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(To be sure, this failure may not matter much, given South Korean scientists’ past declaration that they will not contribute to any nuclear program that could be used for military purposes.)
More menacing, extremists like the Islamic State have relied on social media for recruitment and propaganda purposes.
If history is any guide, a sizable share of these contributions will be diverted to other purposes, or into the pockets of corrupt officials.
Likewise, the Kremlin has not exploited the World Cup for propaganda purposes any more than previous hosts have done.
In each case, we see obsessive people arrogating to themselves the right to decide others’ fate, and using modern technology for their harmful purposes.
Abu Musab al-Zaraqawi’s Al Qaeda offshoot in Iraq demonstrates this well: the group was called Al Qaeda in Mesopotamia for recruitment and propaganda purposes, but it was quite autonomous organizationally and operationally.
To maintain that not enough is being spent for some environmental purposes - say, reducing carbon emissions - implies that too much is being spent on others.
We can do it just as cruelly when we take over, for our own purposes, the land that wild animals use.
In fact, across much of Europe, especially in the former Soviet Union and the Balkans, the media is largely controlled by political, business, or criminal interests, which manipulate it for partisan purposes and allow corruption to thrive.
Substantial public rescue funds have reportedly been siphoned off to foreign banks, Goldman Sachs, and staff bonuses for purposes unrelated to protecting public interests.
But pro-European euphoria proved short-lived: for all practical purposes, the accession negotiations are now at an impasse.
Ban can also make the case that there is no justification in today’s world for terror – defined here as the intentional harming of civilians for political purposes.
Belief in vampires in Eastern European societies served its own historical purposes: uniting communities and identifying outsiders, giving concrete form to death fears, explaining mysterious events, and, last but not least, providing a means of resistance to the encroachment of Western ideas and patterns of thought.
For data purposes, at least, we are in a post-territorial age.
For example, the purposes should be limited to self- defense.
It is -- despite the nice words it offers us from time to time -- a rather egocentric Europe, caring more about immediate economic interests than about its ultimate purposes.
But far fewer homebuyers in 2003 said that they were buying "strictly for investment purposes" than in 1988.
For what purposes can they be used?
The summit has two purposes: to finalize the text of a new EU Constitution, and to appoint the next President of the Commission.
For purposes of our report, we define competitiveness in a precise way: as a country’s capacity to achieve sustained economic growth in the medium term – ie, five-years time.
Just as Iraq today is, for all intents and purposes, ethnically partitioned, it will be difficult to establish a post-2014 government in Kabul whose writ runs across Afghanistan.
Others did so because the banks, shocked by the collapse of the securitization business, stopped giving them home-equity loans for consumption purposes.
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When it comes to technology and trade with China, there are legitimate national security concerns, which are all the more salient because technologies developed by US businesses for commercial purposes increasingly match the sophistication of those developed by the military in key areas like virtual reality, facial recognition, and drones.
The 1954 Hague Convention calls on states not to target cultural sites and to refrain from using them for military purposes, such as establishing combat positions, housing soldiers, or storing weapons.
As with Time on the Cross, the Reinhart/Rogoff controversy, while ostensibly stemming from the authors’ statistical procedures, is actually rooted in the purposes to which others put their study.
The key insight is that roughly 75% of our fossil fuel use goes for just a few purposes: to produce electricity and heat at power plants, to drive automobiles, to heat buildings, and to power a few key industries such as refineries, petrochemicals, cement, and steel.
Because it is a perversion and distraction created by the Party for its own purposes (to stay in power) that dangerously distorts China's national interest.
Here, Sweden will attach particular importance to energy efficiency programs, which will serve not only the purposes of enhancing energy security and reducing costs, but will also be an important contribution to the fight against climate change.
Globalization, for our purposes, is different.
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