Positions
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The weakening political
positions
of the leaders complicates matters even more.
Mutually unacceptable
positions
are also voiced on both sides on the Jerusalem issue.
A regional effort led by Brazil and Chile is promoting dialogue among CELAC countries to build trust, with the goal of identifying common
positions
for the UN climate negotiations.
Over the same period, in the high-income economies, 62% of incumbents managed to hold onto their
positions.
These
positions
reflect the degree to which official flows are still substituting for private flows.
But as in any other debate, once extreme
positions
dominate, the real problems are trivialized and marginalized.
For example, they occupy nearly half of the top 20
positions
in the United Nations Human Development Index.
While the Russian army seems not to have engaged in any active measures since reaching its current positions, it pointedly remains within a half-hour of Tbilisi.
Even Israelis who do not agree with Netanyahu’s hard-line
positions
didn’t like to see their prime minister treated by the US as if he were the leader of Upper Volta.
There may be some losses from electing women because they tend to have less political experience than men, but the record in India suggests that if it took 20 years to establish a 30% share of women in local
positions
in other countries, the benefits would be at least double the costs of achieving this.
And, given their historical dominance of these organizations, their nationals are de facto assured the top
positions.
Nearly all of the Caribbean, Central America, and some Gulf ports in the United States depend on Venezuelan low-sulfur crude oil for their power plants, refineries, and balance-of-payments
positions.
We need more women volunteering at the community level, and we need more women in senior
positions
as disaster managers.
Though it was hardly his intention, the lasting consequence of Snowden’s leak may be to put some of the hundreds of thousands of other contractors in
positions
like his out of a job.
Without cooperation from allies such as Japan, South Korea, Singapore, and the Philippines, the US could not retain its forward military
positions
in the West Pacific.
They would depend mainly on how the RUK, the EU, and NATO decided to respond to a Yes vote, and how moderate a newly independent Scotland would be in its negotiating
positions.
When some of the more reasonable members of the Bush administration are asked today how they could have taken the
positions
that they did in 2002, they cite the anthrax attacks that followed 9/11, the intelligence reports of an impending attack with nuclear materials, and widespread public fear of a second attack.
But Fillon’s candidacy is now in doubt, following allegations that he employed his wife and children in fictitious
positions
while serving in the National Assembly.
To take just one example, the United States’ federal government accounts for just 537 of the country’s roughly 500,000 elected
positions.
Globalization hurt lower-skill workers in places like the United States, as it enabled people from faraway countries to compete for the leg-and-finger
positions
in the global division of labor.
What this shows is that, in dealing with ASEAN, China gets to negotiate twice – first, through its closest allies within ASEAN in the formulation of common ASEAN positions, and then directly with an ASEAN team that could include one of its allies.
After all, a ceasefire is not a peace agreement; it would, for the time being, leave regime and opposition forces in their respective
positions.
Recently, the Trump administration has begun to moderate some of its foreign-policy
positions.
In June 2000, three months before the current intifada began, 21% of all Palestinians with jobs worked in Israel, mainly in low-skilled
positions
in construction.
With tougher economic times inevitably come tougher
positions
toward foreign competition and outsourcing.
A regional presence corrupting local politicians, it soon expanded its territory and gained control of key
positions
in municipal and state security institutions.
That withdrawal was based on the conviction that the gaps between the Israeli and Palestinian
positions
are too wide to enable meaningful negotiations.
The answer, of course, is that life is more complicated than the contrasting
positions
of globalization as panacea or curse.
As a result, stimulus was rapidly withdrawn in an effort to consolidate weakened fiscal positions, bringing the nascent recovery to an abrupt end.
It is no secret that the US and Europe, combined, spend more than $250 billion of public funds annually on R&D to maintain their leading
positions.
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