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Islamic extremism differs from religious fundamentalism because, beyond promoting strict adherence to Islam, it preaches the spread of Islamic models of power and society.
We had anticipated this moment and agreed in advance that, while we would never ask to meet with Karadzic and Mladic, if Milosevic offered such a meeting, we would accept – but only once, and only under strict guidelines that would require Milosevic to be responsible for their behavior.
President Nicolas Sarkozy should be applauded for supporting a new initiative promoting strict transparency standards for petroleum, gas, and mining companies listed on European stock exchanges.
Together, these official agreements comprise international law, which compensates for its lack of specific penalties by establishing strict and unambiguous concepts and one overarching sanction – universal blame for its transgression – that matters to everybody.
Europeans benefit from very high levels of social protection, inexpensive, high-quality education, strict environmental standards, and excellent infrastructure.
A 2006 BBC television program showed many potential donors turned away because they did not meet strict age criteria, and others who were required to visit a psychologist.
The biggest difference of all between Moscow and New York came from the GDT statement “It is better to live in a society with strict order than to allow people so much freedom that they can bring destruction to the society.”
Today, no matter what people say of Vladimir Putin’s administration, we are free from political and strict ideological censorship.
Not all democracies were as strict as France in their formal secularism but all were secular: the law is made by the sovereign people and not by some superhuman being or agency.
Rather, the ideal conservation approach in developing countries would link agricultural and economic support to strict limits on farmland expansion.
Electronic voting machines and strict security arrangements have largely eliminated that possibility.
Racial and gender equality are now backed by clear majorities in the US, Britain, and most European countries, and even apparently popular policies such as trade protectionism and strict immigration controls rarely muster more than 30-40% support in opinion surveys.
The Salafis are defined in part by their strict theological orthodoxy.
Tight-knit cliques of bureaucrats and corporate officials made sure that a utility company vital for economic growth would never be hindered by strict regulation or political oversight.
Rising education costs, housing prices, and wages (which increase the opportunity cost of having children) may mean that, even without strict controls, China’s natural fertility rate will not return to the 1970 level.
It bodes ill for Russia which has yet to learn that political strength derives not from riding roughshod over the civil rights of the citizenry but from creating, through strict observance of the law, a sense of shared interest between government and people.
Asian governments will sometimes need to set strict limits on resource use – and have the tools to ensure that society respects these limits.
It makes sense to think that when state authorities enforce strict codes of behavior, people tend to rebel and move away from officially sanctioned religious institutions.
The prevailing attitude in Taiwan toward reunification is highly skeptical; enactment of strict security laws in Hong Kong will hardly be seen as reassuring.
Moreover, its nuclear program is under strict civilian control.
The second priority should be defining a strict emerging-market standard for regulating foreign banks after they are allowed in.
And, since strict regulation, if adopted unilaterally, might simply cause foreign banks to shun a country, emerging markets need to put up a united front.
Paradoxically, the eurozone’s strict anti-exit policy is a major source of volatility.
Onthe other hand, exchange rate policy arrangements like theEuropean Monetary System (EMS) with its strict rules may bepremature for many countries in transition.
China achieved its strongest growth when the renminbi was pegged to the dollar – a system that required steadfast reforms and strict fiscal discipline.
In this way, they can meet strict targets without reducing the carbon content of their consumption.
Given this, the recent sharp decline in world oil prices obviously represents a major shock – large enough, when combined with the effect of increasingly strict Western sanctions – to provoke a sizeable recession.
Members of the religious police remain adamant that the country’s Christian guests must continue to live according to strict Wahhabi rules of behavior.
And, at the multilateral level, agricultural production and trade is influenced by policies on subsidies, tariffs, and export restrictions (although the latter are not currently governed by strict WTO rules).
No wonder, then, that the treaty’s strict limits were breached early in the euro’s first decade bycore countries as well as peripheral ones.
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