Obviously Lebanon is a critical country in a critical region, and we want to do everything that we can to encourage a strong, independent, and democratic Lebanon.
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As I made clear in Australia, we will be strengthening our presence in the Asia Pacific, and budget reductions will not come at the expense of that critical region.
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Indeed, the tributes to Richard that have poured in from around the globe speak to both the enormous impact of his life and to the broad international commitment to our shared efforts in this critical region.
So obviously, no administration wants other voices competing with its own voice in such a critical region, especially not in a country that has the record that Syria has and that this administration is not sending people to go visit.
We've already seen 220 miles worth of levees and flood walls repaired, and we are working to strengthen the wetlands and barrier islands that are the first line of defense for the Gulf Coast. (Applause.) This isn't just critical to this region's physical protection, it's critical to our environment, it's critical to our economy.
Peter Elliott, of the Down's Syndrome Research Foundation, said the idea that there was a Critical Down Syndrome Region was too simplistic.
From a security standpoint, this ratification consolidates a partnership with the South American country which is critical in a region where free markets and U.S. influence is being attacked by populist and nationalist governments in Venezuela, Ecuador and Bolivia.
Some of the media in the region were critical of Rumsfeld's comments and approach.
And most people in the region are critical of that, and this has added to that criticism.
Keeping out "humanitarian aid" like cement in the region is critical, as it can be used for bunkers and modern tunnels to launch attacks, not to mention actual rockets should the blockade be broken.
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She then moved to Israel at a critical stage in the region's history, providing reports and presenting live coverage of events including the aftermath of Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin's assasination, the first national Palestinian elections, a spate of suicide bombings, and the first difficult years of the Oslo peace accord.
And I want to emphasize that the Asia Pacific region is absolutely critical to America's economic growth.
The economies of this region have a critical role to play in addressing the imbalances and making sure that growth is balanced and sustainable in the future.
Petersburg, this location has widely been criticized by team officials, members of the media, and fans alike as inconveniently off-center from the critical population mass of the region.
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"I absolutely believe that al Qaeda and the threat of al Qaeda and Taliban senior leadership are critical to stability in the region, " McChrystal said in a speech to London's International Institute for Strategic Studies.
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Yes, Iraq is critical to the future of the region and the world.
For the United States and its allies in the region, this is critical.
However, we are concerned with extreme situations where capital repatriation from the region to Madrid is critical for the survival of the banks.
He is also a close ally of Venezuela's Hugo Chavez and Rafael Correa of Ecuador, who have both been critical of US policies in the region.
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"It's a critical piece of infrastructure for the region and also for the Northeast, " said Rich Barone, director of transportation programs for the Regional Plan Association, which is preparing a study of capital needs along the rail corridor.
Immigrants and domestic in-migrants are important to population growth but equally critical is whether longtime residents in a region choose to have children.
They are a large group, a vital group in the development of any community or region, and provide both the critical mass, ideas, and energy to grow our metropolitan regions.
The region of Campania is one of the critical regions, after Lombardy and Sicily, in determining how parties fare in the Senate.
Of course, critical to the long term economic wellbeing of the region, and its potentially lucrative tourism sector in particular, will be the maintenance of political stability.
In the constitutional negotiations that took place in the summer of 2005, two issues were critical to us: first, that the Kurdistan Region has the right to develop the oil on its territory, and second, that there be a fair process to determine the administrative borders of Iraq's Kurdistan Region -- thus resolving once and for all the issue of "disputed" territories.
Mr. Bratislav Petkovic, Minister of culture of Serbia, and the Director-General underscored the critical role culture plays for social and economic development in the region.
The result: 81 percent of the most critical measures related to student achievement in the urban core of the region are moving in the right direction, from kindergarten readiness to completing some form of college.
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And while there's no doubt that the roads in the Sandy-stricken region are slick, it's also clear that the critical work of recovery continues.
As such, New York Harbor is the backbone of the Northeast Region of the United States, and is considered a port of critical importance for commerce and national security by the U.S. Federal Government.
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