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In all of these cases, the debt burden is, for all practical purposes, being shifted onto other countries.
But what is the best way to interpret the change in the holding duration for policymaking purposes?
Second, what are the purposes and priorities of foreign policy?
It would help enormously in this regard if Arab and Muslim political leaders spoke out against the intentional killing of men, women, and children by anyone or any group for political purposes.
Nevertheless, it isn’t hard to find better purposes for my royalty earnings than Kim Dotcom’s environmentally damaging lifestyle.
In this way the state becomes the sole repository of public purposes.
One question is this: where do the limits of private provision for public purposes lie?
This is no basis for finding new ways to define good and evil or to establish collective meanings and purposes.
In a world of competing demands, corrupt governments may seem to serve vital purposes.
Embryo research was allowed for purposes such as improving the efficiency of IVF.
We count on China’s continued support for European and American efforts in making sure that Iran’s nuclear program remains limited to purely civilian purposes.
Iran is reported to be enriching uranium at two sites – some of it to levels of 20%, far beyond what is required for civilian purposes.
The US must leave Iraq and Afghanistan, thereby saving $150 billion per year for other purposes and reducing the tensions caused by military occupation.
Capital-exporting developing nations should be willing to accept greater transparency in the operation of sovereign wealth funds and pledge not to use them for political purposes.
Indeed, the last thing the government in Mogadishu wants is another semi-autonomous region challenging its authority – or another country annexing southern Somalia for its own purposes.
Earth Calling the Financial SectorNEW YORK – Financial markets serve two crucial purposes: to channel savings toward productive investments, and to enable individuals and businesses to manage risks through diversification and insurance.
Others note the presence of numerous Iraqi businesses in Jordan, conducting activities whose purposes have not always been clear.
Not long after the destruction of Hiroshima, President Harry S. Truman, together with the Canadian and UK prime ministers, proposed the first non-proliferation plan; all nuclear weapons would be eliminated, and nuclear technology for peaceful purposes would be shared and overseen by a United Nations agency.
The IMF is needed for several key purposes.
Both NATO and the EU have been forced to redefine how they function and rethink their purposes after a dual process of enlargement.
The second law assures fair – indeed generous – compensation to people, often small-scale farmers, whose land is acquired by the state for development purposes.
Indeed, Britain has, to all intents and purposes, practically decriminalized marijuana usage.
Ever since the Han dynasty (more than 2,000 years ago), Chinese governments have manipulated the most prominent political interpretations of Confucianism for their own purposes.
First, some developed countries worry that governments will use such state-controlled entities for foreign-policy purposes.
In fact, the resolution calls on the participants at a conference of donors, to take place in London at the end of January, “to take into consideration the proposal of licensed production of opium for medical purposes, as already granted to a number of countries.”
Because of the serious threat that the illegal drug economy poses to stability and democracy in Afghanistan, we must start thinking in terms of regulated poppy growing for medical purposes, in particular for painkillers, with the active participation of donor countries and the UN itself.
This is history, Russian-style: a past made serviceable for present purposes.
Clinical trials are ongoing for several genes of interest for enhancing athletic performance, including EPO, as well as strength-related genes like growth hormone and insulin growth factor 1.Past experience suggests that the many known and unknown risks associated with gene therapy will do little to deter its use for doping purposes.
The world needs to be oriented in one direction to fight poverty or to help achieve sustainable development, but it is very hard in our noisy, disparate, divided, crowded, congested, distracted, and often overwhelmed world to mount a consistent effort to achieve any of our common purposes.
Without carefully managing tropical forests – 90% of which grow in developing nations that have pressure to clear the land for other economic purposes – we cannot meet our global targets for reduced carbon emissions.
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