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Given how many shark species have been proposed, some have begun referring to the Convention’s Conference of the Parties as the “shark COP.”
“Everyday people come with ideas to demobilize the fighters and integrate them into society,” notes an official in the Labor Ministry, referring to the most pressing problem facing the NTC.
Referring to the key criteria set out in many discussions of traditional “just war” doctrine, he called it “a war waged proportionally, in last resort, and in self-defense.”
As Heinrich Heine put it, referring to the Spanish Inquisition's burning of the Koran, “Where they burn books, so too will they in the end burn human beings.”
That name is the “new normal,” referring to long-term diminished prospects for economic growth, a term popularized by Bill Gross, a founder of bond giant PIMCO.
“Secular stagnation,” referring to long-term economic malaise, is one example.
Despite making some progress in investigating the complaints and referring them to the justice system, as well as in raising public awareness about the issue, the challenges remain huge.
Referring to capital controls, John Maynard Keynes famously said: “what used to be heresy [restrictions on capital flows] is now endorsed as orthodoxy.”
They were writing about the refugee crisis, but they could just as easily have been referring to Germany’s place in the EU today.
When the British economist John Maynard Keynes anticipated the “euthanasia of the rentier” in his 1936 book The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money, he was referring to a financial class that served no purpose other than to exploit scarce capital for its own benefit.
The Prophet was referring to the prosperous and civilized Yemen.
He also raises the issue of productivity, referring to research by the Trades Union Congress.
Referring to France’s national motto, Valls defended “liberty, that is, freedom to write and to think, equality among men and women, and fraternity and secularism, from which is derived our social unity.”
In fact, they have little in common – the trade balance is simply the difference between domestic savings and investment or more broadly, between aggregate spending and output – but referring to Deutschland AG, or UK plc, is conceptually attractive and seductively easy.
I am, of course, referring to countries’ “business model,” which all sovereign states have lately been deemed to have.
The recently elected mayor of New York City, Bill de Blasio, made the issue the centerpiece of his campaign, repeatedly referring to a “tale of two cities” and an “inequality crisis.”
Nationalism and war were the defining experiences of Mitterrand’s political career, and he was referring not only to the dreadful past – the first half of the twentieth century, with its two World Wars, dictatorships, and the Holocaust.
British and American media reports have made comparisons to the Nazi era, with some even referring, in the aftermath of attacks on French synagogues, to a French Kristallnacht.
Referring to corporate income made sense when company taxation was seen as a “back stop” within a system of progressive taxation of personal incomes.
"Their work is less valuable," he said referring to the pesos Cubans earn in an economy sustained by dollar remittances from the foreign diaspora.
"It's not my fight," says one 28-year-old Cuban, referring to the political battle of communism versus capitalism that keeps him trapped on the island.
He was jokingly referring to some of my new Facebook friends; but here’s the point: young people do feel somewhat uncomfortable with established and “establishment” people, a.k.a.
If the British public truly opposes immigration, they are probably referring to non-EU immigration, not the arrival of, say, Italian university graduates.
Last month, Vice President-elect Joe Biden, referring to Al Qaeda leadership said, “That’s where they live.
I am referring to the complex fiscal situation in the United States – a fluid problem that has just been rendered more consequential by the recent warning from the ratings agency Moody’s that the US could lose its top credit rating next year if Congress fails to make progress on medium-term fiscal reforms.
But, by not referring to Gauck’s speech, he missed an opportunity to underline the success of one of Obama’s key foreign-policy tenets: as the US steps back from its role as global policeman and focuses more on diplomacy than force, other countries must step up.
When he said in Davos, “we cannot be indifferent to the pain and suffering of our fellow brethren in the region,” he might as well have been referring to the Assad regime and its partners in crime.
Hopkins was referring to the groundbreaking $50 billion Lend-Lease Act, which became the primary means by which the US provided military aid to foreign countries during World War II.
But, if Israelis and Palestinians share a vital interest in a two-state solution, they have very different interests, and therefore mean very different things when referring to the same issues.
Michael Ignatieff, a Canadian advocate of the imperial metaphor, qualifies it by referring to America's role in the world as "Empire Lite."
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