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"precondition" Definitions
  1. precondition (for/of something) something that must happen or exist before something else can exist or be done

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The Trump administration was wise not to make CVID a precondition to opening lines of communication; now, it must not make CVID a precondition to more meaningful and specific negotiations.
It will analyze the current weather and precondition your house.
Commission of a crime is not a precondition of impeachment.
However, that illumination would be impossible without the precondition of darkness.
Saudi had made Russian cooperation a precondition for any OPEC cut.
Passing the test suite was the sole precondition in our contract.
We really have only one precondition: that our country remain whole.
Recognizing Kosovo is a precondition for Serbia to join the bloc.
But reality has never been a precondition for Trump's public claims.
It is a precondition of existence, like the need to pee.
It is a precondition of getting a license from the government.
Addressing the voting rights problem was a precondition for the take-over.
Having a perfect "specification sheet" used to be a precondition for investment.
Being aware is a precondition to being able to exercise your rights.
It's a necessary but not sufficient precondition for an electoral legitimacy crisis.
Motorists are also advised to "precondition" their EVs, Grewe and Brannon said.
These patterns turn her physical precondition into a kind of decorative wallpaper.
He championed "Human Terrain" intelligence as a precondition for successful counterinsurgency operations.
Compatibility is an achievement of love; it must not be its precondition.
The impossibility of knowledge turns out to be a precondition for writing.
"We are ready to have the first meeting without precondition," Tillerson said.
Well-to-do families, too, are a precondition for a theme park.
Having a perfect "specification sheet" used to be a precondition for any investment.
The move is a precondition of its planned merger with rival CA Immo.
That is just what America has always demanded as a precondition for talks.
An agreement is a precondition for both countries to join the European Union.
It's a precondition that ensures all sides of a debate can be heard.
It's been a major precondition for the special interest occupation of our government.
Goranov has said earlier that one was not a precondition for the other.
Dotson was allowed to transfer into Houston under the precondition of continued counselling.
Kaepernick's lawyers rejected what they called an "unusual liability waiver" as a precondition.
Sanders called "denuclearization" a precondition for any direct meeting between Trump and Kim.
"Collaboration is not the only issue and is not a precondition," Li told Bloomberg.
Prizing compliance as a precondition for upward mobility, military service rarely encourages critical thinking.
"The ACLU argues that free speech is a necessary precondition for equality," said Corbin.
A precondition for OMT is that the country must be in a bailout program.
A precondition for OMT is that the country must be in a bailout program.
A precondition for fruitful dialogue would thus be to start with a shared definition.
We do not accept a resumption of humanitarian assistance as a precondition to talks.
" And in July, Trump himself said he would meet with Rouhani with "no precondition.
Some analysts said the Afghan government's new precondition for negotiations was not considering that possibility.
Free speech, in other words, is not a precondition of political freedom, but a result.
The withdrawal of Indian border guards was a precondition for resolving the situation, Wu reiterated.
Trade and technology, in and of themselves, are merely the precondition for wealth and progress.
Collaboration on the Impasse never took the form of planned coordination; it was the precondition.
Xi hoped to make easing restrictions on Huawei a precondition for a new trade deal.
Denuclearization was no longer a precondition of talks, it seemed; it was now their endgame.
S. offer for negotiations with no precondition is not acceptable while sanctions and threats continue.
Freedom is the precondition for human beings to lead a self-determined and dignified live.
And Washington saw the resignation of the socialist government as a precondition for any settlement.
It was also a precondition for the European Union to grant visa-free travel to Ukrainians.
"The precondition to negotiating NAFTA is that we can't go back to the past," he added.
While ownership of Greenland may not be a necessary precondition for Arctic control, it would help.
It's the implied precondition for his tone, for the way, musically, he simulates ennui amid luxury.
But the paper noted that security and stability are a precondition for such reforms to succeed.
Unanimity among member states is a precondition for the deal, and Belgium was the only holdout.
Clinching the Anglo American deal is a precondition to form the joint venture, the sources said.
Aging is the leading precondition for so many diseases that "aging" and "disease" are essentially metonyms.
But now "Britain's resistance to that precondition could bring about the hard border," Mr. Connelly said.
They actually said very clearly that they are ready to talk with Iran without a precondition.
There is no chance that North Korea will eliminate its nuclear program as a precondition to negotiations.
The talks are a precondition for both countries to make progress towards membership of the European Union.
Still, Mr. Trump conspicuously declined to make their release a precondition of his meeting with Mr. Kim.
This is, of course, an insane precondition to place on backing a region so devotedly pro-American.
A unified party isn't the answer to that problem, but it is a precondition for answering it.
Consent should not be a precondition of signing up to a service unless necessary for that service.
"The precondition for these offers is that we are competitive," Lohscheller said in a message on Twitter.
The One China principle is the precondition and political basis for any country having relations with China.
Greece's creditors even made changing the country's court procedures a precondition of its most recent bail-out.
A precondition for the Petrobras stake sale is that Odebrecht accepts the buyer as partner in Braskem.
This is why tying the king's hands is a necessary precondition to trust and peaceful economic exchange.
For America, Sunni Arab states and the rebels, Mr Assad's departure is an essential precondition for peace.
Moreover, the deficit hawks don't seem to understand that faster growth is a precondition to deficit reduction.
American diplomats met with Taliban representatives recently in Qatar in hopes of changing their precondition for talks.
"We are ready to have the first meeting without precondition," Tillerson said of his North Korean counterparts.
He later amended his previous statement, saying that stopping missile (but not nuclear) tests was the precondition.
The country's political leaders believe a tough refugee policy is a precondition for an open immigration policy.
Since 1947 the "closed shop"—in which union membership was a precondition for employment—has been outlawed.
The wall is his one precondition for reopening the government, which has been shut since Dec. 22.
It stops firms requiring genetic testing as a precondition for employment or offering goods or services.—Motherboard
But a necessary precondition for Fujimori's actions was a sense that the public would back him up.
E.ON said that the Russian approval fulfilled another precondition for Fortum to buy its 46.65 percent Uniper stake.
WHITE HOUSE ADVISER JARED KUSHNER SAYS AGREEING ON AN ECONOMIC PATHWAY FORWARD IS A NECESSARY PRECONDITION FOR PEACE
In a 2010 interview with The Guardian, he said that privacy was simply a precondition of his work.
This is a precondition of the Mobile Application Distribution Agreement (MADA) that Google signs with Android phone manufacturers.
The need to respire means abundant oxygen is a necessary precondition for large animals to come into existence.
" He continues, "There are a lot of people for whom the vulgar is a precondition for sexual desire.
Sisi stressed in the meeting that the full demilitarization of Gaza shouldn't be a precondition to the initiative.
Murphy knew that "Pose" would receive political scrutiny—a precondition for any series about such a vulnerable community.
Acknowledging and addressing these hard facts is a vital precondition to rebuilding a strategy that can realistically succeed.
Becoming local and being located isn't about some essentialist precondition — often it's very much about learning to listen.
Effective management of the White House is a precondition for presidential power and influence in the executive branch.
But an important intellectual precondition was the work of a handful of French economists focusing on distributional issues.
A decision to pursue the specific pathway of impeachment is not a precondition for conducting congressional fact-finding.
In his closed-door deposition, he told investigators he "never" thought there was any precondition on the aid.
"Common understanding and a common picture of the situation is a precondition for common action," Mr. Stoltenberg said.
Common sense dictates that should be a precondition of any move to increase the debt limit yet again.
War on Russia's frontiers is the precondition for Russian security as long as Moscow can manage that war.
Three days after offering to talk to North Korea "without precondition," Secretary of State Rex Tillerson reversed course.
Corbyn's insistence on this particular precondition seems to have jeopardized his relationship with at least one of those parties.
That's a precondition for corporate success, which would ultimately be good for workers and shareholders – and for local politicians.
The withdrawal of Turkish troops stationed on the island is a precondition by the Greek Cypriots for any settlement.
Hence a relatively smaller grey economy is more likely to be the outcome of rising prosperity than its precondition.
Fixing the currency system is a "precondition for further liberalisation", says Emily Morris, an economist at University College London.
It is a key precondition for Serbia's bid to join the bloc, which it hopes to do around 2025.
But Republicans have long rejected any tax increases, full stop, while Democrats consider them a precondition for benefit cuts.
As a precondition to any further progress, the EU insists on a general agreement, superior to all bilateral treaties.
"For emerging markets, the precondition for them doing better is for the dollar to not accelerate strongly," he said.
Earlier this week he dropped his requirement that US troops leave the Korean Peninsula as a precondition for denuclearization.
Democrats would make a precondition of any negotiation the demand for the CSR payments to continue to be made.
As a precondition, American economic sanctions against Russia would have been dropped to allow Moscow to join the effort.
"The precondition for sanctioning North Korea is that Chinese citizens should be protected from any loss," one banner said.
A strong economy is a precondition for any move by the central bank to cut back its bond buying.
Abadi had asked that the KRG cancel the outcome of the referendum as a precondition for negotiations to begin.
On Syria, Mr. Macron has renounced the downfall of President Bashar al-Assad as a precondition of peace talks.
We need a medical culture that sees humanity as a precondition for being a good doctor, not an obstacle.
The new precondition is likely to complicate any revival of the peace negotiations called off last month by President Trump.
Execution risks are high and lifting CaixaBank's voting rights limit - a precondition for the take-over - is not yet agreed.
China "hopes the international community can provide constructive help to Venezuela under the precondition of respecting Venezuela's sovereignty," it added.
A lack of interest in the public interest is, these days, pretty much a precondition for running a federal agency.
This shift is a necessary precondition for the updating of our social policy system, which is by now long overdue.
"Existing authorisation standards should not be lowered," the agency said, reiterating a similar precondition imposed by the European Central Bank.
"Demonstrated" means not simply better language, but meaningful changes on the ground as the precondition for the agreement being implemented.
The bone of contention remains Hodeidah, which the coalition demands that the Houthis hand over as a precondition for talks.
And it's precisely that fragility, that impermanence, that is a precondition of the quality of character that we celebrate tonight.
South Korean President Moon Jae-in says the North is dropping that demand as a precondition for talks on denuclearization.
The diplomatic track has been blocked by Washington's insistence that North Korea commit to denuclearization as a precondition to talks.
However, the official said a review of the Commerce Department action against ZTE was not a precondition for trade talks.
Iran says they would require sanctions relief as a precondition, and the Trump administration is instead increasing sanctions on Iran.
As for the "cost" of the tax cut, growth of the economy is a precondition to getting the debt down.
