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Believing that stronger pursuit of revolutionary ideals is the only way to strengthen their country, these idealists seek to inspire a “return of the radicals,” triggering sharp conflict with their more pragmatic co-revolutionaries.
Second, in accordance with China’s 12th Five-Year Plan, the free-trade zone aims to extend the industrial value chain and improve value-added content, promote the coordination of domestic and foreign investment in manufacturing, and strengthen the sector’s classification and assessment capacity.
All countries must raise their emissions-reduction targets and strengthen their commitments under the Paris agreement.
Moreover, these countries should work to fortify the international rule of law – a concept that makes Bolton reach for his gun – by committing to strengthen the United Nations, the World Bank, and the International Monetary Fund.
This, together with the Federal Reserve’s gradual interest-rate hikes, will strengthen the dollar, weaken so-called emerging-market currencies, and shift money from the rest of the world to the US.
Moreover, isolation would only strengthen the sense of victimhood that fuels intolerant Russian nationalism, and it would compromise the world’s interests in tackling nuclear proliferation, addressing climate change, or stabilizing Afghanistan.
This could include measures to strengthen the European Stability Mechanism and the Euro Plus Pact (designed to enhance economic policy coordination among member states), de facto cooperation within the Bretton Woods institutions, and voluntary approximation of national laws in certain areas.
USA Gymnastics has hired a former prosecutor to help it strengthen its child-protection policies, and its board of directors has established a policy review panel.
But there has been no consistent effort to strengthen their powers.
Although the Trump administration has continued to send mixed signals about its willingness to uphold American commitments, the US has nonetheless delivered on former President Barack Obama’s pledge to strengthen NATO’s military posture in the Baltics and Poland.
This strategy’s success presupposes that, in the interim, economic growth will strengthen the capacity to repay debt down the line.
Along the way, we must help strengthen Haitian institutions.
An outbreak of violence could strengthen Hamas and its military wing, Al-Qassam Brigades, in the West Bank.
The implication is that countries should first strengthen their domestic financial sectors and corporate governance, and only later open the capital account.
With the right approach, fintech can be harnessed to strengthen economies and societies, while helping to preserve the environment.
But, as Lamy says, a more effective way to deal with this would be to strengthen WTO rules.
In the run-up to Geneva II, each party has sought to strengthen its hand at the negotiating table by killing as many adversaries and holding or regaining as much ground as possible.
But if he is willing to contemplate using force against Al Qaeda without international authorization in the future, why not use drones now to strengthen the moderate Syrian opposition and force Assad into serious negotiations?
This means pursuing a set of bold reforms that not only bolster confidence, but also strengthen China’s hand in negotiations with the US and foreign investors.
The key to success will be to strengthen the infrastructure of property-rights protection, including dispute-resolution mechanisms, the court system, and commercial and technological standards.
To reduce the chance of war, the US should also continue to work with both Indians and Pakistanis to strengthen their relationship (which is still far less developed than the US-Soviet relationship at the height of the Cold War).
A third priority should be to strengthen fiscal responses, especially with respect to public-sector investment.
And besides, there are many other areas where France and Germany can strengthen cooperation and give new momentum to European integration.
While it is true that Xi is, to some extent, amassing power, his motivation is the need to strengthen China – both its government and its economy.
Of course, the inspiration for almost every political reform movement in China is the May 4th Movement of 1919, when Chinese students protested against a weak and corrupt government and called for China to strengthen itself by adopting two key Western ideals: democracy and science.
The second step was to organize cash-for-work projects that built dams, rehabilitated springs, and constructed roads, thereby helping people to strengthen their small farms and improve their resilience to future droughts.
Indeed, it is quite possible that a freer civil society and the transcendence of one-party rule could strengthen Singapore’s motivation and capacity to fight corruption.
Because they know that it will take time for domestic demand to pick up, emerging markets are unwilling to risk a collapse in exports to the US by allowing their currencies to strengthen against the dollar too quickly.
Similarly, Mexico’s National Savings and Financial Services Bank has helped to strengthen savings and credit institutions that serve millions of rural residents who would otherwise have been relegated to the margins of the formal financial sector.
It is this prospect of a massive enlargement that defines the central challenge facing the EU: how to strengthen its institutions to be able to handle a Union whose membership will expand from 15 to 27 countries - perhaps more.
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