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Absent any other arrangement, the Kremlin will have to do just that.
Absent an unlikely acceleration in productivity, it is the confluence of these two forces – a tight domestic labor market and new global pressures – that spells trouble on the US inflation front.
Moreover, a crucial difference today is that the generational conflict that so characterized the 1960’s – “Your sons and your daughters are beyond your command,” as Dylan put it – is absent.
According to Siedentop, features specific to Christianity led to liberal individualism, and they are absent from the other great world religions.
But plans for a functioning Palestinian state that do not depend on foreign aid have been conspicuously absent, save for the recent efforts of Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Salam Fayyad.
Moreover, fiscal support is absent this time: QE1 and QE2 helped to prevent a deeper recession and avoid a double dip, respectively, because each was associated with a significant fiscal stimulus.
We predicted that, absent strong and unified Western diplomatic involvement, war was coming.
If markets are confused or pessimistic about China’s longer-term agenda, but if the direction of structural change and reform is positive, there may be investment opportunities that were absent in the more exuberant recent past.
Many of these provisions are absent from international agreements currently in force – such as the World Trade Organization’s TRIPS accord – and from the bilateral free-trade agreements that the US itself has negotiated with a host of countries.
At the start of the process, China will have small and indirect ownership stakes in a great many US enterprises, and the odds are that the usual objections will be absent.
The Lawless SeaSANTIAGO – The rule of law is almost entirely absent, with virtually no governance or policing.
But a crucial element of “innovation” is often absent from these discussions: the final products.
The areas where this new and old left can make a difference include improving anti-poverty programs, expanding housing and property rights, effective land reform, developing education, science, and technology, and, perhaps most importantly, strengthening democracy, human rights, and the rule of law in a region where they have been woefully absent for decades.
As research over the past three decades demonstrates, when information is imperfect -- as it always is! -- Adam Smith's invisible hand, by which the price system is supposed to guide the economy to efficient outcomes, is invisible in part because it is absent.
But what about Africa, the forgotten continent that has been conspicuously absent from Obama’s hectic agenda?
Moral claims for self-determination are justly raised in the case of the Palestinians, but they are entirely absent from the international discourse about Kurdistan.
The US has been absent from Middle East peacemaking for too long.
But the motive of preventing the formation of a political bloc was never absent, and ran counter to the European founding fathers’ dream of a political union.
Absent from the Caracas summit was Chile’s president, Michelle Bachelet, who blamed a cold and a busy domestic agenda for her inability to travel.
Absent alienable individual ownership of productive resources, it is asserted, there will be insufficient means and incentives to pursue development initiatives, and shared resources (the “commons”) will be over-exploited and used inefficiently.
But, absent a fundamental policy revamp, the most that this can deliver is a few months of relative financial calm, albeit at a cost for the subsequent future.
Absent the common currency, these divergences would have been accompanied by exchange-rate adjustments – certainly after (and perhaps even before) the pattern of excessive leverage and domestic demand ended.
When it is absent or deficient, the loss of life and livelihoods can be horrific – witness Hurricane Katrina, which ravaged Haiti and New Orleans in 2005.
Third, Greece’s eurozone partners wield a massive stick that is typically absent in sovereign-debt negotiations.
Absent the willingness of large developing countries to run trade surpluses and high savings rates relative to investment, the asset bubble in the US – leading to a rise in domestic consumption and a fall in the savings rate – would have triggered inflation and higher interest rates.
Absent international coordination, the opportunities for destructive regulatory competition will defeat regulatory reform.
The History of Russia’s FutureMOSCOW – Strategic vision has never been a Russian attribute, and it certainly was absent in 2012.
Rather, our species, just like any other biological species, is characterized by a dynamic and evolving set of traits that are statistically typical for our lineage but neither present in every member nor absent from every other species.
To begin, the presumed causes of homosexuality are shrouded in pseudo-scientific theories and psycho-babble: homosexuals supposedly suffer from hormonal imbalances, or were sexually abused as children, or constitute an indeterminate "third sex" that is neither male nor female, or had absent fathers and over-protective mothers.
While India is home to one of the world’s largest Muslim communities, its members have remained absent from anxious global conversations about militant Islam.
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