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But this does not mean that Europe needs to abandon the search for better ways to pool its strengths.
And Trump’s isolationist, “America first” agenda implies that the US will abdicate its leadership role in the world, and possibly abandon its security guarantee for Europe.
But modernization stalled when protectionist pressures from Lancashire and the exigencies of Imperial finance led the British to abandon free trade and laissez faire .
And, once the US economy shows signs of recovery and the Fed’s targets of 6.5% unemployment and 2.5% annual inflation are reached, the authorities will abandon quantitative easing and force real interest rates higher.
The man has served several years in prison, owing to his refusal to abandon the relationship.
The US, for its part, did not abandon authoritarian allies such as Egypt’s Hosni Mubarak and Tunisia’s Zine el Abidine Ben Ali immediately.
Only by strengthening UN sanctions to such an extent that North Korea is forced to abandon its missiles and nuclear weapons – and China to reconsider its knee-jerk support – can the regime be dissuaded from further, and more ominous, maneuvering.
On the diplomatic front, it has often been suggested that China should use its considerable leverage to push North Korea to abandon its nuclear weapons voluntarily.
Unlike in 1962, however, that solution cannot take the form of a single trade-off, because North Korea already has extensive nuclear capabilities, which it would not be willing to abandon in one fell swoop.
Iranians would then be forced to abandon their inflated rhetoric and their evil threats.
China’s unwillingness, for example, to join other members of the international community in pressuring Iran and North Korea to abandon nuclear weapons programs foreshadows the potential collapse of the nuclear non-proliferation regime.
Most people understand that coal is a dirty business, one that countries like Australia should abandon for their own economic wellbeing, as well as for the sake of the global climate.
The international community must act quickly to force the Israelis to abandon its deterrence strategy and instead work on reaching an understanding that can result in a cessation of attacks by both sides.
Saakashvili must be pressured to abandon his effort to wield full control over Abkhazia and South Ossetia.
Europe now faces a difficult choice: either fix this fundamental design flaw and move toward fiscal union, or abandon the common currency.
British Prime Minister David Cameron, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, and Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono have unequivocally endorsed the recommendation of the High-level Expert Group on Trade, which Peter Sutherland and I co-chair, that we ought to abandon the Doha Round if it is not concluded by the end of this year.
If the large states are to obtain similar gains, and their politicians are to recover voters’ respect, their governments will have to accept the small-state logic and abandon the Great Power posturing of the past.
His alternative appears to be to abandon the euro.
India cannot and will not abandon its territorial sovereignty, or its pursuit of secure land borders or a greater balance in trade.
It must now renounce terrorism as an instrument of state policy; stop employing groups like Lashkar-e-Taiba as strategic reserves against India; and abandon aspirations of acquiring overweening influence over the government in Kabul.
The trend is often accelerated by the loss of jobs, which often leads people to abandon their professional and functional identities in favor of identities based on ethnicity, kinship, or religion.
But we run a risk of the tenth time…”Today, Greece’s European creditors seem ready to abandon their solemn pledges on the irrevocability of the euro in order to insist on collecting some crumbs from the country’s pensioners.
In Russia these voices are seconded by backward and leftist elements who cry that Russia should abandon Western democracy and capitalism and take the "Chinese Road", meaning an authoritarian way to economic growth.
It is even suggested that some countries might abandon EMU if this process continues – a threat that, if carried out, would amount to economic suicide.
But that does not mean we should abandon the idea.
Policymakers must periodically reassess their efforts and promptly abandon failures.
But that would require Putin to abandon his strategic ambitions, which he will never do so long as he can continue to slice the salami.
As the US increasingly became an energy importer, its leaders never found any reason to abandon this policy.
In this context, China’s only option is to abandon its low-cost manufacturing export model and move up global supply chains.
In a recent Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing, Acting Assistant Secretary of State for East Asia Susan Thornton articulated the administration’s belief that talks would not get North Korea to abandon its nuclear-weapons program, even if they brought much-needed economic concessions.
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