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The labor market has tightened, with unemployment standing at 3.5% and the job-to-applicant ratio above parity.
China will serve as the standing chairman of the negotiators’ meetings, which will be co-chaired by the member country hosting the talks.
Quite apart from the financial aspects, there would be a real danger of throwing away the benefits that the EU has brought, particularly in terms of Europe’s standing in the world.
Nonetheless, Turkey’s bout with political instability has damaged its foreign policy and international standing.
Such a move would have far-reaching benefits for China’s global standing as well.
India had gone from standing up for democracy to aiding and enabling the military regime.
The result is a trade deficit now standing at over $400 billion per year.
Putin then decided to disavow his own marriage to Lyudmila Shkrebneva, his wife of 29 years, announcing the divorce in as publicly humiliating a way as possible – his wife was standing by his side – for a reserved Russian woman.
This requires coordinating policing and health programs within a coherent policy framework, investing in research and public education on drug policy, opening new programs to independent review, and standing up to ideological criticism, both domestic and international, with evidence and pragmatism.
Colombia’s blemished human rights record is affecting its government’s international standing and providing ammunition for those who wish to sabotage the FTA.
Very few British voters have a clue about how the European Commission actually works, or the role of the European Council, but most have some feeling about Britain standing alone against Hitler, or the prospect of being “swamped” by immigrants.
Moreover, the US was the only benevolent power left standing in Western Europe at the end of WWII.
Just a couple of weeks after his election, Macron slammed Russian state-owned media for employing “lying propaganda” to smear him during the campaign – while standing right next to Putin himself.
Given economic globalization and global communications, autocratic rulers derive almost as much strength from their international standing as they do from their control of domestic institutions.
Establishing a large, standing international force under the UN’s control is not feasible and may not be optimal.
As a result, China has pulled ahead, with per capita income last year standing at $11,850 – more than double India’s $5,350.
But, while French national identity is intimately bound up with France’s international standing – how it is perceived in the world – enthusiasm for intervention has receded.
For the moment, the French are standing, overwhelmingly, behind Hollande.
It remains to be seen whether protests by an ally who has stood by America so loyally, and at such great cost to his own political standing, will have a greater impact.
But diminished international standing and growing regional isolation have been insufficient to induce Pakistan’s dominant military to rethink its stance on terrorism.
Neuer could have been a hero, standing up for what is right.
The rise of the Front National can be interpreted as a series of protests: against the long recession from which France is only now emerging; against open markets and trade liberalisation in Europe; against Europe’s upcoming single currency, and the fiscal belt-tightening that has gone with it; and against global markets and economic restructuring, which have contributed to the rise in unemployment, now standing around 122% of workers.
But fading memories of the Holocaust among younger Germans, together with Israel’s declining international standing, have lately challenged the official discourse about “special” ties between the two countries.
And it drew a standing ovation from all but one of the 1,200 illustrious members of the audience in Frankfurt’s Pauluskirche, where Walser was being awarded the German Booksellers Association Peace Prize.
America's corporate scandals have undermined the market's moral standing, while the end of the Internet bubble has weakened its economic credibility.
To present Juncker’s candidacy as a matter of high political principle, with Cameron heroically but unsuccessfully standing alone against the dark forces of federalism and centralization, could have only reinforced English feelings of alienation from Europe.
But, as a matter of national pride, the Chinese refuse to articulate an international commitment under duress, and Obama doesn’t have much standing in pressing China to compromise, since the US Congress hasn’t yet acted on cap-and-trade legislation.
As the billionaire Steve Forbes recently wrote in his eponymous magazine, “Outsiders are amazed that much of India resembles pre-revolutionary France, with many internal barriers standing in the way of economic efficiency and growth.”
Membership is also important for Russia’s international standing.
Medvedev obviously hopes to reach out and improve Russia’s and his own standing in the world.
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