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Yet even the best efforts by the International Monetary Fund, the United States, and the European Union to achieve this will be hobbled by investment agreements that they themselves have pressed on Ukraine and many other emerging economies.
The recent frenzy of high-level telephone diplomacy, in which US President Barack Obama pressed European leaders to act to rescue the euro, showed this dynamic to be alive and well.
Russia and China, which claim to oppose the emergence of a nuclear-armed Iran, are now being pressed to support new, tough sanctions to increase the odds it does not happen.
The US and like-minded states pressed for further clarification of the earlier agreement that international laws of armed conflict, including the right of self-defense, apply in cyber space, but China, Russia, and their allies were reluctant to agree.
Oil pressed from rapeseed can be used as diesel fuel, and maize or sugar beets can yield ethanol to replace gasoline.
Critics of the agreement ought to be pressed to explain how more sanctions could achieve better results than they have shown thus far.
They must be pressed to see more than the opportunity for strategic access to energy and other natural resources.
The idea is that when shareowners furiously trade their stock, corporate executives feel pressed to ensure high earnings every quarter, so that the share price does not fall.
Protesters here and around the country pressed for a specific political change – a new institution to combat corruption– and, in principle, they won.
In December 2013, the Chinese government pressed the massive Tianjing dredger into service at Johnson South Reef in the Spratly archipelago, far from the Chinese mainland.
For a half-century, the US, which wrote Japan’s postwar “peace” constitution, has pressed the Japanese to play a greater role in maintaining Asian and global stability.
Meanwhile, the Germans waited for the French prime minister and president, who had both been visiting Russia (France’s ally), to leave St. Petersburg, at which point they rapidly pressed Austria to deliver an ultimatum that they knew the Russians could not accept.
But, when pressed on it, Romney was sufficiently uncomfortable about his position that he wobbled on the issue.
Other than the presence of a few People’s Liberation Army soldiers, you would have been hard pressed to find any visible evidence of the reigning communist regime or its founder, Mao Zedong.
(Chinese authorities even pressed the International Olympic Committee to make such a declaration at the conclusion of the games.)
Already struggling with low gas prices, increased competition, and now falling production Gazprom will be hard pressed to come up with the necessary funds without sacrificing urgent infrastructure projects.
But the terrorist attacks on the US in September 2001 pressed Japan to recognize that it must begin to exercise greater autonomy and independent judgment in formulating and implementing its national security policies.
CAMBRIDGE – In his recent debate with his opponent Hillary Clinton, Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump pressed his claim that US Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen is politically motivated.
When Washington, for domestic reasons, changed its mind and pressed Nato expansion, the Chancellor had no choice but to consent.
But Europe is preoccupied with its own economic problems, which have pressed European leadership to the breaking point.
The troika could then have pressed the flesh with China’s leaders and made an offer that they would have found difficult to refuse – including, for example, sustainable mining technologies to address the environmental costs of extraction, or the development of a certification scheme to help prevent the illegal smuggling of rare earths.
Cameron already has pressed for an “emergency brake” mechanism to slow down decisions on issues that are important to the non-euro countries.
As a result, emerging countries, according to the IMF, have been pressed to carry “a disproportionate burden of demand rebalancing since the crisis.”
Since the 1980’s, governments have been pressed to promote exports to earn foreign exchange and import food.
Moreover, Israel has practically abandoned any hope of receiving agreed gas supplies from Egypt, and has not pressed its demand that Egypt block the passage of sophisticated weapons to Gaza.
But even when pressed, Putin’s Russia will not acknowledge that it opposes Greek-Macedonian rapprochement, let alone apologize for taking active measures to interfere in Greek and Macedonian domestic affairs.
I pressed newly appointed Finance Minister Lou Jiwei on this point, suggesting that China deploy some of its excess foreign-exchange reserves to fund such an effort – the same tactic used to provide a $200 billion start-up injection for the China Investment Corporation, the sovereign wealth fund that he ran for the previous five and a half years.
When pressed about his failing memory, he impatiently responded, “Why am I expected to remember things in a country in which the president does not remember whether he graduated from university?”
These Conservatives also pressed for sharp cuts in government spending that would hurt the poor.
I pressed her on how the White House planned to deal with, for example, Vietnam – a country where children as young as 14 are forced to work 12-hour days, and where there is no right to free speech, no right to protest, no right to strike, and no freedom of association.
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