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Beneath ostensibly pragmatic motivations lies dubious rent-seeking by the group Samuel Coleridge referred to as the “clerisy” – those who live from creating, preserving, and disseminating the national culture.
The senior German minister referred to it explicitly, both with regard to the Palestinians and the post-1945 German refugees.
I have often referred to what I call the four pillars of Hong Kong’s success: the rule of law, a level playing field for business, a clean and efficient civil service, and the free flow of information.
Historically, chronic disease referred to conditions lasting over a long period.
They believed that the strong dollar policy referred to exchange rates.
Although Abdullah is usually referred to in the West as Saudi Arabia’s ruler, the debilitated King Fahd’s six full brothers are the ones who truly represent the real power in the Kingdom.
During President George W. Bush’s first term, Secretary of State Colin Powell understood and referred to soft power, whereas Rumsfeld, when asked about soft power in 2003, replied “I don’t know what it means.”
US Special Counsel Robert Mueller has referred Craig’s role to the US Attorney for the Southern District of New York for further investigation.
The Economist snidely referred to the "results" in quotation marks.
The economist Stefan Kawalec has explicitly referred to the current policy mix in the eurozone as “currency manipulation.”
On several occasions, Putin has referred to Eurasianism as an important part of Russian ideology; he has even invoked it as a founding principle of the “Eurasian Economic Union,” a burgeoning trade area of former Soviet states.
Margaret Evans, a British researcher, studied tributes people left for Diana after her death and found that some referred to her as a saint, or an angel, and a few compared her directly with Jesus.
The de facto export ban on rare-earth elements – often referred to as “industrial vitamins” – struck a terrible blow to Japanese companies, which rely on China for 97% of their supply.
That particular piece of wisdom referred to the situation of companies in an economic crisis.
Obama referred to the US as “the indispensable nation,” and that description still holds true, in part because US military spending exceeds that of the next nine countries combined – five times more than China, the world’s second-largest military spender.
While praising the beauty of Jerusalem’s holy sites, Trump never referred to the city as the capital of Israel, much less reiterate his campaign promise to move the US embassy there.
This 6.9% annual average return has since been referred to as “Siegel’s constant,” as if Siegel had discovered a new law of nature.
Although this charge has some merit, it is worth mentioning that all prosecutions against Africans have been referred to the ICC by African governments themselves or the UN Security Council.
The only exception is a case involving post-election ethnic violence in Kenya in 2007, which was referred to the ICC by former UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan after he helped mediate the dispute.
Subsequently, the GGE report was endorsed by the leaders of the G20 and referred to the UN General Assembly.
Remarkably, as short-term interest rates rose, medium- and long-term interest rates did not, something that was referred to as a “conundrum.”
Middle Eastern countries need fully integrated, innovation-oriented frameworks for training health-care professionals, so that they can address their current public-health challenges and prepare for new, unexpected ones, such as Middle East respiratory syndrome (commonly referred to as MERS), Ebola, and other infectious diseases that can appear with little or no forewarning.
A second regional focus is reflected in the revived — at Tehran’s initiative — and expanded Economic Cooperation Organization (ECO), sometimes referred to as the Islamic Common Market.
Some 58,000 individuals have been referred for further criminal investigation.
In 2015, British lawmakers approved a form of germline modification known as “mitochondrial donation” – commonly referred to as “three-parent” in vitro fertilization (IVF).
It has also maintained some effective sanctions regimes, and referred some cases to the International Criminal Court.
In this respect, Ebola is – or, rather, was – an example of what is sometimes referred to as the 90/10 rule: 90% of medical research is directed toward illnesses that comprise only 10% of the global burden of disease.
When President Hu Jintao visited Washington, DC in January 2011, he and President Barack Obama agreed to build what Hu referred to as “a China-US cooperative partnership based on respect and mutual benefit.”
In a sense, the SRF can be considered China’s latest sovereign-wealth-fund initiative, and some media have even referred to it as the “second CIC.”But, whereas the CIC is under the managerial control of the finance ministry, the SRF’s operations appear to reflect the influence of the People’s Bank of China.
It also led to the expectations I have referred to that helped produce the Asian crisis.
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