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HONG KONG — China issued a directive on Tuesday banning the construction of government buildings for the next five years, the latest in a series of initiatives by President Xi Jinping to discourage corruption and foster frugality at a time of broad popular resentment against high-living bureaucrats.

His partial withdrawal from public life is unlikely to change the factional maneuvering within the governing African National Congress, South African political analysts said, but it could diminish one of the nation's most trenchant moral voices at a time of broad political and economic challenges.

At a time of broad scorn for corporations, the article is a reminder that some of them can and do take high roads and exhibit sensitivity to the communities around them, and even if these good deeds are done largely or exclusively because they're good business, too, well, that doesn't negate the potentially positive impact of those deeds.

The Constitutional Court decision came after nearly two weeks of protests that have hit the country's vital tourism industry at a time of broader economic malaise because of the global downturn.

The village and its surrounding area had been neglected by successive waves of politicians, and it had been easy to play on that disappointment in a time of broader crisis and fear.

Indeed, the controversy comes at a time of broader tension in both French business and politics, with a new generation fighting for power against an entrenched old guard, says Stéphane Fouks, executive co-chairman of Euro RSCG, one of the largest marketing and communications firms in France.

The redesign also comes at a time of broader questions about The Times' app strategy — a little more than a month ago, The Times itself broke the news that it would be eliminating 100 newsroom jobs and shutting down the recently launched NYT Opinion app.

Mr. Kelly was not about to reopen the debate over the merits of an idea proposed at the height of an epidemic of crack murders, at a time of revelations of broad misconduct in the department.

The monthly meeting of the ministers in Brussels came at a time of widespread gloom about the broad European economy.

They are both a straightforward fiscal problem -- with federal coffers being denied needed money at a time of spiralling deficits -- and a broader threat to our civic culture.

Thomas came of age at a time when broad swaths of American society thought it was time for African-Americans to be given chances that had been denied to their forebears.