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Europe wants to preserve its universal banking model, with banks that serve a broad range of functions, ranging from taking deposits to making small commercial loans to high-level investment-banking activities.
At the same time, in order to preserve the system’s stability and integrity, these efforts were accompanied by the centralization of fiscal authority and certain oversight powers.
Once masters of the situation, it is said, the zeal of those who promised reform mutated into a zeal to preserve their private wealth and that of their friends.
Many rainforest countries have united in recent years to suggest the establishment of a rainforest conservation fund by the rich countries, to pay impoverished small farmers a small amount of money to preserve the forest.
A well-designed fund would slow or stop deforestation, preserve biodiversity, and reduce emissions of carbon dioxide the burning of cleared forests.
The top priority for the European Central Bank must be to preserve the integrity of the EU banking union, which is under pressure from both Brexit and the crisis gripping Italy’s banks.
In 2009, my colleagues and I identified nine planetary boundaries relating to areas like climate, biodiversity, nitrogen and phosphorus use, and deforestation that, if respected, would enable us to preserve – or, at least avoid disrupting further – Holocene conditions.
Because France is not yet willing to accept a common European state, we need an intermediate stage to preserve and stabilize the eurozone.
Given the neutered debates in Russia, and the Kremlin’s ability to manipulate elections, regime change is the only option left for those who want to preserve the democratic idea in Russia.
The private sector has become a preserve for expatriates, who fill at least 83% of positions.
Similarly, Macron’s vision for Europe seems to reconcile the irreconcilable: his plan is both to preserve member states’ sovereignty and deepen EU integration.
Since Trump scrapped the JCPOA, European leaders have been looking for ways to preserve some of the benefits for Iran, so that it will not restart its nuclear program.
The other way to preserve solidarity is to redefine identity.
They must preserve their legal and operational ability to act swiftly and decisively when necessary.
Conserving and restoring peatlands could significantly reduce global CO2 emissions, which is why, in 2015, the Nordic Council of Ministers announced a commitment to preserve the region’s peatlands.
It is designed to preserve international financial markets, not the stability of emerging economies on the periphery.
Salt had been a strategic commodity for millennia – countries fought wars over salt mines – because it was the only way to preserve meat.
To defend Western freedom, they must preserve Middle Eastern tyranny.”
China thus needs to preserve the value of its savings.
Yes, it sounds naive, but no one has to look back to see the naiveté of the belief that great-power politics will preserve peace and ensure humanity’s survival.
Northern Irish Protestants, who are the more numerous, want to preserve union with Britain.
But, in order to preserve investors’ confidence, some eurozone countries must strike a difficult balance between austerity and overkill, which would have been facilitated had the European Council issued a clear statement that letting automatic stabilizers work, while remaining on track with structural budget targets, fully complies with European Union obligations.
After all, to improve their health and preserve their environment, people need access to information about birth-control methods, modern farming and cooking practices, and much else.
Consider the Internet, a network of connected nodes invented in the 1960’s, at the height of the Cold War, to preserve the United States from total chaos after a nuclear attack on its nerve centers.
While Iran’s leadership continues to repress liberal dissenters, it feels secure enough to talk of “reconciliation” with parts of the “loyal” opposition – Ahmadinejad’s conservative and reform-oriented adversaries who want to preserve the Islamic system as such.
Corruption corrodes the possibility of making a living through the law, which becomes a preserve of the rich.
That concealment, however, is designed to preserve this beauty forever.
Perhaps this analogy should also be applied even more generally, in the hope that, behind some of the unsightly features of today's world, seeds of an endeavor to save, preserve and creatively develop the values offered to us by the history of nature and the human race can be found.
By contrast, the twenty-first century will be informed by the realization that the global ecosystem and its resources, which are indispensable for human survival, are finite, and that this implies an enduring responsibility to preserve what we have.
A written code – emphasizing the commercial benefits of ethical business conduct, and the negative consequences of falling short – is part of that effort and may help preserve and strengthen a culture; but a code alone is not enough.
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