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Tobin would not have been pleased to see his proposal repurposed in this way.
Nonetheless, the Palestinian public is pleased for now with a leadership that has found the backbone to stand up to pressure from Israel and the US.
Most Israelis were pleased with the new US stance, and most in the Arab world and beyond were incensed.
I am pleased that the UK government has agreed with this view and has committed to full consultation with pension-scheme members and their representatives over the detailed shape of this reform package.
I am pleased to say that the drive now takes less than an hour and the experience was much less dramatic.
Not everyone was pleased with this idea.
I am pleased to report that the government’s propaganda campaign has been a dismal failure.
I am pleased when I swim fast, but I would get no sense of achievement from improving my time if the improvement came out of a bottle.
The Chinese were certainly pleased.
Some in the EU – mainly in France, Germany, and Austria – seem smugly pleased by the prospect of a clash on this issue, believing it will force Turkey to give up its drive for membership.
I was pleased when, in May, a panel tasked by UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon came up with a post-2015 development agenda that included quality education, not just universal access, as one of its recommendations.
Punjab is controlled by India’s governing Bharatiya Janata Party, in alliance with a powerful regional party, the Shiromani Akali Dal, neither of which was pleased by the film’s portrayal of the state they rule.
Moreover, the US is surely pleased that the Honduran president is close to President Donald Trump’s chief of staff, John Kelly, and a stalwart supporter of Kelly’s drug war in Central America.
We were more than pleased with the reception of our report, which spurred an international movement of academics, civil society, and governments to construct and employ metrics that reflected a broader conception of wellbeing.
I am pleased when someone uses my ideas on asymmetric information – though I do appreciate them giving me some credit.
As former leaders from the global North and South, respectively, we are particularly pleased that the SDGs will apply to all UN member states and not just those in the developing world.
China is clearly pleased to see that the United States is now also placing cool calculation of its national interests at the forefront of its foreign policy.
There was no shortage of doubters, but I am pleased to say that my office has now relocated from Nairobi, and for the first time since 1995 a Special Representative of the Secretary-General is based in the Somali capital.
While Iraqis may be pleased to be rid of a murderous regime, they had little time to get accustomed to the notion of being an occupied country.
I am pleased that two initiatives launched in Paris will take us farther down the renewable-energy path.
Russian President Vladimir Putin is probably more than pleased with the country’s transformation.
Finally, I am pleased and honored to be part of a new “knowledge network,” the Sustainable Development Solutions Network, created by Ban to bring together scientists, technologists, businesses, and development specialists from all regions of the world.
For these reasons, I am also pleased that my course will be part of a more general education program of the Sustainable Development Solutions Network, an initiative under the auspices of UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon that I am honored to direct.
Europeans should be pleased – and relieved – that they are no longer America’s first line of defense.
Second, inflows of new workers bring substantial benefits as well as losses: in France, which suffers a shortage of some 6,000 plumbers, there must be plenty of households that would be pleased to find someone qualified to do repair work.
But surely two great and ancient civilizations can find their way to the type of “cordial, frank, courteous, temperate, deferential…” relations that would have pleased Confucius.
Here, writ small, is a mixture not to be shied away from but to be pleased with.
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and his government appear to have overlooked that China covets Indian territory and may thus be pleased that Russia has set a precedent for a powerful country to thumb its nose at international law and seize part of a neighboring country.
It makes little sense that the CCP is so pleased about the struggles of China’s most valuable trading partners.
Those of us who have prospered are now so pleased with our new money and new toys that we explain away poverty and exclusion by saying that the excluded lack an entrepreneurial spirit.
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