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Australia's Prime Minister Paul Keating recently spoke for many demonstrators and regional governments when he stated that the French nuclear test series at Mururoa Atoll "causes anger throughout the world not only because of concern for the Pacific environment but because it puts at risk our hopes for a post-Cold War world that does not have the nuclear shadow hanging over it".
We spoke with people living with HIV across Africa who have starkly different perspectives.
His program spoke to genuine concerns of ordinary people--defending lifestyle-liberalism against religious orthodoxy, for instance; advocating feminism and economic liberalism against benighted prejudices; and strengthening security against terrorism.
It seems wiser to heed modern-day Promethean thinkers such as the late Stephen Hawking, Microsoft founder Bill Gates, and the 115 other tech leaders who in 2017 spoke out about the threat of weaponized AI and robotics.
The notion is absurd – John Maynard Keynes long ago spoke of gold as a “barbarous relic” – but the problem of anchoring global monetary policy and ensuring its alignment with developments in global supply is nonetheless real.
The nineteenth-century Prussian military officer and theorist Carl von Clausewitz spoke presciently about the age of total war that would arrive less than a century after his death.
Should such a possibility arise, Russia should take part in peacemaking and reconstruction operations in Iraq, rather than trying to put a spoke in Washington's wheel.
Currency ChaosBRUSSELS – Guido Mantega, Brazil’s finance minister, aptly captured the current monetary Zeitgeist when he spoke of a looming “currency war.”
He and Annan spoke with the warm confidence born of their cooperation during Clinton’s second term.
He spoke of an “immediate threat,” declared an end to former US President Barack Obama’s “policy of strategic patience,” and said that “all options are on the table” – including military action.
Finally, Modi spoke emotionally at the Dalit-majority Babasaheb Bhimrao Ambedkar University in Lucknow (named for an iconic Dalit leader who had chaired the Constitution Drafting Committee), pleading that the issue not be politicized: “Politics has its place, but a mother lost her son.”
He recently spoke of the need to “replace today’s Web search engines, operating systems, and social networks.”
Each spoke easily about institutions, democratic procedures, and respect for the rule of law.
In one country, I spoke with a leader of the Islamic fundamentalist opposition, which had waged a long civil war against the government.
Then a senior senator spoke up: “Who cares about broad support, Minister.
During a 2008 campaign stop, for instance, then-candidate Barack Obama spoke in alarmed tones about the threat that such academic competition poses to US competitiveness.
Yeltsin once spoke about his scheme to link two centrists.
Another view held by a number of medical professionals, based on how Trump spoke in interviews in the late 1980s and how he speaks now – with a far more limited vocabulary and much less fluency – is that the president is suffering from the onset of dementia.
While Regling spoke of an emerging “multipolar monetary system,” his remarks clearly indicated the functioning of a “tripolar” system.
Education is a Security IssueLONDON – In November, I spoke at the United Nations Security Council for the first time in 13 years.
When that becomes transparent, so do those citizens who spoke with or were monitored by the government.
The former politician spoke passionately: “Populists are at least honest.
True, Israel’s chief of staff, General Gadi Eisenkot, spoke in a rare interview with a Saudi newspaper about the “many shared interests” between the two countries.
He spoke very early and strongly in favor of higher capital requirements for big banks, which also opposed his heterodox intervention in the foreign-exchange market.
After the gay arrests, I spoke at the University of Ghana about media coverage of homosexuals.
Fifty years ago, people spoke often, and loudly, of a “generation gap.”
In a paper presented at the session, Andrew Caplin of New York University spoke of the public’s lack of interest or comprehension of the rising risks associated with the FHA, which has been guaranteeing privately-issued mortgages since its creation during the housing crisis of the 1930’s.
For example, the victorious powers in World War I invoked the principle of self-determination, but after the dismantlement of the Austro-Hungarian Empire in 1918, the Sudetenland was incorporated into Czechoslovakia, even though its inhabitants spoke German.
When Vice President Dick Cheney spoke at the last World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, he was asked how the administration could justify what was taking place in Guatanamo Bay, where prisoners are being kept without being charged and without counsel.
Most of the people with whom I spoke complained endlessly about government shortcomings.
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