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Defending the Kim dynasty, built up as a symbol of Korean resistance to foreign powers, is a sacred task.
That sad fate is looking more and more likely, and the Olympic year already has been soured by the Chinese government’s efforts to suppress resistance to it.
Despite the resistance, the Commission decided to plow ahead and censure Germany and France.
And, in fact, this time around, the Commission had more power to override resistance from finance ministers.
But the forces perpetuating the status quo – European and American resistance to change and emerging-market countries’ passivity – remain powerful, as the choice last year of Christine Lagarde to lead the IMF illustrated.
Given economic stagnation, the political system’s weaknesses, the aging of the population, and resistance to immigration, fundamental change will not be easy.
Anti-Trump demonstrations in big cities will no doubt annoy the self-loving new president, and the moral glow of joining the resistance will warm the protesters.
This move would likely face considerable resistance from staff who have gotten used to the perks of Washington, DC.
Some even go so far as to say that France’s resistance reflected a desire for Israel’s approval.
Perhaps the biggest obstacle to initiating a trilateral dialogue is Chinese resistance to formal nuclear arms-control agreements, which is rooted in the memory of Cold War-era nonproliferation initiatives aimed partly at preventing China from developing its own nuclear deterrent.
Cross-border attacks, hijackings, Arab and international diplomacy, secret talks, non-violent resistance, suicide bombings, rockets, regional Arab initiatives, international peace envoys: nothing has succeeded in ending the occupation.
The Islamic Resistance Movement (known by its Arabic acronym, Hamas), which emerged during the first Intifada in 1987, grew more powerful in the 1990’s, after the return of the PLO’s Yasser Arafat and the creation, as a result of the Oslo Accords, of the Palestinian Authority.
The regime’s resistance to formal in loco visits by UN and OAS bodies and special rapporteurs has not stopped them from producing such reports and substantiating their findings by other means.
A contemporary non-medical writer described the qualities of intense pain as including extreme unpleasantness, an ability to annihilate complex thoughts and other feelings, an ability to destroy language, and a strong resistance to objectification.
Despite the horrific violence of Islamist fanatics, it should not be forgotten that the mosque can also be a legitimate basis for resistance against the mostly secular dictatorships in the Middle East today.
For starters, given the eurozone’s huge trade surplus, doing so would incur strong international resistance.
But resistance has arisen and will surely increase, so that in the absence of a vaccine, elimination of the mosquitoes that spread the disease is the key to preventing epidemics.
Moreover, the DOTS strategy requires that health care professionals supervise the standard treatment regimens to ensure that TB patients remain on the antibiotic cocktail for the full six months, thereby slowing the emergence of drug resistance.
A potential Russia-China axis based on shared resistance to US hegemony carries the seeds of a new bipolarity.
Some of the strongest resistance comes from within TRT.
Kasem Wattanachai quit as education minister after confronting resistance from the education bureaucracy.
But, as we prepare to face new political trials, we must not lose sight of the challenges we already face, especially global health challenges like the rise of antimicrobial resistance (AMR), which has no regard for economic performance or political stability.
Using Antibiotics WiselyLONDON – To solve the problem of antimicrobial resistance, the world needs not only new drugs, but also new behavior – by all seven billion of us.
Developing new drugs is an important approach in a coordinated response to fight antimicrobial resistance.
So the steep rise in antibiotic resistance is hardly surprising.
Most people are either completely oblivious to antimicrobial resistance or incorrectly believe that it is an individual’s body that becomes drug resistant – not the bacteria itself.
We need a similar effort to address the perils of antimicrobial resistance.
Enlisting these medical social-media superstars to educate the public on the urgency of antimicrobial resistance is an exciting opportunity.
In some parts of the world, the best way to combat drug resistance will be to encourage changes in behavior that reduce the spread of infections and minimize the need for treatment.
The cost of a global effort to raise awareness of the threat of antimicrobial resistance would be miniscule compared to the amount being spent to develop new drugs and technologies, which in any case will take years to become available.
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