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Just Say No to BushFor three years, America's president has pursued a unilateralist agenda, ignoring all evidence that contradicts his positions, and putting aside basic and longstanding American principles.
Starting positions are unequal and incentive structures are imperfect.
Iran’s leadership will be extremely reluctant to withdraw from the forward positions the country has gained across the Middle East over the past decade, beachheads which regime hardliners regard as crucial national-security and foreign-policy assets.
And he has argued that, when it comes to filling top EU positions, skills and experience should outweigh the candidates’ name recognition.
Rogozin very clearly articulates his positions on these issues, which are in variance with official policy - at least the one presented to the public.
At the same time, many key positions in the US diplomatic apparatus remain unfilled.
As for climate change, the positions of the emerging economies were until mid-2009 negative or defensive.
People in senior leadership positions, it was believed, face higher risks of coronary disease because of the demands of their jobs.
This results in high turnover owing to overwork, and an increased need for foreign health-care workers to fill sorely needed positions.
When the fighting ends, these positions will only become more entrenched.
At-home positions, frequently filled by women, are also on the rise.
Most eurozone members’ fiscal positions have undergone considerable, though often unnoticed, improvement in recent years – so much so that the eurozone-wide fiscal deficit is now less than 3% of GDP, much better than the US or the UK.
In all of these countries, the debate tends to boil down to three basic positions.
To succeed, he needs to demonstrate respect for reasonable opposing viewpoints and tone down his more extreme positions to broaden his popular support.
With the emerging powers largely trying to adapt their strategic positions to their national aspirations and interests, they are unwilling or unable to articulate the ideas and binding rules that should underpin a new international order.
The wording may sound vague, but, given the positions the countries held at the outset, the outcome was an important achievement.
Forty-one of the 43 victorious Hamas candidates who lived in the West Bank are now imprisoned by Israel, plus an additional ten who assumed positions in the short-lived coalition cabinet.
As China’s incursions reignite long-smoldering disagreements and threaten to destabilize the regional status quo, countries throughout Asia are reconsidering their strategic positions.
So far, they have largely relied on economic and commercial mechanisms – especially rival port and pipeline projects – to secure their positions.
Indeed, the Trump administration’s “America First” positions have increasingly translated into “America Alone.”
But Iran’s youth will likely overlook Rouhani’s economic-policy shortcomings, and vote for him again, because they prefer his more relaxed social-policy positions to his conservative rival's stern moralizing.
The last thing they want is mass unemployment and urban unrest to call their positions into question.
PSDB-allied diplomats and former senior officials strongly have opposed the PT’s support for Latin America’s authoritarian regimes (particularly in Cuba and Venezuela), its futile insistence on a permanent seat on the United Nations Security Council, and its excessive embrace of non-aligned, anti-imperialist positions.
It also means that people who otherwise might consume news in moderation are being inundated with political polemic and debate, including extreme positions and falsehoods, which heighten the risk of misinforming or polarizing wider swaths of the public.
In this context, the EU’s top priority should be to unify the positions of its member states, with the goal of overcoming the barriers erected by the US and creating shared systems for constraining China.
Russia’s crony capitalism has bred a small class of incredibly wealthy individuals, whose children are given top state positions by the time they turn 30.
The EU already possesses ample resources to make an impact on the world stage:Where Europe has adopted a common policy – such as on Iran – it has succeeded in persuading others, including the US, to change long-held positions.
Until now, Australian politics has upheld a long and civilized tradition of support across party lines for those seen as being credible candidates for international positions.
Moreover, during the Great Recession, office and administrative jobs declined by 8%, production and craft jobs fell by 17%, and the number of positions for machine operators, fabricators, and laborers dropped by 15%.
These include highly paid positions like managers and technicians, as well as relatively low-paid jobs in protective and personal services, food preparation, and cleaning, but few “middle-skill” occupations.
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