"I like the outperformance of [Disney] in the last month ... with the precondition of three years of underperformance," Worth said.
The tigers still cherish these things (who doesn't?), but many of their citizens see fairness as a precondition for both.
"A precondition for that is that the Philippines will respect China's sovereignty and jurisdiction in Scarborough Shoal," Mr. Wu said.
"The one China policy is an important precondition for bilateral relations with China and other countries," said MOFA spokesman Lu Kang.
Trump had also laid out a clear precondition for talks: North Korea had to promise to give up its nuclear weapons.
It's the fantasy of measurement of the unmeasurable (lifestyle, affects, activism, reputation, self-esteem…), as measurement is a precondition for commodification.
Mr Trudeau cancelled a meeting with Mr Trump last month because the Americans made acceptance of a sunset clause a precondition.
"Public investment for investment in infrastructure is an important precondition for the creation of jobs, productivity and economic dynamism," he said.
One precondition for elections is a judiciary that can resolve disputes, but it is in a state of collapse, HRW said.
His commitment to economic revival was no doubt sincere, even if he also saw it as a precondition for national greatness.
"An independent judiciary is an essential precondition for membership in our Union," Commission head Jean-Claude Juncker said in a statement.
The Chinese government has required U.S. businesses to transfer technology to Chinese companies as a precondition of entering the Chinese market.
For Forbes, the precondition for understanding an art work lay in identifying and analyzing the materials from which it was created.
But the United States has insisted the talks be aimed at North Korea's denuclearization, which Pyongyang rejects as an unacceptable precondition.
"It's good news but also sad news, that they exile human rights defenders as a precondition for their release," he said.
Robo-callers posing as federal employees may also request sensitive information over the phone as a precondition to receive federal money.
Many of the major treatment modalities for alcoholics start from accepting helplessness over the addiction as the precondition for making changes.
The government could reasonably demand such a system from academic medical centers as a precondition for receiving federal subsidies and payments.
Mr. Trump gave short shrift to that approach, saying that a successful military effort was a necessary precondition to political reconciliation.
BUT YOU HAVE TO PRECONDITION PEOPLE TO MAKE THE KINDS OF DECISIONS THAT YOU NEED BEFORE YOU GO INTO THE NEGOTIATION.
But, as peace expert Clem McCartney noted at the HKFA forum, an end to violence cannot be a precondition to dialogue.
Instead, removing this precondition eliminates the unnecessary barrier to diplomatic engagement and shifts pressure onto North Korea to rejoin the talks.
Today, there is a robust consensus among economists that rivalry between firms is an essential precondition of a dynamic, innovative market economy.
Four-fifths of South Koreans believe that improving political transparency is a precondition for a fairer society, according to a recent poll.
Indeed, they have made clear that, even after a no-deal Brexit, this would be a precondition for a future trade deal.
A deep sense of commonality among those who experience those hazards was surely both a precondition and a consequence of these activities.
The two countries are in talks on normalizing ties, in a precondition for them both progressing toward membership of the European Union.
The only caveat for this year is that accelerating economic growth has been a precondition for stronger commodity prices in the past.
" An agreement on orderly withdrawal was "a precondition for any constructive and trustworthy discussion on our future relationship with the United Kingdom.
Last week, however, Pyongyang furiously denounced Washington for demanding the North's unilateral disarmament, particularly as a precondition for potential U.S. economic aid.
He reiterated the Palestinian assertion that the demand for a settlement freeze is not a precondition, but an obligation under international law.
Reuters reported that Guenther Oettinger said lifting the latest penalties on EU exports would be a precondition for restructuring further trade deals.
"From a science perspective, we don't know if she had some underlying heart disease or precondition that caused this," she tells Broadly.
She seemed to operate according to the principle that narcissism was not the precondition for artistic exploration, but was instead its enemy.
As a precondition of settlement talks, the Benning contractors demanded the Browns stop communicating with Reuters and stop mentioning the dispute publicly.
The OCC fintech charter does not permit companies to collect federally insured deposits, now a precondition for accessing the Fed's payment system.
At the same time, he has erected stiff obstacles to such a reconciliation, chiefly by insisting that Hamas disarm as a precondition.
On Tuesday, China's foreign minister, Wang Yi, reiterated the country's warning to India to withdraw as a precondition for any broader talks.
The rollout of 5G is a precondition for deploying technologies like self-driving cars, and delays could leave Germany lagging other countries.
Securing financing packages was a precondition set by Stada before more business data could be provided to the bidders, the sources added.
"This might be a precondition for some people to listen to the rest of what you want to say," Mr. Gilman said.
Control is a precondition for regaining durable public support for the institution of political asylum in a world characterized by unprecedented migration pressures.
America's decision to hold off on further tariffs had been expected, because China had made that a precondition for the resumption of talks.
While that may not fit with his political agenda and the 2020 election cycle, realism is a necessary precondition for arms control negotiations.
"We must convince both sides ... that a ceasefire in Ukraine is the key precondition for getting back into a political process," he said.
California is already considering state-level legislation to require presidential candidates to make financial disclosures as a precondition to appearing on the ballot.
Or it could be done administratively, for example requiring that states impose right-to-work protections as a precondition of accepting Medicare funding.
Mr. Sondland's disclosure directly contradicted his testimony last month, when he said he had "never" thought there was any precondition to the aid.
The discovery of what the airlines did and failed to do was a precondition to seeing that the airlines were being held accountable.
Earlier this spring, the DPRK waved off the training drills by stating their discontinuance was not a precondition for the Trump-Kim dialogue.
"Their notion of political change is based on shifting the parameters of the political culture as a precondition for transforming institutions," he said.
"Legal reform is a necessary but not a sufficient precondition for ensuring greater equity and efficiency of the land acquisition process," Wahi said.
A precondition for supporting short-term action with robust science is to learn fast what policies work well and what policies do not.
North Korea will never denuclearize, and insisting on denuclearization as a precondition to talks is tantamount to saying there will be no talks.
He identified one precondition across the board: there has never been a bear market without a decline in S&P 500 earnings expectations.
His ruthlessness and Elton's appetites combine to push the singer to the brink of self-destruction, a precondition for the redemption that follows.
Ghani on Sunday said the issue cannot be a precondition to the peace talks and will have to be worked out in negotiations.
Those talks were supposed to begin Tuesday, but Afghan President Ashraf Ghani has resisted a precondition to release up to 85033,000 Taliban prisoners.
The European Central Bank said on Friday that the banks had failed or were likely to fail — a precondition for winding them down.
Where it stands: The Afghan government set ceasefire as a precondition for further peace talks with the Taliban last month, per the Post.
Importers will have to present a five-year plan to build a breeding farm to the government as a precondition for import licenses.
Charles Roxburgh, director general for financial services at Britain's finance ministry, told the same event that good regulation was a precondition for competitiveness.
"Many countries are interested in signing a trade agreement with the European Union, and then privacy becomes an important precondition," said Mr. Buttarelli.
The talks were a precondition for left-wing separatist party Esquerra Republicana de Catalunya (ERC) to facilitate Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez's recent investiture.
It reiterated on Saturday that it was willing to talk to the United States but said it would never sit with any precondition.
" He said, "We're ready to talk anytime North Korea would like to talk, and we're ready to have the first meeting without precondition.
But he also argued that agreeing to a clear pathway to economic prosperity for the Palestinians is a "necessary precondition" to resolving the conflict.
"I believe the US made it a precondition that North Korea release American hostages before the summit," he said during a May 4 interview.
Privacy is a precondition for intimacy, trust and individuality, says David Anderson, a senior lawyer asked by the British government to review intelligence legislation.
S. trade war, meanwhile, rumbles on after another truce with Trump and China's declaration it needs tariffs removed as a precondition to a deal.
"Of all people, Mr. Netanyahu, who criticizes President Abbas for making preconditions about the settlements, then [goes and] puts a new precondition," he said.
Denuclearization -- which means different things to both parties -- could therefore be a goal of a potential peace treaty, rather than a precondition for it.
Such physical markers are a precondition for any gaming company to obtain a license and be legally entitled to start operations, MGA rules state.
"One cannot be a precondition for the other," he said last month at a meeting of EU finance ministers in Sofia, the Bulgarian capital.
The insurgents have always demanded negotiations with the US as a precondition to any peace talks while the American military is still in Afghanistan.
Cutting unnecessary spending will be key to helping the country clear more than $2 billion in arrears to creditors — a precondition to IMF support.
The Fund demanded that Congo ensure the long-term sustainability of its debt as a precondition for a three-year extended credit facility programs.
Such physical markers are a precondition for any gaming company to obtain a licence and be legally entitled to start operations, MGA rules state.
North Korea reiterated on Saturday that it was willing to talk to the United States but said it would never sit with any precondition.
The degree of separation between the two groups of averages is slowly narrowing, which is a precondition for a change in the trend direction.
"It's encouraging to have a president who understands that regulatory reform is a precondition for any successful infrastructure policy," he said in a statement.
But the taste for turr was so entrenched that allowing the hunt to continue became a precondition for Newfoundland to join Canada in 1949.
The prime minister also said he would walk out of trade talks with the U.S. if the health service was a precondition to negotiations.
"If you don't do pension reform, you won't be able to take on other policy measures; that's a precondition," said Ramos of Goldman Sachs.
However, the effort fell through after Iran said Washington must ease sanctions as a precondition for the talk, which the U.S. declined to do.
The FCC went so far as to require this interoperability as a precondition for the company to introduce video conferencing or other advanced features.
Sky welcomed the decision, saying the UK approval process remained the only outstanding precondition that was stopping it putting Fox's offer to Sky shareholders.
Even without health care — and even if the Democrats retake the Senate, a precondition for almost any ambitious bill — the decision would not be easy.
Tehran said there could be no precondition for Iran-Germany relations and that it rejected the interference of any third party in its state affairs.
There was no monetary precondition set for our NATO allies in ISAF in the fights we asked them to join, but they did so willingly.
The easiest way to obfuscate your IP address — a precondition for operating the Dark Web — is to use a tool known as a Tor browser.
Buried within the published HNC plan was one key detail: The opposition has abandoned calls for Assad to step down as a precondition for negotiations.
But Nada said she didn't want surgery to be a precondition for students to dress according to their chosen gender for university photos and graduation.
Further, an improved relationship with North Korea, and a measure of trust built through that process, is not a hindrance but a precondition for denuclearization.
Like yeast in bread dough, this process creates air pockets in the soil, which prevents it from becoming saturated with water—a precondition for liquefaction.
