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While the rival claims date back to the late nineteenth century, the latest flare-up – which has included widespread anti-Japanese demonstrations in China – was triggered in September 2012, when Japan’s government purchased three of the tiny islets from their private Japanese owner.
Under FHC, Brazil pioneered an effective response to the AIDS epidemic by guaranteeing access to antiretroviral medicines and to widespread counseling and viral testing.
On a worldwide scale, nuclear energy is thus only a small component of the global energy mix, and its share, contrary to widespread belief, is not on the rise.
This knee-jerk reaction presumes that China’s current slowdown is but a prelude to more growth disappointments to come – a presumption that reflects widespread and longstanding fears of a broad array of disaster scenarios, ranging from social unrest and environmental catastrophes to housing bubbles and shadow-banking blow-ups.
One reason for this is widespread pessimism about Japan’s economy, reinforced by volatility in China, monetary tightening in the United States, and the collapse in world oil prices.
Low-level corruption (the police, courts, and government clerks) has always been widespread in India.
In the not-too-distant past, widespread denigration of this sort in Africa, Latin America, and other parts of South Asia often made it easier for populist authoritarianism to take hold.
And anti-EU sentiment is too widespread and too deep to hand more power to unelected EU officials and impose additional constraints on national decision-making without poisoning the pot further.
The point is not merely to make ourselves feel a little better, but rather to confront one of the world’s gravest threats: the widespread pessimism that today’s problems are too big to be solved.
The result should be something closer to widespread hand-washing than to a system of acute-care hospitals.
But in the face of conflicts that are producing widespread death and destruction, the UN and its power players have a responsibility – as stated in the UN Charter – to do everything possible to restore peace.
Widespread circumvention of the US will hasten the emergence of a new multipolar order.
Their adoption indicates widespread acceptance of the fact that all countries share responsibility for the long-term stability of Earth’s natural cycles, on which the planet’s ability to support us depends.
A lack of on-the-job skills training also contributes to widespread inactivity – a shortcoming that is exacerbated by the fact that almost half of Latin American employees work in the informal sector, where no such training is typically offered.
Many macroeconomists attribute the sustained decline in inflation since the early 1980’s to the widespread use of this strategy.
There may be a link between the rise of the Internet and widespread public distrust of elites and experts, but it is not exactly clear what that link may be.
Scientific views in fields like energy, climate, genetics, and medicine face widespread popular rejection.
Poverty and unemployment are still more widespread than in other emerging markets, but accelerating growth since 2000 has made Africa the world’s second-fastest-growing region (after emerging Asia and equal to the Middle East).
Debtors worldwide face a risk of bankruptcy which, if widespread, could lead to a dangerous recession.
Widespread ideas about major public investments financed by bloating deficits should be forgotten.
That changed in 2011, when the popular protests and political chaos stemming from the Arab Spring led to widespread institutional paralysis, allowing the Houthis to march past a military that largely refused to fight it.
There was widespread fear that dependence on computers would produce a millennial catastrophe, as hospitals, airplanes, power grids, and communications would all grind to a halt when 1999 became 2000.
Twitter political activism in China challenges the simplistic yet widespread assumption that social media in the hands of activists can lead swiftly to mass mobilization and social change.
It can effectively link discourse and action, generate widespread campaigns, and forge common ground among rights activists, public intellectuals, and all kinds of Twitter users.
Consider Trump’s recent decision to withdraw the US from the Paris climate agreement, which was met with widespread condemnation from foreign leaders, environmentalists, and many CEOs, all decrying America’s retreat from global leadership.
Political corruption is fueling widespread fury, with many convinced that moneyed interests have captured their democratic institutions.
But if that is what the term “awash with liquidity” means, then its widespread use today is simply a reflection of the high asset prices that we already have.
In other words, the more generous and widespread the government benefits, the higher the required tax rate.
CAMBRIDGE – Goldman Sachs announced this month plans to provide bonuses at record levels, and there are widespread expectations that bonuses and pay in many other firms will rise substantially this year.
Breaches of copyright will become even more widespread than they are today (although they will cost the copyright owners very little, because the poor would be very unlikely to be able to buy books or other copyrighted material).
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