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What these will look like remains to be seen; but, at the very least, the “Leave” camp must feel that their votes were respected, while “Remain” supporters need to be convinced that the worst has been avoided.
If Obama had not avoided that disaster, all else would have paled in comparison.
The World Bank is keen to work with partners to experiment with such a facility for avoided deforestation.
For now, policymakers in countries with frothy credit, equity, and housing markets have avoided raising policy rates, given slow economic growth.
The lesson of the Iraq War should not be that all armed interventions in the Middle East or elsewhere are to be avoided, but rather that they must only be undertaken when they are the best available strategy and when the results are likely to justify the costs.
In his memoirs, President Herbert Hoover estimated that as many as two million workers avoided unemployment as a result of his efforts to promote work-sharing.
Despite his pain and difficulty in moving on legs crippled by polio, he maintained a cheery exterior and avoided being photographed in a wheelchair.
The one or two newspapers that dominated in each city or town avoided cutthroat price competition.
Even if a fatal calamity can be avoided, the division between creditor and debtor countries will be reinforced, and the “periphery” countries will have no chance to regain competitiveness, because the playing field is tilted against them.
Military intervention, with all of its problems, has been avoided for now; but Assad knows that the US will have no option but to attack – with or without explicit Security Council and Congressional resolutions – should he perpetrate another such horror.
All agree that diminution of the eurozone must be prevented if the threat of its dissolution is to be avoided.
The conventional wisdom now holds that the world avoided a repeat of the interwar catastrophe, largely because policymakers made better decisions this time around.
But trade restrictions were largely avoided, because the WTO and G20 stepped in to facilitate multilateral cooperation.
By activating top-level diplomacy, building strong crisis-management mechanisms, and enriching the rules of engagement in the South China Sea, a war between the US and China can be avoided.
Second, American policy has (until now at least) avoided an open confrontation with the countries of the Persian Gulf; and Afghanistan, thank God, is not an oil producer.
Journalists avoided commenting on these matters.
Had Obama’s attempt at muddling through worked, it would have avoided some big philosophical battles.
Bell points out that China has also avoided famine, at least since the Great Leap Forward, and has done better than India on malnutrition.
The rate of decline would then determine the extent to which the worst effects of climate change can be avoided.
But the trauma of a discrete regime change, a default of solemn official commitments, and the bandwagon momentum these events generate are avoided by the use of floating rates.
According to the OECD and the Climate Policy Initiative, developed countries collectively mobilized $52.2 billion in 2013 and $61.8 billion in 2014 to help poor countries reduce greenhouse-gas emissions and build resilience against the effects of climate change that can no longer be avoided.
Unnecessarily broad regulations should be avoided in favor of rules that are specifically tailored to the various participants in the market.
Instead, direct policies to address New Orleans’ vulnerabilities could have avoided the huge and unnecessary cost in human misery and economic loss.
By announcing its determination to go ahead with a distant NMD, the US has created political turbulence which it must address now if major damage is to be avoided.
The threat from Iran, against which the missiles are to defend, is still far away and can be avoided by diplomatic means.
And, without a rapid return to growth, more defaults – and social turmoil – cannot be avoided.
That way, economically irrational lock-in effects, whereby workers simply cannot afford to change jobs, are avoided.
Either we will write this history ourselves, or we will suffer through a dark era that could have been avoided.
Mainstream economists would call it an inferior equilibrium;I call it a nightmare – one that is inflicting tremendous pain and suffering that could be easily avoided if the misconceptions and taboos that sustain it were dispelled.
These are dangerous temptations that must be avoided.
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