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Deepening economic recession is
bound
to catalyze political change.
At any time, however, groups of individuals can choose to believe that some commodity – a specific type of seashell, or gold, or tulips – will be a far better store of value than money, and that its value in money terms is
bound
to rise.
But such a defensive posture is
bound
to be unstable, due to pan-Arab feelings.
Without building public support and providing proper enforcement mechanisms, changing laws alone is
bound
to be ineffective.
The pro-euro politicians ignored economists’ warnings that imposing a single currency on a dozen heterogeneous countries was
bound
to create serious economic problems.
If it is driven by a Western guilt complex that assumes that the solution simply lies in greater empathy for the Muslim predicament, then the skeptics are
bound
to be vindicated.
With answers that are
bound
to please and upset people on both sides of the political divide, paying more attention to unbiased analysis of costs and benefits could be a way of finding the most sensible policies on which all of us can agree.
Any sensible agreement between the EU and the UK is
bound
to result in the latter losing much of the influence it currently enjoys in European affairs – an outcome that will surely diminish the appeal of following its lead.
Countries that have ratified the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, which includes all European Union members, are
bound
to uphold it.
It would be better still if governments were legally
bound
to use these independent forecasts in their budget plans (borrowing an innovation from Chile).
Many younger people who have entered the labor force in recent years have been unable to find a job corresponding to their skills and are
bound
to pay a price for it throughout their careers.
That question is in the past, of course, but publicly demonstrating the eurozone’s arrested convergence is
bound
to undermine confidence in the common currency further – and at a most unfortunate moment.
True, the West is no longer alone in dictating the global agenda, and its values are
bound
to be increasingly challenged by emerging powers, but its decline is not a linear, irreversible process.
The effectiveness of monetary policy at the lower
bound
should thus be different in creditor and debtor economies.
If A is legally
bound
to return B’s cow when she strays onto his land, and then C’s cow strays onto B’s land in relevantly similar circumstances, B must also be
bound
to return C’s cow.
That is why it is
bound
to be resisted.
Moreover, the European Central Bank appears helpless because it is
bound
by the self-imposed fetters of its inflation target.
But it is important that we accept the fact that efforts to block migration are
bound
to fail, with disastrous consequences for human lives – whether they are lost on sinking boats in the Mediterranean and the Andaman Sea or threatened by xenophobic violence in South Africa, India, or elsewhere.
America was overstretched because its global liabilities were increasingly out of balance with its national assets, and it was
bound
to lead because the world as we know it is arranged favorably for it to do so.
Leaders are never
bound
to rise or fall by circumstances alone.
These intrinsically very similar Slavic nations show that the effects of a delay in reforms are dramatic, and they are
bound
to last for over a decade.
The fallout from Bhutto’s assassination was
bound
to reach beyond Pakistan’s borders.
Of course, civil liberties were
bound
to suffer in the wake of the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001.
But modern communication technologies and the unprecedented forces of globalization are blurring the distinction between what is national and what is international, creating an interconnected world that is not
bound
by traditional borders.
Since the international monetary system has experienced few changes historically, the effort to revamp it is
bound
to be a long march.
An education-only strategy is
bound
to make all of them regret having been born too soon.
Struggling with a crisis that is shaking the foundations of capitalism and the American way of life, and laden with a $10 trillion national debt and a $1 trillion budget deficit, the United States is
bound
to opt for a realistic foreign policy, one that departs from the haughty disregard for history, tradition, and religion that characterized the Bush administration.
The EU must continue to insist that Russia ratify it, stipulating that Russia is already
bound
by its terms.
As a result, they are also
bound
to yield the wrong practical lessons.
But, given developed countries’ aging populations, the cost of caring for the elderly is
bound
to rise.
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