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Indeed, unlike the artisanal fisherman of the past, factory ships and modern technologies have enabled the massive scaling up of catches to satisfy demand not only locally, but in distant markets as well.
In the longer term, were shale gas and oil to satisfy US demand, Canadian oil could wean America’s allies from their Middle East oil addiction, giving them new foreign-policy options, too.
He also said that “Earth provides enough to satisfy every man’s need, but not every man’s greed.”
A third widespread challenge that awaits emerging leaders is the inescapable reality that citizens’ demands increasingly overwhelm the capacity to satisfy them.
Demands are mounting at the same time as the ability of governments to satisfy them is diminishing.
Hitler swallowed Austria and Czechoslovakia when it suited him; but Austria's neutrality after 1955 was enough to satisfy the Cold War's two blocs, and now it is part of the EU.
May then announced that she was going to talk to other EU presidents and prime ministers to get the sort of reassurances that might satisfy her right-wing critics.
Emphasizing China’s meteoric rise means less understanding in the rest of the world of the need to sustain rapid economic development in order to satisfy the expectations of its 1.3 billion inhabitants.
Despite these risks, many British politicians believe that they can satisfy voters at the expense of “Europe,” perpetuating the idea that ties with the EU – a supposedly homogeneous foreign entity – amount to little more than a disposable convenience.
Indeed, perhaps to satisfy the desire of the United States, a key ally, for a new generation of Saudi rulers, the 89-year-old Abdullah passed over his octogenarian brothers and appointed the youngest, 65-year-old Prince Migrin, as Second Deputy, putting him first in line to the throne after Salman.
Similarly, to satisfy his narcissistic need for power, Trump magnifies the discontent of a part of the population through clever manipulation of television news programs and social media.
Neo-liberal ideologies assume perfect markets, perfect information, and a host of other things, which even the best performing market economies cannot satisfy.
And – perhaps most problematic of all – he is not likely to satisfy the five permanent Security Council members’ traditional preference for a secretary rather than a general, someone who doesn’t rock their boat too much.
These criteria, particularly the last, will always be difficult to satisfy.
The blockbuster “The Hangover Part II” depicts three young male friends engaged in a night of carousing in Thailand, in which they are free to satisfy every appetite – from transsexual sex workers to drugs and chaos of all kinds.
Evidently, the Commission believes that it can judge, case by case, the best policy for every country, including policies that satisfy the Stability Pact.
Cutting growth rates by 40-70% is surely a recipe for stagnant societies with insufficient growth to satisfy private wants and public needs.
Upgrades to airports, transportation systems, and tourist services in the host cities all had to satisfy international standards.
And if these measures do not satisfy his base, Trump will still have one last option, long used by Roman emperors and other assorted dictators during times of domestic difficulty.
The other important issue raised by Golubchuk’s case is how far a publicly-funded health care system such as Canada’s has to go to satisfy the family’s wishes.
There is growing support for the view that benefits should satisfy at least three conditions.
For the French, Sarkozy’s determination to act, despite the odds, seems far superior to the passive cynicism of those who preach abstention or satisfy themselves with empty words.
The recognition by the three parties of the primacy of the moral and spiritual over the political importance of the city could lead to arrangements on the ground which satisfy the legitimate claims of the three Abrahamic faiths, and subsume the eventual political status of the city to this moral authority.
But it would fall short of the type of fiscal reforms that would satisfy Moody’s.
Giving the Shia a real stake in the nations in which they live is the only way to satisfy the craving for empowerment that they feel after so many years of suppression.
We could satisfy all of the world’s energy needs for an entire year if we could capture just one hour of the sun’s energy.
A constitutional amendment that allowed symbolic changes, like an official declaration of Catalonia as a “nation,” or substantive initiatives, like a fiscal pact, would satisfy most Catalans while maintaining Spain’s territorial integrity.
Fortunately, solutions that satisfy the need for national security and demands for privacy are not out of reach.
Money used by commercial banks to satisfy the RRR, which is held in accounts at the PBC, can no longer be extended as loans.
One area of concern is the health and stability of growth in emerging markets as they attempt to benefit from capital inflows; satisfy North Atlantic demands for open financial markets; and manage the resulting instability created by speculative “hot money,” the carry trade, irrational exuberance, and overshooting.
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