Abe s Safe Bet

Indeed, the rest of the world s stake in American success is nearly as large as that of the US itself.

But this is a bad bet.

But now he is playing for higher stakes.

The second part of Sarkozy s wager concerns reforming and renewing the alliance.

France s bet on nuclear power is a more proven option.

It is in rebuilding Gaza that the stakes of the competition will increase.

The right to adequate housing

Right to an adequate standard of living

The dollar, on the other hand, looks like a safer bet in 2011.

The chancellor played for high stakes, seemingly against the odds, and hit the jackpot.

Article 11 Right to an adequate standard of living

To many, this looks like a one way bet.

We want a world in which young people do not die before the age of 20 where young people are able to read and have decent work with a decent salary.

In Britain and the United States, this monetarist bet turned out well. In Western Europe, it did not.

It was not weakness or helplessness that induced Obama to play for high stakes.

the pilots we regard a decision to launch an attack on Iran as a highly mistaken gamble, which would entail severe risks for the State of Israel and would not solve the basic problem.

8.1 Everyone has the right to adequate housing.

Nevertheless, the scope and requirements of the task go beyond the country's capacity and call for ongoing mobilization on the part of the donors to help finance development and overcome poverty.

You wouldn't want decent hearing, you would want perfect hearing.

Suppose you had placed a long term bet on financial equities in 1900, along with a short bet on general equities in effect a gamble on whether the UK financial sector would outperform the market.

I am not arguing that every luxury is wrong.

The representative of Germany has lately taken an inappropriate stance with respect to Algeria's position.

Instead, they have been engaged for weeks in an unseemly brawl about the past.

Only when there is decent work is it possible to have human and material development.

Fifty years of communist misrule have left what was once the most advanced city in Asia a distant also ran.

With rare exceptions, primary and secondary schools leave students badly prepared for university.

So, for young African athletes, embarking on the path to high level sports is a risky wager.

Draupadi, an important female character in the Hindu epic, Mahabharata, was the subject of a bet in a game by her husband Yudhisthir, who eventually lost her in a round of the game after losing everything else.

To develop and implement strategies that give young people everywhere a real chance to find decent and productive work.

In its current state, the global economy is unfit to serve today s collective needs, let alone tomorrow s.

In short, we need a proper supervisory system for the financial services sector in Europe.

In Canada, most households can afford adequate and suitable housing through the private market.

This is reflected negatively in their material position and makes maintaining an appropriate living standard difficult.

The most effective way for people to get out of poverty is through decent and productive work.

In both football (soccer) and politics, the country had come to embody an unseemly mixture of arrogance and denial.

In the field of economic crime and money laundering there are, however, few suitably qualified and experienced experts available.

On 1 March 1996 he was declared medically fit for duty and was told to report immediately to his military unit.

My best bet is that these countries will maintain rapid growth as they shift their economic focus to their vast and untapped domestic markets.

Over 2.5 billion people in the world today do not have proper access to water and sanitation.

For example, a small business with a decent credit history can borrow large amounts with a major credit card.

But many people go without proper education and access to clean drinking water.

Young people from around the world note that finding decent employment remains a major challenge.

There is no doubt that China needs its financial sector to develop soundly in order to ensure sustained economic growth.

After all, the longer one is unemployed, the harder it is to find a full time job at a decent wage.