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No action has been proven to do more for the human race than the education of female children.
The Lessons of the World CupThis year’s World Cup has proven once again that football is the world’s most popular sport; it has also proven that football is probably the world’s most globalized profession.
It has proven to be a lethal combination.
Most importantly, their tactics have proven massively destructive of wealth in the US.
The law has proven to be a powerful tool in stifling dissent, which can include mass protests against election fraud, journalists working to expose corruption, or a librarian in Siberia fulfilling a patron’s request for a banned book.
Three-quarters of the potential pickup in productivity could come from “catch-up” improvements, with countries taking steps – modernizing their retail sectors, consolidating automobile production into a smaller number of larger factories, improving health-care efficiency, and reducing food-processing wastage – that have already proven effective elsewhere.
No country knows better than Indonesia that free speech and a free press are proven indicators of democratic development, and that criminalizing journalists is an early symptom of authoritarianism.
He does not match Peter the Great in physical stature, but he has proven to be a gifted politician, capable of grasping, then controlling, the mood of the Russian people.
Today, more than a quarter-century since the onset of transition, those earlier results have been confirmed, and those who argued that private property rights, once created, would give rise to broader demands for the rule of law have been proven wrong.
While the future of oil prices is uncertain, the fate of countries that have treated adverse shocks as temporary and reversible, and were then proven wrong, has seldom been encouraging.
In general, homegrown solutions have proven to be more effective than externally imposed policies.
There is no provision in the US Constitution to guarantee that the US will always pay its debts, but the American Republic has proven itself for 200-plus years to be about as good a credit risk as has ever existed.
Saving the Egyptian RevolutionTEL AVIV – Revolutions throughout history have proven to devour their children.
Instead, asserting that the US had “erred in supporting China’s entry into the WTO on terms that have proven to be ineffective in securing China’s embrace of an open, market-oriented trade regime,” the USTR focused on complaints about Chinese industrial policy, which is largely beyond the WTO’s scope.
Those who thought that the euro could not survive have been repeatedly proven wrong.
The Kurds – a people without a state – have proven to be reliable fighters against ISIS and want to use their new political and military clout to make progress toward autonomy, or even an independent state.
And, indeed, within two years of taking power, Sadat expelled the Soviets from Egypt and began to build a friendship with the US that, despite challenges and periodic differences, has proven important and valuable ever since.
I believe that the doubters will be proven wrong.
In America, the "new economy" has proven to be real, and there is every reason to think that growth in the next decade will be faster than it was in the past.
Over a trillion barrels of proven reserves exist, and more is likely to be found.
But two-thirds of those proven reserves are in the Persian Gulf, and are thus vulnerable to disruption.
The EU scheme is not perfect, but it has proven very useful in forcing the ICAO to acknowledge the importance of aviation emissions.
Perhaps because Iraq will define his legacy, he has proven reluctant to let go at a point when his policy appears to be a disaster.
In recent years, Europeans, like Japanese, have proven to be highly resistant to large-scale immigration, which is what would be required to offset demographic decline.
But this top-down approach has proven ineffective, as scandals at Uber and other tech firms have demonstrated.
This means that whenever the next crisis hits, safety-conscious investors will flee from fiscally weak countries toward fiscally strong ones that have a proven track record of generating economic growth.
But rooting out deep-seated and institutional racism has proven difficult.
Fortunately, Israel’s judicial system remains independent and rests on foundations of proven integrity.
Instead, we should focus on getting more energy to poor people, which is a proven way to increase growth and reduce poverty.
Nor have the popular trends of recent decades proven to be much better.
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