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Now, at the eleventh hour, Russia is sticking to its obstructionist position, and its presidential election in March will likely reinforce anti-Western postures.
This will delay a full debt write-off for up to three years, exclude Somalia from long-term development finance, and reinforce its dependence on emergency aid.
Barack Obama’s American RevolutionFor eight years, George W. Bush has managed to incarnate and reinforce all the prejudices and negative stereotypes the world has of the US.
China’s comparative advantages, including a global financial center in Hong Kong and a regional financial center in Shanghai, reinforce its leadership role.
To reinforce this approach, the provision of financing for “belt and road” projects must adhere strictly to market rules.
What would convince Chinese leaders that they must rapidly reinforce the open global economy that enabled China’s export-driven economic rise?
Despite several weeks of intense US pressure to soften - or even retract - the proposed law, China’s leaders did little more than attempt to reinforce their position that “non-peaceful” (i.e., military) measures would serve strictly as a last resort - which had already been assumed anyway.
In the late 1990s, Madeleine Albright, then the US Secretary of State, called on governments in Europe to support an “alliance of democracies” that would reinforce Western values after the fall of the Berlin Wall and the collapse of the Soviet Union.
The internal political dynamics of the Syrian crisis reinforce this incentive.
But with a concerted effort to create a level playing field that gives more people a bigger piece of the economic pie, not to mention more transparent governance and a stronger social safety net, China’s government could reinforce its legitimacy and credibility.
These two features reinforce and compound each other.
Hence, a major effort is now underway to reinforce and expand existing aid programs.
But the predictable rules that formal processes produce remain critical to reinforce the stability required for sustained prosperity.
The final item on the agenda for reviving the rules-based order, and defeating the world’s destructive Dionysuses, is the most challenging: we must reinforce rules-based communities.
By clarifying that simply criticizing the government’s actions does not constitute sedition, such an amendment would reinforce freedom of speech – fundamental to any democracy – while safeguarding against speech that actually incites violence.
Moreover, the information people see is often filtered, so that they are exposed only to ideas that reflect or reinforce their own.
Israel’s leaders, in particular, have sought to reinforce the defenses against the anti-Semitism that still persists in the world.
The possibility of unpredictable interventions would reinforce the effect of the bank’s regular announcements of the parity values on traders’ perception of increased risk.
If the West were to turn its back on Russia, such isolation would reinforce the xenophobic and statist tendencies present in Russian political culture and make the liberal cause more difficult.
Likewise, the choice between privately consumed and publicly consumed “goods” is often blurred, as politicians tend to reinforce citizens’ understandable tendency to demand public goods while rejecting the taxes needed to pay for them.
But that strategy will most likely reinforce the corruption that has been a fixture of Brazilian politics for decades – and which improved little under Lula.
Such events reinforce the tendency of modern political regimes, dictatorships as well as democracies, to measure themselves in monumental building projects – giant new stadiums, gargantuan shopping malls, huge conference halls – which are sometimes needed, but often are not.
The urbanist Jane Jacobs, for example, described the rich interactions occurring in New York City neighborhoods – what she called an “intricate ballet, in which the individual dancers and ensembles all have distinctive parts which miraculously reinforce each other.”
Those who argue that ritual slaughter is “foreign” to Polish culture not only know nothing about their country’s history; they also exploit and reinforce anti-Semitic sentiment.
Respect for common values will reinforce progress towards a strategic partnership.”
Instead, the “ limit-the-swings” strategy proposed here implies that, as the exchange rate moves further away from parity, central banks should use their reserves to intervene at unpredictable moments in order to reinforce the effect of their regular announcements of the parity range on traders’ perception of increased risk of capital losses.
The challenge lies in combining these resources with hard-power assets like economic and military power so that they reinforce one another.
Putin may understand that hard and soft power reinforce each other, but he remains seemingly incapable of applying that understanding to policy.
Labor economists have discerned some trends that may reinforce their fears, but that don’t support the conclusions that students tend to draw.
Incentives that reinforce practices that preserve biodiversity must be applied at all levels if they are to influence individual actions and social norms.
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