Meanwhile, the emerging powers continue to lean toward bilateralism and are aligning themselves with other countries.

Meanwhile, the emerging powers continue to lean toward bilateralism and are aligning themselves with other countries.

The question is not one of aligning tax rates, which can and should be determined by competition.

The Assad regime has consistently adopted an anti Western stance, aligning itself with the Soviet Union and later with Russia.

The third phase began immediately after the 1969 Sino Soviet military clashes, with the US actively seeking to exploit the rift in the Communist world by aligning China with its anti Soviet strategy.

Essentially, the concept has served to justify collectivist authoritarian rule by aligning it with local tradition and culture, with autonomy defined in terms of otherness that is, differentiation from the West and its values.

And it's moving through us, this self organization, and we're extending and accelerating it, and we can be part of it by aligning the technology that we make with it.

The despair of poor, provincial, and clientelistic constituencies is a tool rather than a problem, and belittling the US by aligning with Fidel Castro trumps promoting their countries real interests in the world.

Promoting a pan European private placement market might help, as would aligning standards for covered bonds.

The third phase began immediately after the 1969 Sino Soviet military clashes, with the US actively seeking to exploit the rift in the Communist world by aligning China with its anti Soviet strategy. Although China clearly instigated the bloody border clashes, America sided with Mao s regime.

Now when you're in an fMRI scanner, you're in a big magnet that's aligning your molecules in certain areas.

Far from securing a dominant position, Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu would be forced to choose between aligning his party with the HDP or the conservative Nationalist Movement Party (MHP).

Possibly the biggest prize in aligning private and public sector development efforts lies in the relatively unexplored area of blended finance.

Aligning their assistance with national development strategies and structures, or helping countries devise such strategies and structures, ensures that their aid is usefully spent and guarantees the sustainability of their efforts.

The problem that we had with STriDER I is it was just too heavy in the body. We had so many motors, you know, aligning the joints, and those kinds of things.

The first is comprehensive tax reform aimed at aligning tax policy with desirable economic incentives. In particular, the US should consider introducing a value added tax (VAT), widely used in other industrialized countries.

The annual summits need to be made more substantial, and their focus shifted from transatlantic, bilateral issues to aligning EU and US global policies and actions.

Of course, given the multitude of existing taxes, fees, and subsidies on energy products in various countries, the goal of aligning the effective cost of carbon with its most economically efficient level would take time to achieve.

For them, rhetoric is more important than substance and power is more important than how it is exercised. The despair of poor, provincial, and clientelistic constituencies is a tool rather than a problem, and belittling the US by aligning with Fidel Castro trumps promoting their countries real interests in the world.

One can nearly detect a kind of North South divide, with south Europe (pre dominantly Spain and Italy standing behind Segolène Royal, and northern Europe, predominantly Germany and Britain (the US as well) aligning themselves behind Nicolas Sarkozy.

By not dealing with it!

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with introduction by Tomasz Gryglewicz.

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The final pillar is the government services supply chain, by which central and local officials affect every link of production, logistics, and financial networks through regulations, taxes, or permits. Most foreign observers miss the scale and depth of institutional and process innovation in this supply chain, which has managed (mostly) to protect property rights, reduce transaction costs, and minimize risks by aligning government services with market interests.

By whose authority and with what accountability?

By trying to coerce them with fines?

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