Bound
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But it is
bound
to happen someday, and perhaps that day is not far off.
Given the central role of London in EU financial markets, and its political sensitivity in the UK, there is
bound
to be trouble ahead.
The SDGs were always
bound
to meet strong headwinds, owing to technological disruption, geopolitical rivalry, and widening social inequality.
And, indeed, even after 30 years of reform, China’s economy remains
bound
by red tape, which drags down productivity considerably.
If, as expected by many, the so-called sharing economy develops, their number is
bound
to grow.
Through the Helsinki Accords, the Soviet Union effectively agreed to be
bound
by the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which it had previously refused to endorse.
Pakistan, Iran, China, the Central Asian countries, and other places with rising rates of intravenous drug use are
bound
for the same public health catastrophe if they pursue similar discredited policies.
Arguably, Japan is an exceptional case, with the constraint of the zero
bound
on nominal interest rates demanding, at long last, a deviation from conventional measures.
Others were
bound
to play catch-up.
It is based on laws – the only way a people from so many different cultural backgrounds could be
bound
together in a common enterprise.
With leverage and speculation increasing on a cumulative basis, this whole process was
bound
to end with monetary policy losing its effectiveness, and the economy suffering under the weight of imbalances (or “headwinds”) built up over the course of many years.
The Arabs’ march to freedom is
bound
to be a long and tortuous process – perhaps the main geopolitical test of the twenty-first century.
In this sense, economic crises are almost
bound
to undermine political stability.
As all this extra stimulus fuels an economy already nearing full employment, inflation seems
bound
to accelerate, with protectionist trade tariffs and a possible “border tax” raising prices even more for imported goods.
First, banks were the primary creditors, and the large losses that they would face in any restructuring was
bound
to trigger a domino effect, with waves of pessimism driving up interest rates and ruining other borrowers’ prospects.
Now, in response, the European Central Bank (ECB) has stepped up its stimulus, joining the Bank of Japan and a couple of other central banks in showing that the “zero lower bound” – the inability of interest rates to become negative – is a boundary only in the imagination of conventional economists.
So the solutions are
bound
to look similar as well.
Until voters learn what to ask for from their governments, they are
bound
to dislike what they end up getting.
But the attempt to perfect life through increasingly comprehensive state intervention, until even the smallest injustices were compensated, was also
bound
to fail.
No matter how the cake is sliced, the political leverage of any one member is
bound
to be less in an EU of 25-30 members than in one of 15; this loss of leverage is unavoidable, structural and permanent.
This is
bound
to involve greater redistribution if the hundreds of millions of Indians who remain extremely poor are not to become alienated from their country’s success story and pulled toward populist extremism.
Such a regional group would be
bound
together by a long common history and compatible interests.
Seemingly irrefutable theoretical models underlie a paradigm that has changed in significant ways, and that, if preserved, is
bound
to cause serious political problems.
It is intrinsically
bound
up with the public good, having historically provided the medical innovation that is essential to society’s ability to fight disease.
In October 2003, Italian inspectors of a German ship moored in Taranto, Italy, uncovered a stash of centrifuges
bound
for Libya.
Given recent immigration trends and, more important, Muslims’ above-average fertility rate (three children per family versus the British average of 1.8), the Muslim share of the UK population is
bound
to grow for decades to come.
Ethnocentrism is
bound
to distort a people’s relations with the rest of the world, and Israel’s doctrine of power was drawn from the depths of Jewish experience, particularly the eternal, unforgiving hostility of a Gentile world.
But, as the British newspaper The Guardian assured readers, this was a breakthrough, because developing countries, including India and China, were, for the first time, “agreeing to be legally
bound
to curb their greenhouse gases.”
If the ties that have
bound
Europe together for two generations are fraying, what alternative bonds can be found?
Indeed, anybody hoping for an obvious clash of left and right during the recent presidential election campaign was
bound
to be disappointed, because the answer to the second question is even more emphatic today: President Putin's re-election was never in doubt.
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