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Regardless of the outcome of the legal case, the Arizona law has proven to be popular in other states, and represents the rising importance of immigration as a political issue.
Hong Kong's ruling elite delights in telling foreign visitors how wrong pessimistic predictions of the territory's have proven to be.
So far, democratic institutions, particularly the press and the judiciary, have proven resilient.
The United States government has proven itself blind to these facts, but the international community also remains ill equipped to assist in the restoration of peace following conflicts in impoverished countries.
The IBM scientists had proven that it is possible to manipulate individual atoms, but doing so still had no practical use.
Those who have used the prevailing economic fable about the 1970s to predict upward outbreaks of inflation in the 1990s, the 2000s, and now the 2010s have all been proven wrong.
ONGC-Mittal Energy is keen to secure blocks with proven reserves, but also is less concerned about the fine detail of the infrastructure packages than their Asian competitors.
Yet, while some rural areas are under guerrilla influence, and despite the wealth that drug trafficking has brought them, FARC and the ELN have proven too weak and unpopular to mount a serious threat to bring down Colombia’s government.
The fact that Syria’s Kurds have proven to be America’s best partner against ISIS adds to the complexity of the foreign policy choices that await.
Above all, we have got to heed the proven need for applying social – as well as economic – interventions in a time of economic crisis.
We should work on specific, proven, and effective approaches such as providing legal identity for all.
But that can no longer be an argument against diplomacy now that Israeli unilateralism has once again proven to be a strategic blind alley.
But Bild has already proven that it can do serious investigative work, such as exposing how Russia propped up the Donbas region’s economy after it broke away, paying salaries and pensions and funding job-creation efforts.
First, companies can boost their own human capital by providing on-the-job training – a proven tactic that remains rare in Latin America.
The crisis must also not become an excuse to create new institutional formats that jeopardize the delicate balance between the different EU institutions, a balance that – through appropriate adjustments – has been proven by the test of time.
And, with that, the eurozone would become as vulnerable as any fixed exchange-rate system has historically proven to be.
Countries like Bangladesh and Mozambique have proven that disaster risk reduction and preparedness can be a life-saving investment.
Aggressive expansion of proven low-cost, high-impact micro-irrigation techniques would do more to help small-scale farmers.
Law, I believe, cannot be democracy's only defense, because even if Lepper's countless lies are proven false and he is jailed, his followers (and their rage) will remain.
But satellite data since then have proven us wrong.
Despite the strategy’s proven effectiveness, it is the least implemented MPOWER measure.
Nobel laureate Paul Crutzen has suggested another solution: manipulate the climate by releasing white sulfur particles high up in the stratosphere, where they would remain for several years, exerting a proven cooling effect on Earth’s climate without affecting human health.
Europe today has a common currency and the European Central Bank (ECB), which have proven to be bulwarks in defending monetary stability during the financial crisis.
The autonomy of these orders rested on a proven long-term ability to do more than expected with what they were given.
The latter have proven themselves to be tremendously reliable and capable fighters, as the battles to liberate the cities of Kobani and Sinjar from ISIS control have shown.
It makes little sense to declare war on a tactic, and experience has proven that the terminology merely reinforces the narrative that bin Laden seeks to promote, which is why Britain now avoids the phrase.
Today, as a universal institution, the UN plays a crucial role in legitimization, crisis diplomacy, peacekeeping, and humanitarian missions, but its very size has proven to be a disadvantage for many other functions.
Financial empowerment has been proven to increase female participation in community decision-making.
Yet Germany and Greece’s other creditors continue to demand that the country sign on to a program that has proven to be a failure, and that few economists ever thought could, would, or should be implemented.
Reforms that have improved energy-policy coordination, or helped to create a banking union, have proven to be far more robust than they may have seemed at first.
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