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Eurozone policymakers, by contrast, rejected monetary stimulus and implemented fiscal austerity measures, while ignoring the deepening distress of their banks.
But the US and its allies quickly rejected the agreement as an Iranian ploy designed to halt the growing momentum for additional sanctions.
It neither endorsed nor rejected the official outcome.
Countries can argue that they have actively sought a diplomatic solution and have even offered humanitarian assistance, only to be rejected by the Maduro regime.
But, just as stunningly, rank-and-file members of the US House of Representatives have rejected it – at least for now.
Had the question been posed in this way to parliaments around the world, I believe that TRIP’s would have been soundly rejected.
In this context, the administration has rejected calls to withdraw US tactical nuclear weapons from Europe unilaterally, insisting that it will only do so with the consent of all NATO members.
A leading columnist for the Financial Times, repeating the erroneous idea that the US has remained on the sidelines, recently implied that Obama had rejected the advice of then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to arm the Syrian rebels fighting Assad.
This leaves today’s European Union at the mercy of a US that has rejected multilateralism and embraced nationalism.
After that, it traces the old McMahon Line drawn in 1914 – and rejected by China as an imperial dictate – to demarcate British India from what was then Tibet.
Women’s role as fighters, perhaps more than anything else, will ensure that the tenets of ISIS – particularly its lethal brand of patriarchy – are rejected outright.
But there will be no new initiatives on integration until leaders in the countries that rejected the Constitutional Treaty are ready for a new try.
Nor can one be buoyed by Joseph Biden’s repeated calls for a “soft partition” of Iraq, even though the entire Iraqi political class has rejected the notion.
But, earlier this year, Park’s successor, Moon Jae-in, rejected the deal, arguing that it did not adequately serve the victims or the public.
If either country were to apply for EU membership today, their bids would be rejected.
The CDU delegates rejected Merz but not his program, suggesting that they would like to see Kramp-Karrenbauer pursue a Merzian policy agenda.
Similarly, 78% of Kurds rejected polygamy, compared to just 49% of both Shi’ites and Sunnis.
In a vote on July 5, the Greek electorate resoundingly rejected demands for further austerity by the country’s foreign creditors: the European Central Bank, the International Monetary Fund, and the other eurozone governments, led by Germany.
He was a committed nationalist who rejected any and all foreign alliances that threatened Britain’s policy independence.
Last month, China’s environment ministry rejected an application from BMW Brilliance, the German carmaker’s Chinese joint venture, to expand one of its plants, citing inadequate waste-water analysis and failure to meet official pollution-reduction targets.
The attempt by some NGOs and activists to impose a straitjacket on CSR, reflecting their priorities, is misguided and must be rejected.
After the Rajya Sabha’s chairman, Indian Vice President Venkaiah Naidu, rejected the motion, two MPs asked the Supreme Court to challenge that decision.
Three developments were especially noteworthy: US resistance to China’s efforts to establish the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank – a stance now rejected by most of America’s closest allies;President Barack Obama’s signature trade initiative, the Trans-Pacific Partnership, which excludes China; and yet another effort by the US Senate to enact legislation on currency manipulation that takes dead aim at China.
Many were gravely disappointed when European leaders earlier this month rejected pleas to establish a special support program for them.
The low-paid worker who makes his way up, from whatever low base and despite hardship, is less likely to suffer the despair of the long-term unemployed who finds himself rejected by society.
Similarly, in Canada, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is facing a backlash against a federal carbon tax imposed on the four (of ten) Canadian provinces that rejected his original emissions-reduction policies – and it might cost him his job next year.
For example, the states of Washington, Arizona, and Colorado recently rejected initiatives to curb fossil-fuel use.
Speaking on behalf of the European Union, a German spokesperson rejected the concept of “defamation of religion” as not valid in a human rights context, because human rights belonged to individuals, not to institutions or religions.
Coincidentally, in the same week that Germany and the World Jewish Congress rejected the idea that defamation of religion is an affront to human dignity, and upheld the right to freedom of expression, Germany’s highest court issued its ruling on a case brought by a Jewish organization, and two Jewish individuals.
In the run-up to the Iraq invasion, the Bush administration rejected containment as an obsolete Cold War hangover.
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