Finally, in December, decisive action was taken.

He cartelized the oil industry and instituted aggressive antitrust policies to break up monopolies.

Emphasizing the need for strong and effective measures for the protection of human rights defenders,

This new round of central bank activism reflects persistent concerns about economic growth.

Likewise, the demand to ban any use of nuclear weapons has been strong and persistent since the end of World War II.

It is time for strong voices in Europe, the US, Israel, and elsewhere to speak out and condemn this human rights tragedy among the Palestinian people.

The Commission is of the opinion that strong measures are needed in order that the European telecommunications equipment manufacturing industry can take maximum advantage of the growth in this market.

He sticks to the script, telling a story of taking aggressive and definitive action against an economic malaise that has plagued Japan for decades.

I have resisted strong public criticism until now, because I thought there was hope for both him and his government. But their behavior has now moved beyond the civilized pale.

Many campaigning to stop the sacrifices at the event have been active on social media, pressuring the authorities to crack down on the violence against animals.

Looking back, Stern said, his report could have been more insistent about the need to take determined action to avoid the catastrophic risks that this level of warming implies.

It should be borne in mind that there are many national or international programmes devoted to these important subjects.

The dialogue between Abe and Xi, combined with increasing media coverage, seems to have paved the way for more aggressive efforts by the Japanese government to deal with the problem.

We appreciate the explanations and analyses which the Commissioner has given us, but we want rapid and forceful action to police the energy sector, to restore order to markets and punish the speculators and their henchmen.

Convinced of the need for the United Nations and its Member States to urgently take strong and effective steps to ensure criminal accountability of United Nations officials and experts on mission,

Foreign observers are prone to associate the Bing Dian incident with other recent crackdowns on China s mass media, and to conclude that Chinese journalism freedom is hopeless under the present autocratic regulation.

Newly emboldened, the government pledged to crackdown on groups that engage in violence, and announced plans to empower authorities to disband organizations that threaten security and order.

He wanted the female members of chengguan China's burly enforcers of urban order, feared and despised for their capricious crackdowns and penchant for violence to convey a certain impression to a clutch of onlookers.

Germany accompanied us in this year's committee work. Over this last year what belonged together grew together, and the Germans obviously belong together.

Many suspect that some EU member states, while insisting on robust human rights clauses in bilateral agreements with countries known to torture prisoners, secretly aided in the rendition of suspected terrorists to these same countries.

While it is not clear that the region s current political elite will prove to be a suitable partner for such an effort, the unprecedented popular mobilization against corruption in Guatemala and Honduras suggests that their newly assertive civil societies could be an important ally.

Indeed, after many months of increasingly forceful military moves most notably, the unilateral declaration of an air defense identification zone covering a large swath of the South China Sea, including disputed territories China s ties with Japan reached an all time low.

While Russia's crackdown on ISIS online content might succeed in weakening the group's reach, it will also make ordinary citizens particularly those who share religious materials online more vulnerable to new criminal prosecutions, which threaten more arbitrary detentions and mistreatment of prisoners taken into custody.

Believing that intensified efforts are therefore required to promote and protect the right to freedom of thought, conscience, religion and belief and to eliminate all forms of hatred, intolerance and discrimination based on religion or belief, as also emphasized at the World Conference against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance,

Believing that further intensified efforts are therefore required to promote and protect the right to freedom of thought, conscience, religion or belief and to eliminate all forms of hatred, intolerance and discrimination based on religion or belief, as emphasized also at the World Conference against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance,

Believing that further intensified efforts are therefore required to promote and protect the right to freedom of thought, conscience, religion or belief and to eliminate all forms of hatred, intolerance and discrimination based on religion or belief, as emphasized also at the World Conference against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance,

8. Urges all States to take stronger actions to ensure that any threat or act of violence committed against humanitarian personnel and United Nations and its associated personnel on their territory is investigated fully and to ensure that the perpetrators of such acts are brought to justice in accordance with international law and national law

Resources need to be channeled away from armed conflict, tax loopholes for the rich, and wasteful outlays on new oil, gas, and coal development toward priorities such as health, education, and low carbon energy, as well as stronger efforts to combat corruption and capital flight.

The Commission wishes to move in the same direction as you. We must thus think about a system of joint decisionmaking in which Parliament might also, in some way, have the last word.

And a project that was realized in Austria, the Hooper Bank, which again used this idea of connecting typology, the traditional buildings, and morphology, or the relationship of the development of land as an idea, into a complex, which is a piece of a city where we can see part of it is literally just this augmenting, this movement of the land that's a very simple idea of just lifting it up and occupying it, and other parts are much more energetic and intense.