At first she criticized the N.C.A., especially the Thein Sein government's insistence that signing it was a precondition for participation in any future political discussions.
China has insisted that India first remove its troops as a precondition for formal talks, but there already appears to be back-channel dialogue underway.
But extensive public investment was an essential precondition for the economic prosperity of those very same tax protesters, and we can't have public investment without taxes.
The Campaign Legal Center calls the practice "a modern poll tax as a precondition of voting" that falls disproportionately on the poor and people of color.
Others talk as if you have to choose between one and another: I say, forward-looking policies like climate protection are a precondition for economic growth.
He refuses to accept pancasila, Indonesia's founding principles, which enshrine democracy and a degree of freedom of religion—normally a precondition for convicted terrorists seeking clemency.
"It is the precondition for additional debt relief measures and it is very hard to see how debt sustainability can be achieved without that," he added.
Despite the chaos surrounding Mr Bolsonaro's administration odds have improved that congress will reform the pension system, a precondition for resurrecting investors' confidence and therefore growth.
Obama has expressed frustration about the growth of Israeli settlements, and Israel's government has argued that curbing them should not be a precondition to peace talks.
Indeed, is resurrection a precondition for ruling the Seven Kingdoms — and, if so, are early hopefuls such as Gendry now out of the running for good?
At the time, Mr. Sondland also said he "never" considered there to be any precondition on the military aid for Ukraine that the president ordered frozen.
The more advanced car manufacturers have some companion applications that can precondition the car, unlock the doors and show historical trip details for basic social collaboration.
Indeed, the opposition has in the past insisted Assad must go almost as a precondition for talks rather than an outcome of the peace process itself.
A precondition for actual peace treaty talks with North Korea must be a clear commitment from all parties to the complete denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula.
Default female voices for the devices, as well as names like Alexa and Siri, may precondition users toward antiquated views of women, according to the study.
The regulator, however, has yet to be convinced about 'imminent insolvency' - a precondition for spinning off a scheme - when Tata's UK unit is turning a profit.
The insurgents had always demanded negotiations with the Americans as a precondition to any peace talks as long as the American military was still in Afghanistan.
But a Mexican official briefed on negotiations said American officials were trying to insert rigid quotas into the deal as a precondition of removing the tariffs.
Israel wants Hamas to relinquish two Israeli captives and the bodies of two Israeli soldiers as a precondition for allowing major international reconstruction projects in Gaza.
That the US made it a precondition before the Afghan government and the Taliban can sit down was always going to rankle the government in Kabul.
" The week before, the People's Daily, a mouthpiece of the Chinese Communist Party, had suggested that "putting down the riots" was a precondition for "fair elections.
Understanding isn't a precondition for successful intervention, they point out; we had no real grasp of virology or immunology when we began vaccinating people against smallpox.
It is a challenge the United States confronted before when President Richard Nixon began the process of diplomatic normalization with China without a nuclear abolition precondition.
Many businesses followed suit: Testing as a precondition to employment became common across industries and those who operated other potentially hazardous equipment were tested continually and randomly.
We are taught that all of America must learn to care about black people and black pain as a precondition to black poor people's lives ever improving.
In other words, a precondition for steadily accelerating price inflation is a growth of demand and output that is hitting the limits of the economy's production potential.
Chengdu wants to turn itself into a cosmopolitan city like New York and London by 2025, and "the gathering of global talents is a precondition", he says.
Deuba's immediate task is to complete the two-phase local elections on June 28, a precondition for holding a national election by the end of the year.
Moscow already accuses America of failing to separate mainstream rebel factions from "terrorist" groups like JFS, a precondition of any joint military action between the two countries.
What's most overlooked in the immediate aftermath of Sunday's article is what my friend Meaghan observed in her tweet; Ferrante's anonymity was a precondition for her work.
US lawmakers and even members of the Trump administration have previously criticized the idea of engaging in direct talks with North Korea without the precondition of denuclearization.
The move was meant to reduce unemployment, stuck at 10 per cent of the workforce, which Mr Hollande has made a precondition for seeking a second term.
Thomas Hobbes's foundation of liberal political philosophy made the state a precondition of freedom, requiring untold reserves of centralized power in order to sustain a civil society.
Diplomacy is the right answer to Afghanistan's political problems — but it is rarely a quick or straightforward answer, and it cannot be a precondition for U.S. exit.
Bennett, however, noted that it is unlikely that North Korea will agree to any kind of talks that would include denuclearization as a precondition to opening negotiations.
One can suppose, however, that the incoming president, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, may have less leeway, especially if this arrangement was a precondition for a new NAFTA.
There is certainly a subset of artists that are control freaks, when it comes to user experience, but it appears to be nearly a precondition of architects.
However, the Afghan government has already rejected releasing Taliban prisoners ahead of launching the talks, a precondition which the militants say was part of the U.S. agreement.
The day after the U.S-Taliban deal was signed, Ghani rejected releasing Taliban prisoners as a precondition for the negotiations to reconcile the Taliban and Afghan government.
The new government will be expected to relaunch talks with Belgrade on normalizing relations, the main precondition for both Kosovo and Serbia to join the European Union.
The United States will also need to abandon as a precondition for progress the 12 demands that Secretary of State Mike Pompeo laid out publicly last year.
"We must make supporting working families a precondition to our cooperation," Brown said at an event to be hosted by the Center for American Progress Action Fund.
That March, more than four months into his detention, Lam met with his interrogator to sign a guilty plea as a precondition for a possible bail arrangement.
They prayed to Shiva, the destroyer of the universe as a precondition for its recreation, and to Ganesh, the lord of beginnings and the remover of obstacles.
However, the second half of the sentence gets to the core of the proposition: A certain kind of seriousness is the precondition for the ascent to power.
Early on, she appeared to be looking for middle ground: She advocated building trust with Pyongyang and did not make denuclearization a precondition for inter-Korean dialogue.
A just solution to the conflict with the Palestinians is seen as a precondition for the majority of Arab and Muslim-majority nations to normalize ties with Israel.
"At the same time, whether it's in China, the US or elsewhere in the world, an important precondition for such exchanges and cooperation is mutual respect," he added.
The vote is a precondition for allowing Kosovo citizens to travel without visas throughout the European Union's Schengen area, where the EU member states impose no border control.
Over the last several years, Ferrante has repeatedly argued that anonymity is a precondition for her work and that she would stop publishing if her privacy were violated.
DUBLIN (Reuters) - Ireland's Prime Minister Leo Varadkar said on Friday he was ready to meet Britain's new Prime Minister Boris Johnson to discuss his Brexit plans "without precondition".
We should help create a plan for the LAF to begin to truly distance itself from Hezbollah as a precondition for continued aid, and not accept empty promises.
The ASN's green light for Flamanville, slated for start-up in late 2018, is also a European Commission precondition for approving EDF's planned takeover of Areva's reactor business.
It seems to be making progress in bringing development to rural areas hardest hit by the war and in updating the land registry, a precondition for such development.
VMRO-DPMNE supporters also favor EU and NATO membership but say the name change deal, a key precondition for such progress, has undermined the country's South Slav identity.
Union negotiators furthermore accused PSA of "blackmail" by demanding wage restraint for its entire 19,000 German workforce as a precondition for investment at just one of its sites.
The action came after the European Central Bank said late Friday that the two banks had failed or were likely to fail, a precondition for winding them down.
It also is reminding us that Moscow's mission is essentially an imperial one because the precondition for empire is that the borderlands and subordinate regions possess diminished sovereignty.
Trudeau said Vice President Mike Pence told him on Tuesday that as a precondition for that meeting, Trudeau would have to agree to a five-year sunset clause.
The source told the paper that Beijing has not yet made a final decision but that a show of "sufficient goodwill" was a precondition for the planned talks.
"Iran is ready to cooperate with all Muslim countries without any precondition to defend the legitimate rights of Palestinians," Rouhani told the gathering in the Turkish city Istanbul.
The bloc hopes to agree a formula with Britain for calculating the figure and sees that too as a precondition to moving to any talks about post-Brexit arrangements.
"China is willing, in accordance with Myanmar's wishes and on the precondition of not interfering in Myanmar's internal affairs, to play a constructive role in this regard," Wang said.
In December, Immofinanz announced a delay in the sale or spin-off of its five Moscow shopping centres - a precondition for the merger both groups agreed on - to 2017.
Clinching the Anglo American deal was a precondition to form the venture with Apollo, the $170 billion buyout firm run by financier Leon Black, sources said at the time.
Iraq's Kurdish leadership rejected on Sunday a demand by the Iraqi government to cancel the outcome of an independence referendum as a precondition for talks to resolve the dispute.
To qualify for a bailout, the IMF required that Congo ensure the long-term sustainability of its debt as a precondition for a three-year extended credit facility programme.
"A necessary precondition for economic recovery is primarily the completion of the second review and determined implementation of the structural reforms outlined in the new (bailout) programme," Stournaras said.
The first is implementation of the Medicare Access & CHIP Reauthorization Act of 2015, which updates Medicare's payment process by using quality of practice as the largest precondition for payment.
North Korea has long called for a reduction in US forces on the Peninsula, though it recently dropped their withdrawal as a precondition of denuclearization, according to South Korea.
"FATF is not a precondition, it's a strong expectation," said a senior European diplomat, dismissing any suggestion that ballistic missile talks had anything to do with creating the mechanism.
In April, South Korean President Moon Jae-in said Kim was willing to give up US troops' removal from South Korea as a precondition for denuclearizing the Korean peninsula.
Death and life, his work often showed, are not so much opposites but partners, with the passing of the old being the precondition for the birth of the new.
The government was required to raise household gas prices by nearly a quarter as a precondition for them, a move criticized by some opposition lawmakers during Thursday's parliamentary debates.
To qualify for a bailout, the IMF required that Congo ensure the long-term sustainability of its debt as a precondition for a three-year extended credit facility program.
Many people on the alt-right — including the premier anarcho-capitalist thinker, the German economist Hans-Hermann Hoppe — believe that cultural homogeneity is a precondition for socio-economic order.
More density doesn't guarantee affordability, especially when demand continues to outpace supply, but more strategic density is a necessary precondition for improved affordability, and for mitigating even higher prices.
But the government of Mr. Ghani has said negotiating the future cannot happen under the barrel of a gun, demanding a cease-fire as a precondition to any talks.
"Climate protection and adaptation investments will become a precondition for peace and stability," the report's authors write, and will require "unprecedented" efforts to transform nearly every sector of society.
"A precondition for a genuine EU migration policy is that Europeans effectively decide who enters European territory," EU Council President Donald Tusk said in an invitation letter to the leaders.
