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His idea of making a deal is to overwhelm the other party with bluff and intimidation, hence his promise to “totally destroy North Korea” (a promise, by the way, that would mean more than 20 million dead).
The first line is to press the troika to make good on its promise to enter into debt-relief negotiations once its recessionary agenda has been fully implemented.
The second line of defense is based on the promise of a “parallel” agenda aimed at ameliorating the worst effects of the troika program.
Prime Minister Matteo Renzi’s decision to make good on his promise to resign if voters rejected his government’s proposed constitutional reforms has thrown Italian politics into disarray, and an early general election is likely.
Turkey’s promise in the region hinges on its consistent pursuit of democratization at home and a rules-based foreign policy.
What is needed, instead, is a serious debate about the conditions that will allow Turkey to fulfill its transatlantic promise.
But Europe’s approaches to industrial strategy show some promise, not least because they are likely to eschew the broad interventions of the past that emphasized “picking winners.”
On the contrary, the scientific spirit offers our only hope of developing new processes and products that minimize the risks attendant on human progress, while technology transfers promise to minimize poor countries' reliance on natural resource-intensive industries.
In April, the United States Navy announced an experimental program called LOCUST (Low-Cost UAV Swarming Technology), which officials promise will “autonomously overwhelm an adversary” and thus “provide Sailors and Marines a decisive tactical advantage.”
As long as fossil fuels account for most global energy use, the environmental promise of next-generation aquaculture will go unrealized.
And, of course, parties that promote such a vision promise women – including those habituated to second-class status at work and the bulk of the labor at home – that they are not just faceless atoms in the postmodern mass.
But, far from producing a breakthrough, the talks yielded only a promise to hold further discussions.
The promise was not lost on the national government.
But, while he delivered on his promise to negotiate a New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty with Russia a year later, progress has since stalled.
But that will be an empty promise: the US president has far less control over legislation than government heads in parliamentary democracies like Britain or in countries like China.
The history of previous summits suggests that the president will promise in Cannes only what he has already proposed at home.
This week, when conservationists from around the world gathered at the fifth annual Our Ocean Conference in Bali, the Federated States of Micronesia (FSM) unveiled a bold promise and issued an even bolder challenge: full transparency in tuna fishing by 2023.
But in the world's most advanced countries, the promise of material prosperity that freedom made possible has long since replaced attention to and defense of fundamental democratic values as the cement of society.
To optimists, the latest technological developments, like others that have propelled humanity forward, promise to deliver unprecedented levels of prosperity.
He can promise to invest state funds in their run-down communities.
Fourteen US states have started to do that by authorizing so-called benefit corporations (or B Corps) – businesses that promise to consider more than shareholder value in their strategic decisions.
Only a high-productivity economy can promise all or most working-age persons a range of careers at high wage rates.
After World War I and the fall of the Ottoman Empire, the victorious Allies promised them a state of their own - a promise that was cynically betrayed when British and French imperial interests took precedence.
There is a great danger that the new Iraq’s sectarian politics will benefit those who promise their constituents the most – at the expense of the central government and the country’s other factions.
Another way to make niche markets more attractive is through priority review vouchers, which promise manufacturers an expedited review process for one of their drugs.
Agriculture has always presented the greatest challenge to free-trade doctrine and its promise of empowering the poor, for it is one of the most distorted areas of global trade.
For 63 years, the vast majority of India’s people have waited for this promise to be fulfilled.
As Congress retakes power, it is Rahul Gandhi, the 39-year-old great-grandson of the man who made that promise, who is the heir-apparent to current Prime Minister Manmohan Singh.
While praising the beauty of Jerusalem’s holy sites, Trump never referred to the city as the capital of Israel, much less reiterate his campaign promise to move the US embassy there.
Likewise, by agreeing to extend the international negotiations on Iran’s nuclear program, the parties to the talks have kept alive the promise of a final deal, which would be a great victory for multilateral diplomacy.
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