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If people’s brainpower is distracted by a pressing concern, they perform worse in problem-solving situations.
We should be pressing for an EU energy policy that reinforces our security.
Now that the Fund has squarely acknowledged the huge capital holes in many European banks, it should start pressing forcefully for a comprehensive and credible solution to the eurozone debt crisis, a solution that will involve either partial breakup of the eurozone or fundamental constitutional reform.
Of more pressing immediate concern is the fact that capital is currently flowing to many countries regardless of whether they are ready to receive it.
Together with the pro-democracy army chief, Gen. Ashfaq Kayani, this coalition can address Pakistan’s most pressing challenges, including terrorism.
Its political parties, rather than working together to address pressing economic problems, remained at each other’s throats.
They develop new norms by directly pressing governments and businesses to change policies, and indirectly by altering public perceptions of what governments and firms should do.
“[W]e should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe and believe to be fraught with death,” he wrote, “unless they so imminently threaten immediate interference with the lawful and pressing purposes of the law that an immediate check is required to save the country.”
Both amount to pressing challenges, though migration may be the most urgent issue, given the surge in recent years that has overwhelmed existing frameworks.
While the League has been pressing for more high-speed trains and new roads, some in M5S remain in thrall to an anti-capitalist, anti-development ideology.
Consider the pressing issue of food security.
There is no issue that is more pressing.
Surely there is room across divides of party and nation to address these pressing humanitarian needs, which otherwise would only fuel future political trouble.
Today, however, France is finally undertaking Germany’s long-expected domestic reforms – and pressing for change at the EU level.
The primary, and most pressing, of the problems we face is the financial and economic crisis that is enveloping the EU.
The refugee crisis is not the only crisis Europe has to face, but it is the most pressing.
The Right Moves in Los CabosDAKAR – As leaders of the world’s most powerful economies gather for the G-20 Summit in Los Cabos, Mexico, policymakers everywhere seek action on today’s most pressing global issues: economic recovery and sustainable development.
The security issues facing the region, from the Korean peninsula to the outcome of the upcoming elections in Myanmar (Burma) this autumn, have grown more pressing – perhaps all the more so in view of reports that North Korea is assisting Myanmar’s ruling generals to develop nuclear capabilities.
And the Arab reply is equally threatening: “Stop pressing us on the reform issue or we won’t cooperate in the ‘war on terror’!”Two other major issues have sustained the trade-off: Israel and the rise of the Islamist movements.
Although the Trade Facilitation Agreement – dubbed the “Bali package,” after the Indonesian island where the meeting took place – did not address the most pressing North-South trade issues, it remains an important economic and political milestone.
But, with China’s leaders now aggressively demonizing Japan and pressing disputed territorial and maritime claims more assertively than ever before, the country is being thrust in a direction that Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, with his penchant for historical revisionism and highlighting Japan’s nationalist past, may in some ways have already favored: back to the nineteenth century.
Asian countries are essentially giving tens of thousands of top minds the opportunities and incentives to tackle today’s most pressing challenges, such as developing cost-effective sustainable-energy solutions, ensuring affordable health care for aging populations, and improving the quality of life in overcrowded cities.
Security may be the most pressing issue, but it is certainly not the only one.
Breaking the circle of poverty by addressing the most pressing issues of disease, hunger, and polluted water will not only do obvious good; it will also make people less vulnerable to the effects of climate change.
We need to stop our obsession with global warming and start dealing with more pressing and tractable problems first.
This trend was boosted by the collapse of the Soviet empire, because Western liberal democracies no longer had the same pressing need to counter the Communist model with egalitarian arrangements of their own.
Some Democratic activists seek an immediate withdrawal and are pressing for Congress to cut off funding for the war, but that is unlikely.
Now, however, with King pressing from within the municipal coalition (and with a far-right construction and housing minister in the national government), Barkat is likely to escalate his efforts to expand settlements in Jerusalem’s Palestinian neighborhoods.
Indeed, Iran’s nuclear aspirations, one of the most pressing issues of our time, may well be reduced to whether the US should support Israel in the event that its government takes military action.
In fact, a healthy ocean will be impossible to secure without also addressing this pressing global challenge.
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