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Allowing the use of chemical weapons to go unpunished not only could reverse one of the few promising developments in the Syrian conflict; it also threatens to undermine international norms on the use of toxic gas and nerve agents, increasing the possibility that they will be used in terrorist attacks.
And those running for public office under the M5S banner must sign a contract promising to pay fines if they violate party principles.
In the United Kingdom, the last month has brought harrowing reports about child abuse in youth soccer teams, where promising young athletes attempt to play their way to the professional level.
As investors fled the country because of fear of devaluation (in a period in which the Argentine Government was promising never to devalue the peso, fixed at one-to-one with the US dollar), interest rates rose and bank deposits fell.
One particularly promising area is regenerative medicine, which has many potential applications – including for preventing or reversing hearing loss.
Finally, economic policies must promote technological advances and global technical cooperation in promising sectors.
At a meeting in London in February, international donors recognized the importance of education for refugees, promising to get all of Syria’s refugee children into school by the end of 2017.
The US dollar’s resurgence, while promising, is only a first step.
The reason is simple: It is impossible to know if some promising or troubling development stands alone or represents the start of a lasting trend.
The potential is just as promising in insurance.
The king was compelled to hand power back to the political parties, while a peace agreement emerged that ended the conflict, bringing the Maoists into an interim parliament and government and promising elections to a Constituent Assembly.
India’s economic data are promising.
A more promising development is that, according to the Third Plenum road map, farmers must receive a fair share of the profits from land-value appreciation, and will be entitled to transfer their land or use it as collateral.
The same is true of politics, where more female participation and leadership would improve governance and public services, as promising experiences in some parts of Africa and elsewhere have shown.
No system of venture capital - ie, one where investors support promising new scientific developments - exists.
The problem begins with the education system, which used to be more effective not only at educating and training new generations, but also at sorting them into promising career paths.
He is also promising to emulate his predecessors by bringing Germany around to the French point of view – that is, use German fiscal transfers.
If a young female lawyer or banker on a promising career track decides to leave the office “early” every day to be home with her kids for dinner, work part-time, or take time out to be a full-time caregiver, she is quickly knocked out of the competition for top jobs.
But if we pursue business as usual, the odds of making similarly impressive progress over the next 50 years are not very promising.
Yet the fact that the world could agree despite the absence of the US may prove promising.
Opening markets to greater competition and rebalancing the roles of government and markets is the most promising strategy to achieve high-income status in the coming decades.
To the uninitiated, the effort in 2010 to unite Sunnis behind the Iraq National Movement (Iraqiya) coalition, with a “secular Shia” as its leader, seemed like a promising step toward post-sectarian politics.
And it means, among other things, promising to restore steelworkers’ and miners’ jobs, end the cosseting of minorities, deport all undocumented migrants, cut taxes and increase infrastructure spending by hundreds of billions of dollars, repeal Obamacare, eliminate or somehow renegotiate the national debt, torture militants, and target their families.
But, in general, careful analysis of their various facets leads to some understanding of their causes and, in turn, to reasonably promising solutions.
Lately, however, promising solutions have been increasingly elusive.
With economic headwinds dissipating, the United States’ prospects for faster GDP growth appear promising.
With the Internet now such an important resource in the modern world, broadband has become a vital technology, promising to boost economic growth, lift people out of poverty, and improve their health, nutrition, and education.
But the outlook for a new, sensible policy is not promising.
It passed the crisis test with flying colors, and the future is promising.
During the “lost decade” of the Latin American debt crisis in the 1980s, Brazil and Mexico had a significant and promising growth pickup in 1984-1985 – before serious problems in the banking sector, an unresolved external debt overhang, and several ill-advised domestic policy initiatives cut those recoveries short.
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