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This retreat also illustrates how little consensus there is among high-level government officials for making China green.
Elsewhere in the region, water stress from reduced rainfall, salinity, glacial retreat, and desertification will hit water stocks, threaten livelihoods, and drive up food and water prices.
How can Israel’s preferred Palestinian leaders, Abbas and PA Prime Minister Salam Fayyad, be left with any credible capacity to negotiate if talks cannot begin until, as Israel insists, they retreat on their minimum condition of a settlement freeze in the Occupied Territories?
The risk is that these rapid changes will combine with destabilizing geopolitics to trigger a retreat from global energy markets.
The Euthyphro ends with its title character beating a hasty, cowardly retreat after abruptly claiming that he has more pressing matters to attend to.
Liberal cycles are characterized by government intervention and conservative cycles by government retreat.
In the first, the region risks a cycle of weak growth, retreat from market-oriented policies, and increasing disillusionment.
Add to that the threat posed by North Korea, and a destabilizing US strategic retreat from Asia remains highly unlikely.
Shame invites a retreat from the public eye.
There is a person who might compel Yanukovych to retreat to democratic norms and thus hold off such protests -- Russia’s President Vladimir Putin.
Still, the worry at Davos was that there would be a retreat from even our flawed globalization, and that poor countries would suffer the most.
Trump is not the only figure in his administration to stake out a bold position on China, and then retreat meekly.
Will it retreat during the northern hemisphere’s summer and return in the fall?
Is Carstens right to be so hostile, or will he, in a few years’ time, be seen as a kind of monetary King Canute, sitting in Basel on a well-upholstered central banker’s throne, ordering the digital tide to retreat?
Consider Trump’s recent decision to withdraw the US from the Paris climate agreement, which was met with widespread condemnation from foreign leaders, environmentalists, and many CEOs, all decrying America’s retreat from global leadership.
Canada has staged a substantial retreat from the welfare state’s worst excesses, as center-left and center-right governments alike reduced the share of government spending as a proportion of GDP by eight percentage points in recent years.
This must have made the retreat doubly painful for the generals, as ASEAN was previously one of the junta’s strongest shields against international pressure.
And the junta’s generals began providing safe havens and arms to a motley assortment of anti-India rebels that would wreak havoc in the country’s Northeastern states and retreat to sanctuaries in newly renamed Myanmar.
Others wish that Germany could be like Switzerland and retreat from a complex world that poses too many moral challenges.
Rebooting GlobalizationDUBAI – Globalization, as many have recently noted, is in retreat.
Unfortunately, these arguments often lead political moderates to retreat under the pressure of nativism, aggressive nationalism, and incoherent economic slogans.
The 12 year judicial journey that we have made in pursuing her case underscores the intransigence, rather than the retreat, of the old order.
Containing the Populist ContagionPRINCETON – With populism seemingly going viral in the advanced economies, the political establishment is in retreat.
With the US in retreat and China ascendant, the transition from a hegemonic global order to one characterized by a balance of power is already underway.
CAMBRIDGE – The rise of anti-trade populism in the 2016 US election campaign portends a dangerous retreat from the United States’ role in world affairs.
The US retreat from Iraq signaled the limits of its engagement, and the problems in the EU’s immediate neighborhood – not just in Syria, but also to the east and the south – are now knocking on its door.
The consequences of a US retreat from them are anyone’s guess.
The International Labor Organization reports that unions are in retreat in most nations.
Others, following the government’s retreat, grandiosely thought the events amounted to a revolution.
By refusing to leave the streets and squares of Kyiv, Ukraine’s mass volunteer army of democrats forced our country’s gray old men of the past to retreat into the past.
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