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Nonetheless, this scenario (which the realist school might foresee) can be avoided, especially if we shore up the existing structures of multilateral governance, which can help us to manage shifts in the balance of power.
Rather, mainstream European parties have cautiously avoided proposals that could prove divisive.
But, with US backing, such an outcome could be avoided.
And in the Asia-Pacific region, even though major incidents were avoided, stability remains precarious.
Most important, each represents a political outcome that could have been avoided.
Could all of this have been avoided?
The potential recession risk of a budget deal can be avoided by phasing in the base-broadening that is used to raise revenue.
Israel has long avoided drafting a constitution, because its secular citizens fear that orthodox Jews would impose their values on them.
His success as a president rests less on the good things he has done (although he has done plenty) than on the stupid things he has avoided, like getting into more unnecessary wars.
What needs to be avoided is a failure – such as occurred in Haiti following its devastating earthquake – to move from the first stage to the second.
While the US has thus far avoided the bond market’s wrath, American political leaders confront the same problem of debt and fiscal sustainability.
It may seem as if markets are on autopilot, with governments an inconvenience that is best avoided.
Could America have avoided the waste of the Ahmadinejad years?
High levels of unemployment, particularly among young skilled workers, could be avoided if donor countries that need migrants to invigorate their own workforces were able to attract them.
In a last-ditch effort to improve the proposal’s chances of success, US President Barack Obama – who has largely avoided taking a proactive role in the peace process during his second term – met with Netanyahu at the White House to urge him to moderate his position.
Once this sizeable swath of voters begins participating in municipal elections – which they have so far avoided, lest they be viewed as legitimizing Israeli rule – control of the city council is likely to pass to a Palestinian majority.
If it were not part of the euro system, Greece might not have gotten into its current predicament and, even if it had gotten into its current predicament, it could have avoided the need to default.
Most fundamentally, can the scope of economic disaster witnessed following the Soviet Union's collapse be avoided?
Yes, we avoided a Great Depression II, but only to emerge into a Great Malaise, with barely increasing incomes for a large proportion of citizens in advanced economies.
Judging whether trading is proprietary might not quite require “windows into men’s souls” (which in another context Queen Elizabeth I wisely avoided), but America’s experience shows that it is difficult all the same.
In the US – which, tellingly, avoided the nationalist surge – this effort had already been embodied in the 1933 Agricultural Adjustment Act.
Thus, it is clear how the losses incurred by the ECB’s de facto regional fiscal policy are to be avoided: the write-off costs will be transferred from the ECB to the ESM.
Still, the single currency’s collapse was avoided, and French President Nicolas Sarkozy was right to laud the establishment of a “European Monetary Fund” as a real achievement.
The total cost would be 50 times that of the avoided climate damage.
After the eurozone’s sovereign-debt crisis erupted, defaults were avoided by establishing the European Financial Stabilization Mechanism (since replaced by the European Stability Mechanism), and by crafting a more pragmatic and reinforced role for the ECB (acting with the European Commission and the International Monetary Fund).
For example, the Ukraine debacle could have been avoided had we evaluated the political situation in a timely manner and backed the candidate who was practically certain to win.
If resumption of political violence and property destruction is to be avoided, a new internal security policy will be needed.
It seemed self-evident that EU membership was good for Britain, especially as we had avoided joining the euro and were thus not tied up in monetary and fiscal knots designed in Brussels and Frankfurt.
Certainly, what these stumbling economies are guilty of is a failure to learn from Singapore, a system whose managed democracy is celebrating its 50th anniversary this year, and which has successfully avoided the sort of interest-group sclerosis and corruption that is holding back Brazil, for example.
A free-for-all in subsidizing exports must be avoided, but there is an urgent need to reform international trade and financing rules to validate and encourage green-growth transitions.
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