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For example, issuing fatwas , or religious edicts, is legitimately undertaken by those whose high standing is acknowledged by the whole Ummah , or Muslim community.
Europe’s Asian PivotCAMBRIDGE/OXFORD – The Obama administration’s so-called “pivot to Asia” is the most important strategic shift that the United States has undertaken since the end of the Cold War – and it has profound implications for Europe.
But intervention must never borrow methods from those against whom it is undertaken.
The skimpy enforcement measures undertaken by bank regulators since the crisis are nowhere near appropriate to what is at stake.
Whatever our shared endeavors, Asians must take care that they are undertaken through shared responsibilities, shared burdens, shared values, and shared benefits.
In many cases, they do so because investments undertaken in the name of development can disrupt the actual needs of local populations, are imposed against the population’s will, can expose members of the affected community to serious human-rights risks, and can damage the local ecosystem.
The somewhat smaller strike undertaken a year ago failed to change Syrian behavior, and the latest attack is no more likely to do so.
Endearing politicians to voters further are new spending increases and tax cuts that can be undertaken, as accelerating economic growth causes the debt-to-GDP ratio to fall.
Europe’s Short VacationNEW YORK – Since last November, the European Central Bank, under its new president, Mario Draghi, has reduced its policy rates and undertaken two injections of more than €1 trillion of liquidity into the eurozone banking system.
Climate change directly affects the hydrological cycle, which means that all of the efforts that are undertaken to contain greenhouse-gas emissions will help to stabilize rainfall patterns and mitigate the extreme water events that so many regions are already experiencing.
The theory behind the massive economic stimulus efforts that many governments have undertaken rests on the notion of the “output gap.”
For maximum impact, the targeting of some of these investments should be undertaken in collaboration with the private sector (business and labor).
But it is being undertaken simultaneously with the deepest political purge China has experienced since the days of Mao Zedong, with Xi targeting corrupt officials high and low.
At the UN Conference on Environment and Development in Rio de Janeiro it was agreed that, “efforts should be undertaken towards the greening of the world.”
In Central Europe this effect has been amplified by the fact that, regardless of ideological leanings, rulings parties have had to privatize the economy and, under pressure from the European Union, introduce reform measures that would, in a classical Western system, usually be undertaken by the political right.
Nonetheless, the measures undertaken or contemplated so far already represent a step in the right direction.
Its editors argued that while the decision to publicize secret material is always difficult, these documents were of “significant public interest” and “illuminate the extraordinary difficulty of what the United States and its allies have undertaken in a way that other accounts have not.”
In short, surge funding is a win-win initiative, and it must be undertaken urgently.
It will happen in an uncontrolled way if a controlled devaluation -- coupled with other reforms -- is not undertaken.
Most importantly, these and other reforms - such as new transportation systems and a public-health system based on family doctors - must be undertaken with the participation of the people affected.
His fight against poverty and social exclusion would be undertaken as part of that effort.
And the enlargement process is the most important endeavor the EU has undertaken, including the creation of the euro.
Under the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) of the Kyoto Protocol, industrialized countries (so-called “Annex I countries”) have the right to purchase certificates of carbon sequestration from reforestation projects undertaken in developing countries and use them to offset up to 1% of their 1990 greenhouse-gas emissions from industry, transport and housing.
Under current EU ETS rules, carbon credits generated by forestry projects undertaken in the CDM currently have no value, despite their obvious climate, environmental, and social benefits.
In the case of Abkhazia, the West should reiterate the sui generis nature of Kosovo and highlight the tremendous efforts it has undertaken there since 1999.
But under the international rules that America is supposed to follow, wars should not be undertaken based on the judgment of one individual and his cabal.
Similar quick-impact measures should be undertaken to control disease.
Other unconventional policies, however, have been undertaken to stimulate the economy, rather than to deal with broken markets.
Instead, the roots of Taseer’s assassination lay in the dark delusions of fanatical belief, his killing supposedly undertaken to protect the faith.
Nevertheless, in the short run, very aggressive monetary and fiscal policy actions – both traditional and non-traditional – must be undertaken to ensure that the inevitable stag-deflation of 2009 does not persist into 2010 and beyond.
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