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And there is legitimate reason to doubt America’s ability to maintain its “hyperpower” status, not least owing to the rise of major emerging economies.
If Muslim scholars can somehow disprove these arguments, it is thought, then the terrorists’ ability to sustain their violent underground will be reduced.
The European Economic and Monetary Union (EMU) was born from the following apparently contradictory argument: that the discretionary powers which governments enjoy over exchange rates and financial markets are often inversely related to their ability to provide stability in those very same markets.
Clearly, Chen’s hatred of dictatorship, whether Communist or KMT, consumed him, limiting his ability to think clearly.
Does the market control the state, in the sense that it sets a limit on governments’ ability to borrow?
But one thing I didn’t hear at Davos this year was an ability to articulate the globalist answer to nativism.
Yet, despite this deeply ingrained skepticism about human nature, we embrace humanity's talent for progress and innovation, because we recognize man's ability to correct mistakes and errors.
A good economy not only sustains growing output and national income; it also ensures its participants’ capacity for self-sufficiency and ability to realize their potential.
The combination of single-market membership and free movement would be particularly popular with the large cohort of young people who turned out to vote last week for the first time and who consider the ability to live, work, or study anywhere in Europe a major benefit of EU membership, not a cost.
They are placing their faith in their ability to wash their own dirty laundry and drive economic, social, and political change from the top down.
Its founders’ mission was to create a system that serves everyone, is free at the point of delivery, and caters to patients’ needs, not their ability to pay.
In a globally inter-connected world, however, a new politics has developed, in which both the left and right fringes fear that outside competition or influences will limit their ability to shape political choices.
What could impede their ability to reach an agreement?
The IMF’s perceived “democratic deficit” is a serious challenge to the Fund’s political legitimacy and to its ability to effectively stabilize crisis situations.
The ability of this group to work together is critical to resolving this and future crises.
Tax avoidance by multinational companies is draining developing-country incomes, limiting their ability to invest in education and infrastructure.
But the other credit crisis is equally consequential, and receives much less attention, even as it erodes societies’ integrity, productive capabilities, and ability to maintain living standards (particularly for the least fortunate).
I know of very few Western countries where small and medium-size companies, as well as middle-income households and those of more limited means, have not experienced a significant decline in their access to credit – not just new financing, but also the ability to roll over old credit lines and loans.
Today, we must also continue forming and correcting the EU to maximize its ability to reflect the needs of its inhabitants in an ever-changing world.
The basis of America’s greatness and ability to lead the world stems from universal values that underpin a set of rules that uphold the others’ rights, not an America that tries to base its greatness on a set of deals aimed at getting the better of others.
Such an America will find its ability to lead the world compromised by a shortage of goodwill and an abundance of distrust.
In the United States, President Barack Obama, concerned about his party’s ability to retain control of the Senate, has decided to put off immigration reform until after the election in November.
Our ability to prevent “water wars” will depend on our collective capacity to anticipate tensions, and to find the technical and institutional solutions to manage emerging conflicts.
But, given limited interregional transfers and labor mobility, this means that the continent has far less ability to absorb disparate shocks through the operation of so-called automatic stabilizers.
The EU’s ability to capitalize on – or even justify – the award hinges on its prospects for overcoming the sovereign-debt crisis and reestablishing trust among its member countries.
But the most important reason why an elected president is better equipped than a monarch to catalyze a public conversation about a society’s values and priorities is that he or she is more likely to be a person of superior ability.
That is why the Danish model is probably the worst solution, for it requires no governing ability from the populists.
The outcome of future rounds in the struggle against jihadi terrorism will depend on our ability to avoid the trap of “jujitsu politics.”
The ability to combine hard and soft power is smart power.
For some American voters, fairness is based on the principle of “the ability to pay”; the rich should be taxed at higher rates because they can afford it more easily.
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