Revoking America s Exorbitant Privilege

Exceptional periods sometimes create exceptional leaders.

The death penalty is necessary in exceptional cases.

Kabul convoy attack Nato soldier killed in suicide blast

In exceptional cases, the secretariat may distribute basic documents at the session.

THREE, as Obama convoy left, Uhuru was left standing somewhere, almost looking stranded (oops)!

Not only does this comport with the preferences of the American public polls show that two thirds of Americans prefer multilateral actions to unilateral ones but it has practical implications as well.

Needless to say, exceptional access comes at exceptional financial and political costs.

Even militarily, the US should rarely intervene alone.

Considering the postponement of the special session of the General Assembly on children due to exceptional circumstances,

Together with other aid agencies, IRC staff formed a convoy and MONUC offered armed vehicles to protect it.

Fortunately, Greece is a country of exceptional talents, capable of building new competitive sectors from the ground up, if given the chance.

Yes, all investors should have a very modest share of gold in their portfolios as a hedge against extreme tail risks.

On May 8, 2017, five blue helmets died in an attack on their convoy, prompting the main blue helmets backers to be cautious.

A suicide bomber has attacked a military convoy in the Afghan capital, Kabul, killing a Nato soldier and wounding several others, officials say.

Such a stratagem is possible only in connection with foreign policy matters, and, unlike in Britain, it is the exception, not the rule.

In fact, our research shows that there are 19 phenomenal targets that like freer trade should be prioritized above all of the others.

After truly exceptional showings of utter dominance at Beijing and London, expectations have been played down in the lead up to Rio.

Together with other aid agencies, IRC staff formed a convoy and MONUC offered armed vehicles to protect it. But when armed men stopped the convoy on the road, the Uruguayan peacekeepers from MONUC simply turned around and vanished, leaving the aid workers to their fate.

But when armed men stopped the convoy on the road, the Uruguayan peacekeepers from MONUC simply turned around and vanished, leaving the aid workers to their fate.

A Nato statement said that Thursday evening's blast happened when a joint patrol with the Afghan army was attacked by a personnel borne improvised explosive device.

Only if a technology does not significantly raise costs, or does so only exceptionally, should governments be willing to pay for it.

When the financial crisis erupted with full force in 2008, the world s major central banks were right to employ exceptional measures.

In light of experience, the view that the financial system is only exceptionally unstable or on an unsustainable path seems at least questionable.

It is crucial in this context that RtoP advocates continue to emphasize that coercive military force can be contemplated only in the most extreme and exceptional circumstances. The best way to make that point would be to revive the dormant debate about adopting narrow guidelines for military intervention, as recommended by my commission and Secretary General Annan prior to the UN vote in 2005.

It is crucial in this context that RtoP advocates continue to emphasize that coercive military force can be contemplated only in the most extreme and exceptional circumstances.

Yet in the realm of transatlantic relations, as is true globally, it is unwise to expect too much from a single man, whatever his exceptional qualities.

In extraordinary times, history is, in fact, a better guide than models estimated with data from ordinary times, because it captures variance that standard time series techniques ignore.

Nor do centralized fiscal policies have any real raison d'être from a constitutional point of view. The US Constitution, for example, does not prescribe balanced budgets for the states.

With a few exceptions, foreign companies can enter contracts with the Cuban government only if they are willing to transfer 51 percent ownership of their holdings on the island to the Cuban government itself.

Democracy becomes a matter of referendum only in exceptional circumstances when elected leaders run out of ideas, when they have lost the confidence of their electorate, or when the usual approaches have ceased to work.

It would be far better if the US found ways simply to organize outright grants in exceptional cases like Ukraine, rather than design the international financial system around them.

Yet another scheme would deploy royalties for natural resource extraction from the global commons, such as Antarctica and other areas beyond exclusive national economic zones.

The convey itself was comprised of five English vessels and one Dutch transport ship, which were loaded with strategically important materials (10,000 tonnes of natural rubber, 1,500 tonnes of regulation boots, tin metal, and wool, and a variety of other gear and equipment).

After initial confusion in late September about who bombed a United Nations convoy delivering humanitarian aid to the besieged Syrian city of Aleppo, state officials in the West say the evidence implicates Russia's armed forces.

True, some Chinese scholars remain inclined to argue that the entire R2P enterprise particularly its sanction of military action in exceptional cases is just old neo interventionist wine in a new bottle.

Emphasizing the continuing need for extraordinary efforts in order to maintain, at least at the current level, the activities of the Agency, as well as to enable the Agency to carry out essential construction,

They argue that intervening at extreme points demands little more than a show of force, but that intervening regularly needs much more to convince markets it demands international coordination.

One cause of the financial crisis was financial institutions appetite for selecting (and in some cases, creating) products with above average returns in normal times but excessive losses in exceptional cases.

While panic is rare, it is natural for people to need some time to adjust to a new risk and this swine flu pandemic is new to us all.

According to the boundary treaty signed in 1858, the San Juan River belongs to Nicaragua, but the navigation of the river for commercial purposes is shared and no exclusive rights of cabotage should exist.

Dr. Edith Widder she's now at the Ocean Research and Conservation Association was able to come up with a camera that could capture some of these incredible animals, and that's what you're seeing here on the screen.

iPhone compared to HTC S620 photo by Gadgetdude on Flickr (cc) On March 2, 2010, Apple Inc. filed a lawsuit against HTC for infringing on 20 Apple patents related to the iPhone's user interface.

Beyond the celebration of eight exceptional years of unique friendship under Bush, it also seemed clear that the 41 year old special relationship inaugurated by the Six Day War in 1967, when the US became Israel s main backer, might be coming to an end.

I believe that, on the contrary, this would be an advantage in the current exceptional circumstances, because it would keep the Italian and Spanish governments on a short leash no country concerned could afford to lose the ECB facility.