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Although member states appear to have resigned themselves to this, they fervently resist other European firms taking control of their “national champion” companies.
We also have evidence that says that these dormant cells may resist most current treatments.
Countries undergoing a “middle-income transition” out of poor-country status frequently try to resist these changes, but doing so causes growth to slow, if not stop altogether.
Europe must resist the geopolitical challenge that Russia is posing, and it must be unified to have any chance of success.
One way to weaken this resistance is to involve not only ministers and heads of government in exchanging information on policy design, but also those who resist change, notably trade unions.
This caused the industry to resist strongly efforts to rein in practices like proprietary trading.
And, with Cold War tensions long past, it is all too easy for policymakers and publics to resist the doomsayers, be complacent about the threats that these weapons continue to pose, and to regard attempts to eliminate them, or contain their spread, as well-meaning but futile.
With 27 members (28 with the approaching addition of Croatia), EU treaty amendments will be impossible, not only because the United Kingdom continues to resist further European integration, but also because popular referenda would be required in many member states.
The elements of a broader consensus on the future role of financial regulation are in place, as long as Americans like Geithner can resist their constant desire to tell the rest of the world to do as they say, not as they do.
Questions about the change in practice have reached US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton – who admitted that she herself would resist a sexual pat-down – and President Barack Obama.
They might, for example, resist the Internet algorithm that suggests which book to buy or film to rent, based on what they read or watched previously.
Beyond the ecological risks, critics warn that, once deployed globally, SRM could spawn powerful weapons, giving states, corporations, or individuals the ability to manipulate climate for strategic gain (an idea that not even Hollywood can resist).
In the same way, the UN as a whole needs an adequate budget to finance global efforts to fight climate change, protect the oceans, end extreme poverty, resist nuclear proliferation, and stop local conflicts through the UN Security Council before they become global disasters.
Of course, China may resist exposing itself to the pitfalls of Middle East diplomacy.
Israel would presumably resist this outcome, and Iran – as leader of the so-called “Shia crescent” spreading from Lebanon to Tajikistan – would strongly, and perhaps violently, oppose such a bargain as well.
Indeed, before the WTO ministerial meeting in Doha earlier this year, India's line was to oppose the launch of a new trade round, resist further trade liberalization in industrial goods, and oppose the use of trade sanctions to punish countries that fail to meet minimal labor standards.
Ironically, one early argument used by the Bush administration to resist increases in unemployment benefits was that it would discourage workers from looking for a job.
Who but the most die-hard global-warming denier could resist the notion, as Earth Hour’s American website phrased it this year, that merely “by flipping off your lights on March 27 at 8:30 p.m. local time you will be making the switch to a cleaner, more secure nation”?
A second reason to resist putting a price tag on all human activities is that doing so can be corrupting.
But Russian leaders resist tough sanctions on Iran, lest they jeopardize financial dealings there and lead to increased Iranian support for Muslim minorities inside Russia.
Saleh will undoubtedly resist such an effort.
First, they should stop repeating the claim that there is no “Plan B.”Telling people that there is no alternative to a discredited policy merely pushes them either to resist an approach that does not work, or to opt for mayhem.
And this calculation is crucially affected by perceptions of the other side’s willingness and ability to resist.
And studies using data from larger hospitals – where microbes are more likely to develop antibiotic resistance – estimate that about 40% of infections in newborns resist standard treatments.
I would, however, resist the conclusion that Japan’s apologies have been a net negative in this respect.
All of the more mainstream candidates who lost in the first round must actively resist a Le Pen victory, which means actively working to secure Macron’s victory in the runoff – a victory for the French Republic over those who hold it in contempt.
The growing capacity of pathogens to resist antibiotics and other antimicrobial drugs is turning into the greatest emerging crisis in contemporary health care – and it is a crisis that cannot be solved by science alone.
Can we think of entities that not only resist the ravages of time, but that, through the creation and recombination of novel components, become able to cope with an unpredictable future?
By 1931, even Britain found it hard to resist the German model.
In the minds of a few Israeli strategic thinkers, Israel must resist firmly for two or three more generations in order to become an irreversible reality in the region and a legitimate “accomplished fact” of the international system.
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