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In its eagerness to deliver high-profile scalps to The Hague, the UN Organization Stabilization Mission in the DRC (MONUSCO) has lost sight of its original purpose, which is to quell the FDLR threat.
Of course, a major reason for this broadening of the university's role was its cost effectiveness: combining research and teaching was far less expensive than maintaining separate institutions for each purpose, as became commonplace in Europe.
Rightly or wrongly, Russia and China believe that the time has come to take their revenge over an arrogant West that deceived them about the true purpose of “humanitarian intervention” in Libya.
The old historic Left had lost its ideological purpose by the 1980s-- not because it failed, but because it succeeded.
also provided a degree of safety and security for the Shiite-led government, which was largely the purpose of the well-organized campaign in the first place.
For this purpose, contingents of football fans were also used.
It is the purpose of political parties to run on political programs, and, if elected, to transform their programs into government policy.
If it is missing – if, say, democratic ideals and institutions are failing to provide a palpable enough sense of community and purpose – people seek a sense of meaning elsewhere, which in some cases leads them to malevolent causes.
This is our purpose today; we must commit ourselves to it as passionately as democracy’s enemies pursue theirs.
Cuban officials stress that the purpose of these changes is to increase efficiency, “not to alter the socialist model.”
But the intervention doctrine’s failure to resolve the issues of legitimacy, consistency, and purpose also plays a critical role.
Low morale results from too little kindness and decency; it is a failure of custom and manners, a loss of social purpose, a diminution of the ability or the will to distinguish right from wrong and then to act rightly.
Though today’s biomedical science claims to search for repairs of nature’s defects, too many of its practitioners behave as if their real purpose were only to gain the mythical immortality of precedence, at whatever cost to themselves or others.
Recently, it almost looked as if the EU had finally come to understand that, given a lack of will, no pact – however commendable its purpose – can ensure sound fiscal policies.
When “access journalism” leads senior editorial decision-makers to identify with political elites, explaining the government’s thinking to the public becomes their primary purpose.
Indeed, the only way SWFs can safeguard wealth for future generations – fulfilling the purpose for which they were established – is to participate meaningfully in corporate governance.
All of this will require a sustained commitment, underpinned by a strong sense of common purpose.
Amid the debates about their future role, Europe’s universities must not lose sight of their individual identity, their traditions, and their sense of social purpose.
This purpose may seem increasingly controversial in pluralistic Western societies, but universities should at least provide their students with an understanding of the models, history, and philosophical fundamentals with which to debate these issues.
But their purpose will be lost if pursuing them weakens the very identity of Europe’s universities, many of which are used to functioning in a world of state patronage and strict regulation.
The alternative is a formulaic educational experience that not only lacks individual character, but that is also devoid of moral purpose.
And yet the money borrowed for infrastructure investment still must be repaid – even if the oil revenues earmarked for that purpose never materialize.
And, once the 2012 financial-market panic subsided, it seemed possible that OMT may have served its purpose, without ever having to be called to duty.
The ECB’s argument that the OMT program’s primary purpose is to prevent a eurozone breakup is unconvincing to the German court, for only a nearly insolvent sovereign would risk breaking up the union.
Ending the Torture TradeBUENOS AIRES/BRUSSELS/ULAN BATOR – Shock belts, spiked batons, and electrified thumbscrews can serve no other purpose than to inflict pain on people.
Whether deliberately or not, China is reorganizing itself to balance central authority and common purpose with decentralized freedom, in the same way that nimble companies balance home-office and divisional control.
Only by improving clinical standards and returning results to participants can human genome sequencing truly serve its purpose – to help humanity.
A crucial meeting of the UN General Assembly will take place in late September for this purpose.
Turkey may muddle through its current predicament (as it has many times before), and maintain its unity and its purpose.
Regulators and governments view the main purpose of financial stress tests as being to persuade some institutions of the urgent need to improve their capital ratios.
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