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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And can he be trusted to resist additional, devastating hollowing out of our military?
In a number of areas, we are seeing a dangerous "hollowing-out" of the U.S. military.
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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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Aside from raw military might, every other source of apparent Soviet strength had been hollowing out for years.
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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China's low costs are luring Taiwan's manufacturers, hollowing out the island's industrial base.
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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This hollowing out is all too reminiscent of what the last Democratic President, Jimmy Carter, allowed to happen 20 years ago.
In such a scenario, much of the Quest talent would likely have escaped, hollowing out the value of any later purchase.
That impulse, not new-found budget discipline, is the driving force behind his hollowing out of the rest of the U.S. military, too.
The current account deficits are up more than fourfold since 1989, a year of peak popular angst about the hollowing out of America.
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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.
Can legislators who are alarmed at the hollowing-out of the U.S. military now becoming ever more palpable really take at face value Sen.
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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.
In that event, the contribution made during Mr. Gates' tenure at the Pentagon to the hollowing-out of the armed forces will be even more severe.
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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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.
Such a proportion of GDP is well below the more than 5-6.7% that President Reagan dedicated during the 1980s to rebuilding our military after its last hollowing-out.
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.
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.
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