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After several years of intense negotiation, agreement seemed to be closer than ever.

These infrastructure investments clearly hold the potential to bind Asia closer together than ever before.

Given recent technological developments, the possibility that space weapons could be deployed looms ever closer.

At one point I was a little apprehensive about our ever getting to this point.

Internal stability and economic recovery continue to be elusive, with the specter of civil war hovering ever closer.

But, save for a few whalers and explorers, not many people ever went to have a closer look.

Gauck may not have gone far enough At this point, an ever closer union may be a political mirage.

But with China s rapid ascent and ever closer integration with the outside world, this doctrine has become increasingly anachronistic.

It could also help lessen the tendency of some governments to gravitate ever closer towards the booming Chinese economy.

Israel, deaf to Obama s urging, is further from reconciliation with Palestine, and closer to war with Iran, than it has ever been.

On a recent visit to Africa, a senior agricultural scientist said that in today s world, the scientist is closer than ever before to the farmer, but farther away than ever from the policymakers.

When European unification was launched, it was thought that ever closer union would establish a community that would protect Europeans from political blackmail.

By cooperating with the rest of the United Kingdom, rather than clashing, Scotland is giving new meaning to the phrase ever closer union.

We came much closer to getting there than is now remembered in the Agreed Framework deal of the mid 1990 s, in which I participated as Australia s Foreign Minister.

As the Eastern and Western Fronts were getting closer, the Western Allies started to consider how they might aid the Soviets with the use of the strategic bomber force.

And we know that, across the spectrum of sophistication, the risk of destabilizing cyber attack beating cyber defense is getting ever higher.

What has changed is the pressure of globalization, which is pushing the world s peoples ever closer together as technology advances and shrinks the world.

Growing interconnectedness and interdependence, which is the hallmark of the new millennium, has been a major unifying force, bringing nations and civilizations ever closer.

I am concerned, therefore, by the most recent reported statement by the Polisario leadership that a return to arms may be closer than ever .

Now, it's often said that getting closer and closer to the fundamental laws by examining phenomena at low energies, and then higher energies, and then higher energies, or short distances, and then shorter distances, and then still shorter distances, and so on, is like peeling the skin of an onion.

Ever closer union means an EU that moves ineluctably from economic and monetary union to banking union, then to fiscal union, and finally to political union.

As a result, Germany bound itself to the idea of ever closer union even more definitively by pledging to join the common European currency, the euro.

For decades, reconciliation and its most remarkable achievement the Franco German rapprochement was the trademark of the project to create an ever closer union in Europe.

A final way of thinking about the EU is as the ever closer union referred to in the Treaty of Rome and echoed in the Maastricht Treaty.

Unfortunately, the compact is likely to be another example of Europe s subordination of economic reality to politicians desire for bragging rights about progress toward ever closer union.

Palestine is the land which everyone insists on saying after 60 years that we are getting closer to returning to it even they don't even have the mentality to enable them for this return!!

The presence of oxygen in the atmosphere will be a good indicator for life, as oxygen in our own atmosphere is a by product of life itself. We are getting closer to finding life.

But the EU s enlargement in 2004 failed to stop the momentum toward ever closer union. Of the ten countries that joined then, seven are now in the eurozone.

Taking their cue from the sacred Rome Treaty s reference to ever closer union, the European Commission s theologians view every crisis as an opportunity to advance their federalist agenda.

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In this edition of Into the Deep, the Global Voices podcast where we take a closer look at one topic that isn t getting the media coverage it deserves, we are digging deep into global connections.

It needs not just closer economic ties, but also closer political ties.

Facebook groups were getting created. Facebook applications were getting created.

Sami got closer.

Closer to Leukemia.

But recent events do spell the end of one version of European integration the vision of an ever closer union producing a federal country that would become a new superpower.

President Bush now argues that all along it has been the above board enrichment of uranium, not some other, secret program, that carries Iran ever closer to having nuclear weapons.

Estranged during the Cold War by American support for Pakistan and India s leadership of the non aligned movement, the two countries have been drawing ever closer during the last decade.

From that point on, they are in and out of the prison system, and have little chance of ever getting a legal job that enables them to escape poverty.

And it's getting worse because travel is getting so much better.

On the contrary, the sustainable prosperity that would result from that adjustment would create a much healthier long term foundation for continuing the quest for an ever closer union in Europe.

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