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They are bound to have formative experiences that will do more for their education, and life choices, than almost anything else they could do.
The experiences – good, bad, and ugly – that they are bound to have along the way will quite likely be life-changing.
But what we learn about our common humanity in our youthful travels is bound, one hopes, to translate into a sense of responsible global citizenship – a commitment to do the best we can to make the world a better place.
The fund will not be bound by old World Bank rules that, until recently, excluded the education of refugee children in middle-income countries from concessional loans.
Even the best politician is bound to make a mistake at some point, or simply to bore the electorate.
But India is now bound by the World Trade Organization’s TRIPS agreement, and has revised its patent laws accordingly, causing widespread anxiety in the developing world about the implications for global provision of affordable medicines.
Iran and Turkey are bound to assert their Islamic credentials more and more as they reach out to the Arab masses.
Moreover, an increasingly robust secular opposition, the Republican People’s Party (CHP) under the vigorous leadership of Kemal Kilicdaroglu, is bound to help stem the Islamist tide.
Over-ambitious and misdirected efforts at global governance will not serve us well at a time when the supply of global leadership and cooperation is bound to remain limited.
The ruble’s depreciation is bound to fuel inflation, already around 11% and far above the CBR’s 5% target.
The trouble is that the higher interest rates are bound to deepen Russia’s economic downturn, making the CBR an easy scapegoat.
Both Summers and Krugman argue that one of the biggest constraints on monetary policy during such crises is the “zero lower bound” for the policy interest rate.
Moreover, having “effectively thrown off all of the Maastricht Treaty restrictions that bound the bank to the model of the Deutsche Bundesbank,” as former Fed Chair Alan Greenspan put it, the ECB is prepared to break further taboos.
Britain would make sure that goods entering Northern Ireland, but bound for the EU via the Republic of Ireland, paid their EU customs duties and conformed to EU health and safety standards.
All of this is bound to happen – eventually – if a government does not tax sufficiently to cover its spending.
Children must learn that they do not live in a monoculture, but in a pluralist society bound together by universal values and common laws.
With the interest-rate transmission mechanism of monetary policy no longer operative at the zero bound, asset markets became more essential than ever in supporting the economy.
If we think of emu as a purely technical innovation, like an advanced and novel piece of sophisticated machinery never tried before, and then ask the question: Is It Likely To Work?, we are almost bound to give a skeptical answer.
Republicans reply that America is bound to be resented because of its size and its association with globalization.
But flexicurity is bound to fail badly in France, thus strengthening Le Pen’s xenophobic nationalists, because it can work only in a macroeconomic environment of investment-led growth.
In any economy afflicted by low and falling investment, cutting government spending and raising indirect taxes is bound to weaken aggregate demand, thus confirming the pessimistic expectations that prevent investors from investing and giving the deflationary wheel another spin.
Some worry that helicopter money is bound to produce hyperinflation; others argue that, in terms of increasing demand and inflation, it would be no more effective than current policies.
The country’s strategic calculations are bound to have been affected by the ascension of Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud to the Saudi throne, a real game changer that has resulted in a shift of alliances among the region’s Sunni powers.
In a world where technological progress promises large benefits, the capacity to supply “what technology wants” may determine which economies are positioned for success, and which are bound to go the way of the Spanish, Portuguese, or Ottoman Empires.
And, at some point, when public debt has become too large to allow continued deficit spending, or when interest rates are close to their zero lower bound, the system runs out of solutions.
If the mild-mannered Monti speaks in these terms, what can we expect from the new breed of populism that is bound to result from the southern European crisis?
It must recognize that it is bound to live with distributional disputes, and that it must find ways to address them.
Moreover, conflict within such a country would be bound to spill over its borders, possibly sparking a major regional conflagration.
Thus, the BRICS are first and foremost rival partners bound by an unwavering commitment to sovereignty.
Yet the EU’s post-communist members were bound to experience a crisis of liberal democracy sooner or later, owing to a fundamental legacy from their communist past: the absence of the concept of a loyal opposition – legitimate adversaries to be debated, rather than traitorous enemies to be eliminated.
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