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In Central America, they continuously fragment into ever smaller units that fight for insignificant positions of authority and irrelevant representation.
Given that the two countries’ are in different cyclical positions, such exchange-rate movements signal that the international economic system is working properly.
Of course, this has characterized EU positions in the past as well--most glaringly in Bosnia and Kosovo.
Likewise, those who in other circumstances might see activist investors as natural adversaries can agree with the positions that they take, such as concerns about executive compensation or corporate social responsibility.
That is why I offer a program that addresses such key issues as the effective representation of women in government, the need to urgently address environmental problems, to strengthen rule of law, transparency, and accountability, and to move toward universal suffrage in the election of top executive positions.
If both countries have balanced current accounts, their balance-of-payments positions can be sustainable.
The sovereign-debt crisis started with weak fiscal positions and doubts about the sustainability of public debts, combined with structural deficits that led to a loss in competitiveness.
But both men, on finding themselves in positions of authority, ruled from their default positions: Bush as an evangelical convinced that God was on America’s side, and Putin as a KGB graduate convinced that all power comes from intimidation and threats.
The large number of EU countries in the G-20 serves little purpose in the absence of systematic coordination of member states and Commission positions.
Far from shaping the contours of a new balanced structure of global governance, the EU has been reduced to taking a series of rearguard positions aimed at tempering its own loss of stature.
Ending Sexual Harassment and Abuse at the UNGENEVA – Around the world, brave women (and some men) have been breaking the silence surrounding sexual harassment and abuse committed by those in positions of power.
Both positions are firmly held and can be buttressed by arguments that are valid from the point of view of the country concerned.
The remaining large state-owned banks and enterprises then became profitable, thanks largely to their monopolistic positions, which allowed them to be listed on the Hong Kong, Shanghai, and Shenzhen stock exchanges.
Europe, for its part, is constrained by excessive public debt and weak fiscal positions.
European regulators have already decided to tighten conditions for authorizing genetically modified organisms, as if to show US trade negotiators that they will not move easily from cherished positions.
(The YPG has only returned fire against Turkish positions that have shelled us.)
Such policy positions, and others, explain why in 2010 Canada suffered a major diplomatic defeat, when its bid for a seat on the UN Security Council failed, shocking the country’s foreign-policy establishment.
In terms of security and defense policy, the Trudeau administration’s positions are more opaque.
During his term, from 2004 to 2014, Karzai exchanged the most senior positions in the national government, as well as provincial governments, for political support, and often granted impunity to corrupt officials.
Even in that case, however, naming those who misbehave to important positions of high trust and acclaiming them as bipartisan statesmen gives the next generation really lousy incentives.
And strong reserve positions and relatively conservative macroeconomic policies have enabled most major producers to weather enormous fiscal stress so far, without falling into crisis.
While nepotism is rampant in Russia, the concentration of such a tiny group of wealthy individuals in top positions is striking.
But with fewer and fewer career paths to top positions, resentment among a generation of young, able, and ambitious Russians will only continue to fester.
Paradoxes abound, as the United States’s traditional Middle East allies (Saudi Arabia, Israel, Turkey, Egypt, and the Gulf states) have taken opposing – and sometimes seemingly contradictory – positions on the region’s key conflicts.
His cabinet, in terms of its members’ positions on economic reform and international relations, is one that few observers believed he would be capable of assembling.
Parfit’s entirely secular arguments, and the comprehensive way in which he tackles alternative positions, have, for the first time in decades, put those who reject objectivism in ethics on the defensive.
According to the CCP Charter, all of those positions (save the leadership of the Military Commission) should be determined by the votes of members of the 16th Central Committee.
By presenting voters with more candidates than positions, Deng Liqun, a member of the ultra-left Old Guard, was denied a seat.
There are also hints that a reshuffling of important positions within the Party will take place, allowing the presumed heir to form a new power base.
This involves the ability to size up group politics and understand the positions and strengths of various stakeholders in order to decide when and how to use transactional and inspirational skills.
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