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But the next step – an international treaty establishing a global bankruptcy regime to which all countries are
bound
– may prove more difficult.
The traumatic experience of the Lebanon war in 2006 has made Israel’s leadership wary of yet another asymmetric war where a clear-cut victory can never be claimed, and where the arithmetic of blood is always
bound
to turn the casualties of the superior force, Israel, into a domestic crisis.
The stability of those Arab regimes that are not sustained by a democratic consensus is
bound
to be fragile and misleading.
The practical necessities of politics are
bound
to dilute ideological purity.
The EU therefore stands on the threshold of a charged and potentially divisive debate over national sovereignty, which is
bound
to call into question the EU’s own democratic arrangements.
They perceive that EMU is intended by France and Germany, and is almost
bound
to be, the basis of a hard inner core of the European Union.
Spending cuts are
bound
to be politically difficult decisions, and governments cannot commit to delivering them with certainty.
Moreover, European sales of high-tech dual-use products that complicate America’s security role in Asia is
bound
to create friction.
Indeed, the economic and social situation in southern Europe is
bound
to remain grim for several years.
During this time it would be
bound
by European laws – including its obligation to pay around £13 billion ($16.4 billion) per year to the EU budget.
The erosion of these powerful constraints on bad behavior was
bound
to produce a growing demand for public “accountability.”
The US Second Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that Argentina was
bound
to honor its obligations to the holdout bondholders in the same proportion (namely 100%) as the holders of the exchange bonds.
Future legislatures cannot be completely
bound
by such rules unless they are embedded in constitutions.
Any Arab democracy worthy of the name is
bound
to respect social structures, and thus the role of religion in society.
In an open democracy, the Islamists’ power is
bound
to be diluted by competition with a wide variety of political and social formations.
A slowdown in one is
bound
to produce a slowdown in the other – and in the major emerging economies, which, until now, could sustain high growth in the face of sluggish performance in the advanced economies.
Israeli Jews are
bound
to stay in the West Bank and East Jerusalem, and Israeli Arabs are
bound
to stay in Israel proper.
As a result, short-term capital inflows, whether seeking a safe haven or conducting carry trades, are
bound
to become larger and more volatile.
Private security firms – for example, Blackwater – will still be operating, accountable neither to him nor to Congress, and not bound, they have argued, by international treaties.
The Allies defended those to whom they were
bound
by treaty, and then the integrity of their own countries.
Another approach is to recognize that global governance is
bound
to remain incomplete, and to moderate the side-effects through a more cautious form of economic globalization.
The attempt to achieve them is
bound
to lead to competitive currency depreciation and protectionism.
This perceived decline in “natural” interest rates is viewed as a key obstacle to economic recovery, because it impedes monetary policy’s capacity to provide sufficient stimulus by pushing real rates below the equilibrium level, owing to the zero lower
bound
on nominal rates.
This, he argued, was
bound
to increase national income, because the direct stimulative effect would not be offset by concern about future debt burdens.
For the rest of us, notwithstanding the Union's unprecedented eastward enlargement, the schisms that erupted over the Iraq war, and the other frictions that are
bound
to result from Europe's flexible, evolutionary approach to constitution-making, there is also a lot of hope in this extended struggle for self-definition.
Their reticence is probably intensified by the assumption that, within the current generation, their country will dominate the global economy; at that point, they might no longer want to be
bound
by somebody else’s rules.
Hezbollah’s actions were
bound
to exacerbate Sunni-Shia tensions in Lebanon, a country with a complex sectarian makeup.
Either way, the Chinese trade surplus is
bound
to shrink, but it would be much better for China if that happened as a result of rising living standards rather than global economic decline.
But not admitting it is
bound
to prove even more painful in the long run.
Yet experience has shown that the effective lower
bound
is different from the ZLB.
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