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Women’s groups lose the right to complain about the lack of women on the bench if they fail to nominate women for vacant positions.
And, backed by his parliamentary majority, he was recently able to fill vacant judicial posts, making him the most powerful president in Bolivia’s contemporary history.
Large swaths of informal settlements have emerged in vacant inner-city districts and suburban peripheries, compromising environmental conditions, public health, and personal safety.
But, as job growth accelerates in industries requiring high-skilled workers, we are creating a global market for talent that remains largely vacant.
Additionally, authorities can do more to encourage the use of vacant plots.
The housing market is another US anomaly: there are hundreds of thousands of homeless people (more than 1.5 million Americans spent at least one night in a shelter in 2009), while hundreds of thousands of houses sit vacant.
Evictions merely create more homeless people and more vacant homes.
In this atmosphere of public silence, the virtually vacant public space is filled with odd voices that are not intended for public consumption.
Kiren Rijiju, India’s Minister of State for Home Affairs, says the People’s Liberation Army is actively intruding into vacant border space with the objective of occupying it.
This office has subsequently been left vacant or, for two of the past four years, filled on only an interim basis.
Senior positions – including two on the indispensible three-member independent election commission – stand vacant, leaving vital institutions unable to function effectively.
Indeed, just as Lahoud’s chair at the talks is vacant, so – in the eyes of the world and under the country’s 150-year old constitution – is Lebanon’s presidency.
It has been vacant since September 2004 when Lahoud, backed by Syria, forced an extension of his six-year term on the Lebanese parliament, which elects the president.
Preventing small countries – as well as other big ones – from competing for specific vacant seats reduces the Executive Board’s potential competency.
What Cheney did was to feed and nourish the Bush prejudices, and to move ruthlessly and energetically to occupy the policymaking ground left vacant by the President’s indolence and National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice’s lack of political clout.
Another is the Supreme Court; the court already has one vacant seat for the next president to fill and is likely to have more over the next four years.
By 2022, another study estimates, there will be 1.8 million vacant cybersecurity jobs.
This, in turn, will lead to pressure to increase public debt and a need for foreign workers to fill vacant jobs, often at the low end of the employment ladder.
In the roaring 1990's, it was almost impossible to find qualified restaurant staff to fill vacant jobs.
Farmland that had been worked by an aging population with no successors, and that was subdivided into blocs that were too small, has now become vacant, opening the way for much larger-scale farming.
Economists do this because in most places direct sales of vacant urban land are rare, and often involve unusual places or unusual circumstances, that make such sales unrepresentative of land values underneath homes.
With Federal Reserve Vice Chair Stanley Fischer having retired this month, three of the seven seats on the Fed Board of Governors are now vacant.
On the web, Facebook is connecting asylum-seekers with members of their diaspora, as well as citizens who want to help, and a program called “Refugees Welcome” is helping refugees find vacant rooms in Germany, Spain, Portugal, Austria, Poland, Greece, Sweden, and the Netherlands.
Greece is now at a crossroads similar to that of Kazakhstan and Ireland: the government borrowed heavily for the last decade and squandered the money on a bloated (and unionized) public sector (rather than modern – and vacant – real estate), with government debt approaching 150% of GDP.
One way President Donald Trump’s administration could recommit to US support would be by appointing a Special Coordinator for Tibetan Issues, a State Department post mandated by the Tibet Policy Act of 2002 that has been vacant since Trump took office.
Consider this: as e-commerce reduces demand for physical shopping, communities should buy vacant malls and stores – again with debt to be paid off by future generations – and replace them with carbon-capturing green spaces.
You can easily slide into a parking spot, because nearly half are vacant.
These include abolishing minimum parking requirements for buildings and introducing dynamic pricing that keeps 5-10% of parking spots vacant and channels revenues back to the neighborhood.
Manhattan now has nearly a quarter-million vacant apartments.
Moreover, as both the military and our college system downsize, there are vacant facilities in every state where such training could take place, putting to use what might otherwise become derelict infrastructure.
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