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With an enlightened and supranational spirit, the EU has achieved a sustained peace that would have seemed impossible a century ago.
A week earlier, the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs reported excruciating details of Syria’s humanitarian crisis, including citizens under fire from all sides, sustained government barrel-bomb attacks, and shortages of food and medicine.
Most important, they achieved the kind of sustained engagement that is badly needed on the Korean Peninsula today.
Fortunately, the IMF recently asserted the right to take action if countries engage in sustained one-way currency intervention.
While US Chief Administrator Paul Bremer recently vested authority in a number of judges, their powers are extremely limited, and apply only to present violations, not the sustained abuses of human rights that defined Saddam's regime.
But the path lies before us, not behind us, in a sustained commitment to security, the rule of law, and transitional justice.
The region’s private sector will need active, sustained support to grow and mature.
The US president can and should, by executive order, terminate CIA covert operations – and thereby end the legacy of blowback and mayhem that they have sustained, most notably in the Middle East.
Such patterns cannot produce the sustained high growth that is necessary for reducing poverty and fulfilling basic human aspirations for health, security, and the chance to contribute productively and creatively to society.
Our second broad conclusion was that sustained growth requires a coherent, adaptable strategy that is based on shared values and goals, trust, and some degree of consensus.
Restoring public trust will require a deep and sustained commitment, and a new consensus that is broad enough to overcome the political and social divides that are now legion across advanced economies.
Though second-quarter GDP growth was weak — the euro-zone average was only 0.3% year on year – third-quarter data are indicating a sustained economic pick-up in the second half of the year.
Furthermore, greater international cooperation and coordination are crucial to achieving a strong, sustained, and inclusive recovery.
More recently, former US Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers argued that “secular stagnation,” manifested in sustained lower investment and growth in many advanced economies, has been a major force driving down rates.
In an era when public debt write-offs (haircuts) are widely viewed as unacceptable (witness the European Union’s position on Greece) and governments are often reluctant to write off private debts (witness Italy’s reluctance to impose a haircut on holders of banks’ subordinated debt), sustained negative ex post returns are the slow-burn path to reducing debt.
From then on, Musharraf seems genuinely to have tried to clamp down on the Frankenstein’s monster that he had sustained as an instrument of Pakistani policy.
The conclusion I draw is not that human rights don’t matter, but that political discipline and imperfect forms of democracy are acceptable if the tradeoff is sustained progress in economic and institutional governance.
And it can play an important role as an implementer, translating profits into sustained economic growth, social inclusion, and environmental protection.
Changing laws or honing the tools of governance is important, but they mean little without sustained and determined efforts by political leaders.
Unless something changes, there is little chance that the MDG targets can be sustained in the long run.
The alternative would be to embark on a sustained program of privatization to shrink the asset side of the state’s huge balance sheet.
They emphasize the importance of inclusive political development as a prerequisite of sustained economic growth.
But, as the May 2013 election and the conduct – thus far – of the new government demonstrate, the country may finally be set on a course to achieve political stability and thus prepare the ground for sustained economic growth.
Exploiting these opportunities will require trillions of dollars in investment, radical improvements in productivity, and the government’s firm, sustained commitment.
But the most compelling reason why one should not expect a renminbi-dominated international finance system to arise anytime soon is that China’s leaders have never shown any sustained commitment to developing the renminbi as a true alternative to the dollar.
Her grown children, who viewed her body, told relatives that they saw evidence of torture and that she had sustained a severe head wound.
This will be a difficult feat, requiring sustained government commitment, effective organizational planning, and deep personal fortitude from the women who enlist.
In 2015, the ECB also started an asset-buying program, which ECB President Mario Draghi promised to continue “until we see a sustained adjustment in the path of inflation.”
“As our country works to emerge from this recession,” its executive director wrote, “American companies need to be focused on creating jobs and encouraging innovation to put us back on a path to sustained economic growth.
This tremendous reduction in poverty has sustained a decline in global income inequality over the last three decades.
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