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Recent street demonstrations could easily turn into an outbreak of ongoing resistance to Israeli rule.
The two countries are joined through historical, ethnic, and tribal ties, yet neither has the means to resolve popular resentments and resistance.
Usually, such a vision provides a scenario for the future that is meant to encourage change, though it may also portray the status quo – or the past – as attractive, thereby encouraging resistance to change.
Indeed, whereas resistance to foreign intervention and assistance has been strong with respect to democratic reforms, new Arab leaders seem more receptive to a partnership with the West on economic objectives.
But the obstacles also include layers of corrupt bureaucrats and politicians – a vast network of resistance to reform.
OXFORD – While austerity in Europe faces increasing social resistance, in principle it has the merit of simplicity.
This change will not be easy, but the US must insist on it, despite continued German resistance in the name of supposed fiscal rectitude.
Hezbollah’s successful resistance during a month-long war with Israel that year invigorated Iran’s so-called “axis of resistance.”
Europe’s attention has been trained on three issues that pose a clear and imminent threat: Brexit, migration, and rising nationalism, which in countries like Poland is fueling growing resistance to the EU and the rule of law.
Although the Saudi ruling family, the al-Saud, is under enormous pressure to follow the example of its neighbors, internal resistance to doing so remains very strong.
The Ethics of Fighting Drug ResistanceGOTHENBURG – In 2014, the World Health Organization reported that drug resistance – especially resistance to antibiotics – is a growing threat to human health, food security, and “the achievements of modern medicine.”
Drug resistance threatens the effective treatment of a growing list of communicable diseases – from bacterial infections to viral to and fungal diseases.
The more antibiotics consumed and emitted, the faster resistance develops, leading to “superbugs” that jeopardize human health, both by raising the risk of massive deadly epidemics and by compromising medical services, such as surgery and cancer treatment, that rely on effective antibiotics.
To be sure, there are solutions to the drug resistance crisis: restricted consumption, better diagnostics and disease surveillance, and expanded clinical development of new drugs are three.
For all of these reasons, ethicists, health-care researchers, and social scientists have begun to examine how best to ensure that strategies for tackling drug resistance are ethically responsible.
These scholarly gatherings have helped to foster academic interest in the ethical considerations of drug resistance, but represent only a tiny fraction of what is needed to help the world safely navigate the looming moral minefield.
The first ethical hurdle is to reach a consensus on how to characterize drug resistance.
While meat costs might climb, drug resistance in livestock would decline, as would adverse environmental effects.
But, given the risks implied by deploying ill-considered solutions, careful consideration of the ethical implications of drug resistance strategies is essential.
In the ensuing decades, Palestinians tried virtually everything to escape Israel’s repressive occupation – from civil resistance to armed conflict to international diplomacy – to no avail.
Worse yet, the Muslims who supported the project to democratize Iraq widely suspect that the Sunni resistance that incited the Iraqi civil war has been financed by Saudi oil money.
In some cases, such as Northern Nigeria, social resistance to the vaccine has blocked adequate coverage of the population.
Corrupt rulers can use the billions they receive from oil and mining corporations for personal extravagance, or to buy arms for troops to crush democratic resistance movements.
Seventy years ago, he delivered his celebrated call to resistance over the BBC after flying to London from France as it collapsed in June 1940.
Stalin pursued collectivization despite the massive resistance that had followed when Soviet authorities first tried to introduce the policy the previous spring.
Stalin presented the crop failure as a sign of Ukrainian national resistance, requiring firmness rather than concessions.
Yet popular resistance to these supposedly unfair entitlement reductions is stronger than expected.
Indeed, despite domestic resistance, the PBOC must raise nominal interest rates so that they are in line with structural inflation.
At a time of strong resistance to higher energy costs, this may well be among the most effective – not to mention politically savvy – mechanisms for advancing the goals set out in Paris.
Therefore, the political response to rising inequality – whether carefully planned or the path of least resistance – was to expand lending to households, especially low-income households.
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