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A vocal critic of protectionism, he will push for the EU-Canada Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement and the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership with the United States.
Politics on the donor side is no less complicated, with growing aid budgets often viewed by taxpayers as excessive at a time when the anti-aid lobby is becoming more vocal.
But this could prove to be a hollow solution, given that the UK maintains a trade surplus with the US, and Trump is a vocal critic of American trade deficits.
For the most vocal activists who won’t leave, detention awaits.
The expert had been one of the most prominent and vocal advocates of NAFTA when the deal was concluded a quarter-century ago.
Under the cover of silence, gays refrain from provoking the conflicts that a more vocal advocacy of homosexuality would bring.
But, as the possibility that separatists will win a majority of seats becomes more likely, opponents of secession are becoming more vocal.
Israel’s two most irreconcilable enemies, Iran and Syria, are in fact among the most vocal supporters of Turkey’s hard-line stance towards the Kurds.
A number of vocal critics, notably Joseph Stiglitz and Jeffrey Sachs, bemoan the Fund's (almost) reflexive resort to fiscal and monetary austerity.
The new IMF needs to become more vocal on global financial stability issues.
Kim Jong-in, an architect of economic democratization who has been vocal about the need to tighten regulations on the chaebol, is among Park’s leading advisers.
Moreover, Fabius has been a vocal critic of Iran for supporting Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s regime.
Making it obvious that it is Ahmadinejad’s policies that are isolating Iran would strengthen the still-fragile anti-Ahmadinejad alliance of pragmatic conservatives and reformers, which has lately become more vocal.
I do have deeply held beliefs about how Europe and the rest of the developed world should respond to the refugee crisis, and I have been a vocal advocate of those views.
Engel has said that Iran is the “most dangerous player” in the Middle East, and he was a vocal opponent of the JCPOA.
The EU – which was not only founded on the rule of law, but is also among its most vocal defenders in its diplomatic relationships – should fill this role.
Even the most vocal proponents of open data appear to have underestimated how many profitable ideas and businesses stand to be created.
Indeed, right-wing leaders like Representative Chung Mong-joon of the governing Saenuri Party have been vocal in expressing their doubts about South Korea’s current denuclearization policy, suggesting that a nuclear weapons program could prevent a second war on the peninsula.
Chirkeisky, the second Sufi leader to be assassinated in Dagestan this year, had been a vocal critic of Wahhabism, the Saudi petrodollar-funded brand of orthodoxy that has been gaining traction in the region.
The United Kingdom is the most vocal skeptic, but Poland, Hungary, Slovakia, and pretty much the rest of Eastern Europe have never been enthusiastic about shifting their focus from national prerogatives.
Putin has been vocal about his opposition to NATO policies – particularly its role in countries bordering Russia.
More than one vocal critic of the regime has met an untimely end.
A more vocal Turkish policy on issues related to fundamental freedoms and democratic reform in the region will necessarily alter Turkey’s relations with its less progressive neighbors.
But, despite vocal support for locally led research and development, severe constraints to developing-country innovation remain – and must urgently be removed.
US Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen was a vocal co-architect of the Fed’s accommodative policy stance under the leadership of her predecessor, Ben Bernanke, so policy continuity is expected.
Among the three contenders to replace Merkel, Friedrich Merz was the most vocal proponent of a more active approach at home, within Europe, and abroad.
Ziemiak favored Merz and Jens Spahn over Kramp-Karrenbauer in the leadership race, and has been one of Merkel’s most vocal detractors within the CDU.
Today, however, China’s go-it-alone renminbi policy is hitting Asian economies as hard as it is hitting the more vocal United States.
For example, the usually vocal advocacy community has failed to respond to credible allegations that the United States and other Western powers are putting pressure on the ICC, to prevent a war-crimes probe of Israel’s operation in the Gaza Strip.
Putin’s most vocal current foe, the lawyer Alexei Navalny, has been investigated three times for supposedly stealing millions of dollars.
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