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Many well-meaning people saw Rajapaksa’s promise as warmongering, and, even as Sri Lanka’s army has been pressing toward victory, urged him to negotiate with perhaps the world’s most fanatical terror organization (the Tamil Tigers, it should be recalled, virtually invented the cult of the modern suicide bomber.)
Most Kuwaitis see this very technical issue as a way of pressing for reform.
Ultimately, restoring America’s failing infrastructure will require what we call “progressive federalism”: harnessing the strengths of each level of government and working with the private sector to address pressing social and economic challenges.
But other, more practical questions on postwar recovery and relations with Germany were more pressing.
Today’s uncertainty concerns whether this preference may be overridden by pressing considerations of national politics, or resentment at the slow pace of reform in certain eurozone countries.
The answer depends crucially on how each country and the international community respond to key policy challenges: addressing global imbalances through macroeconomic policies and long-overdue reform; meeting the costs of aging populations; strengthening defenses against economic and financial crises; and delivering on the pressing imperatives of poverty reduction.
The 2014-2016 Global Agenda Councils, 86 groups of experts, each focused on a pressing global issue, an industry, or a region, began work this month.
Next to the material production needs of the war effort, how much money people were taking home was no longer a pressing issue.
The US needs to position itself to respond effectively and flexibly to the twists and turns that a potential transition in Burma may take over time, with an eye toward pressing the Burmese leadership to move in positive directions.
With the Copenhagen climate summit only weeks away, forging a commitment on climate change is the most pressing challenge.
But, as a matter of national pride, the Chinese refuse to articulate an international commitment under duress, and Obama doesn’t have much standing in pressing China to compromise, since the US Congress hasn’t yet acted on cap-and-trade legislation.
Israel and the US led a virtual blockade on Palestine, with Israel refusing to return collected taxes and the US pressing world banks not to recognize the signature of the Palestinian finance minister.
Governments are in the business of procuring solutions to their particular society’s most pressing challenges.
Solidarity and agreement on political objectives are the pressing concerns of our age.
Almost every Arab ruler at one time or another attempted to silence the station by closing its local bureau and pressing the Qatari rulers to muzzle its freewheeling journalists.
It was about everything, except for Germany's real and pressing problems.
But Abe is also pressing for change in medical research and the technology sector by embracing long-shunned innovations such as iPS cells (artificial stem cells).
The optimistic scenario is that private-sector job creation and rapid population aging will cause the labor market to tighten, which will make employment protection a less pressing concern – and make reform more politically palatable.
But the EU faces too many pressing challenges to be obsessing about Britain.
Another pressing challenge facing Europe is immigration.
But waging war on corrupt officials and pressing for deep reforms aimed at dismantling China’s kleptocracy will inevitably bring Xi into conflict with China’s political and economic elites.
Pressing security concerns and the need to ensure domestic and international stability made policymakers more willing to challenge longstanding economic orthodoxy.
But solving the complex coordination and distributional problems that such adjustments will generate will not be easy, and, convinced that we cannot afford an aggressive mitigation strategy at a time when we are faced with so many other pressing challenges, policymakers could be tempted to defer action on the ground.
That is why the question of violence is more pressing than that of immediate recognition of the state of Israel, something that Hamas has already done in practice.
Unions are key to effective corporate governance and hence should be more involved in innovation policy, pressing for investments in education and training – the long-run drivers of wages.
But, while the pursuit of self-interest may be advantageous in certain contexts, it is not the only, or even the principal, driver of human behavior – and it is not conducive to overcoming today’s most pressing global issues.
We must start reinventing our productive systems now, precisely because the path of change will be so long and the environmental dangers are already so pressing.
All this need not end horribly, but policymakers in most regions have to start pressing hard on the brakes, not the accelerator.
This need is particularly pressing for those – such as parents, teachers, youth workers, and sports coaches – who are in regular contact with young people.
Despite China’s aura of inevitability, it is far from certain that Asia, with its pressing internal challenges, will be able to spearhead global growth and shape a new world order.
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