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The economic guru of that era, Milton Friedman, claimed that the deliberate pursuit of full employment was bound to fuel inflation.
For all of their faults – they were never models of innovation or forward-looking management – YPF and its parent company, Repsol, at least were bound by the strictures required for trading on advanced countries’ stock exchanges.
Of course, Russia is bound to exercise strong influence in the former Soviet territories, but it will have to share that influence with others.
But attempting to live a closed life in an open society is bound to be self-defeating and not something a liberal society should encourage.
While the country’s status as an ICC member state would end, the government would still be bound to cooperate with the ICC in accordance with the Implementation Act that the South African Parliament adopted in 2002.
Many are billing it as Plan A for Planet Earth and want leaders bound to a single international agreement to protect our life-support system and prevent a global humanitarian crisis.
Though Putin is undoubtedly the main actor driving this strategy, Ukraine's pursuit of closer ties with the European Union – a move that Europe and the United States generally welcomed – was bound to accelerate it.
He was convinced that any exercise of unlimited power, be it by an individual despot or a political majority, is bound to end in disaster.
First, governments could be bound more firmly to their predecessors’ policy decisions.
Central bankers face a different problem: inflation that is flirting with the lower bound of their mandate.
Its future is bound up with that of the world economy.
The first choice is bound to imply elaborate measures designed to deliver “more of the same” – a strengthening of the Stability and Growth Pact, for example, with more provisions for economic policy surveillance and cooperation.
Ironically, while Khamenei is no fan of democracy, he relies on the fact that his principal enemies are bound by democratic constraints.
It works slowly, if at all, because elected governments are often reluctant to implement their promises – and may not feel bound by those of previous administrations (especially if they owe their victory to voters who are rebelling against years of belt-tightening with no evidence of renewed growth).
The forefront of this battle is, at the moment, not in the Middle East, but in Turkey; nevertheless, the result is bound to have more general significance.
The problem is that we are bound to hear about only the successful historical examples of such a strategy.
Chief Justice Roger B. Taney ruled that slaves and their descendants were “beings of an inferior order” who had “no rights which the white man was bound to respect.”
A democracy that produces governments led by Hamas, Hezbollah, or the Muslim Brotherhood is inevitably bound to be anti-Western and opposed to an American-inspired “peace process” with Israel.
Because these ideologies’ claim to be in possession of the ultimate truth is bound to be false, they can be imposed on society only through repression and compulsion.
But the EU can set an example of international cooperation that the US, under a different leadership – which is bound to come – would eventually emulate.
These two views were bound to conflict, and now they do.
Japan is bound to have a debt crisis and when it does we will face the biggest world financial crisis since the 1930s.
But applying the static, linear, and closed analyses of conventional macroeconomics to open, non-linear, dynamic, and interconnected systems is bound to yield flawed results.
Kubrick’s 900-foot wide wheel rotated in such a fashion as to produce a sense of gravity equal to that felt on the moon, to which many of the station’s fictional occupants were bound.
Australia, for its part, sees its security future as wholly bound up in the Indo-Pacific region.
In Australia’s case, our trade future is bound up either with all-embracing global agreements, or at least substantial regional ones like the Trans-Pacific Partnership, with the US the key player, or the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership now being negotiated between ASEAN and Australia, China, India, Japan, South Korea and New Zealand.
For all these reasons, increased migration to the UK was bound to produce a political reaction.
The whole of Europe therefore faces two enormous challenges: helping to foster economic development in Africa and the Middle East, and coping as best as possible with the significant migration flows which are bound to occur, with significant adverse consequences for some citizens.
But the economic difficulties are bound to continue, fostering doubts about the currency union’s future – doubts that could become self-fulfilling by undermining the euro’s ability to function properly.
And Volkswagen is so closely aligned with the German engineering “brand” that, unfair as it may be, the scandal is bound to affect the perception of other German carmakers and industries.
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