So, first, the first term is estimation.

The Obama Doctrine s First Term

The first term starts in April.

Consider a ruler who comes to power with good intentions and great abilities. Assume that he accomplishes much for his country during his first term (or his first two or three terms if the constitution allows it).

In his first term, Putin appeared to be an authoritarian reformer, undertaking substantial market reforms, such as introducing a 13 flat income tax. But in his second term, Putin was simply authoritarian, undertaking no economic or social reforms worth mentioning.

President George W. Bush was more focused on his global war on terror. His successor, Barack Obama, seemed to give the region little thought as well, at least in his first term.

The term of service of a member, or an alternate member, shall start at the first meeting of the Executive Board in the calendar year following his her election and shall end immediately before the first meeting of the Executive Board in the calendar year in which the term ends.

The democratic transition undergone by Mexico in recent years was decisive for reaching the objective set by President Vicente Fox on the first day of his term.

While Obama s first term could not be called a foreign policy disappointment, his achievements although not trivial have been limited. If he wins a second term, he is likely to find it increasingly difficult to win by playing not to lose.

I think it's the first step toward that. That's the long term goal.

Like most recent American presidents, Obama campaigned on a promise to work with his political opponents for the greater good of the country. Bill Clinton said much the same thing before he was elected, and then spent his first term in a knockdown fight with Newt Gingrich s Republican majority in Congress, and his second term fighting off impeachment.

Second terms can often be productive times for US foreign policy, largely because presidents cannot seek a third. George W. Bush, for example, used his second four years in office to fix mistakes made during his first (his second term team was busy).

First, to be successful, I think that peacebuilding has to be a long term commitment.

There is only one way to explain the US administration s decision to exert such diplomatic pressure in favor of Iran s favorite in Iraq Obama s pledge during his presidential election campaign to disengage from Iraq during his first term.

Those of you who remember Al Gore, during the first term and then during his successful but unelected run for the presidency, may remember him as being kind of wooden and not entirely his own person, at least in public.

First, in the past, short term macroeconomic stability was often achieved at the expense of structural adjustment and rational allocation of resources. To achieve sustained growth, a balance between short term and long term objectives must be struck.

Richard Dawkins, whom you'll be hearing later in the day, invented the term memes, and put forward the first really clear and vivid version of this idea in his book The Selfish Gene.

The Obama administration needs to do a far better job in its second term when it comes to defining the issues and setting the scope of a reenergized US diplomatic effort in the region. In Obama s first term, mediators were dispatched to the region within days of his inauguration.

The members of the Committee elected at the first election shall begin their term of office on the date of the first meeting of the Committee.

WASHINGTON, DC Barack Obama was widely considered an exciting new figure when he was first elected President of the United States in 2008. His increasing unpopularity and virtual abandonment by his own party in his second term in 2014 stems largely from that fact Expectations exceeded reality.

Nonetheless, Europe needs to be much more generous in permanently writing down debt and, even more urgently, in reducing short term repayment flows. The first is necessary to reduce long term uncertainty the second is essential to facilitate near term growth.

A third term would provide continuity during the first period in office of the newly elected Director General.

Eurostat first published the methodological handbook on short term business statistics in 1997 and revised it in 2002.

The first action of the new Government should be the determination of its short , medium and long term priorities.

The first action of the new Government should be the determination of its short , medium and long term priorities.

I was his first customer.

First, it represented his identity.

For example, the Fed has pledged to keep interest rates low at least until the unemployment rate falls to 6.5 a move that has arguably lowered long term borrowing costs. Likewise, Mark Carney, in his first policy action as Governor of the Bank of England, announced forward guidance for short term interest rates.

The trip the first foreign visit of his second term carries important implications for US foreign policy. Rather than providing the breakthrough for which many had hoped, it demonstrated that Obama unlike other second term US presidents, who have staked their legacies on foreign policy is interested primarily in securing a domestic legacy.

The Government of Brazil has taken a positive approach to OFDI, and President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has set a target of 10 Brazilian firms becoming true TNCs by the end of his first term.

His current term of office would have expired on 5 February 2009.

The members of the Committee elected at the first election shall begin their term of office on 1 March 1991.

Mr. Oshima (Japan) Let me first thank Ambassador De Soto for his first briefing since his appointment as Special Coordinator.

Here's his first bit of advice.

Please serve him his meal first.

The author's appeal was delayed until after he had served his prison term.

That was the fourth time that the authorities had extended his prison term.

First, governments must balance long term goals with short term achievements. Given unlimited time, less developed commodity rich countries would first invest in human capital and institutions, then direct their growing commodity revenues into infrastructure, and move on to diversify their economies by strengthening the agriculture, manufacturing, and service sectors.

The term of office of the members of the Committee elected at the first election shall begin on 1 January 1988.

The long term investment objectives of the Fund are, first, to preserve the principal of the Fund in real terms and, second, to obtain an optimal investment return over the long term while avoiding undue risk.

He placed first for his foie gras.

We wish him and the Agency every success in his new term of office.

10. In paragraph 3.38, after the first sentence, in accordance with paragraph 1.26 of the medium term plan, add the following sentence

The Trafficking in Persons Protocol constitutes the first legally binding global instrument with an agreed definition of the term trafficking in persons .

A member of the Court elected to replace a member whose term of office has not expired shall hold office for the remainder of his predecessor's term.