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Although these protests grab headlines, a new and perhaps even more insidious threat to world trade has quietly taken shape over recent years: so called “open sectoralism,” or the practice of negotiating access to foreign markets on a selective, industry-by-industry basis.
After a year in power, Rouhani’s program of economic development, environmental cleanup, and improved health care is proceeding smoothly and quietly.
In 1987, the Chinese government quietly launched a program of self-governance at the village level.
In addition to the technology and investments, Graham quietly slips in a foreign policy suggestion for the Obama administration that is sure to please the Kremlin: “Finlandizing” Ukraine.
While many observers focus on China’s credit glut, the authorities are quietly fostering the development of dynamic city clusters.
The grassroots of Iran’s reform and democratic movement – students, women, artists, and Iran’s quietly relentless civil society – swung into action and turned the election into a surprisingly heated referendum on the country’s future.
Demand for digitally savvy workers has been rising quietly over the last decade or more, but that shift is now gathering pace, and it is transforming the entire labor market, not just the tech sector.
Rather than admit to the security flaw, Uber quietly paid the culprit $100,000 to destroy the data, in the hope that the victims – and, perhaps more important to Uber, the company’s investors – would never find out.
Some have reacted by rioting; others have backed far-right xenophobic political parties; many more seethe quietly, growing ever more resentful of politicians and the system they represent.
Unfortunately, the damage is occurring quietly, enabling political interests to overshadow any sense of urgency about the need to redress the global economy’s intensifying problems.
Moreover, arguments about international law in the post-WWII period have quietly dropped all references to conspiracy charges.
In this environment of fear, the state quietly and efficiently subsumed personal identity.
He urged bank boards and senior executives to preempt such bans by firing highly problematic managers publicly, rather than sending them quietly out the back door.
Facing this prospect, businesses on both sides of the English Channel would be impelled to campaign openly for Britain to keep full EU membership, instead of quietly lobbying for special deals for their own sectors.
Once he has reaped sufficient political benefit from this aggressive messaging, he can “force” China back to the negotiating table by quietly suggesting a diplomatic US retreat from its unrealistic demands.
A prison is not newsworthy as long as the inmates suffer quietly.
As a result, India has quietly begun to strengthen its military ties to countries in the region, particularly Tajikistan, where it has a small base.
What he might choose to do is to follow America's example, so that, without officially renouncing the START treaties, Putin may quietly decide that he no longer considers himself bound by some of their provisions.
And, like most journalists, we have opted to do our jobs quietly, rather than burdening readers and viewers with how dangerous the profession has become.
The Allies are quietly satisfied, but nobody expects major changes in France military contribution: in the last ten years, it has been on par with the other major European allies.
China is the one place that quietly implements a constructive economic engagement approach.
In the past, they would address this by quietly selling the aged cows either to local butchers or to those who would transport them to states where cow slaughter is legal.
But, while it quietly makes a number of important technical contributions to various debates, it is hemmed in politically and thus cannot reach forcefully beyond its jurisdiction.
Instead, they are often expected to remain passive actors, quietly finding ways to do their jobs in difficult – even impossible – circumstances.
This response assumes that while Africa’s distress is regrettable, it’s also far away, and the continent will quietly suffer in its corner.
We also should be thankful for the international (including American) medical, pharmaceutical, and other companies that have been quietly sourcing masks, gloves, gowns, ventilators and other critical supplies for China.
When the 160 pages of contracts were finally released, they pointed to a much longer-term project of quietly “bedding in” private firms.
Likewise, we quietly root for SpaceX CEO Elon Musk when he fantasizes about colonizing Mars.
One day, Alexander the Great came and stood over Diogenes, who was quietly sitting under the sun.
Japan – whose prime minister, Shinzo Abe, originated the concept – has quietly dropped the term “strategy” from its policy vision for the Indo-Pacific.
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