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Carlin is a cop who is selected to join a team of experts government surveillance team to solve high priority cases.
The casting is generally admirable, as is the carefully selected country house setting.
We have selected three widely discussed methods of allocating GHG emission quotas to different countries:The equal per capita emission rights approach allocates emission rights to countries in proportion to their population, but only for the remaining portion of the global “carbon budget” – that is, for the amount that can still be emitted, between now and 2050, without causing dangerous, irreversible climate change.
Other people, randomly selected, unscrambled phrases that were not about money, did not see Monopoly money, and saw different screensavers.
The reforms have essentially enabled China to streamline research and development efforts, as well as technology transfers between selected components of its civil and commercial space programs.
China is now an independent producer and technological innovator of selected missile systems and related aerospace technologies.
While many voters selected Refah because of its platform, others turned to a religious party as a means of rejecting the traditional parties and their exclusionary tactics.
But, before the commemorations, the government had prohibited many cars from driving (based on their license-plate numbers), stopped selected factories from operating, and forced some firms to move out of the city temporarily.
This leaves further unilateral Israeli moves – such as a partial set of withdrawals from selected areas in the West Bank – as the only feasible option.
President Andrzej Duda has refused to seat legally selected judges.
But such efforts have so far focused on “hardware” modernization – allocating resources for the procurement and acquisition of selected advanced weapons technologies, systems, and platforms, and integrating them into existing organizational force structures and operational concepts.
He relies on government ministers selected more for their loyalty (and family ties to him) than for their competence.
The country’s leaders, meanwhile, are selected through a meritocratic process, and consider themselves custodians of the people’s welfare.
When economic activity starts up again after a deep recession, it will not be as a consequence of people having been compelled to channel financial resources into the projects selected as politically desirable, but as a result of new ideas.
Then, in 2010, the Orange Revolution’s failure brought Yanukovych to power in a free and fair election, and in 2012 Putin selected himself for a third presidential term in Russia.
Political meritocracy, in which leaders are selected on the basis of their skills and virtues, is central to both Chinese and Western political theory and practice.
While Singapore’s leaders still contend that meritocratically selected officials should take a long-term view, rather than cater to electoral cycles, they recognize the need for greater equality and wider political participation.
These meritocratically selected leaders have overseen an economic boom that has lifted several hundred million people out of poverty.
It also needs to develop its meritocratic system further: government officials should be selected and promoted on the basis of ability and morality, rather than political loyalty, wealth, or family background.
The FBI reportedly arrived in Tanzania with the names of 60 Muslims selected for interrogation.
The candidates in US debates address carefully selected journalists who rarely follow up on a question.
For example, the General Assembly should hold public hearings in which candidates are interviewed, thereby greatly enhancing the stature of the candidate who is eventually selected.
China can take some measures to fight back, such as raising tariffs on imports of selected US products; but it should prevent trade disputes from escalating into a trade war.
This suggests that markets could potentially become extremely fragmented, such that consumers’ choices will be strictly limited to the offerings that have been selected according to their data profiles.
The risk is that Lin’s warning will be interpreted as an argument for sticking with an investment-led model, which would imply more low-return public-sector projects and excess capacity in selected industries.
Finally, a third theory suggests that racial bigots in past studies were better at identifying Jewish people simply because they selected “Jewish” for more faces.
The bases on the chip are selected because they are informative, tagging bins of the genome, like a post-code directory.
Even if the left wing of the European left – like the most liberal of America’s Democrats – voices concerns that Obama has selected a far too centrist cabinet, a classical form of anti-Americanism is bound to recede in Europe.
Greece should move beyond its traditional focus on sectors such as tourism, shipping, and construction, and search for new areas of comparative advantage in renewable energy, high-value-added services, and selected lines of manufacturing that benefit from the country’s research potential.
I can think of no better way to restore confidence in these two venerable institutions than to finally open up the way their presidents are selected.
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