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NATO’s ability to transform its strategic outlook and develop an effective southern strategy will depend on its leaders’ ability to reconcile the interests of these two groups of members.
In order to show that there can be objective truths in ethics, Parfit boldly sought to reconcile three major normative theories: Kantianism, contractualism, and consequentialism.
In On What Matters, Volume Three, Parfit again tried to reconcile three major theories, this time theories about the nature of ethics, and the basis on which one might call an ethical judgment “true.”
No less is required to reconcile independence with accountability in a democratic society.
The US Constitution’s framers envisioned another key purpose for the pardon power: to help end conflicts and reconcile with political foes.
Those who try to reconcile the two would limit modernization to the narrowly economic sphere end up combining economic liberalism with old-style social collectivism.
More generally, democracies have shown that they can reconcile multiethnic and multilingual diversity with overall political unity.
First and foremost, it would reconcile a large state balance sheet with an expanding role for markets, bolstering employment, stimulating innovation, and advancing the economy’s structural transformation.
Russia’s need to reconcile its role in these negotiations with its interests in Syria makes an already-complicated dialogue more difficult.
In the Internet environment, the traditional view of a leader being decisively in control is difficult to reconcile with reality.
This puts a new debate center stage: how to reconcile increased action to reduce greenhouse gas emissions with strong economic growth.
So we must try to reconcile the “yes” and “no” countries if we are to overcome the crisis into which Europe has been plunged.
Rather than admit to breaking the rules, they lie to reconcile the inconsistency.
But the responsibility to reconcile global commerce with the protection of basic human rights does not fall first and foremost on consumers.
There are also the unfulfilled national aspirations of the Kurds (large numbers of whom live in Turkey, Iraq, Syria, and Iran) and the unresolved matter of how to reconcile the reality of Israel with the Palestinians’ political goals.
But Gaddafi now seems to want to reconcile his teachings and rule with a more open economy, including foreign direct investment and market-based competition.
But, unless the Arabs reconcile themselves to the permanent reality of a Jewish state in Palestine, the creation of a Palestinian Arab state will not provide more than the temporary palliative of a tenuous truce between Arabs and Jews.
The Sixth Fatah Congress, the first in sixteen years, will take place in August 2005 and will seek to reconcile the conflict between the Old and Young Guard.
This trust sustains Kohl's confidence that he can reconcile the contradictions inherent in Nato enlargement: an opening of the Alliance to new members, and a special arrangement between Nato and Russia (and also, incidentally, between Nato and Ukraine).
In the long run, the West should aim to help the Malian government to build state institutions and reconcile with its northern population.
Israel wants an end to the conflict but is incapable of paying the price, whereas Hamas can better reconcile its ideology with a peace agreement with Israel if it is not defined as final.
This is reflected in the Arab world’s lively debate about how Turkey has been able to reconcile Islam, democracy, and economic development.
The incoming European Commission must boldly stimulate economic growth and employment, so that southern European countries can reconcile their deficit- and debt-reduction goals with policies targeting growth.
Blair couldn’t reconcile his neo-conservative principles with those of his own party – a situation that came to a head with his disastrous support for the US-led war in Iraq.
That means, in many cases, less luxury spending – something that is hard to reconcile with the image of France as the country of fashion, perfume, and champagne.
The failure to demobilize and reconcile factions in Lebanon, where Hezbollah remained armed despite its transformation into a political party, meant that belligerency was always bubbling below the surface.
But Sarkozy will have to act responsibly in proving that he really can change the country and reconcile the French with themselves and with France’s position in a globalized world.
Because there is a growing fear among governments that such benefits will occur only in the future, the commitment to fiscal restraint that marked the run up to the euro’s birth is softening as leaders seek to reconcile the single currency with the urgent need to promote growth and employment.
Africans wanted leaders who would reconcile and reunite them – leaders who would restore to them the dignity that colonialism had robbed.
We conceive of politics as a mechanism to reconcile enduring conflicts, such as those that exist between freedom and security.
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