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Countries were required to undertake only limited trade liberalization, with plenty of exceptions for socially sensitive sectors (agriculture, textiles, services).
The US may be less vulnerable in the long run if it imports less energy, but oil is a fungible commodity, and the US economy will remain sensitive to shocks from sudden changes in world prices.
Software prevents users from posting politically sensitive words, and provocative content that gets past the automated controls is frequently removed.
We would have to make our systems interoperable, share intelligence assessments, and link sensitive technologies.
Is the question too sensitive for science to explore?
Africa’s geographical position, sensitive water resources, unsustainable agricultural methods, and exploitation by foreign and other private companies increased its vulnerability.
This includes people like Rebiya Kadeer, a businesswoman imprisoned for sending newspaper articles to her husband in the US, Tohti Tunyaz, a Ph.D. student in Japan accused of publishing "sensitive documents," and Tursunjan Amat, a poet who recited a pro-independence poem at a public gathering in Urumqi.
While he was on the front lines grappling with sensitive issues relating to ethnic minorities, interlopers were offering him a constant stream of take-it-or-else advice for which they would never have to assume responsibility.
These are politically sensitive topics that could have polarized, rather than united, the international community.
But Taiwan remains a highly sensitive – and emotive – issue for China.
In fact, some of the governments on which calculations of the Gini index depend for data may deem it too sensitive, or not in their interest, to provide accurate information, undermining the Gini coefficient’s leading role in evaluating poverty.
This is especially true with respect to three sensitive policy areas.
That is because the current drama is playing out in an extremely sensitive strategic location.
Littered with a host of extremely sensitive anniversaries, 2009 could prove even more dramatic and unpredictable than 2008.
Of course, it is not unreasonable that Poland and Hungary, whose sovereignty was largely usurped by the Soviet Union, are particularly sensitive to external efforts to shape their decision-making and have a stronger sense of national identity than other EU countries.
And, given his support for Tibetan self-rule (Chinese officials angrily call him a “splittist”), his visit to a sensitive border area is being viewed as a deliberate provocation.
For example, in 2014, Modi not only welcomed Chinese President Xi Jinping to his hometown, Ahmedabad, on his own birthday; on that same trip, he also lifted the previous government’s restrictions on Chinese investments in sensitive sectors of the Indian economy, such as ports and telecoms.
Beyond across-the-board tariff reductions, policymakers will also need to designate sensitive and excluded products in a way that promotes regional value chains, including in agro-processing, chemicals, and automobiles, as well as in the services/logistics inputs that constitute up to 60% of the value of final products.
The change from the steady (and often predictable) purchases of the foreign central banks of the 2003-2013 era to the less predictable hands of private investors, who are more sensitive to changes in rates of return, is likely to be the signature of this stage of the global cycle.
Some of WikiLeaks’ releases of sensitive material have been perfectly defensible on classic freedom-of-information grounds, exposing abuses that might otherwise have remained concealed.
Moreover, effective development planning requires participatory processes that capture inputs from regional and local actors and are sensitive to the collective global good.
Voters welcomed Trump’s reckless comments on sensitive issues because he was speaking his mind and being true to himself.
This is bold diplomacy – for which China is given little credit – at a highly sensitive moment.
There have been embarrassing security lapses at nuclear facilities, and sensitive material is often inadequately secured.
And joining the Inter-American Development Bank could be politically sensitive, given its link to the Organization of American States.
Its many elements of Internet censorship – from blocking politically sensitive Wikipedia articles to filtering certain key words out of online searches – come together to form the so-called Great Firewall of China.
This requires sensitive debate, thoughtful leadership, and financial assistance to keep girls in school.
Finally, on sensitive Aegean sovereignty issues, the leaders could seek agreement on a series of new confidence-building measures, or even agree to submit some of their disputes to external arbitration.
As a result, many critical but politically sensitive policies to ensure future fiscal sustainability remain unresolved in both countries.
Other countries, particularly China, may have strong domestic political motives for their anti-Japanese propaganda, but Japan's more sensitive treatment of its history could at least stop adding fuel to the fire.
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