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Because the payoffs from infrastructure spending and tax reform do not fit neatly within the five-year or ten-year budget window used by America’s fiscal scorekeepers, measuring more completely the benefits from such policies is vital to attracting political support.
But the simple fact is that adopting the English language is vital to the long-term competitiveness of Japanese business.
President Barack Obama has endorsed this treaty as a vital instrument to discourage proliferation and avert nuclear war.
Once the true value of our natural resources is understood, rather than taken for granted as if there were an infinitely available supply, the vital importance of conserving biodiversity should be better recognized.
These elements are vital to enable countries to offer their citizens an adequate quality of life.
Europe is blocking access to a class of goods – one that is vital to people’s survival – that can be imported much more cheaply than it can be produced at home.
Against this background, it is vital not only to ensure that there are enough quality jobs for all workers, old and young, but also to boost productivity among older workers – an objective that new technologies can help to achieve.
Europe has not only historical moral obligations to Israel, but also security interests that link it to the strategically vital Eastern Mediterranean.
An unstable South China Sea would impede the cost-effective transport of goods and materials that are vital to global supply chains, while disruptions to the flow of oil and natural gas from the Persian Gulf to Asian markets would prove particularly damaging.
Given this, despite the obvious security benefits of a peaceful South China Sea, the openness of sea-lanes there does not amount to a vital strategic interest of the US, Japan, or any other extra-regional power.
Given that more than 40% of China’s GDP is attributable to exports, the disruption of vital sea-lanes could strangle the country’s economy.
That is why it is so vital to continue to support well-designed basic research, even in the absence of obvious benefits to society.
It is vital that the Copenhagen delegates recognize and promote Africa’s contribution to the world’s delicate climatic balance.
China’s newfound assertiveness, rather than creating fear, should be seen as establishing the necessary conditions for comprehensive negotiations about the very basis of peaceful coexistence and stability in Asia: respect for all sides’ vital interests.
A free, vibrant media is vital to the functioning of a healthy society, and misinformation can undermine it.
Developing domestic institutions and appropriate incentives in a broad range of other areas that are relevant for social inclusion will be vital to improving living standards, while reinforcing the growth process itself.
It has used that power, first, to stop NATO’s expansion into territories that Russia considers vital to its own security, thereby averting the large-scale war that expansion would inevitably have brought; and, second, to forestall yet another illegitimate Western effort to bring about regime change, this time in Syria (where Russia has demonstrated both military might and diplomatic prowess).
They are crucial players in Lebanon, they have a role to play in pacifying Iraq, they can influence a change of attitude of powerful and extremely destabilizing non-state actors like Hamas and Hezbollah, and their leverage on Hamas is vital for the stability of the Palestinian front.
In an era of ballistic missiles and other weapons of mass destruction, and in which the planned Palestinian state is supposed to be demilitarized, why is it so vital for Israel to see its army “sit along the Jordan River”?
Obtaining consent is a vital but often overlooked skill for doctors.
Both stances are equally dangerous as far as Europe’s vital interests are concerned.
Peace in this huge and strategically vital region – and thus in the world – can prevail only if its countries manage, despite their turmoil, to protect themselves from ideological extremes and political excesses.
That is why it is vital for African governments to work together, using every tool at their disposal, to achieve comprehensive malaria control, pre-elimination, and, ultimately, elimination.
That is why a more expansionary fiscal stance is also vital, with Germany leading the way in deploying increased public investment to “crowd in” private investment and boost competitiveness.
For all of these reasons, the continued engagement and support of all of Africa’s partners, including the G-8 countries, is vital.
If Europe today cannot convince itself that it has a vital interest in its neighbors’ future, who will believe in Europe tomorrow?
Ultimately, America’s vital interests prevailed.
These two measures were both timely and vital, creating a much-needed period of calm.
In the vital fight to slow down the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, imagine it were possible to subject a suspected violator to the most intrusive and continuous system of international inspections far beyond what any international treaty postulates.
The Mission Innovation initiative, announced in Paris, which commits 20 major countries to doubling clean-energy R&D, is a vital step forward in this respect.
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