"A healthy environment is essential for the survival, wellbeing and development of children, and therefore it is a precondition for the realization of the rights of the child," he said.
"Now I think China has greater confidence than the U.S. At the G-20 we could have talks, but the precondition is that the U.S. shows good faith," Liang said.
He did not suggest, and Pompeo certainly didn&apost, that there would be any relief involved as a precondition of anything we are doing vis-a-vis Iran, principally sanctions.
Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said on Tuesday that the U.S. was dropping the precondition that North Korea give up its nuclear weapons before sitting down together, according to CNN.
While Schumer's letter does not say Democrats are now open to repealing Obamacare, Popp argued that the letter's premise of wanting to meet suggests that Democrats have dropped the precondition.
That has long been a U.S. precondition for economic sanctions to be lifted, but analysts say Kim is unlikely to relinquish North Korea's hard-won status as a nuclear power.
Greece is still debating its politically sensitive pension reform, a precondition for completing the first bailout review and starting talks on debt restructuring but has prompted a wave of strikes.
Not only because of the country's current strong position and ongoing advantages but also because it has gained the trust of its customers, a precondition in the field of cybersecurity.
Trump said that was under negotiation and there was a "good chance" of winning their release, but he wouldn't say whether that was a precondition for sitting down with Kim.
While the individual is required to provide their services to an employer to satisfy a precondition for gaining access to government subsidies, the employer gets the benefit the worker's services.
As precondition for the deal, Volkswagen on Thursday made corporate structure changes so two smaller units will not be part of the pure truck and bus company that will list.
Commisimpex wrote that the IMF should demand that Congo fully and properly record its debt to the company in its public accounts as a precondition for granting the bailout program.
The proposal was based on the precondition that the seasonal workers must be healthy and can provide medical proof that they are not infected with the new virus, Kloeckner added.
A judge ruled that he did not accept Andy Chan would fulfill a specific precondition for standing election, giving the nod to a legal interpretation issued by the Chinese government.
"There has been no commitment for the release of 5,000 prisoners," he said, adding that the issue could be discussed during peace talks but not as a precondition for them.
"The request has been made by the United States for the release of prisoners and it can be part of the negotiations but it cannot be a precondition," Ghani said.
He has also yet to come up with a workable plan with Germany for getting Russia out of Ukraine: the precondition for the thawing of Russian relations that he seeks.
Mr. Kim also said he was willing to talk about getting rid of North Korea's nuclear weapons, a topic the Trump administration has said was a precondition for a meeting.
India has declined to take part in the e-commerce talks, while China has joined with a caveat: rules on data flows must be "subject to the precondition of security".
Presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush both used fast-track authority to pass important trade deals, and fast track is seen as an important precondition for concluding the TPP.
"We've said from the diplomatic side we're ready to talk any time North Korea would like to talk, and we're ready to have the first meeting without precondition," he said.
However, South Korea's main opposition party warned that any talks between the two Koreas where the scrapping of North Korea's nuclear program was not a precondition would only "benefit the enemy".
The right of citizens to inquire, to hear, to speak, and to use information to reach consensus is a precondition to enlightened self-government and a necessary means to protect it.
It sees a scheme to shield high-tech national champions from competition, while EU firms are forced to hand prized technologies to local partners as a precondition for entering China's markets.
"We've said from the diplomatic side we're ready to talk any time North Korea would like to talk, and we're ready to have the first meeting without precondition," the secretary said.
Washington has previously said it will consider talks with Pyongyang if it agrees to give up its nuclear weapons program, a precondition North Korean officials have described as a non-starter.
This feature of the PSPP was the key precondition to overcome German resistance to beginning the programme in 2015, but it may limit the ECB's options when devising new policy tools.
This makes the RAA very similar to President Trump's unprecedented and potentially illegal Executive Order 13771, which requires agencies to remove existing regulations as a precondition to putting forth new ones.
But an accelerated march towards it was the precondition that Mitterrand, who viewed the D-mark as the symbol of German power, demanded from Mr Kohl in return for blessing reunification.
The two men went as far as to put together a draft statement for Zelensky to release committing to the investigations Trump wanted as a precondition to a White House meeting.
"If the precondition for any negotiation is a statement or an affirmation by the North Koreans that they're going to give up their nuclear programs, then we're going nowhere," he said.
"One Country, Two Systems was raised to accommodate Taiwan's reality and safeguard the interests and benefits of Taiwan compatriots ... under the precondition of ensuring national sovereignty and national security," Xi said.
Appointing an envoy on its own is good: A full-time envoy that has the backing of the secretary of state and White House is a precondition for success in talks.
Luján infuriated many liberals and abortion rights advocates in the last cycle for declining to make a candidate's support for abortion a precondition for receiving funding from the party's campaign arm.
"North Korea may insist on being recognized as a nuclear weapons state as a precondition, in which case the U.S. would have to decide whether to make that concession," she said.
Cooperation with Geely will depend on the "desire" of Mercedes-Benz executives and is not a precondition of an investment in German carmaker Daimler, Geely Chairman Li Shufu told Bloomberg news.
He is also betting that the exchange could nudge the Taliban toward agreeing to at least a partial cease-fire, which Mr. Ghani has set as a precondition to any talks.
Kassem says he hears talk about the coming of the Mahdi, whom many Muslims believe will bring about Judgment Day, because the region is engulfed in chaos — a precondition for his arrival.
With the exception of some off-script comments from Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, Trump and his team have made it clear that denuclearization is a precondition for talks with North Korea.
Thyssenkrupp still plans a signing of the Tata deal in early 2018, but a significant precondition is still lacking: an agreement between Tata Steel Europe and workers in Britain and the Netherlands.
The precondition for the waiver is that the euro zone bailout fund ESM will disburse the next, 7.5 billion euro trance of aid to Greece prior to the decision, as now scheduled.
Kim is keen to alleviate heavy sanctions that have been placed on the economy, but has been adamant his country will not give up nuclear weapons as a precondition to any negotiations.
Britain's Sky News reported on Wednesday that Tata Steel was on the brink of detaching its British Steel pension fund from its UK operations, a precondition for any merger deal with Thyssenkrupp.
"The settlement allows a step forward in restoring a more constructive spirit between sides, (a) precondition to seize potential synergies of the merger," equity broker Equita wrote in a note to clients.
The Irish border question is urgent because Brussels has made solving it a precondition of discussing a deal on future trade, and an accord on Ireland will require great political agility. Mrs.
The government has made bringing public spending and the deficit under control its main economic priority, a precondition, it says, for boosting investor confidence, consumer and business spending, and ultimately economic growth.
Why most schools require students to have health insuranceIn 2007, according to a survey by the American College Health Association, 57% of schools required mandatory health insurance as a precondition of enrollment.
Abadi had said on Tuesday he considered the referendum "a thing of the past", and asked that the KRG cancel the outcome of the vote as a precondition for negotiations to begin.
By strengthening our interest and ability to engage in the Caucasus with Armenia and Azerbaijan not only can we help promote peace and potentially better governance for which peace is a precondition.
The Americans would be unlikely to want to give Iran any concessions to start the talks, he said, let alone the lifting of American sanctions that Iran insists must be a precondition.
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraq's Kurdish leadership rejected on Sunday a demand by the Iraqi government that it cancels the outcome of an independence referendum as a precondition for talks to resolve the dispute.
The European Commission has set as a precondition for proposing that extension that Bern endorses a deal on its overall relations with the bloc, which was agreed in November after years of negotiations.
Pyongyang, meanwhile, has a pretty tall order of its own: the complete denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula, with the precondition that the "hostile policy" of the U.S. toward their country must first end.
It prohibits private organizations from advocating abortion either explicitly or implicitly -- through counseling, referral, direct provision, or lobbying for policy or legal reform, as a precondition for receiving US federal family planning funding.
E-scooter companies are required to share data with the city as a precondition for receiving a permit to operate scooters in LA. It's like an air traffic control system for ground vehicles.
Elizabeth Warren has released a trade plan that would set up standards countries must meet as a precondition for any trade agreement, and she vows to renegotiate existing deals to meet that criteria.
LOS ANGELES – Several California Democratic lawmakers are proposing legislation that would require President Donald Trump and other presidential candidates to release their tax returns as a precondition for getting on the statewide ballot.
Dolan's precondition of hating Oakley, along with his insistence on vagaries, and the lack of corroborating evidence from anyone besides people directly in Dolan's pocket looks a little suspicious to say the least.
That admission, included in a four-page sworn statement released on Tuesday, contradicted what Mr. Sondland told investigators last month, when he said he "never" thought there was any precondition on the aid.
He added that the precondition for long-term fairer taxation was to affirm the principle of "virtual permanent establishment," whereby digital companies pay taxes in countries where they have a "significant digital presence".
The case is even weaker when the aid was only withheld for a short period, and it is not clear the Ukrainians understood that the request for investigations might be an actual precondition.
For Republicans, this date is reinforced by the fact that there were at least three meetings with the Ukrainian president over 55 days without mention of a precondition or a quid pro quo.
Days earlier, Mr. Pompeo, in a statement, said that there would be no precondition for talks — and that everything, including the presence of American and NATO troops in Afghanistan, was up for discussion.
American officials did not consider that as a precondition to an agreement with Mr. Kim — to denuclearize the Korean Peninsula — when the North Korean leader met in June in Singapore with President Trump.
The trip's goal is to jump-start dialogue between the North and the U.S. But Washington is insisting that any talks be centered on denuclearization, and Pyongyang has again rejected such a precondition.
Yet by making these characteristics a precondition for entrance into free trade agreements, as Warren has, this plan merely contributes to the suffering of those who live in closed economies and oppressive societies.
The state's Department of Fair Employment and Housing says it has issued 10 "right to sue" letters — a precondition for a discrimination lawsuit — to employees complaining of racial bias at the Fremont plant.
"The precondition is that European and British businesses continue to compete on a level playing field, we certainly will not expose our companies to unfair competition," Ursula von der Leyen reiterated on Wednesday.
In 2017, the Trump administration insisted that Pyongyang unilaterally cease its testing for some unspecified period as a precondition to any talks — a position similar to the approach the Obama administration long maintained.
Empathy for the many is a precondition of any more decent world union — of any purposeful U.S. political movement beyond "America First" — but what might foster such feelings without causing intolerable individual pain?
"If 'consolidation of power' was a precondition for implementing his reform program and leading the rejuvenation of the Chinese nation, that condition has now been met and he needs to deliver," said Sullivan.
