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Visit any major city in an emerging economy, from Mexico City to Mumbai, and you will be hard pressed to find anyone who believes that the water piped into their homes is fit to drink.
Lula survived those scandals and did not move to amend the constitution in order to seek a third term, though some in Brazil pressed him to do so.
But, as the rich have successfully pressed for tax cuts and reductions in government spending, children from poor and working-class households are far less likely to receive a high-quality education, and the US government has failed to provide for training or adequate infrastructure.
Concerns over North Korea’s many human-rights violations would not be pressed at this time, although the country’s leaders would understand that there could be no normalization of relations (or end of sanctions) so long as repression remained the norm.
The Roadmap to Peace can work only if both sides are pressed to a real compromise, whose outline is clear: Israel's return to something like its pre-1967 borders; financial compensation of Palestinians for losses of land in Israel, rather than a right to return; and Jerusalem as a shared capital.
With so many more old people in coming decades, governments will be hard pressed to raise enough money to pay for their needs by taxing the young.
For example, Russia pressed the regime to join the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) in 1985.
It has pressed for multinational nuclear fuel facilities that would eliminate the need for national installations that draw proliferation concerns.
Following the launch of the ITA, America pressed APEC’s members for accelerated liberalization on a sectoral basis as a means to revive a stalled regional trade agenda.
Two years ago, we pressed Western countries to start requiring rapid diagnostic tests as a prerequisite for all antibiotic prescriptions by 2020.
Incredibly, neither Blix nor al-Baradei pressed for any interviews with scientists outside Iraq, although they are fully aware that this is the only safe way to conduct effective inquiries.
Finally, America has an opportunity to launch a new beginning, not only with Cuba but also with the Caribbean and Latin American countries that have pressed us hard and often to change our stance.
The EU acts only when it is pressed to the wall.
These apparent acts of mercy were presented as the wise acts of a benevolent modern czar ruling in the name of traditional values and repulsed by Western decadence – never mind that it was Western governments that had pressed most persistently for their release.
I do not know how much Alex Salmond, the now-resigned Scottish Nationalist Party leader who pressed for the referendum, is responsible for the surge in his own party’s support; but I suspect that he may, alas, have galvanized all too much nationalist sentiment in England.
But, when communism collapsed in its Eurasian heartland, the West’s rich, believing that they had nothing more to fear, pressed to roll back the welfare state, causing inequality to rise rapidly.
On environmental policy, Obama has pressed not for a carbon tax, but for a cap-and-trade system that, for the first generation, pays the polluter.
Two decades ago, the US pressed the Japanese to allow the yen to strengthen against the dollar, claiming that Japan’s unfair exchange-rate policies were responsible for America’s ballooning bilateral trade deficit.
It has pressed ASEAN to establish a trade zone that would include China but exclude the US and Japan.
When the dispute over Mischief Reef erupted, Chinese officials failed to clarify the meaning of the nine-dashed line, but, when pressed, they agreed that the dashes demarcated areas where China had sovereign claims.
It was presumably in response to this impasse that China pressed ahead with establishing the AIIB.
Debt, Dictatorship, and DemocratizationNEW YORK – After Saddam Hussein’s fall, the United States successfully pressed creditors to write off much of Iraq’s external debt.
Otherwise, history will continue to be politicized and pressed into the service of nationalist agendas, rather than showing the way to a more peaceful future for all.
The inquiry is thus focused on the fact that Trump withheld $391 million in congressionally mandated military aid to Ukraine and held out the prospect of a White House meeting greatly desired by that country’s new president, Volodymyr Zelensky, while he and his accomplices pressed for political favors to help in the 2020 US election.
He pressed for policies reflecting his understanding that people didn’t want to be secluded in their homes; that parents wanted their kids back in school; that small businesses wanted to reopen; and that a lot of people don’t want to be ordered to wear a mask.
These donations included a large one to a Republican congressman whom they successfully pressed to demand the dismissal of the US ambassador to Ukraine, Marie Yovanovitch, who had been pursuing an anti-corruption agenda.
Brilliant ideas that would be catastrophic in the hands of buccaneering privateers should be pressed into public service.
Moreover, Macron has so far pressed ahead, despite the protests, with the reforms he promised during his campaign.
And in the United Kingdom, the Bank of England (BOE) has pressed for a temporary moratorium on dividends and buybacks.
Partial historical knowledge pressed into the service of national myths – the Reformation or the 1992 Exchange Rate Mechanism crisis as a model for Brexit; the Battle of Poltava for contemporary Russia – causes confusion, sows discord, and inflicts harm.
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