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So you abandon your investment plan.
As I don’t expect nations to abandon this principle, NATO will continue to depend on individual allies and their willingness to commit resources.
Germany plans to abandon nuclear power by 2022, and Switzerland by 2034.
Only chaos-lovers wish for such an outcome, but it is possible if core governments continue to hesitate in engaging their balance sheets; if peripheral governments abandon their fiscal-reform efforts; and/or if societies can no longer tolerate economic stagnation, high and rising unemployment, and budget austerity.
Despite past pledges to abandon nuclear-weapons development, the government has lately been pursuing new research, evidently in the hope of proclaiming the achievement of some new technological milestone.
So if Tony Blair wants to have the choice of joining the emu within any useful time-frame, he will have to abandon the pseudo-rationalist policy of Wait-and-See, and switch to a policy of commitment to emu as a political objective.
This misbegotten strategy culminated in the Bank's decision in August 2000 to abandon the zero interest-rate policy at the first signs of economic recovery, effectively declaring that it would not use monetary policy to bring about negative real rates after expectations of inflation returned.
But now, faced with a slowdown in China and significant downside risks there, the rest of Asia must abandon over-reliance on export-oriented development strategies and strive to ensure stable and sustainable growth domestically and regionally.
Central banks could adjust them or abandon them at any time, violating their solemn promises.
Acceding to it would merely ensure further escalation of the conflict with Iran, which will never completely abandon its nuclear technology and nuclear activities.
Nor has he been able to rein in Iran’s relentless drive for regional hegemony, or convince it to abandon its quest for nuclear arms.
But, in the mirror of history, we can see that the greater mistake has been to abandon the country altogether.
Europe, laboring under a common currency, a half-hearted banking union, and an unnecessarily tight fiscal policy, has chosen to abandon those tools.
This “end-of-history” interlude, when “Communism” was either failing or recycling itself into its opposite, also encouraged many latter-day American political missionaries to proselytize for democracy as well as capitalism – to urge China’s leaders to abandon state controls not only over their economy, but over their political system as well.
In Latin America, forget about the unending promises of no more devaluations, abandon the mess and move to the dollar.
But now it is time for the Fed and its counterparts elsewhere to abandon financial engineering and begin marshaling the tools they will need to cope with the inevitable next crisis.
If the new government abandons all three reform projects, Italians can also abandon hope of economic recovery, perhaps for another decade.
If Doing Business is to live up to its own slogan, “equal opportunity for all,” it should abandon the tax indicator altogether.
Likewise, although no one died from radiation released by the 2011 accident at Japan’s Fukushima Daiichi plant, that episode was widely regarded as proof that countries should abandon nuclear power.
Indeed, if China does not abandon its current approach – from its “water grab” in the Mekong and other international rivers to its “territorial grab” in the South China Sea – the prospects for a rules-based order in Asia could perish forever.
If they cannot reform, France or Italy eventually may be tempted to renege on free movement of goods, services and labor – and perhaps even abandon the euro – with disruptive consequences for all members.
Unless a future government is bold enough to violate the pact with abandon, its only alternative will be to increase taxes, which would merely prolong the very downturn in private-sector demand that has kept unemployment high.
But Koizumi’s reforms seemed to abandon not only rent-seekers, but also the disadvantaged who had relied on the state’s protectionist measures.
What he needs to do is abandon the politics of blame and get on with implementing a coordinated policy package designed to lift Argentina's international competitiveness.
So his decision to abandon Saleh stemmed less from his love of the constitution and democracy than from his desire to even the score with the president and his son Ahmad Saleh, with whom he has long clashed.
Stronger cooperation among Asian countries, together with the international community, could ease regional tensions and lead North Korea to abandon its nuclear weapons programs.
Staking out impossibly extreme positions that you can readily abandon may work in negotiating property deals; but it is not a sound basis for conducting foreign policy.
Non-nuclear nations that sign the Non-Proliferation Treaty, as Iran has, pledge to abandon all efforts to develop nuclear weapons.
It is unprecedented for a country to abandon a highly advantageous geopolitical and economic position simply because it is experiencing a prolonged identity crisis.
With no means of stemming election-year fiscal expansion, the Czechs, too, have been forced to abandon their 2010 target date for euro adoption.
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