Mr Harper spurned them as talking shops for despotic regimes.
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Europe's supranational bodies are not simply talking-shops or bloated bureaucracies.
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The European Union is an organization dedicated to meetings, talking shops, and bureaucracy.
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Their exclusiveness led many people to think these talking shops sinister, or an undisclosed tunnel to power.
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Breakingviews Talking shops should do more than simply gloomily prognosticate or ardently cheer, even for financial technology.
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A common theme of fascist propaganda was that parliaments were "talking-shops," where speechmaking and idle criticism made effective action impossible.
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Barring a major war, Europe, and the plethora of its private talking shops, are totally irrelevant to that watershed electoral outcome.
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Not only are the circumstances of collapse unforeseeable, but the co-ordination between America, China and South Korea is politically impossible, beyond talking-shops where scholars engage in speculation.
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But those talking shops, including the World Trade Organization, the G7, the G20, and the EU, cannot force change when one large nation (China) feels no pressure to change.
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It's also aiming to garner feedback and encourage international consensus building for what it dubs "human-centric AI" — targeting among other talking shops the forthcoming G7 and G20 meetings for increasing discussion on the topic.
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But none of these disputes—nor those in the South and East China Seas—is subject to anything resembling a peace process, and none is discussed in more than broad-brush terms at any of the various regional security talking shops.
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The very essence of his politics is inflexibility about this sort of thing; one acquired over decades of brain-desiccating hours spent in lefty talking-shops where the same dusty people make the same dusty arguments and everyone agrees with everything else.
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In his book, "The Business of America is Lobbying", New America's Mr Drutman shows that companies are increasingly using lobbyists to set the terms of the debate by funding Washington's innumerable talking-shops, then putting pressure on politicians and officials to ensure that the legislation works to their advantage.
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None of the self-generated 'trust and accountability' structures that tech giants are now routinely popping up with entrepreneurial speed — to act as public curios and talking shops to draw questions away from what's they're actually doing as people's data gets sucked up for commercial gain — can in fact be trusted.
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There being no funding forthcoming from the local authories the consortiums reverted to collaborative consultation groups ("talking shops").
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All-Party Groups are defined by the House of Commons as "relatively informal" groups whose members include "backbench Members of the House of Commons and Lords" and sometimes ministers and non-parliamentarians. They are classified as subject or country groups. Being cross-party, All-Party Groups are more talking-shops than lobbies trying to influence government policies. They are registered only "to control the extent to which groups use the House's facilities and status"Parliamentary information on All-Party groups.
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To some extent, the Argentine military junta was misled by its own opinion of democracies as being weak, inefficient talking-shops, afraid of taking risks. Indeed, in Britain there was much debate about the rights and wrongs of war. However, regardless of their own policies and opinions, opposition parties firmly backed the government during the crisis, in order to present a single united front. An American fear of the perceived threat of the Soviet Union and the spread of communism, along with the certainty that Britain could handle the matter on its own, may have influenced the US to take a position of non-interference (the Soviet-Afghan War was now in its 2nd year; the US had also recently lost Vietnam and its surrounding countries to communism).
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Environmental mega conferences have been criticised as being little more than high profile, hugely expensive talking shops which give the illusion that the world is changing when it is not.Fomerand, J., 1996, UN Conferences: Media Events or Genuine Diplomacy; 2 Global Governance 361 They have produced so little concrete change due to the voluntary nature of the agreements, the difficulty in monitoring and the lack of follow up regarding compliance. However, they have produced important and authoritative ‘soft laws’, the halfway stage on the road to legally binding frameworks.Dupuy, Pierre-Marie, 12 Mich. J. Int'l L. 420 (1990-1991) Soft Law and the International Law of the Environment; There is the strong expectation of nations adhering to soft laws and that they will become ‘harder’ in the short or long term, more precise and more legally binding.
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Darwin had already been invited by FitzRoy to contribute his Journal, based on his field notes, as the natural history section of the captain's account of the Beagle's voyage, and this ended up keeping him fully occupied from 13 March to the end of September. He also plunged into writing a book on South American Geology, putting his and Lyell's ideas forward against the cataclysmic explanation of mountain formation Alcide d'Orbigny was promoting in a multi-volume account of the continent begun two years previously. On Monday 27 February Darwin presented a talk to the Cambridge Philosophical Society on glassy tubes he had found amongst Maldonado sand dunes, explained by lightning having fused the sand. To supervise his collections Darwin had to return to London, and on Lyell's advice he planned to arrive on Friday 3 March 1837, in time for one of Charles Babbage's Saturday parties, talking shops about the latest developments "brilliantly attended by fashionable ladies, as well as literary and scientific gents" and "a good mixture of pretty women", bankers and politicians, where Babbage promoted such projects as his mechanical computer.
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