Jokowi has risen from humble beginnings to the apex of power without compromising his image as a man of the people or his reputation for pragmatism and honesty.

Countries policy responses have ranged from modest to immense. China has undertaken a 6 of GDP stimulus package aimed (mostly) at infrastructure the United States has enacted a two year 800 billion spending and tax rebate package.

Countries policy responses have ranged from modest to immense.

The time to start is now.

Normally, the market fosters the advance of entrepreneurial endeavors.

Educated Hijazis ask only for modest reforms.

Given the low cost and the huge benefits of supporting such efforts, there is no excuse for inaction.

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Revising Article 9 has long been part of Abe s agenda, but whether he pushes ahead with it will depend in large part on the kind of advice he gets from close friends in the US.

The economic impact of such an exponential growth path, starting from small beginnings and viewed over decades, will certainly look like one very large hockey stick.

CA I mean, there are a few launches you've done where the brand maybe hasn't worked quite as well.

In France, the start is more modest 400.000 contactless Visa card are in use.

It is a synonym for a new beginning, new hope, the rule of the better me that exists in all of us.

Principia Marsupia published an article with the title 4 modest proposals for a revolution in Spain .

A Honduran teenager shoots to YouTube stardom teaching viewers how to make the most of their humble means.

Later that day he spoke disparagingly about the various theories for the closure springing up online

Indeed, the media shower lavish attention on over claimers while neglecting their humbler colleagues.

We should work for this type of dialogue by beginning with simple and modest initiatives.

The same holds true, though at a more modest level, even for energy intensive industries, like chemicals.

With this contest, we re supporting an image of modest girls that we think is right and something worth spreading throughout Russia.

We believe that large dividends in threat reduction can be achieved with a relatively modest investment.

These have little to do with Gazprom s main business, are loss making and are probably used to channel company money to managers.

Shareholders know of hundreds of agricultural enterprises, hotels, luxury villas, banks, investment companies and corporate jets owned by Gazprom.

Prior to Mr. Ángyán's initiatives, journalists from time to time also had a chance to discover that the 'oligarchs' in Hungary were able to control the media.

International aid supports harm reduction efforts in both countries on a modest scale most of the money comes from the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria.

Growth in India s agricultural sector declined from a lackluster 3.8 to an even more anemic 2.6 last year.

Even if such efforts succeed, the road to a full fledged democratic system in Iraq will still be arduous and expensive.

For instance, in the mid 1980 s, Chinese leaders seriously discussed and later drew up a blueprint for modest democratic reforms.

I can claim credit for modest successes, but Ghana needs more than modest successes.

Which, it turned out, for this black gang, was not one of the more brilliant financial endeavors that they undertook.

This was accomplished with only modest human and economic cost to the extraordinary multi national coalition assembled by President George H.W. Bush.

The US and other advanced countries have been pushing for much smaller changes, to be recommended by the OECD, the advanced countries club.

If specific US interests might be harmed by such moves, the remedy is to seek revisions in detail, without opposing the overall initiative.

Faced with such significant obstacles, it is not surprising that the High Level Working Group has settled on a more modest measure of success for TTIP negotiations.

The Deep Decarbonization Pathways Project (DDPP) has demonstrated that a low carbon future is within reach, with huge benefits at a very modest cost.

In some cases, even if motives are mixed, the prospects of success are reasonable, and the misery of a population can be relieved at modest expense.

Of course, there is a simpler, yet more piquant theory rumor has it that he is married to w o s.ru editor, Gerasicheva, and, as they are currently getting a divorce, has decided to divest himself of their joint ventures.

A key factor in the success of any EU Middle East initiative will be the millions of European citizens of North African origin, who have a political, cultural, and economic role to play.

The goal for the representatives of the nearly 200 countries who will meet in Copenhagen should not be a single sweeping agreement so much as a set of more modest agreements.

His leadership inspired hope that more than a decade of sleepwalking was behind us, and brought some modest gains over the last 18 months.

In addition to increasing the low wages received by employees of Walmart and fast food chains, the goal of the protesters is to create unions within them.

But this style of government essentially an electoral campaign, not a government virtually guarantees that almost nothing of real importance can be accomplished.

The international community has agreed on a set of modest goals for global development reducing poverty and illiteracy and improving health.

Such approaches may lack the reach and legitimacy of formal global undertakings, but they do have the advantage of getting something done.

One of the country s most interesting new ventures is VoxUkraine, a blogging platform set up by two Ukrainian economics professors based in the United States, Yuriy Gorodnichenko and Timofiy Mylovanov.