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In the recent election campaign, the LDP continued to criticize the previous DPJ government’s immaturity, but avoided attacks on other parties.
Paradoxically, the faster oil prices now fall, the shorter the subsequent period of deflation will be, as further damage to the economies of industrial countries is avoided.
The European countries that are growing soundly are those that have avoided taking on large public debts: Poland, Sweden, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, and Slovakia.
Another unexpected outcome of the election is that the SPD’s leaders are now arguing for joining the opposition – as if participation in the government were a curse to be avoided at all costs.
Indeed, since the end of WWII, Japan has avoided a full-fledged debate on the country's national security framework, in which Japan would have the courage to disagree with the US.
The EU has avoided any such gesture, seeking to avoid further tension with Russia.
Could another macroeconomic Ponzi scheme really be avoided?
By increasing reflection and shade, a great deal of heat build-up can be avoided.
First, it is no use pretending that debt reduction can be avoided.
Interethnic violence – which many feared – has largely been avoided, and the mass exodus of Serbs that some also predicted has not occurred.
But, with a carefully calibrated strategy, damage to Europe’s economy could be avoided.
She avoided these issues entirely during her leadership campaign, because she did not want to give the impression that her remit as CDU leader would overlap with that of Merkel as chancellor.
It could have avoided this situation if it had taken the initiative to reform the EU and the eurozone earlier, when it had the chance.
With his Olympic coup, Moon has both managed the North Korean threat to the Games and avoided any backlash from the United States.
US Secretary of State John Kerry’s heat-of-the-moment comment that a military strike on Syria could be avoided if all chemical weapons were turned over was a diplomatic gift to Russia, and it responded with alacrity.
Its policy is tailored after that of Singapore, which has avoided large currency fluctuations – and has maintained a significantly more competitive exchange rate during the last three years than all of Latin America’s countries.
Firms that traditionally borrowed on the financial markets avoided these high rates by relying on their own profits.
The EU may well have avoided significant constitutional tensions had its member states' governments initiated such programs much sooner;restructuring of existing regional and continental groupings in order to give priority to increasing the volume of intra-Regional trade.
But the tentative agreement between Cyprus and the troika (the European Commission, the International Monetary Fund, and the European Central Bank) probably means that the worst has been avoided.
At the same time, after one year of implementation, the Constitutional Council has avoided a drift toward a “government of judges,” instead indicating a genuine desire for dialogue with other institutions, notably policymakers.
But they cannot be avoided, given the changes occurring within the Palestinian national movement itself.
Regional governments may not have openly supported the insurgents, but they clearly avoided cracking down on the jihadist groups operating within their borders.
Thadden himself, however, avoided providing a direct answer, suggesting that he would not have fought alongside his sister.
For his part, Barroso is widely seen as having avoided controversy throughout 2008 in order not to risk offending any governments that might have been inclined to block his reappointment.
This fall in GDP, though a natural consequence of lower imports of consumption goods, is often mistakenly perceived as something to be avoided, because it seems to imply that output is below its “potential.”
In a completely flexible economy, this drop in measured GDP (and the concomitant increase in unemployment) could be avoided if the resources formerly employed in selling imported consumer goods could quickly be used to generate exports.
So far, West Africa has avoided the worst of the endemic and routine violence that accompanies the passage of drugs through Central America.
Europeans avoided a disaster of historic proportions in last month’s French presidential election.
Though the crisis may be over in the sense that outright collapse has been avoided, the economy remains vulnerable.
If a debt moratorium or default can be avoided, however, Korea's state-led capitalism may yet be transformed into something like market-led capitalism, one more competitive in -- and open to -- global markets.
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