MANAMA (Reuters) - The Trump administration launched a $50 billion economic formula for Israeli-Palestinian peace on Tuesday, saying an investment program for the Palestinians was a precondition for ending the decades-old conflict.
Galvin cites leaders across a range of industries, from L'Oreal to General Motors to Dell, who are working to make greenhouse gas accounting — and, in some cases, adopting emissions targets — a precondition for purchasing.
A clean-up of banks' balance sheets from toxic assets inherited from the financial crisis is a precondition for getting countries like Germany to agree on a common euro zone insurance on bank deposits.
Any new government will have to tackle unemployment running at 30 percent and improve relations with Kosovo's neighbours, especially Serbia, a precondition for both countries to move forward in the European Union accession process.
"I think we should understand our national interest in a way that we think about the interests of others and from that create win-win situations that are the precondition for multilateralism," she added.
A "precondition" for a more permanent access to the EU market is what sort of trading relationship Britain will have with the bloc after Brexit, said the document, first reported by the Financial Times.
On April 19th Mr Moon said that the North Korean leader was no longer insisting on the withdrawal of American troops from the Korean peninsula as a precondition for giving up his nuclear weapons.
Immofinanz plans to complete the delayed sale or spin-off of its Russia portfolio by the end of 2017 in a move which is a precondition of its planned merger with rival CA Immo.
The new government will have to tackle unemployment running at 30 percent and improve relations with Kosovo's neighbors, especially Serbia, a precondition for both countries to move forward in the European Union accession process.
The new government will have the difficult task of tackling 30 percent unemployment, and improving relations with Serbia, a precondition for the neighbors to move forward in their efforts to join the European Union.
The shareholders voted to double the firm's nominal share capital to 10 billion shillings, through the creation of 1 billion new shares, which was a precondition for approving the entry of a new investor.
She added: I think we should understand our national interest in a way that we think about the interests of others, and from that create win-win situations that are the precondition for multilateralism.
A political scientist once told me that Iran is the exception that proves the rule: It's the textbook example of the country that meets every precondition for democratic transition but still refuses to change.
" She said Pyongyang might request as a precondition of any border talks with Seoul that they agree to "either stop or pause the annual military exercises that South Korea does with the United States.
Jerry Falwell Jr., seem less concerned with finding an Israeli-Palestinian peace plan than in asserting Jewish control of the region as a necessary precondition for their vision of the second coming of Jesus.
"A comprehensive regulatory approach to enable sustained investment in flexible resources and infrastructure is an essential precondition both for the continued growth of renewables as well as the maintenance of electricity security," IEA said.
Western governments have made clear that a free and fair election was a precondition for the possible resumption of desperately sought loans from the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank and other international creditors.
In other words, our legislation would set minimum requirements for corporate investment in workers and the long-term strength of the company as a precondition for a corporation entering into a share buyback plan.
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Asked if China's precondition for restarting talks was still tied to the three issues being met, Gao said its basic stance on the trade talks was consistent, and its fundamental demands must be met.
Mr. Trump focuses on Muslims and Mexican immigrants, linking the woes of his base, the underemployed American with authoritarian inclinations, to globalization, which is a precondition for the very existence of the World Economic Forum.
The regulator's green light about the reactor vessel is crucial for EDF and Areva, as European Union antitrust authorities have made it a precondition for their approval of EDF's planned takeover of Areva's reactor unit.
"The will of the Gambian people, freely expressed in exercise of their franchise, must be respected by all without precondition," said Liberia's President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, who currently chairs the West African regional bloc ECOWAS.
While I don't think "return" is a necessary precondition for a work to be successful, I do think understanding the ways relationships are formed and operate within the work is one measure of ethical practice.
In a book he wrote last year he arrives at a liberalising ideology through observation—statist policies have not worked in France—and from a belief that prosperity is a precondition for preserving national sovereignty.
" Asked about the incident in a regular news conference, China's Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokesman Lu Kang said that "the one China policy is an important precondition for bilateral relations with China and other countries.
The key precondition for a rate hike that U.S. policy-setters outlined in April was signs of economic growth picking up in the second quarter and of employment and inflation firming up, the minutes showed.
It's as if he's aiming for the kind of spiritual rapture that comes with dazed inertia, settling into a peaceful stillness because stillness is the precondition for the sudden rush that will whisk him away.
Opel's German sites have been excluded from PSA's sweeping investment plans in Europe because Opel's management wants concessions to raise the plant's profitability as a precondition for getting more production allocated to the Eisenach plant.
By all indications, upfront denuclearization remains a non-starter for North Korea and by adopting that precondition for negotiations, the Trump administration sends a message that they are not serious about talks, according to Mount.
"He presented to Velayati his point of view about the need to stop Iranian interventions in Yemen as a gateway and a precondition for any improvement in ties between (Iran) and the kingdom," it said.
But they are insufficient so long as they don't include disclosure as a precondition; and in any case, Republicans have already indicated that they will try to pass huge tax cuts on a partisan basis.
"In 2014, there was a strong focus on how unionization was a necessary legal precondition for implementing VW's 'co-determination' management system," said Daniel Cornfield, a sociologist who studies labor at Vanderbilt University in Nashville.
"A precondition for any additional EU help should be to stop all support to illegal border crossings and move people away from the border," a German conservative member of the European Parliament, Manfred Weber, said.
"The request has been made by the United States for the release of prisoners and it can be part of the negotiations but it cannot be a precondition," Ghani said, according to The Associated Press.
The agreement stipulated the Afghan government would release up to 85033,000 Taliban prisoners in exchange for the Taliban releasing up to 1,000 of its prisoners, but Ghani rejected the exchange as a precondition for talks.
Ghani, who is seeking a second term in September, has repeatedly offered to hold direct talks with the Taliban, but the group demanded a complete withdrawal of foreign forces as a precondition to start negotiations.
Not only did this failure disappoint major groups that have signed the previous government's nationwide cease-fire deal; it further discouraged some nonsignatory groups from signing the deal, a precondition for joining the peace talks.
The top Kurdish leadership met on Sunday to discuss the crisis and rejected the Iraqi government's demand that it cancels the outcome of the independence referendum as a precondition for talks to resolve the dispute.
"The precondition of America is if it wishes to talk to Iran, the condition is that the sanctions and maximum pressure upon the Iranian people must be implemented and then enter into talks," Rouhani said.
The release of the three Americans, an apparent precondition for the Trump–Kim meeting, marks a stunning diplomatic turnaround for relations between North Korea and the US, whose leaders were only last year threatening nuclear war.
The tax has also led to an impasse in talks on normalizing ties between Serbia and majority-Albanian Kosovo - a crucial precondition for both countries to achieve their goal of one day joining the European Union.
Removing ISIS as a physical caliphate, in and of itself, probably will not be enough to be the trigger that brings stability to Syria, but it's a necessary precondition for stability that this group is neutralized.
One policymaker at the meeting argued that inflation was close to a sustained adjustment towards the ECB's target, a precondition for ending asset buys, but the majority said there was insufficient evidence for such a conclusion.
But Poland and Hungary are both increasingly worried by calls from wealthier western European countries to make respect for the bloc's rules and standards on democracy and rule of law a precondition for receiving EU funds.
Belgrade refuses to recognize the independence of Kosovo, its former province and home to a minority of 120,000 ethnic Serbs, despite pressure from Brussels for the two to improve relations as a precondition for EU membership.
Prior reporting by the Journal has indicated the Chinese government views Huawei as a top priority, and that it has made clear that lessening the penalties imposed on the company is a precondition for a deal.
With shockingly high rates of poverty and homelessness among the trans community, smaller studies can help show that such problems exist, but reliable, national statistics are a precondition to addressing those challenges in any effective way.
The government and opposition remain more divided than ever: a visit from a UN arbitrator in April failed to revive all-party talks, because the opposition insists on the release of political prisoners as a precondition.
"The European Commission, as part of monitoring compliance with the EU accession requirements, should hold Serbia to its obligations to respect the human rights of persons with disabilities as a precondition for EU membership," it said.
But knowing why he did so should be an absolute precondition to any Republican tax plan, if Republicans want the public to accept their tax plan as anything other than a corrupt giveaway to Trump himself.
This does nothing to advance any chance of peace, and further undermines any hope for a genuine Arab-Israeli coalition against Iran since the precondition for that alliance is progress in Israel's relations with the Palestinians.
Jed Rubenfeld, a professor at Yale, recently argued in the Yale Law Journal that this view is the logical outcome of the importance we now place on fully-autonomous consent as a precondition to sexual activity.
"A decline in volatility from extreme levels is an important precondition for investors to raise equity exposures, as it is a critical input into risk management models for both systematic strategies and discretionary investors," he wrote.
"We've said from the diplomatic side, we're ready to talk anytime North Korea would like to talk, and we're ready to have the first meeting without precondition," Tillerson said at an Atlantic Council event in Washington.
The Russian aspiration to empire and to a permanent or protracted conflict with the West is the precondition for the regime's long-term survival as it has long since foregone any effort to reform the country.
The advocate general of the Court in conclusions issued in February said the Commission has no binding powers on this issue, and losses on private investors are not a necessary precondition to grant public aid to banks.
"We repeated that in order to create this big group we need mutual trust and on STX the precondition is that we reach a conclusion that reflects the agreements already made with the French government," Calenda said.
Eric Schneider of the Commonwealth Fund, a health care advocacy foundation, told BuzzFeed News the NBER study oversimplifies the despair theory, which sees a slide toward poverty as a precondition for overdose deaths, not the direct cause.
Although not essential to the creation of the planned joint venture, workers' approval of the labor agreement is seen as a precondition to getting the deal done as it removes the risk of strikes and potential delays.
Compliance by the 19 states of the euro zone, of which Belgium and Slovenia are members, is a precondition to starting talks on a backstop for the newly established euro zone bank fund, the Single Resolution Fund.
The account said that the US had conceded to having the issue of denuclearization be one of several elements under discussion rather than insist on it as an outright precondition of talks, as it has publicly maintained.
The release of hostages held by the ELN is President Ivan Duque's top precondition for restarting peace talks with the group, which claimed responsibility for a bombing that killed 21 cadets at a police academy in January.
Kim said that the rolling back of the hostile policy, meaning the military exercises, is the precondition to solving all the issues, and that they oppose the mixing of the two in a "freeze for freeze" negotiation.
Reuters reported that Hubert Fuchs, the European Council representative to the Group of 20, said he does not believe removing existing tariffs will be a precondition of talks, despite the French finance minister saying otherwise on Saturday.
