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Many other countries quietly support this work.
Netanyahu evidently expects Israelis, and the world, to believe that if these sites were posting cat videos, the Palestinians would cease their agitation and submit quietly to occupation.
Management then began to quietly spread word that the paper needed people able to "negotiate" with the sensibilities of the Communist Party.
The process began quietly, with the establishment in 1874 of the Union Générale des Postes (which later became the Universal Postal Union), and went virtually unnoticed by those in fields that lacked any need for global agreements.
Often quietly, America and European nations are sharing intelligence, capturing terrorists, and disrupting their finances.
Ayman’s father quietly says, “My children are my hope.”
Aware of the danger that Schroeder may pick a dubious candidate for Issing’s post, senior ECB officials are already quietly discussing ways to outmaneuver him.
So President George W. Bush could quietly tell Abe that we welcome good relations between Japan and China, and that prime ministerial visits to the Yasukuni Shrine undercut Japan’s own interests in East Asia.
The US should quietly try to nudge these steps forward.
Norway, indeed, has been doing this – very quietly – for many yearsViews about how to respond to the SWF’s vary.
But, though Ebola has focused the world’s attention on systemic shortcomings, the goal must be to combat the abiding epidemics that are quietly inflicting suffering and death on populations worldwide.
The world is facing a three-prong health challenge: We must build sustainable national and global health systems that can respond quickly and effectively to crises like Ebola; eliminate or control infectious diseases; and address the quietly rising epidemic of chronic NCDs.
While three French presidents and the same German chancellor were failing to agree on the institutional changes that would render the eurozone sustainable, Greece was asked to bleed quietly.
Greenspan listened patiently and quietly to Bernanke’s logic.
With the so-called Agenda for Sustainable Development having been quietly finalized by diplomats and United Nations bureaucrats last month, the leaders are expected just to smile for the cameras and sign on the dotted line.
And that is exactly what will happen, the day after the UN conference, when leaders return home and recognize – as many quietly do already – that they cannot work on 169 grand targets simultaneously.
But their ranks include intelligent top-rank officials – led by the Pope’s chief adviser, Cardinal Pietro Parolin – who are experienced at working quietly for peace and social justice in some of the most perilous parts of the world.
Despite a compelling economic and moral case for investing more in controlling the disease, it has quietly resumed its position as the world’s leading infectious killer, claiming more lives than either HIV or malaria.
Yet, fairly quietly, Germany has done as much as any other country in recent years to court foreigners and refashion itself as a country of immigration.
The Bush administration’s face-saving rhetoric that it had rushed to push together the core group in the absence of other efforts was quietly let to pass.
In particular, efforts to set strict limits on emissions are quietly being dropped.
But most countries that are unburdened by such a threat have, quietly or spectacularly, rallied to the liberal order over the past decades.
Far from suffering an irreversible decline in its fortunes, the EU has been has been conducting business as usual, quietly getting on with the job of constructing new policies and projects.
After months of empty promises by separatist leaders, the citizens of Donetsk and Luhansk are unlikely to acquiesce quietly to Donbas’s transformation into another internationally isolated pariah entity that benefits Russia-based criminal networks.
It would have been helpful for Bush if the World Bank quietly accepted proposals to finance debt relief for the poorest countries by depleting its reserves, thereby making poor countries pay for the poorest by reducing the Bank’s lending capacity.
And, over the last six years, the US administration has quietly built an infrastructure for NATO that enabled the bold steps that Obama has just announced.
Quietly, South Korea has moved away from being defined by its problematic North Korean neighbor, and is becoming an important middle-ranking power in global affairs.
Peter Tufano, a finance professor at Harvard Business School, has quietly been doing nonprofit work with the foundation he created, Doorways to Dreams, to help low-income people improve their financial prospects.
Indeed, while the Chinese in recent years struggled to restart the so-called six-party talks, the North Koreans quietly informed them, “No, thanks.”
Bit by bit, the idea that the group represents a coherent voice in world affairs will be quietly buried.
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