Not infrequently this has been helped by explicit policies.

This has led to conservative reactions, asking elements in government and society to take action.

Pessimists see conflict of one kind or another as more or less inevitable, and adopt a highly wary and competitive approach to the conduct of international relations.

The projections for growth in regular resources are conservative and UNICEF hopes that actual growth will be higher.

There was an estimation, a conservative estimation, a couple of years ago that the U.S. economy benefited by 57 billion dollars per year.

Until the recent opening, Myanmar, which gained independence in 1948, had been ruled by a secretive military junta since 1962.

d See annex III for details of UNIDIR 2006 estimated income from voluntary sources. The estimates for 2006 contributions are conservative.

He argued that media owning companies have an interest in promoting non conservative causes such as protectionism and of shifting their health care costs over to the government.

UNICEF appreciated that audits were used to identify areas where improvements could be made, and would continue to aim for unqualified audit reports.

A long liberal cycle stretched from the 1930 s to the 1970 s, followed by a conservative cycle of economic deregulation, which now seems to have run its course.

Many European banks may not have understood this, yet they still shied away from revealing these dubious investments on their balance sheets.

As islanders, Britons and Japanese have had wary relations with and often a superiority complex toward their great continental neighbors, Europe and China, respectively.

Today, on the eve of the French presidential elections, opinion polls show that three quarters of French voters believe that France should distance itself from the United States.

In Washington as in Beijing, for that matter the temptation to approach Europe in a bilateral manner is strong and growing. President Barack Obama s America, rendered prudent by the costs of the country s military adventures in Iraq and Afghanistan, is only too happy to count on the interventionist traditions of Great Britain and France.

So Germany s refusal to boost domestic demand and reduce its external surplus, along with its insistence on conservative inflation targets for the ECB, severely undercuts prospects for European prosperity and unity.

At this stage, the best course would be to adopt a credible multi year plan, based on reasonable but conservative growth assumptions, to reduce deficits to sustainable levels and limit the accumulation of public debt.

Even India, which has been cautious about deepening its security ties with the US, has now embraced the idea of regional mutual defense not only with America, but also with Japan and other East Asian countries.

Putin then decided to disavow his own marriage to Lyudmila Shkrebneva, his wife of 29 years, announcing the divorce in as publicly humiliating a way as possible his wife was standing by his side for a reserved Russian woman.

Even we, as opponents of the war, were staggered by what we found, with conservative to moderate estimates ranging from slightly less than a trillion dollars to more than 2 trillion.

Because the analysis did not include subsidies, rebates, tax write offs, docks constructed at public expense, and costs for training and marketing, this estimate should be considered conservatively low.

Yet successful economies are prone to one of the most dangerous emotions of all self satisfaction, that excessive pride that Confucius condemned, which makes governments wary of reforming what has been a winning model, even when stresses begin to appear.

PARIS After months of wrangling, the showdown between Greece and its European creditors has come down to a standoff over pensions and taxes. Greece is refusing to acquiesce to demands by its creditors that it cut payments to the elderly and raise the value added tax on their medicine and electricity.