Example collocations logo

Regional in sentence

3925 examples of Regional in a sentence

But this scenario, too, can be ruled out, owing to the regional bias against military interventions and the fact that Venezuela’s neighbors lack the means to carry one out.
Third, Latin America needs to reform existing regional bodies, beginning with the Organization of American States, or develop new forms of regional cooperation.
The threats to internal stability are large and growing; and, as Venezuela shows, when internal order breaks down, regional stability is put at risk by refugee flows, gangs, and drug cartels.
Tackling rural electrification with mini-grids is not a new idea; communities from the United States to Cambodia have long used this approach to weave local infrastructure into regional or national grids.
First, by defending nuclear weapons as a source of regional or global stability, he profoundly underestimated the danger that they could fall into the hands of terrorists or be used because of a miscalculation.
Nevertheless, it is useful to compare economic disparities in the EU with those in the United States to assess regional convergence in Europe – bearing in mind, of course, that the US has been a nation-state for more than two centuries, while the EU is best seen as a confederation of 27 states under a supra-national structure.
So regional disparities may persist or even grow, posing a challenge for policymakers concerned with stimulating economic growth and regional cohesion.
Unsurprisingly, then, regional disparities in income are much greater across the enlarged EU’s countries than across the US states.
China is at the geographical hub of Asia, sharing land or sea frontiers with 20 countries; so, in the absence of Chinese participation, it will be impossible to establish a rules-based regional order.
Yet China remains the stumbling block, refusing to enter into a water-sharing treaty with any neighbor – much less support a regional regulatory framework – because it wants to maintain its strategic grip on trans-boundary river flows.
China’s rush to build more dams promises to roil relations across Asia, fostering greater competition for water and impeding the already slow progress toward institutionalizing regional cooperation and integration.
Building the institutions of a market economy should be the main focus, not alignment with expensive EU standards in food production or the environment;The EU should gradually phase out its Common Agricultural Policy, which primarily benefits owners of large farms, and instead develop new instruments of financial assistance for its own poor regions and its new neighbours;Current EU members and successful candidate countries could make available large-scale training programmes in market-relevant disciplines for the young generation in CIS countries;Taking as a model the Stability Pact in the Balkans, the EU could offer concrete incentives, such as economic assistance and the prospect of closer integration, to stimulate parties to end unresolved regional conflicts in the Caucasus, Transdniestria and Central Asia;The main actors providing international assistance - including the World Bank, International Monetary Fund, EBRD, the EU itself and the United Nations Development Programme - should ensure a minimum level of co-ordination to avoid duplication and waste.
Trade and monetary agreements are still reached, but they increasingly take the form of regional and bilateral deals, rather than multilateral arrangements, thereby serving broader geopolitical goals.
Perhaps these regional bargains will prove to be a step toward wider free trade.
We need genuine engagement, open communication, and mutual accountability, at the local, national, regional, and global levels.
This week, we commit the US and the EU to combat illegal fishing, to strengthen our monitoring, and to enforce management measures in our role as parties to regional fishery organizations and to various international treaties.
US Secretary of State John Kerry has re-launched American mediation efforts in the Middle East at a time when his country’s most reliable partners are estranged: Egypt’s military rulers resent the West’s early support for the Muslim Brotherhood’s Mohamed Morsi in his presidential tenure, and Saudi Arabia fears that an Iran that talks to the US may prove to be an even more ambitious regional hegemon.
Morocco is an ideal setting for regional diplomacy.
This regional perspective has been promoted ever since Mohammed acceded to the throne in 1999.
This principle of regional solidarity extends to Morocco’s deployment of military hospitals not only in Mali but also in other conflict zones, such as one in Jordan that serves Syrian refugees.
Its political stability, open economy, and balanced international relations are increasingly aligned with the regional interests of the US and Europe.
Members of the federal government are driven by regional loyalties at some times, and by ideological commitments at other times; they all need to be negotiated when making decisions.
In the words of a recent Brookings Institution book, Obama had an “activist vision of his role in history,” intending to “refurbish America’s image abroad, especially in the Muslim world; end its involvement in two wars; offer an outstretched hand to Iran; reset relations with Russia as a step toward ridding the world of nuclear weapons; develop significant cooperation with China on both regional and global issues; and make peace in the Middle East.”
Fortunately, many countries in this part of the world have recognized that regional welfare must be addressed as a regional challenge.
Those analysts realized that most, if not all, of the solutions to the world’s biggest challenges depend on local or regional contexts.
Therefore, the San José event will replace a global outlook with a regional one, with a new panel of experts focusing on the biggest challenges facing Latin America and the Caribbean.
The panel will produce a prioritized list of solutions that can serve as a set of guidelines for regional policymakers, helping us to be both ambitious and realistic.
Working together with a genuine sense of regional community is a challenge in itself, but one well worth addressing.
Moreover, the economy was opened, state enterprises were privatized, and the country participated in an important regional free-trade initiative.
Brazil, the regional powerhouse, always viewed it as a counterweight to the United States in hemispheric affairs.
BackNext