Sentences with phrase «most international conflicts»

Right wing figures have complained of left - wing bias at the corporation for years, and most international conflicts see the BBC attacked by both sides.

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Though some Republicans, like Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, were quick to praise Tillerson's international business experience working with foreign governments, Tillerson's nomination was met with deep skepticism from both parties over his embodiment of the most contentious 2016 campaign issues: Trump's closeness with Russia, climate change skepticism, and potential business conflicts of interest.

But foreign policy experts — and politicians themselves — emphasize that the most critically important element of the dispute is maintaining a rules - based approach to international conflict.

The chart shows estimates by the International Monetary Fund of output gaps and credit gaps during that period; while such estimates are obviously imprecise, they suggest that in most of those countries, inflation targeting and financial stability may have been complementary, rather than conflicting goals.

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Our difficulty in speaking about cross-cultural principles of right and wrong is compounded by the fact that international organizations, from the United Nations to the World Court, are fragile and nearly helpless in many of the most critical areas of conflict.

In fact, many of the wars that have received the most international attention in recent decades — such as in Afghanistan, Columbia, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Iraq, the Palestinian conflict in Israel, the Darfuri war in Sudan, and Somalia — have involved several rebel groups and significant external involvement.

For geologists like James Hammond, a research fellow at Imperial College London and a co-panelist with Pastrana in the session on science and political strain, some of the most interesting volcanoes lie in countries that are in conflict with their neighbors or the international community.

In a recent original article in Deutsches Ärzteblatt International, Gisela Schott et al. determine that most guideline authors do declare their conflicts of interest.

This was a minor disruption compared to the previous year, when the festival was nearly cancelled due to a political conflict between the city and the festival organisers, relating to the screening of an anti-government documentary in 2014.1 Much has changed in the past year, most notably the impeachment of right - wing President Park Geun - hye, whose government the documentary had targeted, and the election of the left - liberal party headed by Moon Jae - in.2 While the contentious political atmosphere has not entirely dissipated, as evidenced by the student protest groups still demanding an apology from the local city government, this year's festival was an attempt to return to normalcy, despite the untimely death of one of the festival's driving forces, deputy director Kim Ji - seok, a much beloved figure within the community.3 Although the festival had a strong selection of international entries, including some of the best this year has to offer, such as Ruben Östlund's Palme d'Or winner The Square and Sean Baker's The Florida Project, I have decided to focus my report on the Korean films.

Vice: Season Five: In a wide - ranging mix of international and domestic stories, VICE brings some of today's most pressing stories to light in the fifth season, which takes viewers from conflict zones in the Middle East and Africa, to the frontlines of lifesaving breakthroughs in medical technology around the world.

Lahiri enriches the themes that made her collection, The Interpreter of Maladies, an international bestseller: the immigrant experience, the clash of cultures, the conflicts of assimilation and, most poignantly, the tangled ties between generations.

According to the Art Newspaper, the International Alliance for the Protection of Heritage in Conflict Areas (Aliph) has so far raised $ 75m of a planned $ 100m, most of which has come from France, the UAE and Saudi Arabia.

Most other countries on this ranking are participants in ongoing international conflicts (e.g., Israel, Pakistan, Afghanistan), or are sites in which extremist groups regularly carry out terrorist attacks (e.g., Mali, Nigeria, Syria).

The artist's most recent essay for e-flux Journal makes it clear that the experience of making the show at the Reina Sofía was a powerful one: to do so in the home of Picasso's masterpiece Guernica offered an irresistible context for her more recent meditations on the continuities between the international artworld and the business of conflict.

Though today's most recognizable holiday is Columbus Day, over at her Mediation Channel Blog, Diane Levin is celebrating International Conflict Resolution Day by hosting Blawg Review # 181.

Given that much, if not most of the fighting against the Taleban is undertaken not by the Afghan armed forces but by the NATO led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF), APII will not apply to much of the conflict in that country.

Tony D'Costa of Pax Christi Ireland warned that the weapons cross an unacceptable threshold that is most dangerous to our shared morality: «Autonomous weapons have nothing good to offer us as they threaten global peace and international security» and «undermine the whole landscape of those basic universal human values which protect innocent civilians from harm in times of war or other conflict.»

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I appreciate that divorce mediation may not be considered the most glamorous of international conflicts, however one must acknowledge there are few other conflicts in the western world that affect so many in society, both directly and indirectly.