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Such decisions would alarm China and set the stage for a regional crisis or even conflict in a part of the world with the greatest concentration of people, wealth, and military might.
Conservationists have been sounding the alarm for years.
Not surprisingly, the major investors in US Treasuries, China and Japan, have expressed alarm.
For these so-called Principlists – who advocate a “resistance economy,” based on years of austerity marked by self-sufficiency and reliance on domestic resources – Rouhani’s desire to declare Iran “open for business” and to encourage foreigners to take an active role in Iran’s economy raises as much alarm as the nuclear deal.
One never knows, for example, when rising debt levels might alarm international investors, who then start demanding sharply higher interest rates, as happened to countries on the European periphery in 2010.
Of course, alarm bells have rung before in Saudi Arabia, but the ruling family remained in denial--deniability and repression being the political arts at which the al-Saud excel.
Alarm bells signaling that the time to take action has arrived should ring at the right moment, and not before.
Philosophy on TopMELBOURNE – Last year, a report from Harvard University set off alarm bells, because it showed that the proportion of students in the United States completing bachelor’s degrees in the humanities fell from 14% to 7%.
But the unilateral nature of the announcement, and the abrupt timing of the plan, has incited alarm in South Korea, and perhaps in Japan, that withdrawal could pose serious risks to the vital role that US forces have performed in deterring another war in Korea.
Israel’s alarm at the prospect of Iran acquiring a nuclear weapon is existential in nature.
The Problem With “Illiberal Democracy”PRINCETON – Poland’s turn toward authoritarian rule has set off alarm bells across the European Union and within NATO.
Many commentators have noted with alarm the influence of the book’s apocalyptic tone on Bannon’s worldview.
For Beijing’s central planners, however, the size of China’s industrial base has become a cause for alarm rather than celebration.
Global alarm bells might cause pangs of guilt for wealthy Westerners, but they don’t give us an adequate understanding of what’s going on.
There is no need for alarm, French officials insisted, because the other two big rating agencies, Moody’s and Fitch, maintained their highest ratings on French sovereign debt.
But a great deal of the alarm is based on the oft-repeated canard that government spending is unproductive and a burden on future generations.
In addition, the quartz watches also have integrated alarm, stopwatch, and timer functions that the other watches either lack, or that serve only as a design-spoiling, hard-to-read effort to keep up with the competition.
By 2009, the IMF’s Article IV Staff Report was already ringing the alarm bells.
Frightened by its own waning popularity, it does not ring alarm bells loudly enough.
The Brexit vote in the United Kingdom last month has been viewed worldwide with extraordinary alarm as a signal of political instability.
Imagine what would happen if a NATO member state sounded the alarm about Russia launching a secretive Crimea-style military operation within its borders.
This should be triggering alarm bells in the West.
Monti, for example, was among the first to sound the alarm about Italy’s dire finances.
After the 2003 invasion of Iraq led to the formation of a Shia-dominated government in Baghdad, Saudi Arabia’s rulers watched in alarm as Iran extended its influence across the Middle East.
In the unlikely event that the same thing happened again this year, alarm bells would have rung.
Before dying of COVID-19, Li Wenliang, the Wuhan-based physician who was silenced after trying to sound the alarm about the coronavirus outbreak, pointed out that “a healthy society should not have just one voice.”
Don’t take our word for it: scientists are sounding the alarm.
Scientists have been sounding the alarm for decades that climate change is real and getting worse.
As the adverse effects of unabated emissions keep mounting, the alarm is becoming deafening.
At home, even neutral figures known for their habitual reticence on political matters have expressed alarm.
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