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The financial problems are pressing – and monopolizing politicians’ attention.
They need to go on the offensive, which means pressing for reforms intended to create a just, equitable, and rules-based international trade order.
Only then will a common approach to pressing issues, such as energy supplies, be possible.
There is no doubt that the most pressing challenge faced by the region is its extraordinarily high levels of criminality.
China also has become more insistent in pressing its territorial claims both to India’s northeastern Arunachal Pradesh state and to the Japanese-controlled Senkaku Islands, with Chinese warships making more frequent forays into Japanese waters.
Of course, when confronting particularly pressing and dangerous foreign-policy challenges, it may be appropriate to set aside human-rights concerns temporarily.
But contributing money also means having a say, and the BRICS – no surprise – are pressing their demand for voting reform in the IMF, and are increasingly offering currency swaps to economically troubled countries.
The sadder thing, though, is that this money would be spent on methane collection from waste dumps in developing nations, instead of on helping those countries’ citizens deal with more pressing concerns like health and education.
If those pressing issues are addressed at the European level, as Merkel suggested in her victory statement, support for Europe could end up winning back the discontented voters who cast their ballots for the AfD.
Then there is the pressing need – in the US and globally – for education and appropriate skill formation.
These long-neglected people will continue pressing governments and international organizations until every person’s fundamental right to education is respected.
But, in a throwback to the mid-twentieth century, Indian parents view engineering as the gateway to modernity, and continue pressing their children to study it.
The recent G7 circus has added to the impression that Western policymakers are incapable of getting a grip on some of the world’s most pressing issues.
Alternatively, prices such as that of oil will have to move more in order to effect the most pressing transitions, creating new imbalances.
Henderson recognized that the Soviet Union – which had been pressing for an eradication campaign for several years, and had already pledged to donate 25 million doses of vaccine annually – would not be enthusiastic about an American leading the charge.
Consequently, Russia has been strict about the terms of its financial assistance to Belarus, pressing its government to open up its economy to Russian business.
The third development occurred in Japan, where the newly-elected Liberal Democratic government of Shinzo Abe, commanding a two-thirds parliamentary majority, is pressing the Bank of Japan to stimulate growth – a “discussion” that looks set to evolve into something much more assertive.
Only a properly educated workforce and entrepreneurial class will have the skills and drive to thrive as new technologies change the nature of work, leisure, the environment, and society – and to tackle our continent’s most pressing challenges.
According to the World Economic Forum, Africa needs another one million university-trained researchers to tackle its most pressing health, energy, and development challenges.
The announcement complements a meeting in Berlin earlier this month at which the health ministers of the G-7 countries – Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom, and the United States – sought solutions to the most pressing global health issues.
Instead of pressing Beijing to cut off North Korea, the US and its allies should further develop their own efforts to draw North Korea out of its insularity.
Besides, there is just no way that a US president busy with dozens of other pressing problems can compete with a Fed chairman who has the luxury of focusing full time on economic issues.
They are all poor, buffeted by natural disasters – especially floods, droughts, and earthquakes – and have rapidly growing populations that are pressing on the capacity of the land to feed them.
Faced with continued internal division, pressing for a meaningful peace process is very difficult for the Palestinians.
Unifying the West on Climate ChangeWASHINGTON, DC – President Barack Obama has called climate change one of the most important challenges of our time, and is pressing forward with domestic cap-and-trade legislation while fully re-engaging the United States in United Nations negotiations.
But Putin's power is pressing hard against the limits of what is permissible in a democracy.
Terror will now vault to the top of the long list of pressing issues that will be discussed.
And even if a UBI succeeds in Kenya over the next 12 years, it is not a solution to pressing problems in the US economy today.
Still, the international community can play a more constructive role than it has until now by pressing both sides to accept an independent recount.
But while the need for a common eurozone budget from which to draw additional spending is more pressing now than in the past, this would entail risk-sharing among the member states, which is a politically difficult issue.
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