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But we should resist the urge to succumb to fatalism, and instead remain supportive of North Korea’s overtures.
When they died just a day apart this month, the contrast was hard for the global commentariat to resist: Prague’s prince of light against Pyongyang’s prince of darkness.
For starters, Maliki should do something that hasn’t been done in the Middle East for a long time: now and again, he should turn the other cheek and resist the temptation to come after his adversaries.
This means that he will have to deal with a large number of threats, vulnerabilities, and independent actors who may resist bending to America’s will.
First, executives for whom shared profits already account for a significant portion of income may resist programs that distribute profits to more workers, fearing that their own income would decline.
For example, the Hanban, the government agency that manages the 500 Confucius Institutes and 1,000 Confucius classrooms that China supports in universities and schools around the world to teach Chinese language and culture, must resist the temptation to set restrictions that limit academic freedom.
To be sure, the exploitation of children, whether sexual or otherwise, is deplorable, if only because children rarely have the power to resist.
His challenge will be to resist the temptation to seek short-term popularity, recognizing instead that China's stock market must endure short-term pain to win long-term gains.
Well, perhaps for a start, those of us who live in democracies will resist future suggestions that this or that country is immune to the charms of liberty, the rule of law, and representative government.
They probably feared that Iran’s participation in the talks would enable Iranian leaders to link efforts to end the Syrian crisis to negotiations over Iran’s nuclear program, enhancing their ability to resist international demands that the program be terminated.
One should, however, resist falling back on fatalism.
No Secretary General has enjoyed real independence from governments: the UN operates without embassies or intelligence services, and member states resist any attempt to acquire such capabilities.
But those who resist change will end up less competitive in the economy of the future.
But what do we do to resist these dangers?
It would have been far wiser to resist the entreaties coming from both the Israeli and Palestinian sides to solve the conflict and stick with the more modest step-by-step approach that had been shown to work.
Israelis are in no mood to give up more tangible territory for intangible promises of Palestinian good behavior; the Palestinians will resist signing on to any process that does not deliver to them all that they want.
Governments may try to resist the fall of the dollar, but in today’s world of deep and fluid capital markets, they will not succeed indefinitely, even in Asia.
And the old jibe that Japan cannot resist building bridges to nowhere if the government is paying rings less true nowadays.
To resist these powerful pressures, fiscal councils will need to have their work audited periodically by international agencies such as the International Monetary Fund, both to protect their independence and to promote accountability.
And he used the chairmanship to elicit commitments to resist protectionism.
The rest of the world has no moral responsibility to support the eurozone, and it should resist European leaders’ efforts to extort that support, which would be tantamount to covert support for its creditor countries.
Nothing provoked a more muscular reaction after Mao came to power than the humiliating prospect of feeling unable to resist foreign predation.
Since then, two more variants of the bacterium have been discovered, and the genes that enable these bacteria to resist antibiotics and jump between species – so-called “mobile genetic elements” – have been found on farms and in hospitals around the world.
As he put it to the Kansas City veterans: “Will today’s generation of Americans resist the allure of retreat, and will we do in the Middle East what the veterans in this room did in Asia?”
But the bottom line is that constitutional changes can only be carried by unanimous agreement, and several member governments, starting with the UK, would resist any overtly federalist agenda.
The cult of the “Greenspan put” stemmed from the previous Fed chairman’s avowed belief that the Fed should not try to resist a sharply rising stock market, except to the extent that such a market undermines the long-term stability of prices for ordinary goods.
As a right-wing nationalist, Abe feels compelled to resist the dominance of China, if only rhetorically for the time being.
As president, he faced criticism from reformists for his failure to resist a range of powerful groups that sabotaged economic reform and improvement in Iran’s relations with the west.
But two connected and major challenges lie ahead for Brazil and its government: the need to build a far more equal society and to resist the temptation to use nationalism to mask whatever domestic failures may manifest themselves.
John Kerry's great virtue has been to resist confusing the demand for security and peace with the hegemonic impulses of America the hyper-power.
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