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In Denmark, the Danish People's Party, which received 12% of the vote in recent elections, similarly resists classification.
Policymakers now need a new approach that resists excessive concentration, which may create efficiency gains, but also allows firms to hoard profits and invest less.
Turkey can be a model for Middle Eastern countries if, while promoting its regional strategic and economic interests, it resists the authoritarian temptation and continues to show that Islam and democracy are fully compatible.
But pain resists explanation as a simple sensation, just as music resists explanation as simple tones.
Some, like John Murtha and Nancy Pelosi, the minority leader in the House of Representatives, want a short timetable, while others, like Senator Joseph Biden, resists a firm timetable but predicts a withdrawal of 50,000 US troops in 2006, with many of the remaining 100,000 to follow in 2007.
Once we can do this, we are much more likely to develop AI tools that are capable of unexpected breakthroughs in understanding how the body supports and resists illness.
An independent and vigorous press that checks the truth is crucial to preserving the integrity of democracy; but so is an electorate that resists cynicism and the debasement of political discourse.
But if he resists the temptation to pander, it could very well mean his downfall.
As a result, ASEAN, as a McKinsey study argued, effectively “grants a veto to any country that resists regional economic integration.”
While culture provides some soft power, domestic policies and values set limits, particularly in China, where the Communist Party fears allowing too much intellectual freedom and resists outside influences.
It resists but really can’t hold out because its international competitors understand that productivity gains of 30% or more can be harvested from privatization.
While an authentically strong person can admit error and change course, America’s “strutter in chief” resists admitting any mistake.
One part of me resists that: good health should be something that people do for themselves.
China, for example, resists using its influence with North Korea, fearing that instability on the Korean peninsula could lead to large refugee flows into China or a united Korea allied with the US.
The desired "product" of gene-splicing may be the engineered organism itself--a bacteria to clean up oil spills, a weakened virus used as a vaccine, or a papaya tree that resists viruses--or it may be a biosynthetic product of the cells, such as human insulin produced in bacteria, or oil expressed from seeds.
Unfortunately, Germany resists all of these key policy measures, as it is fixated on the credit risk to which its taxpayers would be exposed with greater economic, fiscal, and banking integration.
With the help of powerful groups within the US Administration, the Israeli government succeeded in redefining America's enemy in the "war on terror" to mean not only Osama bin Laden's globally operating Al Qaeda network, but every militant group of Palestinians that resists Israel's occupation.
Japan resists reducing import tariffs on hundreds of agricultural goods, including meat from the US.
Her slogan – “on est chez nous” (we are at home) – underscores her focus on enclosing France in a national cocoon that resists “wild globalization.”
Even at this late date, with American soldiers being killed on a regular basis, and with the massive deaths resulting from the car bombing of the UN headquarters, the US resists greater UN authority, much less replacing US troops with UN-led forces.
He bristles at questions about whether he’s worth $10 billion, as he claims, and resists releasing his tax returns, which is expected of presidential aspirants.
Kunio Okina, director of the Bank of Japan's Institute for Monetary and Economic Studies, resists inflation targeting for this reason.
In particular, the profession needs three revolutions that it still resists.
The US resists, institutions atrophy, and appeals to sovereignty increase.
Let's blow it up, and if it still resists, let's put wings on the Nautilus and fly over it!"
One can lean only upon what resists, etc.
She wept, she even became angry, bursting into her former fits of rage, opening the jaw of the paralysed woman as you open that of an animal which resists.
I will give you to-morrow two thousand crowns in gold for you to offer or even present, and as many more to buy jewels to lure her, for women are fond of being becomingly attired and going gaily dressed, and all the more so if they are beautiful, however chaste they may be; and if she resists this temptation, I will rest satisfied and will give you no more trouble."
It is a reasonable and laudable pride which resists such malevolence."
They search her; she resists; they use force--the scoundrels!"
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