Self-described "moderate" Yellow Vests who wrote an opinion piece on Sunday in a French newspaper, Le Journal du Dimanche, said a freeze on the planned gas tax increase was a precondition for negotiating with the government.
United States officials have publicly insisted that they would agree to talks with Pyongyang only if North Korea agreed beforehand to give up its weapons programs, a precondition most observers believed was a nonstarter for the country.
It is the final days before a peace deal between the United States and the Taliban insurgency is expected to be signed, and the partial cease-fire that was set as a precondition seems to be holding.
Such a charter, when combined with the technical and legal tools described below, will begin to create scarcity for any type of data— whether passively or actively created—providing a necessary precondition to negotiate the data's value.
European Commissioner Maros Sefcovic told a news conference that the European Commission had at its weekly meeting noted a lack of progress in the talks, which was a precondition for granting an extension to the equivalence regime.
In the southern province of Guangdong, public security and family planning officials said a fine would no longer be a precondition for a hukou for children born in violation of the national policy, The Southern Metropolis Daily reported.
Immofinanz said this year it aimed to complete the delayed sale or spin-off of its Russia portfolio by the end of 2017 in a move which is a precondition of its planned merger with rival CA Immo.
As leader of the largest opposition party in the Westminster Parliament, Corbyn has issued an order instructing his own MPs (Members of Parliament) that they should not hold meetings with Conservative opponents unless that specific precondition is satisfied.
So when America made it a precondition for negotiating a settlement in Syria that Bashar al-Assad must go, Russia correctly viewed this condition as a threat to the survival of its last ally in the Middle East.
Varathan and Chang recommend that investors take note of the difference between nominal GDP and real GDP, as nominal growth only started overtaking real growth in 2016 and this is a key precondition to growing out of debt.
If approved, Hero-Burman will be Fortis' largest shareholder with just under a fifth of the company, having made the only offer that excluded due diligence as a precondition for investment, giving Fortis quick access to the funds.
Facebook collecting and linking user data from its own suite of services; and from third party websites — the Bundeskartellamt asserts that consent to data processing must be voluntary, so cannot be made a precondition of using Facebook's service.
Applewhite attacks those who carelessly attribute "decline to age rather than illness," but the distinction lacks a real difference; age is the leading precondition for most of the decline-hastening diseases, such as cancer, heart disease, and Alzheimer's.
Mr Sondland had previously testified that he never talked to Ukrainian officials about opening an investigation, that he never thought there was any precondition attached to the military aid, and that he "didn't know why" it was delayed.
"Not at all — we did not have the precondition that the American forces leave and then we will sit down with the Kabul government, because that would not be wise and practical," Mr. Agha said in the interview.
Iran's main demand - in talks with the European parties to the deal and as a precondition to any talks with the United States - is to be allowed to sell its oil at the levels before Washington pulled out.
But Vice President Mike Pence on Tuesday phoned to tell the Canadian prime minister that the precondition of a deal was a sunset clause, meaning the pact would automatically expire unless the three countries voted to continue it.
But striking that balance could be difficult, partly because American officials believe the sanctions they imposed on Iran after the U.S. left the nuclear deal — and which Tehran wants lifted as a precondition for fresh talks — are working.
The website of French newspaper Le Figaro reported that Carrefour was asking suppliers to agree to lower prices as a precondition for starting talks and said that the economy ministry had warned this could lead to legal action.
But after a senior archivist read my final manuscript to check any references to material in the Windsor collection — a precondition of entry — I was asked to remove information for which I had uncovered evidence outside the archives.
"For these reasons, a conflict or inconsistency between the enacted plan and traditional redistricting criteria is not a threshold requirement or a mandatory precondition in order for a challenger to establish a claim of racial gerrymandering," he added.
Mutual toleration, for example, is a precondition for viable competition because if you don't accept rivals as legitimate, then you will go to any length possible to prevent them from getting into power or ejecting them from power.
Adopting a border deal with Montenegro is a precondition for Kosovo to get a visa-free travel regime to the Schengen zone as other countries in the region including Serbia, Albania, Montenegro, Macedonia and Bosnia were given in 2010.
The conversation with the North Korean capital Pyongyang can "start at the edges," with each country describing how it sees the future, and then "work toward the center," meaning denuclearization was no longer a precondition but an eventual goal.
However, the growing recognition among white-collar workers that their labor is a precondition to the carrying out of unjust policies — and that if they withhold that labor, they can help bring these policies to a halt — is critical.
"The language with which the statement was drafted was seen by us, the Syrian government, as well as by too many capitals, as a step back rather than progress forward, because it imposed a kind of precondition," he said.
Jourová also stressed that the U.S. Congress adopting the Judicial Redress Act is a precondition for the conclusion of an agreement — "in order for EU citizens to enjoy the rights US citizens already enjoy under the 1974 Privacy Act".
Making cybersecurity a precondition for federal support would add some cost, but designing cybersecurity into infrastructure from the start is almost always more cost effective than addressing it after the fact with the proverbial bubble gum and duct tape.
"The cap's removal, which had been a precondition for the renewal of the IMF's credit facility, along with fiscal consolidation, is the strongest indication that the administration is prioritising the IMF credit facility," Eurasia Group said in a note.
"I got a call from Vice President Pence on Tuesday in which it was impressed upon me that there was precondition for us being able to get together — that Canada would accept a sunset clause for NAFTA," Trudeau said.
But there is still enough time to go on record about how unfair and broken the current tax code is, and set the precondition for successful passage of systemic tax reform in the first term of the new president.
"At the same time, from the highest levels of government, from the president himself, we have said we will meet anytime, anywhere without precondition to discuss issues with the Iranians to get us on the diplomatic path," he added.
Pretty much everyone warned Trump that this wouldn't work, and this morning the White House conceded as much and agreed that it will back the "One China" policy as a precondition for talks rather than in exchange for anything.
FRANKFURT, March 3 (Reuters) - Peugeot Chief Executive Carlos Tavares said on Tuesday the French carmaker would adjust its partnership with China's Huawei if authorities in the United States make it a precondition for approving a merger with Fiat Chrysler.
In another testy call shortly after Mr. Trump was inaugurated last year, the president pressed Mr. Peña Nieto to stop saying publicly that he would not pay for the wall, saying that would be a precondition for future talks.
Under the HAPS scheme, banks will need to sell at least slightly more than 50% of the mezzanine and junior tranches of the asset backed securities in the market, a precondition for the guarantee feature on the senior notes.
But in a news conference on Sunday morning, the Afghan president, Ashraf Ghani, pointedly said that it could not be a precondition to free up thousands of Taliban prisoners before the start of the direct talks with the insurgency.
That was not a precondition for talks, he said, but it was the duty of the Security Council members who agreed the resolution last month, including Syria's chief ally Russia, which is supporting Assad's forces with a bombing campaign.
Evangelicals, a far bigger constituency than American Jews, tend to be pro-Israel for religious reasons; some believe that the return of Jews to their biblical homeland is a precondition for the rapture and the Second Coming of Christ.
Getting the North to relinquish weapons of mass destruction is an essential precondition for unification so it still remains a top priority for Moon, continued Cheon, who is currently a visiting research fellow at The Asan Institute for Policy Studies.
"We have to fight Daesh where it is trying to develop in Libya, but the precondition is the constitution of a new national unity government," Jean-Marc Ayrault told i-Tele television, referring to the Arabic acronym for Islamic State.
MANAMA, June 25 (Reuters) - White House senior adviser Jared Kushner said that prosperity for the Palestinians is not possible without a fair political solution but that agreement on an economic pathway forward was a necessary precondition for Israeli-Palestinian peace.
However, she has not accepted the so-called "1992 Consensus" basis of "one China, with interpretations", which served as a core policy under the previous Kuomintang administration and which Beijing considers a precondition for conducting official dialogue across the Taiwan Strait.
The judge said the government could withhold a small subset of federal grants related to law enforcement if cities didn't comply with that law -- a requirement already put in place as a precondition for those grants late in the Obama administration.
Ja'afari said Damascus did not want the talks to fail but the opposition had put down a precondition last month by concluding a conference known as "Riyadh 2" with a declaration that Assad had no role in Syria's political transition.
The EU, which Turkey aspires to join, is concerned that Ankara applies its anti-terrorism laws too broadly in order to prosecute critics of Erdogan and has made easing them a precondition for granting Turks visa-free travel to the bloc.
The deficit is expected to reach $22020 billion in 2015 before narrowing to $11 billion in 2016, the government said as part of a Staff Monitoring Programme agreement that the IMF approved on Tuesday as a precondition for a loan.
He proposed that both the security arrangements and the political aspect be discussed and agreed to as a package deal, a precondition set forth by the Houthis, and that the first be implemented before the latter which satisfied the government's concerns.
Dr. Alan Rogol, an endocrinologist who works with the United States Anti-Doping Agency on its review of exemption requests, criticized the premise of Dr. Serrano's diagnosis, emphasizing that an accurate diagnosis was a precondition for any exemption to be granted.
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - Construction firm Commisimpex is calling upon the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to make settlement of its 1.2 billion euro ($1.35 billion) debt dispute with Congo Republic a precondition for a bailout deal, according to a letter seen by Reuters.
We have already stated our intention of denuclearization of the Korean peninsula and made clear on several occasions that precondition for denuclearization is to put an end to anti-DPRK hostile policy and nuclear threats and blackmail of the United States.
If Douthat's account ever managed to compass the extent to which global suffering is a structural precondition of upper-class stupor, he would be far more likely to see that the problem he describes in fact contains its own solution.
BRUSSELS, June 14 (Reuters) - Euro zone creditors approved on Thursday a new disbursement of 1 billion euros ($1.16 billion) to Greece, a move that was seen as a precondition for talks on new debt relief measures for Athens next week.
This was true in the 1990s when pregnant women put their bodies on the line to test how drugs could intervene in mother-to-fetus transmission of HIV and when AIDS activists insisted that housing is a precondition to health care.
A former adviser to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky told ABC News on Wednesday that President Trump's desire for the two leaders to discuss a possible investigation into Joe Biden was a precondition for their now-infamous July 25 phone call.
MANAMA (Reuters) - Senior White House adviser Jared Kushner said on Tuesday that prosperity for the Palestinians was not possible without a fair political solution - but that agreement on an economic way forward was a necessary precondition for Israeli-Palestinian peace.
South Korean President Moon Jae-in, who met Kim three times this year and lobbied hard for the Trump-Kim meeting, has said Kim wasn't demanding the withdrawal of U.S. troops from the Korean Peninsula as a precondition for abandoning his nuclear weapons.
