Are their experiences mutually exclusive, or is convergence possible?

There is no sign in the EU that national regulations on economic migration are converging.

Nor could we find any convergence regarding government deficits and debt.

He was unpleasantly deferential, as if fearful of intimacy with persons whom he did not respect.

Success here would allow candidate countries to start reaping the benefits of greater price transparency, reduced transaction costs, and a solid macroeconomic framework.

Equally important was the fact that all the countries concerned expressed an ambition to move closer to the EU.

These proximity talks allow Mitchell to ensure that each side is making serious offers.

Certainly the Iran United States football game in 1998 offered a moment of fraternization between the two teams.

BRUSSELS Those who oppose Western rapprochement with Kazakhstan cite the country s lack of political and human rights.

The process of Westernization and modernization had begun in the late nineteenth century under the Ottomans during the period of the Tanzimat.

It includes Cassini orbiting Saturn 155 more times, conducting 54 additional flybys of Titan and 11 more of Enceladus.

An initial approach along these lines is being tried in Usulután, where members of the communities affected by crime have met with the National Police and the Office of the Attorney General.

Instead, the vocation of Europe in the course of the twenty first century should be to become the lever of step by step inter continental convergence and unification.

This requires greater communication between and among decision makers in all three NAFTA members. The agenda and timetable for convergence must be set by NAFTA's elected leaders, but implementation should be in the hands of a new commission.

The agenda and timetable for convergence must be set by NAFTA's elected leaders, but implementation should be in the hands of a new commission.

The shock of the United Kingdom's defeat in Asia in 1942 and the threat of Japanese invasion caused Australia to turn to the United States as a new ally and protector.

Nothing can prevent the world from becoming one vast free market but the inevitable process of convergence can be accelerated.

Perhaps al Qaeda's motive in targeting Turkey is to derail a Muslim nation from its progress toward joining the European Union?

Oblonsky had more than once experienced this kind of acute estrangement instead of union following a dinner with a friend, and knew what to do in such a case.

Rather than seeking rapprochement, however, the US supported Saddam Hussein during Iraq s eight year war with Iran in the 1980s.

Second, and related to the first caveat, there should be no formal approximation to EU institutions when this would impair Russia's competitive advantages.

Any delay in completing reforms will ultimately slow the process of real convergence that EU officials rightly hold dear. Early adoption, by contrast, would be more conducive to these reforms, and thus to real convergence.

McCartney's loss later became a point of connection with John Lennon, whose mother, Julia, had died when he was seventeen.

For NAFTA to realize its full potential and move the convergence process, opening borders to trade and reducing tariff barriers are not enough.

The technologies on which many of us depend today arose from a parallel convergence of discoveries in physics and engineering in the early twentieth century.

But, as China s economy and society advance, engagement with global markets and growing awareness of rights have caused expectations to change faster than the law and judicial practices.

Since the US China rapprochement four decades ago, China has maintained a studied ambiguity regarding America s role as the guarantor of Asia s security.

China s economy will most likely continue to converge rapidly, though its annual growth rate may fall from 9 to 7 .

67. Further, ONUSAL considers it important to develop means of building bridges between local communities and the institutions responsible for the investigation and punishment of crime.

Compared to Chirac s rigid refusal to consider any kind of rapprochement with the Front, Sarkozy s policy is thus a small step towards recognition of the Front s legitimacy.

In Moscow, after this luxurious course of Petersburg life, he experienced for the first time the delight of intimacy with a sweet, innocent Society girl who fell in love with him.

The old standoff between the two nations is beside the point to ordinary people they desire a closer relationship with the US, where many of their families and friends live.

But Khasawneh, who had encouraged Islamists to join the political process, and forged a rapprochement with the Palestinian Islamic movement Hamas, warns that it is a mistake to write off the Arab Spring.

In the early 1970 s, moderates gained by engineering a rapprochement with the US, capped by Nixon s famous visit to China in 1972.

The second point of convergence between Indian and Western interests is one that will probably get no public mention during Chirac s visit India can perhaps serve as a counterweight to China.

Weeks away from the end of the Obama presidency, there is a strong possibility that the US is moving away from the defining project of rapprochement with its long time foe, the Islamic Republic of Iran.

Creating supranational institutions adequate to the task would require not only a willingness to give up national sovereignty but a considerable degree of convergence in national preferences regarding what constitutes a desirable set of social arrangements.

Syria, which until the end of 2008 was engaged in its own Turkish mediated proximity talks with Israel, does not expect a resumption of talks with Israel anytime soon.

And the dreamier an opposition party s promises are, the bigger the challenge of narrowing the gap with reality if, like Syriza, it actually wins an election and comes to power.

It also probably sank the Sunshine Policy of rapprochement with North Korea that once appeared to be the crowning achievement of Kim Dae Jung's presidency in South Korea.

While the Kemalists sought a radical break with the Ottoman past, there were important elements of continuity between their Westernization efforts and those undertaken in the late Ottoman period.

That year the Countess Lydia Ivanovna refused to live in Peterhof, did not once come to see Anna, and hinted to Karenin the undesirability of Anna's intimacy with Betsy and Vronsky.

First, empirical evidence shows that convergence of per capita income between lagging and leading regions is neither a necessary nor a sufficient condition for achieving poverty reduction and social convergence.

Is anyone in Washington asking how the Geneva agreements on Syria and Iran are connected to Ukraine s refusal to move closer to the EU, much less developing a strategic response?