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But in Norway, voters rejected EU membership in a referendum and still do.
Though the US Senate initially rejected Wilson’s vision, particularly his support for joining the League of Nations, Franklin D. Roosevelt revived liberal internationalism after 1933.
Now it seems that, according to the committee that rejected my nomination, adhering to the principles of most Christian churches is a cause for such a “moral” disqualification.
That must be firmly rejected.
Indeed, international law requires that such proposals be rejected.
Time after time, the EU rejected and denigrated common-sense policies.
On June 5, Swiss voters overwhelmingly rejected, by 77% to 23%, the proposition that every citizen should be guaranteed an unconditional basic income (UBI).
It has concealed several nuclear facilities from the International Atomic Energy Agency, played hide-and-seek with the international community, and rejected all offers of cooperation from the United States, the European Union, and others.
He subsequently rejected the international Law of the Sea Treaty; opposed the World Bank’s promotion of energy conservation; withdrew the US from UNESCO; and, like Trump, pledged to reduce America’s contributions to international organizations.
Decline is a misleading metaphor for today’s America, and Obama fortunately has rejected the suggestion that he should pursue a strategy aimed at managing it.
If a supposedly universal policy is seen to be applied inconsistently in order to further one nation's or culture's interests, that policy will lose credibility and be rejected as representing a double standard.
But the US has flatly rejected China’s proposal, ostensibly because it seems to morally conflate North Korea’s quest for weapons of mass destruction (which it appears fully prepared to use) with America’s right to defend itself and its allies.
In June, British voters decided to take their country out of the European Union; now, a narrow majority of Colombians have rejected a peace agreement with the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC).
In much of Sub-Saharan Africa, women’s applications for business loans are rejected.
Had the Germans been consulted, they probably would have rejected the interventions anyway.
Sadly for the GAO, shortly after their report appeared, the Federal Reserve and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation rejected the most recent living wills as completely inadequate – meaning that there is still no road map for handling the failure of a very large bank.
And that is exactly why torture in all its forms should be rejected.
So the authorities responded quickly to the Bush administration's request for Turkish troops to join the coalition, although the idea was stillborn - rejected by both the Kurds and the American-appointed Governing Council in Iraq.
Just as the BRICS have rejected Western-led economic institutions, developing economies would do well to expel foreign banks and allow local financial institutions to create money for productive purposes.
Appeals, when filed, are routinely rejected.
But it is the IMF that should be castigated--for pushing an economic theory that was rejected long ago.
Many at the time rejected the policy altogether, warning that it would destroy incentives and bring the economy to a halt.
But the nominees presented by the LDP government of Prime Minister Taro Aso (who is now Abe’s finance minister) were repeatedly rejected by the Diet’s upper house, which was controlled by the opposition Democratic Party of Japan.
But the most radical indigenous groups rejected the initiative, and the group organizing the coca growers took advantage of the situation, stirring up nationalist sentiments.
Populists effectively converted these memories into a political force that rejected efforts leading to globalization and an open society.
When they voted on the components to be included in the country's submission, the HIV/AIDS and tuberculosis plans were accepted but the malaria component was rejected due to its low quality.
This means that May could attach a referendum proposal to her preferred version of Brexit, justifiably claiming that Parliament’s response to the 2016 referendum should either be ratified or rejected by another popular vote.
The Chinese negotiators rejected Mnuchin’s list, arguing that it was too long and sought to change the nature of China’s economic policy.
President Barack Obama rejected many of the policies of the George W. Bush administration that were seen as trying to force democracy on Arab countries.
Bush Loses in the Supreme Court and America WinsTwo rulings of the United States Supreme Court this week rejected the sweeping wartime powers claimed by President Bush.
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