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Second, in the
absence
of such systems, populist leaders will prey on fear to gain political support, undermining the liberal, tolerant societies that have taken 70 years of hard work to build.
In the meantime, the
absence
of institutional reform should not be allowed to serve as a pretext for inaction.
Moreover, the
absence
of any temperature rise over the past 10-17 years has made such worse-than-expected outcomes extremely unlikely.
As sensible as this two-pronged approach – spend now, cut later – may be, it is made virtually impossible by the
absence
of any mechanism whereby President Barack Obama can credibly commit himself or future administrations to fiscal tightening.
And, on big global issues like climate change, organized crime, trade, and prevention of atrocities, the
absence
of the US as a policy catalyst and active negotiator will be quickly and keenly felt.
Depressive disorders differed from normal reactions because they either arose in the
absence
of situations that would normally produce sadness or were of disproportionate magnitude or duration relative to whatever cause provoked them.
The situation in the eurozone is particularly unstable, owing to citizens’ growing alienation from a distant, technocratic elite; the
absence
of conventional economic adjustment mechanisms (exchange rates, inflation, public investment, and so on); and tight limits on fiscal transfers, which send powerful signals about the real boundaries of cohesion.
But the proof has been almost entirely negative: Today, America’s importance has become apparent from the
absence
of US leadership in one crisis after another – an
absence
that is most immediately obvious in Syria.
In the
absence
of special reasons, like a change in sexual partners, there seems to be no reason to prefer the existence of one child to that of the other.
The virtual
absence
of popular protest in Russia during the Putin years seems amazing.
The cause is excessive public and private indebtedness, coupled with the
absence
of an effective bailout mechanism; the effect is collapsing confidence in banks and sovereign debt.
Pessimists claim that in the
absence
of well developed local financial markets and a global lender of last resort, emerging economies remain vulnerable to a sudden stop in capital flows.
What they produced instead was an “electocracy” that, in the
absence
of liberal institutions, replaced the tyranny of the Sunni minority with a tyranny of the Shiite majority and a religious sectarian civil war.
The process is so long, and the side effects so unpleasant, that, in the
absence
of community-based treatment programs, many people with TB stop taking their medicines midway through the regimen.
The post-Bretton Woods liberalization of capital controls, in the
absence
of equivalent protections for workers, led to predictable results.
Despite some prominent women at the top of Latin American politics, the general
absence
of women from the region’s political life causes a serious democratic deficit.
Several more narrowly economic issues – for example, defective growth patterns, underinvestment in tangible and intangible assets, and the
absence
of reforms designed to increase structural flexibility – remain a cause for concern, because they underpin subpar growth.
Instead, the US stresses to foreign governments that an effective global trading system requires not only the removal of formal trade barriers, but also the
absence
of policies aimed at causing currency values that promote large trade surpluses.
Moreover, in countries where Google is criticized for blocking access to information, it points out the information’s
absence
when something is blocked – letting people know that it exists but that they can’t have access to it.
Of course, in the
absence
of mobilization for WWII, it is possible and even likely that the Great Depression would have cast a shadow on post-1940 US economic growth.
Women’s longer life expectancy has long been linked to differences in “biological pre-disposition,” with theories ranging from the protection afforded by women’s lower iron levels to the
absence
of “extra” genes on men’s Y chromosome.
In the long run, solidarity is cheaper for all involved, while its
absence
could become ruinously expensive in the foreseeable future.
In the
absence
of supporting regional institutions, there is little else to ensure that the desire for peace and prosperity prevails over conditions and incentives that tend toward conflict and war.
So why, in the
absence
of solvency fears, do capital inflows to America continue?
For example, the UN could not prevent the invasion of Iraq in 2003, but the
absence
of its imprimatur greatly raised the costs to the American and British governments.
The
absence
of a common denominator among EU governments’ positions has hardly been conducive to the emergence of the cogent and reliable diplomacy needed to address the Middle East’s deep problems.
Indeed, in the
absence
of political participation, the government enjoys easy dominance over society.
In the
absence
of open political competition, Putin has built a system of checks and balances within the elite.
But the last few years have made clear the
absence
of majority support for a European federation by the states that make up Europe, a point underscored by the debate surrounding the failed Constitutional Treaty.
In the
absence
of an international fiscal authority, the IMF is the organization that comes closest to being one.
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