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The same thing occurred in the 2007-2008 crisis, though the shift is less acute this time, and is confined to the eurozone.
The conflict between Hirohito’s divine and secular roles became most acute in the autumn of 1941, when Japan’s leaders debated whether to go to war with the United States and its allies.
Around one-third of Indians live in conditions of acute poverty, and India accounts for roughly one-third of the world’s poor.
Experts have long identified the electricity grid as the most acute vulnerability, since any modern economy would collapse without power.
Treating acute heart attacks with inexpensive drugs is, however, cost-effective.
But the risks it faces are mild when compared with the chronic instability and acute threats facing much of the rest of the world.
The challenges of calculating GDP are particularly acute in Sub-Saharan Africa, owing to weak national statistics offices and historical biases that muddy crucial measurements.
The need for consensus is especially acute with respect to the difficult decisions concerning Europe that the German government now faces.
These questions will become especially acute in areas such as education and health care.
This challenge is most acute in Africa; although 75% of girls in Sub-Saharan Africa start school, only 8% complete secondary education.
In that case, tensions between Saudi Arabia and Iran will become more acute in the years ahead, emerging as the main destabilizing factor in the region.
Such succession disputes become even more acute when there are multiple marriages and multiple sets of competing children.
The emerging development agenda that will succeed the MDGs reflects a more acute awareness of the critical importance of inclusivity.
Indeed, Argentina recently faced a particularly acute dilemma, following a United States court ruling requiring it to repay $1.3 billion to US hedge funds that rejected an earlier sovereign-debt rescheduling deal.
Children in urban war zones die in vast numbers from diarrhea, respiratory infections, and other causes, owing to unsafe drinking water, lack of refrigerated foods, and acute shortages of blood and basic medicines at clinics and hospitals (that is, if civilians even dare to leave their houses for medical care).
The most acute risk relates to North Korea’s advancing nuclear program, but there are also substantial risks in the Middle East and elsewhere.
Research over the past 20 years has tied PM2.5 to a range of adverse health outcomes, including asthma, acute bronchitis, lung cancer, heart attacks, and cardiorespiratory diseases.
Given the Trump administration’s protectionist rhetoric, the importance of maintaining access to Europe’s single market would seem to be more acute than ever.
Even though only quite old people have personally experienced even the second of these episodes of monetary destruction, their political resonance is still acute.
Merkel has acute political antennae, and her response struck a deep chord with popular sentiment.
To be sure, as the Trump administration continues to repudiate long-established patterns of cooperation, the risk to global stability is becoming increasingly acute.
Energy security, organized crime, terrorism, absolutism and fundamentalism, climate change, and cybercrime are acute concerns for every country.
But it is not difficult to foresee situations in which differences might become acute.
Today’s crisis is acute, but there is no sense of an approaching apocalypse.
But, starting in 2005-2006, the authorities implemented measures that made responsiveness to acute problems practically impossible.
So the struggle between democratic and anti-democratic tendencies is becoming acute.
According to Duwe, the difference may lie partly in an acute sense of being persecuted – and an acute desire for revenge.
But it also faces acute social and public-health problems and has 1.3 billion Chinese on its eastern border, and it has important common interests with Europe, including trade in gas and oil and a shared preoccupation with Islamic extremism.
But, whatever the level of nominal interest rates, the monetary-policy stance established in this way has often been poorly transmitted to the economy, particularly in times of acute crisis.
Sometimes, threats to a civilian population will be so acute and immediate as to make coercive military intervention the only option, as with Muammar el-Qaddafi’s Libya, at least at the time of the imminent assault on Benghazi in March.
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