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For all of its supposed influence, the UN has proved glaringly ineffective in stopping the violence.
Ending poverty and reducing emissions, including by effectively managing land use and halting deforestation, will go a long way toward stopping the trend and reversing the damage.
Blair will also likely press Israel to prove its intentions by stopping all settlement activity in the West Bank – no new settlements, no expansion of existing ones.
Drilling a release well finally did the job of stopping the flow of oil.
The breakdown of Bretton Woods in 1971, far from stopping inflation, unleashed a synchronized monetary surge.
When one woman dissented, holding a sign about stopping all wars, the crowd carried out their Kremlin-inspired patriotic duty, shouting in anger, “You are embarrassing our war president.”
By joining the World Trade Organization, improving their investment climates, and stopping interference with shuttle traders – mostly poor women trying to make a living –governments would give the region’s businesses and farmers access to markets and attract much-needed new investment.
There is nothing stopping Great Britain from becoming a second Switzerland.
In 2009-2010, the European Bank Coordination Initiative – known informally as the “Vienna Initiative” – helped to avert a systemic crisis in developing Europe by stopping foreign-owned parent banks from staging a catastrophic stampede to the exits.
Kashyap launched a Twitter attack on Nihalani, calling him a “dictatorial man” and an “oligarch” – and not stopping there.
In a year when there are more local conflicts than ever – and in which children have become among the first (and forgotten) casualties – it is urgent that we make stopping attacks on schools a high priority.
Stopping food exports is stupid.
Stopping financial bubbles is difficult.
Given the dangers that increased risks imply for everyone, there is a strong moral case for a policy of stopping further proliferation rather than arguing that Iran or North Korea have a right to do whatever they wish as sovereign states.
France opposed the war in Iraq in 2003; intervened militarily against Libya’s dictator, stopping a potential crime against humanity in March 2011; and saved a fragile democracy in Muslim-majority Mali in 2013.
There is no substitute for stopping those who would destroy cultural property before they do it.
Perhaps Obama’s central error was that an important but minor matter – stopping new settlements – was given central significance.
The doves today, in all their varieties, must fight for one goal: stopping Israel’s slow transformation into a binational state, which would be a disaster for both sides.
If the government subsidy is large enough, it will succeed in stopping the crisis.
The resulting knowledge benefits everyone by stopping epidemics and limiting the economic and human toll of widespread illness.
Or perhaps, as has been rumored, Ulyukaev was working with other officials to rein in Sechin by stopping Rosneft from acquiring the Bashneft shares.
Stopping bad actors from purposely sharing such information is more complicated, and depends on their specific goals.
If the campaign against the Islamic State is defined and conducted with humanitarian protection as its primary and overwhelming objective, it should succeed not only in stopping further atrocities, but also in making large inroads into curbing the wider terrorist threat at its source.
Industrial-Strength AfricaVIENNA – In less than eight months, close to a quarter-million migrants, many from Africa, have arrived in Europe by sea – more than in all of 2014 – and the tide shows no signs of stopping.
A Type II error involves stopping innocent foreigners.
Until recently, stopping Trump’s health-care proposal, which would have stripped insurance coverage from an estimated 24 million Americans over the next decade, looked tough.
Last month, the United States considered legislation that aimed at stopping Internet piracy.
The latter-day Malthusians are opposed to extending these tremendous benefits to more of the world because they believe that global warming will be so bad that it justifies stopping growth.
The international community must balance the need to ensure that Ukraine does not become the site of a proxy battle with the necessity of stopping Putin’s destructive ambitions.
But slowing Iran’s efforts is not the same as stopping them.
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