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India’s corrupt elites had moved from controlling licenses to cornering newly valuable resources like land.
For this reason, unless the Karzai government changes course there is no justification for NATO member countries to risk the lives of their soldiers and commit other valuable resources to the struggle in Afghanistan if the Afghan government’s corruption and legitimacy deficit make current progress unsustainable and achievement of NATO’s goals impossible.
The application was really being used in the field, and the stickiest challenges were presenting themselves – which meant that the system had proved that it was valuable enough for people to put in the work to solve problems as they arose, instead of just reverting to the old system.
The largest hunts, however, take place in Japan, where commercial fishers regard dolphins as pests, because they eat commercially valuable fish.
But, time and again, it has failed to fulfill that promise, thus depriving the next generation of the most valuable gift it could bestow.
By short-changing the world’s children, we are squandering the most valuable untapped resource we have.
But at a time when the world is moving toward increasingly multi-layered and networked governance mechanisms, the ability to bring a variety of actors to the table – which implies influence over who gets a seat – is a valuable commodity.
Mauritius, a former British colony, brought before the UN General Assembly a longstanding territorial dispute over the strategically valuable Chagos Islands, the site of a British-US military base.
This recognition of mutual dependence on a valuable resource outside their territory aligns the interests of the three main ethnic groups.
The Indian middle class will grow rapidly, providing the country with valuable ballast that will keep it on an even keel in the next few decades.
The principle of pluralism is valuable, but curbing bloodshed deserves priority.
This time, companies and entrepreneurs will be there in full force to explore a range of valuable opportunities.
Recognizing that the most effective approach to thinning Boko Haram’s ranks is to address the north’s deepening economic and social problems, Jonathan has backed an initiative to build new schools in the north that will equip young people with valuable skills.
It has numerous valuable assets, but it cannot postpone long-overdue reforms, or else it will become increasingly irrelevant in a fiercely competitive global economy.
Just as people increasingly admire international celebrities, so they believe that world famous centers of business, technology, and culture - whose names are household words to people everywhere - are uniquely valuable.
But European scientific competence does not translate into valuable business ideas - at least not as frequently as in the US - mostly because Europe's focus seems ill-directed.
The time and other resources that individuals and firms devote to seeking government favors would be far more valuable if redirected to producing goods and services.
To take one example,BASF has developed a compostable plastic that can be used to make bags to helpcollect organic waste and turn it into a valuable resource.
The result was a global explosion of “Ponzi” finance – named after the notorious Italian-American swindler Charles Ponzi – which purported to make such paper as safe and valuable as houses.
According to the fourth explanation, the very high compensation of corporate executives, especially in the financial sector, is not a return to services that are in demand because they are socially valuable (like having gone to medical school or having been born with acting talent).
As the veteran liberal Russian politician Leonid Gozman points out, “To judge from the statements of our propagandists, the Russian state is very valuable,” but it is also “a very fragile construct that can be destroyed by anything,” from the fight against corruption to efforts to oust kleptocratic officials.
In responding to AMR, we can learn some valuable lessons from other global public-health efforts.
The same goes for other areas where the EU is showing valuable leadership.
Irresponsible forest management, enhanced by poor governmental regulation and enforcement, and markets that reward illegal logging, are conspiring to denude the world’s most valuable and threatened forests.
With the upcoming elections, we have a valuable opportunity to reaffirm our commitment to vaccines by strengthening national leadership on health and increasing investment in the health-care system.
Moreover, information goods produced at larger scale are also more valuable to consumers.
Water is absolutely essential to sustain life, and thus immensely valuable to every consumer.
The gap in price does not tell us that diamonds are useful and valuable and water is not, but that it has so far proved easier to maintain market power and high margins in the diamond business than in the water business.
Physicians develop expertise over many years, and when they have ample opportunities for feedback about their judgments, their intuitions are valuable, particularly in more complex cases.
The innovations described in Litan’s and Siegfried’s books show that the economics profession has produced an enormous amount of extremely valuable work, characterized by a serious effort to provide genuine evidence.
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