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Unfortunately, the two policies have often worked at cross purposes, diminishing America’s long-term influence in the region and at times hurting its ability to conduct the war.
Keeping the Palestinians divided between Islamist revolutionaries and the more business-minded Fatah suits Israeli purposes admirably.
Raising debt for the purposes of significantly increasing or ensuring long-run growth makes sense, especially in an environment of low real interest rates.
Its methodology is largely sound, its purposes are valid, and its findings are useful.
Just as China recently secured the Sri Lankan port of Hambantota on a 99-year lease, it has, according to Nasheed, quietly acquired 17 islands in the heavily indebted Maldives for investment purposes.
The Turks have many reasons to worry about the consequences of sending their soldiers into Syria, even for the most demonstrable humanitarian purposes.
People like Dawkins, and the Creationists for that matter, make a mistake about the purposes of science and religion.
The Union State has been dormant since 1997, but it could be revived to serve Putin’s purposes.
The rise in taxation can be blamed on the IMF, with the increased revenues siphoned off for political purposes.
Sometimes, a lack of professional freedom prevents those who may be most familiar with the data – for example, analysts whose livelihoods depend on the government(s) involved in the conflict – from using their expertise for purposes that could be politically damaging.
It has signed the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, and is developing a nuclear program that it claims is for civilian purposes only.
Spiekermann, a global authority on the trafficking of our online identities for purposes of targeted advertising, political propaganda, public and private surveillance, or other nefarious purposes, emphasizes the need to crack down on “personal data markets.”
The same basic idea of allowing the state to distribute gas revenues, although with different intended purposes, is found in their programs.
Making matters worse, the two countries have, to all intents and purposes, broken off both unofficial and - with scarcely an exception - official dialogue.
To this end, a significant share of North Korea’s military manpower, which currently amounts to more than 8.5% of the total labor force, could be used for more productive purposes.
But German officials do not dispute the legitimacy of wholesale bond purchases for monetary-policy purposes, and that there can be circumstances that require QE.
New departments and state secretaries with clearly designed purposes were introduced.
In most of the world today, the purposes of politics, economics, and technology have been debased.
But legal history shows just how duplicitous this global rash of legislation really is – and whose purposes it really serves.
Such leaders are using religion for their own highly modern political purposes; they use it to organize and mobilize their supporters - to commit individual or collective suicide, if need be.
Just as the BRICS have rejected Western-led economic institutions, developing economies would do well to expel foreign banks and allow local financial institutions to create money for productive purposes.
By implementing safeguards that ensure that credit serves productive and public purposes, policymakers can achieve debt-free, stable, and sustainable economic growth.
In a way, free market democracies are a continuous plebiscite of those looking for an alternative that suits their individual or corporative purposes.
You demand that certain things in the market should not take place for different purposes.
Moreover, Russia’s efforts to gain monopoly control of the gas pipeline networks across Eurasia pose a direct danger for China, because monopolists can not only gouge their consumers, but also shut off supplies for political purposes, as Russia has done repeatedly over the past two decades.
Consider one of the main purposes of the Lisbon Strategy: the organization of research and higher education.
Seventy-three years ago, John Maynard Keynes thought about the reform and regulation of financial markets from the perspective of the first three purposes and found himself “moved toward... mak[ing] the purchase of an investment permanent and indissoluble, like marriage...”But he immediately drew back: the fact “that each individual investor flatters himself that his commitment is ‘liquid’ (though this cannot be true for all investors collectively) calms his nerves and makes him much more willing to run a risk...”
A decade ago, the world had a foretaste of what can happen when ethnic divisions are exploited for sinister political purposes.
Sarojini and Aastha Sharma wrote in the Indian Journal of Medical Ethics, “The Bill actively promotes medical tourism in India for reproductive purposes.”
People always try to bend systems to their own purposes, and good leaders play a critical role in maintaining their systems’ integrity.
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