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Lithuanian Defense Minister Juozas Olekas, while affirming that he expected Poland and America to reach a deal, added that, “Lithuania would consider the possibility of participating in the anti-missile shield if asked.
By identifying the law with their vested rights, the oligarchs who have (for now!) derailed the ideals of the Orange Revolution sought to shield their own interests from challenge.
Without this icy shield to reflect heat back into space, warming accelerates, permafrost melts, and ancient stores of methane and CO2 are returned to the atmosphere.
The first will give America a shield; the second will keep its nuclear sword sharp.
The ECB's priority should be to avoid deflation, not shield its shareholders from losses.
But we who chose Putin were charged with finding someone to continue Yeltsin’s reforms, not shield him and his family.
Most significantly, Duterte has publicly encouraged the Philippine National Police to murder suspected drug dealers and users, promising to shield officers who do so from legal consequences.
On one hand, Annan tried to expand the “license” function of international law to empower the UN to take necessary action against recalcitrant states using sovereignty to shield their behavior.
In fact, the reinterpretation amounts to little more than a tweak: Japanese forces can now shield an American warship defending Japan, but they remain prohibited from initiating offensive attacks or participating in multilateral military operations.
Between 400 and 600 grams, it has no further effect, but when it exceeds 600 grams, it acts as a shield against the sun, and slows down melting.
And theglacier was useless as a shield against nuclear onslaught, thoughas an alliance of democratic states Nato never had neither thecapacity nor will to mount an offensive war.
But the images themselves – even redacted to shield the identities of the victims – have not penetrated the US media stream.
Given the importance of energy in our lives, it is understandable that many EU countries want to shield their companies from competition, and so oppose liberalizing the energy market.
When the indictments against the 14 FIFA officials were filed, the cast of characters included not only miscreants from the sports world, but also some familiar players: secret Swiss bank accounts, Cayman Islands tax havens, shell corporations – all of the financial appurtenances that are literally designed to shield the rich from scrutiny and the law.
As it stands, restrictions on foreign investment and trade barriers continue to shield many domestic industries from competitive pressures.
Over the last decade, 12 American states have passed legislation to stop municipalities from addressing the public-health crisis of processed foods, and at least 26 states have enacted laws to shield food companies from lawsuits linked to diet-related diseases.
Meanwhile, the United States no longer provides the reliable shield to which Europeans had grown accustomed.
The argument for America's putative invasion of Iraq is, of course, self-defense, that is, the need to shield itself and its allies against Saddam Hussein's possible use of weapons of mass destruction.
Erdogan must have known that, by trying in this way to shield Iran, he is opening a wider chasm with the EU – and obviously with the United States.
Most now have flexible exchange rates, which leave them less vulnerable to a disruptive collapse of currency pegs, as well as ample reserves to shield them against a run on their currencies, government debt, and bank deposits.
Press freedom groups have typically operated under the assumption that the best way to protect fact-based, investigative journalism is to shield the storyteller from violence.
While the Europeans dreamed of assuming a mediator’s role between the US and Russia, the Russian president was determined to resolve the questions of the US anti-ballistic missile shield and Kosovo bilaterally with the US.
These countries’ authorities are now trying to shield their banks from losses by feigning neighborly concern for the Irish government.
But it is the House Republicans' move to overturn Obama's executive actions on immigration reform – which would shield as many as five million undocumented immigrants from deportation – that has turned into the biggest headache for party leaders.
Moreover, as oil-consuming countries aim for energy independence, producing countries will try to shield themselves by building energy-intensive industries so they can export oil embedded in industrial products.
But they can be written in order to violate the law, and to shield the crime itself from the law.
In this, it needs to drive forward a project of convergence rather than competition: Europe, where social security was created, needs to introduce a social shield for all workers, east to west and north to south, guaranteeing the same pay in the same workplace, and a minimum European wage appropriate to each country and discussed collectively every year.
Whatever the size of the shield that is being extended to protect businesses and workers, devastation is certain.
The United States and China will decouple faster, and most countries will respond by adopting still more protectionist policies to shield domestic firms and workers from global disruptions.
As a United Nations organization, the IMF could request that Chapter VII of the UN Charter be invoked to shield debtors from disruptive legal action by opportunistic investors.
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