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Without a vibrant manufacturing base, societies tend to divide between rich and poor – those who have access to steady, well-paying jobs, and those whose jobs are less secure and lives more precarious.
China maintains robust relationships with energy producers in the Middle East, Russia, and elsewhere (including booming Myanmar) – to secure and diversify its conventional sources.
At the earliest opportunity, Nigeria's government should convene a conference of all national and regional leaders and secure agreement on a constitutional provision whereby each household would be guaranteed a share of oil revenues, with the amount determined by prevailing prices and quotas.
But Israel has every reason to be concerned, for a nuclear Iran would undermine the promise of Zionism to secure a Jewish refuge – the core rationale of Israel’s own strategy of “nuclear ambiguity” – and would embolden its enemies throughout the region.
Less certain is whether he will feel secure enough to hold a presidential election (or any other kind of election) if he cannot change the constitution in a way that guarantees his continued misrule.
And if the Serbs enjoy a higher status in the national psyche, I suspect that this has less to do with the alleged "Orthodox brotherhood" than because people remember that both Tito and Ceausescu treated Russia as a common threat to their attempts to secure a more independent political way.
Voters in their various ways have realized, longer probably than many a politician, that the "German model" with its short working hours, long holidays, secure and substantial pensions, social security and comprehensive health insurance for all could not last forever.
In almost all parts of the world, autocrats are becoming more secure in power, often behind a veneer of democracy and elections.
It is not difficult to see why an authoritarian regime would want to prevent its people from having access to potentially untraceable, secure digital records.
But Europe’s 10-year-old Lisbon strategy to secure global high-tech leadership is widely discredited, which is a further reason to include a large R&D component in any EU-wide industrial program.
A final lesson is that the test of a secure government is whether it can bear to hear itself criticized, even excoriated.
Business leaders will need to secure a “license to operate” from society at large, and contribute visibly to sustaining the conditions that support their prosperity.
Just before leaving the village, we laid the symbolic first stone of a new secure water source.
The current one, created in 2003, is deeply outmoded, as epitomized by its opening line: “Europe has never been so prosperous, so secure, nor so free.”
The depth of the economy’s plunge has helped the Irish government in its effort to secure a Yes vote.
Clinton, for example, was the third woman US Secretary of State but the first who felt secure enough to be able to champion the cause of women and girls worldwide.
Life is a little less secure for Russia’s rich.
A vital security zone to China’s west, Afghanistan is also an important corridor through which it can secure its interests in Pakistan (a traditional ally in China’s competition with India), and ensure its access to vital natural resources in the region.
With this "us versus them" view of the world, it was not hard to rally voters, from the most disenfranchised all the way up to the salaried middle class--more than enough for the left to secure electoral majorities.
The FSA's four statutory objectives are to maintain confidence in the financial system; to promote public understanding of the financial system; to secure the appropriate degree of protection for consumers; and to reduce as far as possible the chances of a financial services firm being used for criminal purposes.
But, given Saudi Arabia’s past record of supporting radicalism in Afghanistan, it is highly unlikely that the Kingdom can help secure this aim.
Palestinian leaders hope that Trump, a businessman obsessed with his legacy, will finally display the needed resolve, using the full clout of the US presidency to secure the “ultimate deal.”
The British, who did not depose the Malay rulers as they did the Singhalese king in Kandy, made sure that the native position of the Malays was constitutionally secure from the start.
Global leadership today seems to be held hostage by financial interests and associated media, ideologists, and oligarchs whose political influence enables them to secure more rents and pay lower taxes in what must truly be the most vicious of circles.
In military terms, European countries need to spend more on secure communications, airlift capabilities, special operations, and dealing with chemical and biological battlefields in order to be able to fight the war on terrorism effectively.
Even though assets such as land were completely secure (in most English villages, land had passed from owner to owner unchallenged through the courts for 800 years or more), investors had to be paid real returns of 10% to hold land.
Apparently, the goal is to secure the best possible trade terms, without offering any concessions on free movement of labor or the authority of the European Court of Justice.
No other way exists for Mexico to secure these benefits anytime soon.
Europe now has a golden opportunity to emphasize policymaking over politics, and to pursue the reforms it needs to lay the foundation for a more prosperous, secure, and dynamic future.
In the longer term, repatriation can occur even with refugees who secure asylum, if the circumstances in their home country change and it becomes safe to return.
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