Sixty years later, that was not a consensus shared in this year's general election as debate on today's challenges gathers pace.
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Both sought to tie the best traditions of our founding fathers to today's challenges.
Mr Leigh said they should concentrate on providing a better services for today's challenges.
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Today's challenges may not make sense, but you must have faith that over the long-term, they will be nothing more than blips on the radar screen.
He touched on issues that have generally divided Europe and the U.S. such as climate change as well as comparing Berlin's Cold War struggle with today's international challenges like fighting terrorism.
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She underlined also the expectations generated by the SESAME Project to encourage scientific cooperation in the Middle East and across the world to face today's global environmental challenges.
His aim is to identify continuing challenges to these three central themes of Darwin's picture: challenges that persist today in a transformed but still recognisable form.
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"We also share the conviction that we can only resolve the interconnected challenges of today's world through dialogue, " he said.
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"We still face a lot of threats ... still face a lot of challenges in today's world, and a lot of it is in this part of the world, " Panetta said.
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Today there's no doubt that enormous challenges remain.
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In remarks today, China's central bank governor acknowledged the challenges posed by China's trade surplus, but Chinese officials insist currency reforms will take place over time.
Today's solutions will likely be irrelevant tomorrow as new challenges eclipse the current ones.
Today Europe faces many challenges, among them the euro's stability and turmoil in neighboring North Africa and in the Middle East.
With enduring bonds forged across decades, the democracies that emerged one by one from behind the Iron Curtain are now America's allies and partners, and today we jointly confront global challenges.
While we have had success on traditional pollutants, there are other challenges to face in protecting America's waters today.
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Perhaps the most moving part of Mr. Gingrich address was his reminder that, as grave as today's threats are, we have faced and risen to such challenges throughout our nation's history.
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With expanded education opportunities, a focus on in-shoring and associated tax credits, and continued innovation and next generation technologies, the U.S. can overcome the structural challenges that it faces today, and lead the world in high technology job creation for decades to come.
For the pianist using today's grand piano, as opposed to the composer's more delicate instrument, there are challenges in rendering this music as Beethoven might have wanted.
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Now, while the challenges today are different, we have to draw on the same spirit of innovation that's always been central to our success.
Today's meeting has really even deepened and strengthened a very long relationship we have, especially as we face the challenges that are before both our countries in the current situation.
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