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What Ridley fails to recognize is that the theoretical underpinnings of these inventions may be the result of earlier basic research that had no particular intended practical application; that its significance was completely unsuspected when it was conducted.
First, Iran must halt all enrichment of uranium to 20% purity (a level required for research reactors, but only a short step away, in practical terms, from weapons-grade uranium).
Only by adjusting to the international system’s practical constraints can the EU stay the course of economic transformation, remain relevant internationally, and help to contain global warming.
So, to bolster this support, the Private Sector Forum on Migration and Refugees will be holding a Concordia Summit in New York this month to devise new, practical solutions to migration-related challenges.
The US has made a complete U-turn in ideological and practical terms, relying on Keynes and massive debt-financed public demand to rein in further economic decline.
This philosophical position has practical implications.
These countries recognize the practical value of investing in Africa’s development, as well as the moral and political imperative of keeping their promises.
But Russia is simply not as good at copying practical things like laws and economic models as it is at transforming cultural impulses into works of art with a Russian soul.
Its practical borrowings are invariably stillborn, mostly because of the country's ingrained culture of contempt.
In December, 1995, French foreign minister Hervé de Charette announced a "reorientation" of relations with NATO, from which France under General Charles de Gaulle had, for all practical purposes, withdrawn 30 years before.
Worse, for all practical purposes, the promises that have been made have had no impact on global CO2 emissions.
Two practical questions can be asked of any political system: First, what distinguishes the political parties?
So what can be done in practical terms when division leads to stalemate?
Specifically, Insidr brings together consumers who have practical questions about how to deal with a specific company and (mostly) former employees of that company.
As a practical matter, the ECB’s price-stability objective, originally designed to protect the eurozone from Italian-style inflation, has ended up protecting it from German-inspired deflation.
Despite widespread misperceptions about the practical impact of genomic research, the science has hit its stride, and we need to capitalize on this momentum if we are to realize the opportunity of individualized medicine.
There were two sides to his case, one practical, the other philosophical.
Europeans today have latched onto the practical side of Hamilton’s argument – that is, the idea that debt mutualization might be a means to cheaper credit; but they have worked out neither the political institutions, nor the shared public virtue, that Hamilton deemed crucial.
The market economy, despite its practical achievements, seems to him oftentimes to lack a heart and a human face.
For practical reasons, there are a few guidelines – but anyone who wants to do this without following our rules is welcome to do so.
But, with sufficient political will, vision, and creativity – along with some simple, practical policy changes – we may be able to create cities of dreams.
This raises an interesting question: was the downfall of Tudjmanism postponed by the opposition's fear of appearing more radical than was believed to be practical?
Cooperation would also need to comprise much more than mere joint policy development, and should involve the practical pursuit of mutually beneficial, smaller-scale ad hoc projects.
If security cooperation is to be a success, politically sensitive issues should be avoided, with the emphasis squarely on practical measures.
The reasoning is practical, not ideological: private providers are often available in places lacking public facilities.
But Poland, Hungary, and the Czech Republic, the first three postcommunist countries to join NATO, can be useful members only if we implement important practical changes in our own defence systems.
But Nato, while it remains important for practical military cooperation among its members and as strategic reassurance against any major outside threat, inevitably is becoming less central to American as well as European concerns since such major threats are simply not on the horizon.
But the sole practical expression of Zionism nowadays is the Law of Return, which is not a racist law but a moral law.
Retraining refugee doctors is not only a moral exercise; it also makes practical sense.
And, while this paradox is no excuse for complacency in responding to what the United Nations has rightly called a global NCD crisis, it does have practical implications for that response.
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