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This contrasts sharply with the vision upheld by many other EU members, including core countries like France and Germany, which view the EU’s single market as a stepping stone toward deeper integration, not an end in itself.
Such a faith understands that belief is a matter of hearts and minds, not of bricks and stone.
His solace, however, is that the TPP will prove to be a key foundation stone of the “Asian Century.”
Fortunately, policy principles are not written in stone, not even in Germany.
Simply put, the JCPOA was the foundation stone for a more comprehensive solution.
On the other hand, to secure that promise of peace and stability, Europeans must recognize that the Union is not and cannot be perceived as a work set in stone.
Sometime in the twelfth century, a group of Polynesians found their way to a remote volcanic island where dense forests provided food, animals, and the tools and materials to build hundreds of complex and mysterious stone sculptures.
Even then we agreed to a further four months of EU-US-Russia negotiations in order to ensure that no stone was left unturned in the search for a mutually acceptable compromise.
The best minds of the time, including the Nobel laureate physicist Richard Feynman, were part of the investigation, and no stone was left unturned in finding the cause.
As a result, their later educational development is set in stone from an early age.
These two regions have now proclaimed their independence, and Moscow has given its blessing to a secession that is likely to be the stepping stone to incorporation by Russia.
The ruble is falling like a stone.
Despite calls in some Israeli media for Gaza to be bombed “back to the stone age,” the Israeli government seems to accept that that would be wrong.
The Stability Pact holds another important lesson: casting in stone institutional arrangements designed to address the problems of the past is a recipe for failure in the future.
Two birds would be wounded with one stone.
President Ronald Reagan condemned this policy, and reaffirmed that Resolution 242 remained “the foundation stone of America’s Middle East peace effort.”
Given the magnitude of the problem, a stone so easily reached should not be left unturned.
One of his consorts memorably and colorfully stated, “If a strong man were to throw four stones – one north, one south, one east, one west – and a fifth stone up into the air, and if the space between them were to be filled with gold, it would not equal the value of the Kohinoor.”
Commodity prices dropped like a stone, and interest rates in emerging markets soared.
That award comes at a crucial moment in Chinese politics, as it may well become a stepping stone on China’s long march toward greater freedom.
Like a blade of grass beneath a stone, culture knows how and in which direction to seek light.
To put it inelegantly, two birds are killed with one stone.
While America’s population rises, Russia’s sinks like a stone.
The proliferation of security lapses means that people are more likely to shrug their shoulders than to cast the first stone at a company that is breached.
In St. Petersburg, the stone is complemented with inscriptions, such as "To the victims of Communism."
Indeed, Hollande’s own officials are already backpedaling, with the budget minister, Christian Eckert, stating that more tax hikes could not be ruled out: “You can’t set in stone a situation that depends on an international context that we don’t control.”
But Britain spent the next two decades and more trying to join it; and when, eventually, it did, many of the rules and much of the institutional infrastructure were already set in stone.
If governments do not embrace unconventional water resources, achieving that goal will be as difficult as getting water from a stone – and the consequences for water-scarce regions will be dire.
By allowing private-sector participation in debt-equity swaps, China could kill three birds with one stone: advance SOE deleveraging, strengthen corporate governance in the state sector, and enhance economic efficiency.
By wielding its financial clout in this manner, China seeks to kill two birds with one stone.
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