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Today ought to be a golden age for center-right parties: Communists and Socialists have self-destructed, free markets are spreading as inexorably as globalization, and prosperity beckons.
ASEAN’s role in harnessing and spreading economic dynamism has been essential to the region’s success.
To stop the contamination from spreading, the local fire department had to add significant quantities of dissolved aluminum chloride, which binds to cadmium and settles on the river bottom.
Afghanistan has been at war for three decades, and that war is spreading to Pakistan and beyond.
To some extent, it’s already working – by spreading.
Yet if Western leaders are serious about spreading democratic values, they cannot afford to take a defeatist approach to the DRC.
He says that he was arrested after spreading word about a crime that allegedly involved local officials.
Worse still, his brand of selfish nativism is spreading through Asia and Europe, upending politics in Italy, Hungary, Poland, and even the United Kingdom.
The renewable-energy revolution, now spreading at an unprecedented rate, is already transforming entire sectors, not least transportation.
Not content with spreading this ideology within their own country, the Saudis have spent billions of dollars on propaganda designed to transform tolerant and moderate Islamic communities in other countries into fundamentalists.
Saudi Arabia has long maintained (relative) internal stability by spreading its enormous oil wealth among its subjects, and by imposing on Saudi society fundamentalist Islamic doctrines based on the austere Wahhabi tradition.
In the first century C.E., it continued its advance, spreading along the Silk Road to Central Asia and China, and finally made its way to Korea and Japan centuries later.
To many Arabs across the region, American reliance on overwhelming military force to achieve its stated goal of spreading democracy is an inherent contradiction.
It will stop spreading only when Germany constructs a firm and credible firewall, presumably around Spanish and Italian central-government debt.
The virus has killed more than three times that number in 2014, with enough cases spreading internationally to dominate nightly news broadcasts and spook voters in recent US state and local elections.
Investigators from the US and Guatemala believe that the two biggest Mexican cartels, the Sinaloa and Gulf gangs, are spreading their tentacles across various departments; the Gulf cartel’s notorious armed wing, Los Zetas, is held responsible for a spate of massacres in the country in the past year.
But at the margin, economic growth is heavily skewed toward exports and fixed investment as the primary means of absorbing surplus labor and spreading prosperity.
The increase in domestic heroin production has provided a massive boost to the local retail market, giving rise to concerns about HIV/AIDS spreading in a country with poor infrastructure and nonexistent health services.
Snow’s other major contribution was to identify the central role that water plays in spreading diseases like cholera, leading authorities in Europe to invest in the development of sewage and sanitation systems.
They fear democracy spreading to within the Church, which is composed of believers who are to be followers, not citizens.
A deep feeling of injustice is spreading across large swaths of society.
France can help to give NATO more balance by spreading political and military responsibilities more evenly among Europeans and Americans.
A renewed emphasis on Westphalian sovereignty is spreading, leading some to predict that great-power rivalries will again be the order of the day.
Wars in Afghanistan and Iraq were predicated, at least in part, on spreading freedom; similarly, the Middle East Partnership Initiative is supposed to make democracy the centerpiece of American assistance in the region.
One Europe that shoulders its global responsibility for managing international crises, for avoiding new iron curtains in Europe, and for spreading the benefits of globalization.
But we can and should contribute to spreading the benefits of globalization more evenly.
Yet India continues to face many challenges: nearly 300 million people living in poverty, the spreading Naxalite insurgency, the danger of terrorist attacks ala Mumbai, and sprawling urban slums.
The violence and instability of North Africa is now spreading into Sub-Saharan Africa, with the Sahel – one of the world’s poorest and most environmentally damaged regions – now gripped by jihadism, which is also seeping into the Horn of Africa to its east.
The negative effects of these problems are now interacting, feeding back on themselves, and spreading to the rest of the global economy.
Our aim should be to invent financial mechanisms for segmenting and spreading risk, so that one bad case no longer has the potential to destroy the whole system.
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