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More recently, the state assumed the liabilities of rogue property developers by setting up a “bad bank” which could potentially saddle Irish taxpayers with a mountain of debt for decades to come.
Nearly everyone assumed that Saddam’s non-compliance with United Nations inspectors stemmed from the fact that he was hiding weapons of mass destruction.
Perhaps the deterioration of citizen security is less politically explosive than is often assumed.
Moreover, unemployment benefits are not as important as is often assumed.
That is hardly surprising, as previously revered firms revealed that they did not fully understand the very instruments they dealt in or the risks they assumed.
Her approach implicitly assumed that creating conditions of cooperative strength can make the search for lasting peace self-reinforcing.
It is commonly assumed (but nobody takes big bets) that the Nasdaq still carries major downside risks while the euro, sooner or later, must return to normality, whatever that means.
Until recently, it was assumed that the effects of placebo pills depended on concealment or deception.
But, until the financial crisis, most Europeans assumed they were now far too wealthy to ever face the humiliation of asking the IMF for financial assistance.
Palestinians heard clearly and explicitly what they have long assumed: the Israeli government has no interest in reaching a peace deal.
Many have wrongly assumed – based on a misinterpretation of the South African experience – that truth commissions provide a “soft” alternative to justice.
It’s not yet clear how Michael Wolff, the book’s controversial author, obtained some of his information, but it must be assumed that he taped many of his interviews, particularly those used for the long conversations found throughout the book.
Second, it was assumed that the major participants in global trade – including the emerging economies that joined this process and, later, its anchoring institutions, such as the World Trade Organization – would eventually embrace the basic principles of reciprocity, continuing gradually to reduce both tariff and non-tariff barriers.
In the early 1990’s, policymakers, market participants, and economists alike simply assumed that the European Community’s “1992 program” – the legislative framework for the single market, and thus for a single capital market – would create a new reality, within which the single currency would work its magic.
Until recently, it was assumed that countries like India, which likely needs to triple its electricity supply within 20 years to support rising living standards, could not avoid massive increases in coal-fired generation.
As a result, while past projections assumed that coal use in India must rise to at least 1,500 million tons per year, it could peak at 900 million tons and then decline.
All bodies are assumed to be “open access” now, just as women’s have always been.
The asset-dependent economy quickly assumed a position of commensurate prominence in framing the monetary-policy debate.
Any state intervention, it was assumed, would be either ineffective or dangerous.
This experiment assumed that each member of the ECB's Governing Council casts votes on the basis of the difference between his country's inflation rate and the average inflation rate in the euro area during the previous month.
It also assumed that if the difference between the national inflation rate and the euro-area average exceeded a certain threshold in the month prior to a monetary policy meeting, the Governing Council member would vote in a particular fashion.
Finally, I assumed that all policy decisions were made on the basis of a simple majority vote.
He assumed no US responsibility for the UN’s fortunes, failures, or even its achievements.
As long as the debt was in the private sector, most policymakers assumed that its impact was either neutral or benign.
It is often assumed that countries with majoritarian electoral systems like those in the United States or the United Kingdom are more resilient than countries with PR systems.
It is assumed that an honest person should have nothing to hide from the public domain, so Chinese consumers are often happy to give up their data.
It was assumed that Ukraine was divided between a pro-Russian East and a mostly anti-Russian West, and that any radical move could lead to the country’s break-up.
So far, Venezuela’s elite, and much of the investment community, has assumed the worst and behaved accordingly: no blueprints for Chavez, no options, just badmouthing.
Even if we assumed – unreasonably – that it caused all deaths from floods, droughts, heat waves, and storms, this total would amount to just 0.06% of all deaths in developing countries.
But, however heartfelt, such complaints assumed that men choose all of their behavior.
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