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Activist groups
ranging
from environmentalists to terrorists also connect across borders.
Indeed, an attack would most likely increase America’s reliance on unsavory Islamist rulers in countries
ranging
from Saudi Arabia and Qatar to Turkey and the United Arab Emirates.
They themselves are divided, with preferences
ranging
from Sharia rule in one form or another to a “Turkish model” involving mild Islamism capable of achieving mass support through the ballot box.
And the overwhelming opposition to Trump in trend-setting states such as California and New York could encourage their voters to elect legislatures to counteract federal conservatism with progressive state laws on issues
ranging
from air quality and health care to abortion, treatment of immigrants, and gun control.
Many are fed up with the arbitrary imposition of trade barriers – affecting goods
ranging
from chocolate to steel pipes – in their former Soviet markets.
Farmers, the single largest occupational group in most castes, with ritual rank
ranging
from high to low, were highly differentiated in terms of size and economic status.
The reason why French parliamentarians,
ranging
from Communists to conservatives, support this ban is a general consensus that wearing the burqa is “contrary to the values of the Republic.”
In particular, unlike previous situations –
ranging
from the Burmese response to Cyclone Nargis to the Sri Lankan military’s civilian massacres masquerading as a legitimate response to terrorist insurgency – there is little conceptual disagreement now about what are, and are not, “RtoP cases.”
This matters, especially for labor-intensive activities
(ranging
from toy manufacturing to data-entry services), whether by affiliates of foreign multinational enterprises (which account for more than half of China’s exports) or by local firms, which are losing competitiveness in international markets.
Gerashchenko blocked all bank reforms
ranging
from restructuring, liberalization and privatization to deposit insurance.
Such efforts should promptly translate into legislative changes in areas
ranging
from insolvency to patents, from CO2 emission-reduction schemes to “smart” electricity grids.
A determined EU effort to counter Arab fragmentation and tackle problems
ranging
from acute water scarcity to poor education would pay rich dividends.
Apart from sharpening the “tools of the proletarian dictatorship” by strengthening the Peoples Liberation Army and the People’s Armed Police, they have created a labyrinthine “advance warning” system to monitor threats
ranging
from peasant riots, urban unrest, and bird flu to the influx of Western ideas through the Internet.
Finally, the European Commission should be allowed to administer funds directly in countries that are under conditionality, mainly to finance large infrastructure projects –
ranging
from transport to telecommunications to energy.
Obtaining actionable and reliable intelligence can be crucial to activities
ranging
from everyday law enforcement to preventing acts of terror.
As more devices,
ranging
from automobiles to pacemakers, are placed online, malicious hackers could turn the “Internet of Things” (IOT) into “the weaponization of everything.”
As the region moved from hard exchange-rate pegs to floating rates, Asian currencies plunged – with drops against the dollar
ranging
from 28% in South Korea and roughly 37% in Thailand, Malaysia, and the Philippines to almost 80% in Indonesia.
But most of China’s high-tech investments so far have been abroad – in sectors
ranging
from electronics and biotechnology to software and nanotechnology – which won’t change its value-chain ranking.
The result is a continuing disaster for the poorest countries, where the burden of infectious disease is rising starkly, in diseases
ranging
from Malaria, to HIV/AIDs and Tuberculosis.
Over the last two years, officials from all China’s provinces –
ranging
from low-ranking department chiefs in ministries to senior provincial leaders – have been incarcerated.
As Iraq's new rulers debate what to do about the billions of dollars in foreign debts inherited from Saddam Hussein's regime, voices
ranging
from the charity Oxfam-International to US defence guru Richard Perle are calling for debt repudiation on the grounds that the debts Iraq now bears were contracted to sustain a corrupt, oppressive regime.
Finally, the world faces many serious challenges,
ranging
from the need to halt the spread of weapons of mass destruction, fight climate change, and maintain a functioning world economic order that promotes trade and investment to regulating practices in cyberspace, improving global health, and preventing armed conflicts.
The term “cyber attack”covers a wide variety of actions,
ranging
from simple probes to defacing Web sites, denial of service, espionage, and destruction.
Some of the reasons why this is happening reflect fundamental changes in the world, including the diffusion of power to an increasing number of states and non-state actors,
ranging
from terrorist organizations and militias to corporations and NGOs.
With machines taking over high-wage manufacturing jobs, companies are increasingly seeking higher-skill workers in areas
ranging
from science to the arts.
On May 15, in a closed trial without legal representation for the accused, three leading reformers – Ali Al Dumaini, a well-known journalist and poet, and university professors Abdullah Al Hamid and Matruk al Falih – were condemned and sentenced to prison terms
ranging
from six to nine years.
According to the Internet database Factiva, 43 news articles mentioned the report, in publications
ranging
from the Kansas City Star to the Beirut Daily Star .
The problem of excess demand becomes more serious – and ethically challenging – when it involves refugees and grows suddenly, owing to factors
ranging
from natural disaster to civil war.
These statements of faith are both historic and timely, as the world’s countries seek to implement global agreements in areas
ranging
from climate change to the Sustainable Development Goals and the establishment of marine reserves on the high seas.
In low-income countries, nine out of ten young people lack basic secondary-education level proficiency across a suite of essential skills,
ranging
from literacy and critical thinking to mathematics, and problem solving.
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