A history of the ACLU's transformation from a radical labor organization that viewed equality of material conditions as a necessary precondition to any universal right of expression into a bastion of "milquetoast progressivism" is a captivating and well-told piece of context.
This was the campaign slogan, "Not me, us," in action: a community event focused on the substance of local and planetary environmental emergencies, conducted on the assumption that engagement is the precondition for the sustained mass mobilizations required to achieve structural change.
Famous for saying that "to make a dove, you must first wring its neck," Picasso's emotional abuse has been waved aside as a precondition for his creativity, rather than symptomatic of someone who has received a disproportionate amount of praise and power.
"Whatever economists might tell you: (a) precondition for OMT is always a European Stability Mechanism (ESM) program, so a lot of political decisions have to be taken before the ECB comes into play with its own independent assessment," the ECB spokesperson added.
The Chinese company was sanctioned by Washington after it was caught illegally shipping goods to Iran and effectively put out of business, but its fate was made a precondition of last week's trade talks in a conversation between Trump and President Xi Jinping.
"I don't think working to strengthen labor organizing or creating new unions is a path divergent from electoral politics; in some ways, it's the necessary precondition for successful electoral politics," Piven said, citing the link between union strength and Democratic vote share.
The two researchers got in touch with the authors of these, and also of five others where the lone errors looked particularly egregious, and asked them for their data—the availability of which was a precondition of publication in two of the journals.
On a note which some may find startling from a church known for its strict rules and unchanging ceremonies, the Council documents will also emphasise freedom as a precondition for real peace and reconciliation, and the impossibility of imposing beliefs by force.
KABUL (Reuters) - The Afghan government named a team on Wednesday to negotiate directly with the Taliban, in the expectation that Washington was on the cusp of agreeing to withdraw troops after 18 years of war, meeting the insurgents' precondition for talks with Kabul.
Oil markets have been keenly focused on Iranian export volumes over the last few weeks as they get closer to pre-sanction levels - a milestone that Tehran has said is a precondition for discussing a global output freeze to boost crude prices.
Tillerson said in remarks at the Atlantic Council on Tuesday that the U.S was prepared to open up talks with North Korea "without precondition," and that the reclusive country's nuclear program did not have to be on the table during an initial meeting.
The Philippines turned to arbitration as a last resort after our numerous efforts at direct talks were met with the impossible precondition of accepting China's "indisputable sovereignty" — a claim of sovereign rights and jurisdiction and historic rights — over the entire South China Sea.
A former senior Obama administration official said Thursday the White House is hotly debating whether to step away from demands that Syrian President Bashar Assad must step down as a precondition to peace talks to end the country's five-year civil war.
The North has said U.S. troop withdrawal from the Korean Peninsula is a precondition for peace, though the administration has stated it will not completely pull out of South Korea until there is no longer a nuclear threat from its northern neighbor.
Does Gorsuch have an ironclad commitment to rule according to the words and values enshrined in our Constitution and laws, or will he rule by the litmus tests that Trump and conservatives expect Gorsuch has already passed as a precondition of being nominated?
"The historical evidence suggests that Leitsch's total success in persuading the Lindsay administration to end entrapment and his partial success in legalizing gay bars constituted a liberalization that was the most essential precondition of the Stonewall uprising," Mr. Carter said in an email.
"The decision was made after further study, which suggests any promotion of ethanol gasoline must be based on the precondition that food security is guaranteed," said one of the sources familiar with Beijing's plan, in reference to declining grain reserves in China.
Instead of following the Western practice of imposing its values and ideologies on other developing countries as a precondition for humanitarian aid, China will continue to offer aid, trade and investment opportunities to developing countries while adhering to a principle of noninterference.
UNITED NATIONS — Three days after offering to talk to North Korea "without precondition," Secretary of State Rex W. Tillerson reversed course, insisting — as President Trump has all along — that the North must stop its nuclear threats and "earn its way" to negotiations.
De Mistura said he strongly hoped Kerry and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov would make concrete and visible progress because that would improve the situation on the ground and the environment for the peace talks, although such progress was not a precondition for talks.
When President Trump announced Friday that his historic summit with North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un was back on for June 12 in Singapore, he didn't restate his demand that the North agree to some sort of denuclearization pledge as a precondition for the meeting.
"We should firmly keep in mind that any talks where denuclearisation is not a precondition only buy North Korea more time to complete its nuclear capabilities while they fool us with their peace offensive façade," said Chang Je-won, spokesman for the Liberty Korea Party.
" The FAA is not named as a defendant in the lawsuit, but aviation attorney Joseph Wheeler, one of the lawyers representing the unnamed plaintiff, told CNN he has begun the administrative procedure that "is a necessary procedural precondition to filing suit against the FAA.
"Compliance with European human-rights standards—those set out in the ECHR—will be a precondition to any trade agreement with the EU, so I see no real prospect of Britain leaving the ECHR," says Philippe Sands, a law professor at University College London.
In my study of the billionaire Peter Thiel over the last year for my book ConspiracyI found that he was one of the few from Silicon Valley who understood this as a precondition to success and was willing to openly discuss all of it.
As a precondition to operate a so-called Transportation Network Company (TNC) vehicle legally, the law requires a driver to get a "background check clearance certificate," the first stage of which requires the TNCs to screen applicants based on standards set by the division.
Since then she has hosted Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi as well as Li. Merkel said she wanted quick progress on an EU-China investment deal and that this would be a precondition to any free trade talks, a move Li said would be timely.
Iran's main demand - in talks with the European parties to the deal and as a precondition to any talks with the United States - is to be allowed to sell its oil at the levels before Washington pulled out of the agreement and restored sanctions.
The evidence they've given plainly shows that Trump required Ukrainian officials to investigate Biden and the Democrats in exchange for reinstated military aid to Ukraine (to continue fighting Russian aggression), while also serving as a precondition for a planned meeting between presidents Zelensky and Trump.
Along with the sheer size of its claims, the government holds a major trump card: the ability to push for a thorough congressional revision of industry rules that rids Oi of mandatory spending in costly fixed-line infrastructure - a precondition for the reorganization to succeed.
We should engage in dialogue without precondition and see whether an offer of a peace deal might provide North Korea with a degree of comfort that would reduce its motive to keep pouring resources into militarization, instead of meeting the needs of its people.
"We are ready to have the first meeting without precondition," Tillerson said at the Atlantic Council in Washington, in what seemed to amount to a direct public invitation for North Korea to put aside an escalating cycle of tests and taunts to engage in diplomacy.
In the US, it's illegal to discriminate someone based on their genes, and now Canada's Genetic Non-Discrimination Act would offer similar protections, making it illegal for anyone to require genetic testing as a precondition for entering into a contract or providing goods and services.
Iran's main demand - in talks with the European parties to the deal and as a precondition to any talks with the United States - is to be allowed to sell its oil at the levels before Washington pulled out of the deal and restored sanctions.
The sources said HarperCollins asked to review a copy of the nondisclosure agreement Lewandowski signed as a precondition of his employment with Trump in order to assess whether the candidate or his campaign would be able to exercise control over anything in the book.
"We should firmly keep in mind that any talks where denuclearisation is not a precondition only to buy North Korea more time to complete its nuclear capabilities while they fool us with their peace offensive facade," party spokesman Chang Je-won said, according to Reuters.
Luis De Guindos, who did not mention Italy in his speech, was repeating a long-standing ECB plea for euro zone governments to respect European Union fiscal rules as a precondition for winning over investors and laying the groundwork for a common crisis-fighting fund.
Iran's main demand - in talks with the European parties to the deal and as a precondition to any talks with the United States - is to be allowed to sell its oil at the levels that prevailed before Trump left the deal and restored sanctions.
If the United States wants to take advantage of any possible easing in tensions, it needs to drop its demands for a halt in testing as a precondition for talks, said Leon Sigal, director of the Northeast Asia Cooperative Security Project in New York.
"This law authorizes the police to summon NGO representatives, stop their temporary events and declare violators as persona non grata -- but the precondition for such actions is the discovery of suspected illegal activities," said Guo Linmao, a senior official with the National People's Congress, China's legislature.
Grilled by German lawmakers who say the bank's monetary policy has damaged the euro zone and fuelled the rise of the populist right, Draghi said Germans were net beneficiaries of the ECB's policies and action from governments, including Berlin, were a precondition for rates to rise.
Netanyahu creating 'precondition' by raising payment to terrorists During the meeting with Abbas, Trump raised the issue of payments by the Palestine Liberation Organization, which is headed by Abbas, to Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails and to the families of terrorists, according to White House officials.
But while that precondition appears to remain a non-starter for North Korea, Deputy Secretary of State John Sullivan told reporters on Tuesday that the US has made clear it will not talk to North Korea until it commits to stopping its missile and nuclear tests.
Even while he brought Iran out of decades-old diplomatic isolation and gave the world's foremost state-sponsor of terror $150 billion in unfrozen assets, Obama never once demanded that as a precondition to any deal Iran must stop threatening 6 million Jews in Israel with extermination.
Bonnie Glaser, an Asia expert at Center for Strategic and International Studies, said that while the release of the detainees was not an explicit precondition for a Trump-Kim meeting, the North Koreans understood that they had to do it for any progress to be made.
Trump had previously threatened to scrap a new NAFTA agreement if Mexico didn't do more to enforce security at its northern border to prevent migrants from entering the U.S. The Mexican government issued a response saying it was "unacceptable" to use immigration as a precondition for trade.
Another essential precondition has been NASA's starting assumption on each human space flight that it is not safe to fly, and that the mission will not take off until flight engineers have proven with absolute certainty that the rocket and the spacecraft are safe to fly.
Fast-paced digital media can precondition little ones to expect unnatural stimulation, leading to shorter attention spans because real life can seem slow and underwhelming by comparison, said Dr. Dimitri Christakis, director of the Center for Child Health, Behavior and Development at Seattle Children's Research Institute.
Decision-makers need to re-evaluate the risks involved, weighing the costs against the benefits, while considering privacy to be an immutable value, a basic human right and a precondition for the ability to realize one's autonomy, independent thought and the democratic process — not a constraint.
Everyone agrees that checks should get sent to middle-class and working-class families, but Republicans want to hand out hundreds of billions of dollars to corporations with scarcely any precondition, whereas Democrats want more accountability from the private sector and more generosity for the less fortunate.
"There is a big off ramp sitting in front of Tehran right now, and that is to de-escalate, to message us that they want to sit down and talk - without precondition, by the way - to the United States about a better way forward," he said.
