It does not make political sense it does not make economic sense it does not make ethical sense.

In political terms, Iran is the big winner of Bush s war.

So it is time to think geopolitically, not just fiscally, about the Mediterranean.

Current attempts by the Security Council to blame Eritrea are unwarranted, both legally and politically.

Politically, Darfur finds itself at a stalemate.

This is a politically understandable but flawed policy.

Militants on both sides remain strong, and they exert much influence politically.

By way of conclusion, he said that although the European Union was by far the largest contributor, its support to UNHCR was not just financial, but also political.

Europe s experience has shown that the subordination of society to economic theories is politically untenable.

Politically, that debate focuses on the costs of bailouts and on tax schemes designed to get our money back.

In political terms, China, India, and Russia are vying with each other for power in Asia.

In theory, this is what democracy is all about policy responding to the needs of the people.

Countries with the clout to flaunt the limits will do so whenever it is politically convenient.

Politically, Afghanistan has promulgated a new constitution and has held successful presidential and parliamentary elections, laying a political foundation for its stability.

The Soviet Union wasn t ideologically anti Western, because Communism and Socialism were Western inventions, but it was anti Western in political terms.

We often think of torture as being political torture or reserved for just the worst, but, in fact, 95 percent of torture today is not for political prisoners.

His politically untarnished image was a major factor in the election, as was his vision of Finland as an active participant in international affairs.

Geopolitically, the post 1989 gains extended far beyond the West.

The support of the international community both financially and in terms of political will was essential to the successful implementation of the UNHCR mandate.

The problem for American conservatives is not their choice of candidates or the tone of their rhetoric. It is that their ideas are not politically sustainable.

But, as their regimes increasingly came to be seen as politically illegitimate, their model of Islam was also discredited.

Despite this progress, there are still obstacles to putting these formal measures into practice, including the absence of mechanisms for ensuring participation, the failure to prepare women to take part in political life, insufficient party support and the effects of a patriarchal system that has historically blocked the development of women's capacity for political participation.

But this was now politically feasible, because aid topped up the public coffers, reducing the depth of the necessary cuts and the associated pain and suffering.

Forestry, paper factories, and the agricultural sector (on which taxpayers spend around 3 billion euros annually) are politically sensitive to rural residents.

Several major tasks remained, particularly the politically sensitive reunification of the city's cultural institutions.

Politically, it would be a big mistake for Germany to exit the euro, because that would reinstate the Rhine as the border between France and Germany.

The Tangshan Earthquake came at a rather politically sensitive time during the late stages of the Cultural Revolution, making accurate statistics especially difficult to find.

This is politically safe, since, in one sense, to criticize the outside world, especially countries such as Japan and the US, is to praise China s government.

The process fell victim to the parties inability to bridge the gap between what was politically feasible for them and what was required for a settlement.

On the one hand, the constitutions guarantee varying degrees of fundamental human rights and political equality. But on the other, the same constitutions also provide a dominant status for the powerful majority groups.

In both of these cases, legally, women are equal, but, traditionally, this is not the case.

The higher levels of the judiciary, however, display a significant degree of independence and often rule against the Government in criminal, civil and even politically controversial cases.

Rather than launching an uncompromising campaign to defeat the insurgents, Santos has pursued the more politically challenging course a negotiated settlement.

Moreover, as a party to the majority of the international legal instruments that prohibit the manufacture, stockpiling and transfer of such weapons, Djibouti cannot help States or non State actors either legally or politically to manufacture or procure weapons of mass destruction.

1.2.2 De facto discrimination

The former logically complements the latter.

But, in general, universal social policies have been much more effective and politically sustainable, while policies targeting the poor, or the poorest of the poor, have often been costly and neglectful of many of those in need.

But the decision to move towards monetary union reflected what seemed most urgent and politically possible at the time elimination of intra EU exchange rate instability, which had dominated the policy agenda for decades.

34.7 The Development Account serves to advance, substantively as well as managerially, overall United Nations goals, in that it

Although it could be argued that neither of these instruments is binding, they are nonetheless politically relevant as they represent a broad agreement by the international community on these matters.

Statistically, this works.

Nevertheless, in practical terms, priorities have to be established.

To ensure proper care for infected and affected victims, a supportive social and legal environment has been created to address the issues of STDs and HIV AIDS.

More detailed and targeted clarification is necessary to ensure that the criminal charges brought against Mr. Zhao have not been used as a pretext to punish him for his sometimes politically sensitive research and journalism.

The time of American unilateralism is objectively over.