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Those who make such claims are bound to be wrong at times, and so can enforce their claims only by coercion and repression.
To ward off an offensive by German (and other) monetary hawks, who maintain that the ECB has opened the door to debt monetization, the Bank is bound to err on the side of orthodoxy in the coming months.
As the government hands more power over the rainforest to large business owners, ordinary citizens – including smallholder farmers and poor urban dwellers – are bound to suffer.
On a hike in Australia, seeing these magnificent animals bound across the landscape awakens my sense that I am in a unique country, with its distinctive flora and fauna.
This “extend and pretend” or “lend and pray” approach is bound to fail, because, unfortunately, most of the options that indebted countries have used in the past to extricate themselves from excessive debt are not feasible.
If the PIIGS can’t inflate, grow, devalue, or save their way out of their problems, Plan A is either failing or is bound to fail.
But Pakistani politicians are bound to be influenced by domestic public opinion, which is generally critical of US policies.
Indeed, “After 25 years of being bound together ever more tightly, the world seems intent on re-segregating itself.”
Add two billion Indian and Chinese workers to the global labor force, and the value of other means of production – particularly capital and commodities (for example, gold and oil) – is bound to go up.
And states, despite their reticence to be formally bound by preset terms, recognize this.
Thailand’s national mythology is that it is a happy Buddhist country, a “land of smiles” bound together by compassion and harmony under the benevolent grace and blessings of the Palace and the generosity of big business.
But, while French national identity is intimately bound up with France’s international standing – how it is perceived in the world – enthusiasm for intervention has receded.
Those who shout or tweet one-liners and promote narrow identity politics have forced those who believe in a global human community, one bound together by shared interests, to fight a rearguard battle to articulate why the one-liners make little sense.
There is the same combination of international support, highly unpopular domestic austerity measures (which are bound to set off major protests), and the apparent absolution of banks from financial responsibility for problems that they produced.
The collision of reality (Greece’s insolvency) with politics (Germany’s demands) was bound to create a disaster.
In addition to the inherent value of improving the personal chemistry between leaders, reducing tensions in the relationship between Russia and the West has become indispensable, given that negotiations over the missile shield, Iran, Syria, and other issues are bound to be long – and that the solutions are linked.
And next year, when the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change begins publishing its latest assessment of the scientific evidence, the prospect of runaway climate change is bound to mobilize civil society.
This leadership will be needed, because, regardless of who wins the US presidential election, the next American administration is bound to ask for greater EU participation in addressing international conflicts.
This improvement in human capital is bound to offset, to some extent, the net loss of labor.
The rigors of the TPP are bound to force significant agricultural reforms, and pushing it through will, indeed, test party discipline.
The row over the Iran deal is bound to be a watershed moment for American Jews, among whom sharp divisions have formed.
The more tightly bound to the democratic world a country like Romania is, the less likely it is to experience dramatic social or political unrest or to eviscerate its democratic system.
Such a sizeable level of investment is bound to have an impact.
So the policy debate now under way is about whether monetary policy can stem deflation and what happens if and when the “zero lower bound” on interest rates is reached.
There is a world of difference between an association of nation states bound together by treaty, and a single entity, whether you call it a state or not, with its own legal personality, deriving its authority from its own constitution.
It is bound to strengthen anti-European sentiment.
If current policies persist, they are bound to lead to the disorderly disintegration of the EU.
The port of Calais has become a chokepoint of the crisis, with migrants desperately trying to force their way onto trucks and trains bound for the United Kingdom.
Even so, financial authorities must accept the assignment: while they are bound to be wrong, feedback from the markets will tell them whether they have done too much or too little.
Thus, over the next 2-3 years, there is bound to be a vast, churning debate about Europe’s future, irrespective of what happens to the euro.
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