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Pakistan let the US use its air bases to launch drone attacks on Taliban fighters in Afghanistan and northwestern Pakistan; allowed its territory to be used as a supply route for NATO forces in landlocked Afghanistan; and, less enthusiastically than the US wished, launched military operations against Taliban sanctuaries on the Pakistani side of the porous border with Afghanistan.
Sharing a mountainous - and porous - border with Afghanistan, this region includes many Taliban sympathizers among their fellow Pashtuns.
By backing right-wing populists, older voters hope to return to a time when domestic affairs were insulated from global forces and national borders were less porous.
These include legal impediments to labor mobility, reform of a complex tax system beset by excessive rates and porous loopholes, and substandard road infrastructure.
The supporters of ITER explain that if the walls are porous, the bubbles can escape.
But nothing can be both leak-proof and porous, and ITER is not designed to study this contradiction.
This might work, but the first wall of the blanket will need to be not only leak-proof and porous, but also sufficiently permeable to neutrons, which have to hit the lithium atoms beyond it.
The decision was likely driven, at least partly, by how difficult it is, given the EU’s porous internal borders, to determine where a refugee first entered.
And while those internal checkpoints are being reinforced, the actual border with Sunni-dominated parts of Syria is becoming more porous by the day.
Nomadic populations move freely back and forth across the vast and porous Afghanistan-Pakistan border.
These two systems operate side by side, but the border that separates them has gradually become more porous, and the open breaches in it have become ever greater.
The threat that this would represent is not abstract: the Kingdom’s borders are very porous.
In fact, thousands of migrants cross Asia’s numerous and porous frontiers each year with the help of expensive brokers who secure their passage.
But both lines are porous, at best, given the harsh realities of Greece’s economic circumstances.
Much of the risk could be managed by erecting seawalls, building storm doors for the Subway, and simple fixes like porous pavements – all at a cost of around $100 million a year.Learn MoreSandy underscored a fundamental question for all parts of the world that are affected by hurricanes.
Much of the risk could be managed by erecting seawalls, building storm doors for the Subway, and simple fixes like porous pavements – all at a cost of around $100 million a year.
Tunisia is relatively homogeneous ethnically and lacks sharp sectarian divisions; nonetheless, owing partly to its porous borders with Algeria and Libya, the specter of violence is always present.
The Iran-Iraq border – like many borders in the region – is long and porous.
Otherwise, the region seems destined to become a porous economic and political space buffeted by uncertainty and instability.
bombers from all over the Arab world crossed into the country through the porous Syrian and Jordanian borders.
Jerusalem would have to be divided, with UN administration of holy sites, and an agreement would be needed to police the porous frontier with Jordan.
In the US, especially, the borderlines between showbiz and politics (or indeed religion) have always been porous.
Two factors seem significant: first, relatively porous economic, political and educational arenas that allow immigrants entry to these key areas of American life.
Europe, however, demands greater assimilation and offers a less porous economy and politics.
As borders become more porous to everything from illicit drugs to infectious diseases to terrorism, the largest economies will have to cooperate to cope with these threats.
First, thanks to an effective – albeit porous – capital-control regime in China, short-term “hot money” (capital coming into China aimed at arbitrage, rent-seeking, and speculation) could not enter (and then leave) freely and swiftly.
This disconnect largely reflects a porous social safety net that continues to foster high levels of fear-driven precautionary saving, which is inhibiting the growth of discretionary consumption.
In a world where borders are more porous than ever to everything from drugs to infectious diseases to terrorism, America must help build international coalitions and institutions to address shared threats and challenges.
But, given China’s porous capital controls, short-term capital, aimed at exchange-rate arbitrage, continued to flow into the country.
They trade globally, across porous borders, attaching little significance to the geographical location of capital and liquidity.
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