But critics have pointed to India's waiver as a hollowing out of the NPT.
He urged European partners not to repeat past mistakes of "hollowing out" forces following military campaigns.
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This sort of hollowing out is right in line with the diminishing role of the middle class.
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Crucially, this hollowing out has seen middle-skill roles replaced by technology or outsourced to the lowest cost provider.
The sequester cuts, while often dumb, aren't hollowing out the basic services that voters expect from their government.
We cannot accept that continued progress in technology will be accompanied by a hollowing out of the middle class.
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The hollowing out of Zaire is nowhere more apparent than in the economy.
Add to this the pre-crash hollowing out of the SEC, which has led to at-times comical forms of enforcement.
The unrealistically high salary levels from Spain to Greece created overconsumption in these countries, while hollowing out their industrial bases.
There have been two great articles written recently on the problem of the hollowing out of the middle class in America.
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In such a scenario, much of the Quest talent would likely have escaped, hollowing out the value of any later purchase.
Lengthy power cuts are hollowing out Pakistan's already weak economy, which, at its present 3% growth rate, cannot possibly sustain Pakistan's youth bulge.
Despite their sturdy defences, the earth buildings are also succumbing to a gradual hollowing out from within, as the Hakka once again move on.
It is this, as well as Labour's relative warmth towards Europe, that leads William Hague to attack the government for hollowing out the nation.
Such sentiments among the libertarian right track with those of like mind on the radical left, at least with respect to hollowing out the military.
Over the thirty year period, the largest employment gains were made at the top and bottom of the distribution, with a hollowing out of mid-skill occupations.
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He urged Nato allies to "invest in this alliance", rather than "hollowing out" forces, as he said had happened following previous conflicts including both world wars.
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Graphite is generally soft and crumbly, so soon after, Italian craftsmen came up with the idea of hollowing out a stick of juniper wood and filling it with graphite.
Over the past three decades, the American workforce has seen a widening gap between wages for high and low-skilled occupations and a hollowing out middle-wage jobs, say New York Fed Economists.
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Mr Zakaria adds, in an intriguing section, that the democratic impulse is even hollowing out America's churches because of their need to reflect, as well as shape, the beliefs and desires of their congregations.
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And, for the moment, "Dutch Disease" is a real concern: a hollowing out of Brazil's industrial sector, as the boom in commodities (plus a hugely competitive China) gradually prices them out of world markets, and the Brazilian one.
The arrival of President George W. Bush heralded both a reversal of the hollowing out of the military, along with wars in the Middle East, resulting in a temporary decline in the ratio of health to defense spending during most of his term.
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Some of you remember I stood right here with you two years ago when I was still a candidate for this office. (Applause.) And during that campaign, we talked about how, for years, the values of hard work and responsibility that had built this country had been given short shrift, and how it was slowly hollowing out our middle class.
In a number of areas, we are seeing a dangerous "hollowing-out" of the U.S. military.
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But Singapore officials and electronics analysts are at pains to stress that all this does not add up to a "hollowing-out" of the island-republic's electronics industry.
The second shift in the investment-banking landscape is a hollowing-out of the midsized banks as the very biggest in the industry grab a greater share of trading revenues.
Now, all three problems tend to indicate that the hollowing-out of British manufacturing in the decades before the 2007-8 crash is perhaps more serious than the official statistics would tend to indicate.
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