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Moreover, as was true in Poland, Burma’s opposition leaders must strike a delicate balance: satisfy their impatient supporters (many of whom have suffered mightily under the old regime), while offering those still in power the prospect of a worthwhile future.
The voluntary abdication by Qatar’s Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani in June 2013, and his replacement as Emir by his son Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, failed to satisfy Saudi expectations of change in Qatari foreign policy.
Baby steps – improving their transparency in reporting, or agreeing on the meaning of technical terms like “strategic,” “deployed,” and “reserve” – will not begin to satisfy the many NPT countries that have been appalled by the recent re-emergence of Cold War mindsets and behavior.
Moreover, settlements that resolve transnational bribery cases must satisfy two basic criteria: a settlement in one country should not preclude another from enforcing its own laws and prosecuting the bribe’s beneficiaries; and any settlement must allow affected countries to recover stolen assets, regardless of where they end up.
Second, public financing of health care frees the poor to use their money to satisfy other needs.
Should Mubarak and his government fail to recommend constitutional amendments that satisfy these demands, ever more Egyptians will desert the regime and risk their lives in search of salvation in other lands.
Thus, to satisfy his desires, the man is purchasing something that is more valuable than what he is selling (such as his labor).
His circle is packed with yes-men (and some token yes-women), who strive to satisfy his sense of omniscience and magnificence.
And then there is Japan, a member of the six-party talks and a steadfast US ally, which was angered by the recent delisting of North Korea, because the North has yet to satisfy fully Japanese inquiries into the abduction of its citizens by North Korean agents decades ago.
Now, though, they must choose between being outflanked by Euroskeptic parties on both the far left and far right, or responding to that threat by creating a supra-national democracy that can satisfy voters’ legitimate concerns.
The problem partly reflects a lack of consensus about the criteria that a judicial candidate must satisfy.
So, how can governments’ tendency to satisfy fiscal targets by wishful thinking be overcome?
Currently, new orders are increasing and inventories are low, which suggests that businesses will have to produce more in the coming months to satisfy those orders.
For Japan nowadays, security policy must satisfy a trinity of criteria: "national interests," "alliance," and "international cooperation."
With depressed markets in the developed world, intra-regional trade in the future will depend more on exports to satisfy Chinese domestic demand.
Consider the claims – rampant nowadays in the US – that further government attempts to alleviate unemployment will fail, because America’s current high unemployment is “structural”: a failure of economic calculation has left the country with the wrong productive resources to satisfy household and business demand.
To ensure democratic legitimacy and satisfy national constitutional courts (not least Germany’s), a second European parliament would have to be established to serve as the eurozone’s legislative branch.
The result, even if new START is ratified, should satisfy no one.
Yet the EU truly has broken down and ceased to satisfy its citizens’ needs and aspirations.
An important indicator of the magnitude of the new global economy’s challenges is that so few countries satisfy all three requirements.
They expand locally and globally to satisfy market demand, providing the illicit goods and services that societies want.
A useful reserve currency must be limited in supply, but have sufficient elasticity to satisfy the large, unpredictable needs that may arise in a turbulent financial world.
Diplomats and politicians treat talk, decisions, and actions independently, in order to satisfy the demands of a diverse set of stakeholders and to maximize external support for their organizations.
But the EU’s demand that Yanukovych pardon Tymoshenko, who narrowly lost the 2010 presidential election, may prove harder to satisfy.
Indeed, both Israel and the United States are adamant about excluding Hamas from the Annapolis process unless and until it recognizes Israel’s right to exist, while Hamas will not abandon its identity as a resistance movement merely to join negotiations that seem unlikely to satisfy the Palestinian people’s minimal requirements.
Will the pace of appreciation accelerate enough to satisfy American demands?
That would satisfy both the US and Pakistan.
Tax exemptions and deductions have been introduced in various sectors, and the value-added tax has also been significantly simplified to satisfy the need for an efficient, business-friendly bureaucracy.
Its remorseless expansion is contributing to climate change, deforestation, biodiversity loss, and human-rights violations – all to satisfy Western societies’ unhealthy appetite for cheap meat.
It is thus urgent to satisfy populations’ most basic human needs through local development initiatives.
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