Sanctions and blockades have never been, and will never be, the best way of resolving differences between States.

Current difficulties stem from relations between Member States, their priorities, preferred linkages between various issues and the prevalent security interests of States.

Europeans are well practiced in dealing with differences and shaping consensus among principally like minded states.

Today, these countries are more at odds with both Iran and Syria than they have been for decades.

It is on the Syrian question that the differences between Turkey and Iran are especially apparent.

The differences between Roosevelt and Churchill led to several separate deals with the Soviets.

How wonderful it would be if they were sent back to school and trained how to be problem solvers instead, to learn how to bridge the differences between nations without violence.

So, we were talking about the differences between the traditions and what many people perceived as the tragedy of the destruction of the Bamiyan Buddhas, but I offered the suggestion that perhaps we could look at this in a positive way.

Disagreement among and between heads of state and the ECB over the Bank s purchases of distressed sovereign debt have only added to the uncertainty.

Of course, disagreements do arise in the Japan US relationship.

7. Notes the fundamental differences between the parties in implementing the main provisions of the settlement plan

Yet many differences still separate societies within the EU.

But the rights of persons and peoples, not just interests of states, are at stake in controversies such as this one.

For too long, the differences between the US and the Muslim world have been framed not in terms of diversity, but as the foundations of a permanent global conflict.

Noting also the fundamental differences between the parties in implementing the main provisions of the settlement plan,

The biggest differences among the various groupings consist in the tone and tenor of their respective visions of India.

Controversies and attacks against public representatives

Troubled by conflicts between career and family, Brooks officially retired from recording and performing from 2001 until 2009.

A Year of US China Discord?

But differences will remain.

A look beyond the cordial rhetoric reveals profound differences.

Disagreements among different levels of government have contributed to uncontrolled logging and degradation of forestlands.

Having worked in Washington, what you learn is that, typically in Washington, the legislative fights are fights between different sets of corporate monied interests.

Instead, we are witnessing a marked rise in intra State conflicts based on ethnic, religious or cultural differences.

The Court is accustomed to handling territorial disputes between neighbouring States that are seeking the determination of their land and maritime boundaries or a decision in respect of sovereignty over particular areas.

The EU's diplomatic response to the news was delayed by disagreements between Eastern European states, the UK wanting a harsher response and Germany, France and other states' desire not to isolate Russia.

Second, Obama did not seriously seek to resolve existing US China economic disagreements, particularly over trade.

Not surprisingly, these conflicting demands and positions created many disputes between Pakistan and the West.

Not far away a middle aged man approached me, asking if I thought all Palestinians were Hamas guerrilla fighters.

No. The longer you wait, the longer the odds.

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The whole world shares an interest in preventing disagreements between Taiwan and China from becoming a cause for military confrontation between the US and China.

Foreign policy . The most explicit disagreements between the candidates are over Iraq, Iran, and Russia.

We believe that differences and disputes between countries should be resolved through dialogue and cooperation based on equality and mutual respect.

It is believed that there will be a debate over the Group's future plans.

War represents the supreme failure of nations to resolve their differences.

We tend to see commonalities more than differences.

Asking for divorce of their marriage because of unmendable differences.

That hope is fading, as the global economic crisis brings the differences between America and Europe to a head.

The harmonization process had its limits because of the differences between agencies in terms of mandates, business models and structures.

Inter agency ize it, internationalize it.

Damaging discord has emerged within the troika itself, with a particularly disruptive impasse between Frankfurt, where the ECB resides, and Berlin, the seat of the German government.

We who are diplomats, we are trained to deal with conflicts between states and issues between states.

The ones that aren't even fights, typically, are ones where all the money is on one side, all the corporations are on one side, and it's just millions of people on the other side.

24. Stresses the pivotal role of mediation in reconciling differences