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One of the last acts of his government was to replace the majoritarian electoral system, introduced in 1993, with proportional rule.
One promising area of investigation is CRISPR – a cutting-edge tool that could allow us to delete, repair, or replace the genes that cause disease.
Calcutt’s key recommendation was to replace the moribund Press Council with a Press Complaints Commission (PCC), which was duly created.
While many lost jobs, homes, and hopes, trillions of dollars in savings have been sloshing around the world’s financial centers ever since, on top of more trillions pumped out by desperate central banks eager to replace the financiers’ toxic money.
Others accused him of pursuing "non-political politics"- a concept of democracy whose protagonists wish to do away with political parties entirely and replace them with the more nebulous and perhaps more easily manipulated "civil society."
Now, a group of leading scientists, innovators, and economists has identified our era’s moonshot: to replace fossil fuels with clean-energy technologies within this generation.
The Hindu zealots who destroyed the mosque vowed to replace it with a temple to Ram, thereby avenging 500 years of history.
Thus, to destroy the mosque and replace it with a temple was not righting an old wrong but perpetrating a new one.
While the European Union’s problems will not be resolved because France has a new president, Sarkozy’s vision of a simplified constitutional treaty to replace the draft that French and Dutch voters rejected in 2005 is more realistic than Royal’s call for a new referendum.
The seemingly euro-skeptic Gordon Brown is about to replace Tony Blair in Britain.
It also provides some assurance for the dreaded future when robots may replace workers in many sectors.
While a basic income can replace some egregiously dysfunctional welfare spending, it cannot substitute for, say, public education and health care, preschool nutrition programs, or employment guarantees in public works.
Their intent was not to replace the many economic dialogues already taking place, but to create a senior-level forum that was both comprehensive and strategic.
This zero-carbon electricity will power electric vehicles that replace our internal-combustion engine cars.
And energy-intensive industries such as steel and aluminum will also replace fossil fuels with zero-carbon electricity and hydrogen.
Just enough Republican senators (three, but more were in reserve if needed) voted to reject the last of several efforts to fulfill the party’s vow to replace “Obamacare.”
Over Obama’s tenure, Republicans came to realize that it was no longer sufficient simply to call for a repeal of Obamacare, and their rhetoric shifted to the need to “repeal and replace.”
The Republicans were now in full control of the government – and they hadn’t a clue about what should replace Obamacare.
Significantly, Senate Republican leaders ignored Trump’s demand that they take up repeal and replace of Obamacare again, before they consider any other major issue.
The EU also needs common initiatives to replace piece-meal bilateral agreements on tax evasion and tax havens, which undermine the goal of a fair society.
In the immediate future, Sberbank – and other sanctioned banks – will be able to replace European funds with liquidity provided by the Central Bank of Russia (CBR) or Asian sources.
Over the last ten years, the question has been whether to keep the existing 18% value-added tax or replace it with a sales tax.
Even then, we know from history that it takes but one Enabling Law to unhinge the rule of law and replace it by an ideological tyranny, as happened when Hitler came to power in Germany.
Unless other countries become more willing to step forward for the common good, a post-American world could quickly become a far more frightening environment than what it would replace.
The forum’s theme was undoubtedly selected partly in response to fears that technological advances will lead to widespread unemployment, as machines become advanced enough to replace humans in performing an increasing number of tasks.
One team has developed degradable packaging to replace plastics.
There is even talk of Russia and China creating an alternative international payment system to replace the SWIFT system, which the US and Europe can use to impose financial sanctions against Russia.
Even though new occupations will likely replace those lost to automation, wages may take time to catch up to the reality of higher labor productivity.
It may take nothing less than revolution – ideally peaceful, of course – to replace the elites who now dominate these economies and societies, and for whom growth is not the central objective.
In the meantime, negotiators face the difficult question of who should replace Assad.
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