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Of course, ESDP security missions, even those in accordance with Security Council resolutions, may not operate within the UN system – the EU prefers its own independent leadership.
But is PGD ethically sound if an infertile couple merely prefers a boy or a girl?
But this slogan is from the 1920’s and seems like a nostalgic reminder of past turmoil that one prefers to see on the stage.
But now that British Prime Minister Theresa May has implied that she prefers a “hard” Brexit, a gloomy long-term prognosis is probably correct.
In what other part of the Muslim Middle East does one find such a strong belief in a geopolitical order that tends toward peace, not war; favors reconciliation over ancient hatreds; and prefers respect for the other to a war of civilizations?
Gore prefers to maintain the system essentially as it is and to use the budget surplus to eliminate the deficit in the pension system that will open in the second decade of this century, when a wave of baby boomers reaches retirement age.
A similar difference exists in health policy: Bush prefers fiscal relief for taxpayers so that they can buy private medical insurance;Gore prefers public management with more public intervention.
Fatah prefers a system of voting where population size determines the scope of parliamentary representation.
While the West, which much prefers the Kurds to ISIS, welcomes Kurdish gains, Turkey is watching them with anxiety, convinced that they prefigure a bid for Kurdish independence.
Russia has vast untapped oil reserves of its own, and prefers investment in them.
More specifically, the law suggests a specific interest-rate rule (the Reference Policy Rule) while giving the Fed the opportunity to adopt a different rule if it explains to Congress why it prefers the alternative.
The American character prefers displacement to destruction, the win-win to the zero-sum.
The Fed prefers to measure inflation by the price index for personal consumption expenditure.
The new generation, it seems, prefers new models of verbal exchange, not as enchanting as in the past, but perfectly suited to the simple communications required in today's simplified world.
The Fed prefers to watch core “private consumption expenditure” inflation, which stands at a more subdued 1.7%.
To stabilize the euro's rate at this stage would be equivalent to a European Central Bank's announcement that it prefers stabilizing the euro at a higher value to avoiding recession.
This is partly why Israel prefers the United States as sole mediator, and it is also why Israel’s acceptance of a monopoly role for the US evaporates as soon as any American president starts developing views different from its own.
America, at least in theory, prefers that other countries share its values and act like Americans.
The problem is that the Chinese bureaucracy prefers stability, and it has strong incentives to strengthen its own position relative to the market, thereby exacerbating power inequalities and dampening innovation and growth.
Broader concerns about reform - civil law, women's rights, and the role of religion in society - remain issues that the Syrian Street prefers to avoid.
Like many new members, Britain prefers a loosely connected Europe of different nations – essentially a free-trade zone, but with open borders at its periphery – with sufficient strategic coordination to constitute a quasi-empire in geopolitical terms, on a par with the United States.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel gives speeches at security conferences that find favor in America, but otherwise Germany prefers to stay in the background.
There are only three options left for Ukraine: sign the agreement with the EU, as the majority of Ukrainians want; join Putin’s EurAsEC, as the endangered political elite prefers; or go bankrupt.
The IMF also prefers CFMs to be temporary.
Trump prefers hype to the hard work of hammering out arms-control agreements, so controlling his craving for the spotlight will not be easy.
This approach should favor China’s global strategy, which is premised upon Xi’s desire to build a new type of “major power” relationship between China and the US (the Chinese government prefers “major power” to “great power,” probably in order to highlight its stated renunciation of hegemonic ambition).
He prefers acting with other countries to going it alone.
China prefers an imperfect status quo to such alternatives.
In this instance, Mexico prefers multilateralism to unilateralism, and peaceful disarmament over military might, because Mexico's interests diverge from those of the US.
Given this, it is understandable that France prefers fiscal to political unification.
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