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Rosenbaum has fun with his role, and he even manages to reference Oliver Stone's 'The Doors' if you can believe it.
The two-degree target is the primary point of reference for today’s climate debate.
This proposal was discussed at last December’s European Council meeting and rejected, resulting in a reference to “open-ended negotiations” in the Council’s conclusions.
In other words, above a low level of sufficiency, peoples’ happiness levels are determined much less by their absolute income than by their income relative to some reference group.
Just recently Le Monde had the wonderful headline: “[President] Hollande Defends French Foie Gras against Anglo-Saxon lobbies” (the reference was to California’s ban on foie gras under its animal-cruelty laws).
Everyone immediately got the reference.
That is why one should look at the unemployment ratio – the percentage of the unemployed in the reference population – rather than at the unemployment rate.
The post-WWII period stands as a reference point in America’s collective memory, but it was in all likelihood an aberration.
In the run-up to the referendum, Scotland’s independence movement became an important point of reference for Catalans and Basques in Spain, the Flemish in Belgium, the Veneto and South Tyrol regions in Italy, Corsicans and Bretons in France, and the secessionists of Quebec.
Three factors are at work here:- Only a few rules are freestanding, i.e. can be fully understood and enforced without reference to other legal terms and concepts.
Resources are the available volumes of hydrocarbon without reference to constraints as to their accessibility and/or cost.
“I'll kill him if he builds a palace here," shouts Nikolai, in a reference to current Russian leaders' proclivity for erecting garish monuments to their personal splendor: Putin's Italianate palace on the Black sea, for example, allegedly cost more than $1 billion.
The gap in per-capita income of the EU15 (the membership prior to the accession of mainly post-communist states in 2004) relative to the United States – taken as a reference in many targets – is unchanged at 30-40%, depending on the adjustment to purchasing power parity.
Ultimately, the Obama-Sharif statement did emphasize India-Pakistan relations, and made no reference to the nuclear issue.
With or without a nuclear deal, Iran, which was disinvited from the Geneva II conference on Syria, because of its rejection of the conference’s US-inspired terms of reference, aspires to challenge America’s policies and represent an alternative path for the region.
The last reference to international institutions in an inaugural address was President John F. Kennedy’s pledge to support the United Nations in 1961.
Obama’s treatment of global warming in his inaugural address is telling in this regard, because, other than a passing reference to preserving “our planet,” the issue of climate was dealt with as an internal matter.
This nonsense on stilts is articulated by some zany candidates who enjoy the support of the Tea Party, a reference not to the Mad Hatter in Alice in Wonderland, which would be fitting, but to the Bostonians who rebelled against colonial Britain’s imposition of taxes in the eighteenth century.
Meritocracy, which is central to the Chinese political tradition, will almost certainly serve as a reference point from which to assess the country’s development.
Trump’s praise of Brexit, which emphasized the British people’s “right to self-determination,” and his belittling reference to the EU as “the Consortium” in his appearance with British Prime Minister Theresa May, underscores his hostility.
But the expert panel did not truly follow its own terms of reference – which emphasized the need to prevent people from drowning at sea.
Not surprisingly, Chinese leadership was keen to avoid any reference to the last two centuries of struggle and humiliation, or to its problematic political agendas and thorny trade issues.
Its collections contain some of the largest and most comprehensive records of plant diversity in the world, and are a global point of reference for research.
This was a clear reference to Ukraine’s 2004 Orange Revolution, allegedly organized and bankrolled by the CIA, which overthrew Viktor Yanukovych, Moscow’s preferred presidential candidate.
Hollande’s reference point seems to be the post-war idyll of his youth, a time of rapid growth, demographic recovery, scarce immigration, and scant global competition.
The official minutes of the meeting make no reference to the entire discussion of the inflation target, which took up several hours, and the FOMC never formally announced its 2% target for annual inflation until Chairman Ben Bernanke, Yellen’s predecessor, finally did so in 2012.
Inevitably, we will hear commentary about an electorate exhausted from a dramatic year in which France’s political foundations shifted and its traditional points of reference were obscured.
For the first time, precise reference is made to people liable to be a threat to US security.
In 2011, the National Research Council and the US Federal Judicial Center issued the 1,016-page third edition of the Reference Manual on Scientific Evidence.
But it did the same for Andrei Sakharov and Vaclav Havel, who defended their supreme values with reference to, and in the language of, lay humanism.
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