That shift took on a practical political dimension when Ms. Merkel's coalition allies, the Social Democrats, as well as the Greens and the pro-business Free Democrats, said passing a same-sex marriage law would be a precondition for staying in an alliance after September elections.
But the related political crisis is still high inside the EU. "A precondition for a functioning EU policy on migration is effective control of the external borders," the leaders will agree during their talks in Brussels on Thursday and Friday, according to the latest draft of their joint statement.
In his first address to the British parliament as prime minister, Johnson on Thursday said the Irish border backstop clause in Britain's divorce agreement must be struck out as a precondition for any pact with the EU to avoid the economic disruption of a departure with no deal.
Mr. Putin's precondition for traveling to Paris was that any negotiation start from what is known as "special self-governing status" for Russian-controlled territories once local elections in the Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts are held and certified as valid by the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe.
"President Trump and, most recently, UN Ambassador Nikki Haley, say they'll accept no negotiations absent a willingness on the part of North Korea to cease tests (and potentially commit to denuclearization); North Korea sees significant expansion of its nuclear and ballistic missile programs as a precondition to any negotiation."
The strong demand for Iran's crude in Asia and Europe has enabled it to raise its oil output to just over 3.8 million bpd as of this month, still shy of the 4 million bpd level Tehran says is a precondition for discussing output limits with Saudi Arabia and Russia.
That's something of a win for Xi. As Vox's Alex Ward has written, Xi hadn't taken kindly to the US's "dual pressure campaigns" on the trade and telecom fronts; at the G20, he reportedly made the risky gambit of making easing both of them a precondition to signing a deal.
Rising unemployment, at an 18-year high of 10.6 percent, is a reminder to voters that President Francois Hollande failed to live up to promises to put the jobless rate on a convincingly downward path, which he set as a precondition for running in the next presidential election in 2017.
At a time when the new U.S. administration envisages a return of the traditional manufacturing industry to the country, the importance of EU companies in achieving this result is relevant, and strong and sustainable growth for the EU economy is a precondition to continued European investment in the United States.
However, other aspects of the plan, such as making compliance with a number of standards (many of which the United States does not currently meet) a precondition for entering into new trade agreements, overlook how free trade and integration into the international community can foster democratization among our trading partners.
The suggestion that it's required as a predicate or precondition to get a full House vote of approval before various committees can consider whether or not they can issue articles of impeachment I think can hamstring Congress in other matters that they're currently considering or might consider in the future.
Holmes also said that he was made aware by the end of June that officials in Ukraine were aware that "some action" on an investigation into Burisma, a Ukrainian gas company with ties to Biden's son, Hunter Biden, "was a precondition for an Oval Office meeting" between Zelensky and Trump.
While the administration has paid lip service to diplomacy and left some diplomatic channels open, its precondition to talks that North Korea completely denuclearize prior to negotiations has been a non-starter, and the president's tweets that talking "hasn't worked" and that Secretary of State Rex TillersonRex Wayne TillersonState Dept.
The United States has about 28,000 troops stationed in South Korea, a presence that has long irked North Korean leader Kim Jong Un. However, in the burgeoning spirit of openness and diplomacy, Moon said Kim is willing to give up US troops' removal as a precondition for discussions over denuclearizing the Korean Peninsula.
A Chinese expert on the South China Sea, Wu Shicun, the head of the National Institute for South China Sea Studies, said in an interview that he could envision a "package" deal that would include a precondition that the Philippines recognize Chinese sovereignty over Scarborough Shoal, 150 miles west of the Philippine coast.
The EU has repeatedly said it will not start negotiating a new trade deal with Britain before the issues of money, the Irish border and citizens rights are settled, so it is likely to return to the fore as a precondition for the EU to start trade talks after Brexit if Britain refuses to pay.
Below please find main excerpts of their agreement: The European Council reconfirms that a precondition for a functioning EU policy relies on a comprehensive approach to migration which combines more effective control of the EU's external borders... This is a challenge not only for a single Member State, but for Europe as a whole.
Officials for Mr. Ghani repeatedly said that the Afghan government had the sole authority to release the prisoners, and that it would not agree to such a risky move as a precondition for the next step in the peace process: direct talks between the Taliban and Afghan leaders over the political future of the country.
But the president's slight, in that it was a factor at all, only reinforced Ms. Pelosi's resolve to extract significant revisions to the accord as a precondition of holding a floor vote, and those changes could require a renegotiation of the updated North American Free Trade Agreement, which the three countries agreed to last year.
However, Fitch believes the low secured debt threshold defined as a precondition for the release of security in comparison with SMRP BV's EBITDA (more than EUR212001 million in the financial year ended March 2017 (FY17)) will limit the secured debt/consolidated operating EBITDA ratio to below 2.0x-2.5x, which is commensurate with Fitch's guidelines for low structural subordination.
"We have already stated our intention for denuclearization of the Korean peninsula and made clear on several occasions that precondition for denuclearization is to put an end to anti-DPRK hostile policy and nuclear threats and blackmail of the United States," Kim said, using the acronym for North Korea's official name, Democratic People's Republic of Korea.
Taylor also undercut a key assertion made by US Ambassador to the European Union Gordon Sondland, who testified to Congress last week that Trump had not directed him to tell the Zelensky government that a Ukrainian investigation into Trump's political opponents, including former vice president Joe Biden, was a precondition for having the meeting with Trump.
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She required Tim KaineTimothy (Tim) Michael KaineA lesson of the Trump, Tlaib, Omar, Netanyahu affair Warren's pledge to avoid first nuclear strike sparks intense pushback Almost three-quarters say minimum age to buy tobacco should be 21: Gallup MORE to make a strong statement of opposition to the TPP as a precondition for joining the Democratic ticket.
In a two-to-one split, the appeals court weighing whether the government could legally transfer Doe concluded that that authority rested on the precondition that he is being legally held in the first place — in other words, the government only has the power to transfer Doe if the courts agree that he is a lawfully held enemy combatant.
Sen. Lisa MurkowskiLisa Ann MurkowskiThe Hill's Morning Report - Progressives, centrists clash in lively Democratic debate Senate braces for brawl over Trump's spy chief Congress kicks bipartisan energy innovation into higher gear MORE (R-Alaska) said Friday that passing a bipartisan ObamaCare bill is not necessarily a precondition for her to support a tax bill that repeals ObamaCare's individual mandate.
He articulated a willingness to talk to North Korea, which is good, but he continued his insistence on denuclearization as a precondition for talks -- "We are only prepared to discuss this brighter path for North Korea if its leaders cease their threats and dismantle their nuclear program" -- which is not so much bad as it is pointless.
"While Ambassador Taylor did not brief me on every detail of his communications with the Three Amigos, he did tell me that on a June 28 call with President Zelensky, Ambassador Taylor, and the Three Amigos, it was made clear that some action on a Burisma/Biden investigation was a precondition for an Oval Office meeting," he said.
While Ambassador Taylor did not brief me on every detail of his communications with the Three Amigos, he did tell me that on a June 28 call with President Zelenskyy, Ambassador Taylor, and the Three Amigos, it was made clear that some action on a Burisma/Biden investigation was a precondition for an Oval Office meeting.
Asked after the meeting about what he had meant with his offer of talks "without precondition" earlier in the week, Mr. Tillerson said the United States would not accept preconditions imposed by others, such as a proposal by Russia and China to freeze nuclear tests in exchange for a freeze on the American military exercises on the Korean Peninsula.
"A one-on-one with Donald Trump I don't think is going to solve the problem," Richardson told CNN, adding later, that Trump's plan is "not going to work, that's not diplomacy, that's reality TV." Then-candidate Barack Obama was criticized by Republicans during his 2008 presidential campaign for saying he would meet without precondition with Iranian leaders to discuss their nuclear ambitions.
Asked whether the Moon government would be willing to have talks with North Korea without the precondition of denuclearization, unlike the two previous administrations, the minister replied, "We do not think there has been a major change in the government's position ... but if necessary we may need to engage in dialogue with North Korea to bring it to the negotiation table."
Thus, despite the desire of President TrumpDonald John TrumpFive takeaways from the Democratic debate As Buttigieg rises, Biden is still the target Leading Democrats largely pull punches at debate MORE for investigations into the Ukrainian role in the 2016 election and the Hunter Biden controversy, we have a firm date for when the Ukrainian officials presumably knew about the precondition for aid.
The tacit pact of this uneasy alliance is that the viewer is allowed to get only as far into the work as Stella will let him go, which strikes a different chord from Diderot's insistence on the viewer's absorption as a precondition to the autonomy of an artwork's space, or what we see much later as the work's self-reflexivity.
In response to the government's new demand, representatives of the insurgents said they stood by the framework hammered out in Qatar: a phased American troop withdrawal in return for a Taliban promise of breaking with international terrorist groups such as Al Qaeda, followed by Afghan negotiations in which a cease-fire would be not a precondition but would be one of the topics for discussion.
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But as with another, more literally humanistic pursuit — childbearing — that had seemed to stabilize after a post-1960s collapse but now is in decline again, the absence of a post-Great Recession bounce-back for the humanities suggests that the economic calamity of 2008 was a precondition but not the only cause, and that other cultural shifts had left the humanities ripe for another era of collapse.
But this is easier said than done partly because that land is in Tigray, and the regional government there is still controlled by the T.P.L.F. Real peace with Eritrea can only be achieved if a tripartite agreement is reached between the national governments of Ethiopia and Eritrea, as well as the regional authorities in Tigray — this is a precondition for the border to finally be demarcated.
On Thursday, President Donald Trump accepted an invitation to meet face-to-face with North Korea's leader, Kim Jong Un. Given the fiery tone of Trump's earlier statements, and his repeated demands that North Korea would have to abandon its nuclear ambitions as a precondition to negotiations, the news of a meeting came as a surprise to those who had taken the president at his word.
Worryingly, while President TrumpDonald John TrumpTrump pushes back on recent polling data, says internal numbers are 'strongest we've had so far' Illinois state lawmaker apologizes for photos depicting mock assassination of Trump Scaramucci assembling team of former Cabinet members to speak out against Trump MORE himself in the past signaled openness to engagement without this precondition, he reportedly committed to it in a phone conversation with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe this month.
In a short review of Mohsin Hamid's "Exit West," which tells the story of two refugees fleeing an unnamed country during a civil war, for the annual "Tournament of Books" published by The Morning News, Patrick Hoffman calls the novel "a full-fledged masterpiece; it's necessary, timely, wise and beautiful," and in doing so, makes it seem as if "necessary" is a precondition to "masterpiece" — which in turn is downgraded, through the urgency of necessity, to second-string praise.

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