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The inhabitants of Yonaguni strongly oppose the law, not because they are exclusionary, but because they believe that they are protecting a sensitive border.
It did, in part, because Bush was sensitive to Gorbachev’s and later Boris Yeltsin’s predicament and avoided making a difficult situation humiliating.
China’s leaders have long feared publicly visible divisions within the elite, given the risk that infighting could expose sensitive secrets.
They would share Jerusalem as a capital, and find a mutually acceptable solution to the enormously sensitive issue of the return of Palestinian refugees.
This imperative is even more pronounced when it comes to sensitive neurological procedures.
At the same time, emerging-market growth should start to become less sensitive to US interest rates and the dollar,given lower external borrowing needs, the relative lack of borrowing in dollars specifically, and reduced dependence on commodity exports.
As a result, China has also been able to bypass existing export controls and restrictions on the transfer of sensitive military technologies, particularly aerospace and satellite components and know-how.
Democratic processes are likely to be more sensitive to the real consequences of policies, to the real tradeoffs involved.
More generally, however, Snowden’s disclosures have shone a spotlight on the US government’s handover of responsibility for some of its most sensitive programs to for-profit entities.
These protests are striking not only for the sensitive nature of the issues they address, but for the broad-based support they have elicited.
Both tend to be extremely sensitive to changes in public opinion, and the US must take care not to arouse grievances over secondary issues, especially during what could be a turbulent year in South Korea.
And it seems likely that Russia has been intervening directly in the internal politics of Western democracies, using leaks of sensitive documents and financing right-wing populists, from Marine Le Pen to Donald Trump, who would be supportive of the Kremlin.
Each of these outlets was distinguished by its coverage of sensitive stories – from conflict in Ukraine to high-level corruption.
This is something that the IEO report evidently regarded as beyond its mandate – or too sensitive – to discuss.
Moreover, the topic remains highly sensitive: while public-opinion polls in 2012 indicate for the first time a small majority in favor of legalization, opponents remain vehement.
It initially appeared that Germany under Chancellor Angela Merkel would be more sensitive to the energy security of Central and Eastern Europe.
But, from 2009 to 2012, portfolio bond flows, which are sensitive to sudden shifts in investor sentiment, were the most rapidly growing component of inflows.
The IMF finds that emerging markets’ net capital inflows have been above their long-term structural trend and more sensitive to interest-rate differentials since 2008.
And, since the crisis, portfolio flows have been more sensitive to both interest-rate differentials and global risk aversion.
Indeed, only a looser FTA that would exclude each country’s sensitive economic sectors appears to be viable.
Moreover, the relative weakness of the US welfare system makes the country more sensitive than Europe to the social consequences of job losses due to foreign competition.
Given that US policy is to deny sensitive technologies to those outside these regimes, India’s admission would make all the difference in facilitating technology sharing.
For example, economic sanctions, to which Iran is very sensitive, could be tightened, with a commitment not to resort to military force facilitating Russian and Chinese approval.
It is within our power to cast privacy nets around sensitive areas of human life, to protect people from the harmful uses of data, and to require that algorithms balance predictive accuracy against other values such as fairness, accountability, and transparency.
Second, boys’ attention was especially sensitive to recess timing: boys were more likely than girls to be inattentive when recess came later.
This image of Shell as a sensitive, caring company mocks the evidence.
The US regularly discusses sensitive defense and human-rights issues relating to North Korea with its allies in Japan and South Korea, but only separately.
The latest bonus rules issued by the Committee of European Banking Supervisors (soon to morph into the European Banking Authority), have left those sensitive souls on the trading floors feeling rather bruised and unloved.
Chen had to turn to American diplomats to be his advocates, but it would augur better for China’s future if the country’s legal profession came together to urge the authorities to uphold the rule of law in even the most sensitive cases.
Trade reforms must be sensitive to the effects on developing countries, many of which are net importers of subsidized agricultural commodities.
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