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It would not be surprising if most of the signatories actually raised their energy consumption in coming years, turning to fossil fuels because they cannot afford any other option.
The plaintiffs have raised several objections to the ESM.
The experience raised questions about what subsequent National Days would hold for the students of Hong Kong.
The other important issue raised by Golubchuk’s case is how far a publicly-funded health care system such as Canada’s has to go to satisfy the family’s wishes.
In it, we considered whether the Hungarian government’s scheme to focus on long-term unemployment is working efficiently, and we raised a host of technical problems for the doctoral candidate to address.
If investment in clean energy can be raised to at least $1 trillion per year by 2030, it will be possible to provide energy access to those most in need while cutting annual carbon-dioxide emissions by 5.5-7.5 gigatons – roughly what the United States emits in a year today.
Its sinking of the South Korean corvette Cheonan and the shelling of Yeonpyeong Island in 2010 were unprecedented, and raised inter-Korean tensions to their highest level in decades.
He raised it again the following week, also quietly, but by then Monnet and others had lined up support from key ministers and the prime minister.
But many find it equally or even more unconscionable that migrants are forced to live for decades in the shadows – or that children raised by immigrant parents could be deported to countries that they have never seen.
Justice Is ReconciliationIn South Africa, indeed around the world, we are raised on a strict diet of justice as retribution.
Eurobonds, however, would impede precisely this outcome, because relative prices in the north can be raised only when northern savers invest their capital at home instead of seeing it publicly escorted to the south by taxpayer-financed credit guarantees.
Indeed, the Asian and Russian economic crises raised corporate governance to the first rank of policy issues.
On the contrary: the threshold for a qualified majority has been raised from 71.26% (68 of 87 votes) to 74.79% ( 258 out of 345 votes).
And this is precisely what the PBOC did on August 12-13, when stronger-than-expected depreciation pressure and surging devaluation expectations raised the risk that the planned one-off exchange-rate adjustment could trigger a rout.
The deeper question raised by this proposal is whether Musharraf meant to convey a message to the US that Pakistan’s priorities were shifting.
Since the first personal genetic tests became available on the Internet three years ago, critics have raised concerns about their potential impact on patients and families, along with their accuracy.
For example, the UN could not prevent the invasion of Iraq in 2003, but the absence of its imprimatur greatly raised the costs to the American and British governments.
The Fund’s participation in the effort to rescue the eurozone may have raised its profile and gained it favor in Europe.
He sputtered smoke, raised his bushy white eyebrows, and said, “Victory.
The rise of former President Hosni Mubarak’s last prime minister, General Ahmad Shafiq, who will enter the presidential runoff alongside the Muslim Brothers (MB) candidate Mohamed Morsi, has raised eyebrows across the political spectrum.
The rise of Shafiq is explainable in some areas, but raised eyebrows in others.
Initiated by a broad coalition of county leaders and funded by a combination of county sales tax, federal grants, and philanthropy, the Big Lift has raised $28 million and gotten more than 200 organizations involved.
Interest rates high enough to curb stock market speculation would also have curbed construction and other forms of investment, raised unemployment, and sent the economy into recession.
The fiscal position was further strengthened when the government raised the retirement age to 67.
According to ECB President Mario Draghi, the inflation rate, which currently stands at just below 0%, is to be raised to an average of just below 2%.
The funds raised from the initiative would be invested in Ecuador’s alternative-energy industry, with the goal of changing the country’s entire energy matrix.
If this amount is not raised, the call for drilling will be almost unstoppable.
The Islamic State’s European StrategyLONDON – Terrorist attacks by Islamic State (ISIS) affiliates and sympathizers over the past year have raised alarms in Europe, but they have not yet reached the frequency Europe experienced in the 1970s, according to the Global Terrorism Database.
Then the East Asian currency crisis put further action on hold and raised serious questions about when--and whether--to proceed.
By slashing the funding for the institutions which created that civilization, Cameron has guaranteed that tomorrow’s Britain will be a nation not of world-class politicians, writers, and cultural innovators, but of wonky technocrats raised on bad TV, with little influence beyond their tiny island.
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