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Thus, they promote gimmicks (zero interest rates and stimulus packages), rather than pressing for the detailed national policies that a robust investment recovery will require.
Our generation’s most pressing challenge is to convert the world’s dirty and carbon-based energy systems and infrastructure into clean, smart, and efficient systems for the twenty-first century.
While this approach may be appealing, it is inadequate to address today’s most pressing issues.
But what they are doing, however, is dealing with the biggest problem of the moment but at the price of removing institutions and policies that policymakers before them had put into place to control problems which they felt to be the most pressing.
When we fail to engage in such debates – when people choose “safe spaces” over tough discussions – we lose our best chance of building consensus on how to solve at least some of our societies’ pressing problems.
The BRICS today, like in 2001, have a vital role to play in tackling the most pressing international challenges.
Obama is preoccupied by many pressing problems, and reinventing the international financial system is unlikely to receive his full attention.
We know what we need to deliver: the solutions to many of our most pressing problems already exist.
For now, we need a more energetic global discussion on this pressing issue.
Europe is nearing its limits, and water scarcity is already a pressing issue in Africa, Central Asia, and China.
Enter shareholder activist David Einhorn, whose hedge fund Greenlight Capital has been pressing Apple to distribute a healthy fraction of that cash.
The Euthyphro ends with its title character beating a hasty, cowardly retreat after abruptly claiming that he has more pressing matters to attend to.
But that shouldn’t stop the West from reaching out to him directly, or pressing him to publicly appoint the representatives who negotiate with the West.
The second factor is that BNP’s case came to a head at a time when US prosecutors were being accused of treating banks as “too big to jail,” for fear that pressing charges against them would weaken them too much and thus undermine the real economy.
Today, as governments around the world cut their budgets, the need for a clear moral basis for economic policymaking is more pressing than ever.
The German government’s anger with Greece reflected the public mood and Chancellor Angela Merkel’s own pressing need to cut the country’s budget deficit by reforming social security, pensions, education, and banking.
On the one side were liberals, “a class of men sanguine in hope, bold in speculation, always pressing forward…and disposed to give every change credit for being an improvement.”
With the developing world relying almost totally on innovation from the rich countries, many of the most pressing problems that are unique to poorer countries remain neglected by the world's scientists and leading high-technology industries.
North Korea has been pressing for a declaration of the end of war, an aspirational statement that would signal a common desire to replace the armistice that has existed since the Korean War ended 65 years ago with a formal peace treaty.
The more the EU is forced by Germany to become a union rooted in “stability,” the more pressing it will become for eurozone countries that cannot conform to the new, stricter rules to receive some sort of financial compensation.
And yet government prosecutors who are ultimately responsible to the prime minister are pressing ahead with the case.
In order to address pressing global problems like climate change and inequality, the predominant economic models must be rethought, incorporating other motivational systems that can induce different human behaviors.
No objective is more universal – or more pressing – than addressing the shared challenges of sustainable development.
Jobs in the Age of Artificial IntelligenceWASHINGTON, DC – The world has no shortage of pressing issues.
The Lisbon Treaty offers a fundamental redesign of how the Union works, but, despite the pressing need to enhance EU institutions’ mobility and flexibility, it is still awaiting ratification.
Burma’s AgonyAs the death toll mounts from the cyclone that struck a densely populated area of Burma stretching from the Irrawaddy Delta to the capital city of Rangoon continues to soar, the country’s military dictatorship is pressing ahead with efforts to consolidate its power.
The list of pressing issues facing Russia is already long, and their resolution can no longer be delayed.
The United States had been pressing the EU to advance Turkey’s application for admission, but Turkish membership was already controversial in several EU countries.
So far, the survival of China’s political system has rested on the identification and deft handling of the most pressing issues of the day.
That is why the US has been pressing South Korea to express more explicitly its opposition to China’s behavior regarding its territorial claims in the South China Sea.
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