Since May 2019, when the United States placed it on the Entity List, the Department of Commerce has granted Huawei several three-month exemptions in order to prevent undue hardship for the company’s US components suppliers.
It is Africans living in extreme poverty who are best placed to decide if they want to reject assistance based on who the donors are.
This new body has been placed under the interim leadership of Baroness Dido Harding, a politician with no formal public-health training.
Moreover, he must stop pursuing contradictory policies – as he did earlier this year when his administration placed sanctions on Iran’s top diplomat, Mohammad Javad Zarif.
And those who believe that a coalition of non-white minorities is best placed to oppose Trump’s white chauvinism should be wary.
That seemed an abstruse point to some at the time, but the COVID-19 crisis has placed negative rates firmly on the policy agenda in several countries, albeit not yet in the United States.
Last but not least, African firms and countries are well placed to benefit from the Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR), which is being driven by new digital technologies such as the Internet of Things, artificial intelligence, biotechnology, and 3D printing.
These may in time outnumber who are placed above the feelings of indigence.”
The COVID-19 pandemic has placed serious strain on health-care systems worldwide.
This fundamental change has many causes, and cannot be placed at the feet of one man.
Pressure was placed on Brazil to respond to the fires that are decimating the Amazon.
To some extent, this may be inevitable, given the burden of demands and expectations placed on modern states.
After the announcement, it imposed a curfew on residents; evacuated tourists and pilgrims; placed prominent local politicians (who immediately denounced the move) under house arrest; and imposed media and telecoms blackouts.
In fact, sanctions placed on key government officials and their commercial facilitators in the country – combined with those anti-money-laundering measures – have helped to push warring parties toward peace.
These decisions – and Trump’s behavior more generally – quickly eroded the confidence that other countries had previously placed in US leadership and “soft power.”
The nominal federal funds rate was not placed on an upward trajectory until the end of 2016, starting under then-Chair Janet Yellen and rising gradually to 2.4% in December 2018 under her successor, Jerome Powell.
Those countries that have been investing in social protection will be better placed than those that have not.
The state’s democratically elected political leaders were placed under arrest for “preventive” purposes.
Thus, the bond market would signal when the deficit needed to be cut, and the debt-to-GDP ratio placed on a downward trajectory.
The League of Nations placed Lebanon under a French mandate that lasted until 1943, and France maintains close relations with the country.
But biofuel farms that are appropriately placed and fully integrated with other activities in the landscape can be sustained ecologically.
When I was a kid in the 1970s, my mother placed our family savings in a bank and received not only a 6% return, but also a blender.
Having been invaded by its mighty neighbor and witnessed the illegal annexation of Crimea, Ukraine is in no position to have its all-powerful presidency placed in the hands of a political ingénue.
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