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That is the mechanism that reduces the incentives to expropriate the creditor, and makes debt secure and cheap.
Moreover, factory farms are not biologically secure.
Instead, it is trying to secure “effective control” – which, under international law, enhances significantly the legitimacy of a country’s territorial claim – just as it has done in the Himalayas and elsewhere.
With public perception a crucial factor in winning the war, and the Taliban poised to launch a large military initiative next spring, failure to adopt a successful local strategy could signify the last chance the international community will have to build a secure and stable Afghanistan.
Rapidly appropriating the lessons of nineteenth-century Europe, Japan in 1894 launched a brutal five-decade effort to dominate Asia and secure its resources, stopping only when America’s atomic bombs flattened Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
China believes that it has a legitimate right to increase its military power, given its need to protect its expanding economic interests, which include secure sea routes for the transport of energy and other goods.
If the process is derailed, most will retain their secure public-sector jobs.
But skeptics claim that his release was intended to secure a favorable contract in Libya for British Petroleum, and Qaddafi’s erratic behavior, like declaring jihad against Switzerland in 2010, did little to build confidence.
The UK may negotiate a bilateral free-trade agreement with, say, Canada, but UK firms will secure few benefits, unless Canadian firms can sell products with UK components to their other trading partners.
If the Democrats had failed to secure a majority in the US House of Representatives, President Donald Trump would have felt almighty, with all the dire consequences that would entail.
This incident points to the larger challenge that the EU must overcome if it is to secure its post-Brexit future.
But, unless Japan makes more sensitive treatment of its history a cornerstone of its effort to change its military posture, the past could well become an impediment to a more secure future.
But when sanctions target a country, their effectiveness depends much more on other countries’ participation, which can cost political capital to secure.
For most of the people surveyed, the costs of voting – including lost wages from time off work, transport to the polling station, and the need to secure proper identification (such as a driver’s license or passport) – were simply too large.
But this is no time for complacency: the liberal world order remains far from secure.
Yet May’s government is probably going to secure the opposite outcome: control over immigration, but at the cost of what she calls a “clean break” with the single market.
The CAP’s original aim was to provide a secure source of food for the six original member states of the Union, which were importers of food and sought a degree of self-sufficiency.
For projects judged to be secure, the platform could act as a catalyst for long-term investments typical of institutional investors and pension funds.
In other words, the secret of Merkel’s election victory was to secure a majority for the center-right in order to pursue, more or less, a center-left policy agenda.
This majority reflects a growing perception that the world would be more stable and more secure with a strengthened and updated multilateral system.
Taiwan’s December 2004 legislative elections had delivered an unexpected defeat for Chen and his ruling Democratic Progressive Party, or DPP, and the pro-independence camp’s failure to secure a legislative majority was seen as a positive development for relations with the mainland.
In the process, it is managing the singular feat of glorifying Somali peasants while starving them to death, and blowing up Somali youth hoping to secure an education abroad.
The only real winner is Russia, which will secure more European money for a longer period of time.
Secondly, frictional losses in the short term often obscure the fact that, in the long term, inputs from cheap suppliers may help secure jobs in the West, and that greater specialization increases exports as well as imports and offers gains in wealth for both trading partners.
There is a broad consensus among economists that long-term growth can be secure only if it is both sustainable and inclusive.
But unlike Chavez, who leads one of the world's top oil producers, the need to stabilize an economy closely monitored by international financial markets forced Gutierrez to abandon campaign promises that helped secure his victory.
Against this background, the smartest move for Xi would be to attempt to secure India’s help in finding a face-saving compromise to end the crisis.
Generally the causes are these: unpaid wages and pensions; sudden and massive job terminations; and management corruption held responsible for the bankruptcy of industrial enterprises--where discharged workers were secure, enjoying privileges and benefits, since the 1950s.
The coalition should undertake contingency planning to secure Syria’s stock of chemical weapons after the collapse of Assad’s regime, and prevent any further chemical-weapon deployment.
Nowadays, we are witnessing the application of Sun’s ideas in Africa, where China’s prime objectives are to secure energy and mineral supplies to fuel its breakneck economic expansion, open up new markets, curtail Taiwan’s influence on the continent, consolidate its burgeoning global authority, and clinch for themselves African-allocated export quotas.
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