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At the same time, continued inaction will fuel alienation, creating a vicious circle of distrust and paralysis that will have to be broken before effective action can occur.
Libya was not a smoothly operating country before the civil war started six months ago; today, it is thoroughly broken and will require an enormous amount of rebuilding – post-conflict operations, or “stability ops,” to use the current jargon.
The new benchmark’s overall score for a firm can be broken down into three separate categories: its commitment to research and development for new drugs; its manufacturing, production, and environmental standards; and its marketing and distribution practices, which should focus on ensuring access rather than excess.
The implication of Marx’s renewed popularity is that capitalism is now universally accepted as being fundamentally broken, with the financial system at the heart of the problem.
The BOJ, by demonstrating that aggressive money creation is a legitimate approach to fighting deflation, has broken previously sacrosanct conventions.
The engineering behind it was technically complicated, but what you got was pretty rough: a page of text, broken up by ten blue links.
The implicit pact between banks and savers was broken in late 2015, when four troubled local banks were bailed in and the shareholders took the hit.
The current “ceasefire” with Israel is violated by the daily of salvos of missiles fired from Gaza, while ceasefires among Palestinians have typically been broken by gunfire and assassination attempts within a few hours.
Of course, if the rules being broken are fiscal, the markets might impose the necessary discipline, as happened in 2011-2012.
Taboos had been broken, and during the subsequent decades, technological advances enabled the spread of new ideas.
Ambassador Hilaly has pointed to the way forward: “To succeed today, it (is) essential that first and foremost the power of the armed groups within Pakistan be broken.
Even if the government-owned oil industry is broken up and privatized, whether to foreigners or not, there is no guarantee that a future government cannot regain control.
Until the Pakistani military’s vise-like grip on power is broken and the ISI cut down to size, Pakistan is likely to remain Ground Zero for the terrorist threat that the world confronts.
Or, if they are signed, they are often broken when compelling short-term considerations intervene.
Meanwhile, the main transmission channels of monetary stimulus to the real economy – the bond, credit, currency, and stock markets – remain weak, if not broken.
If monetary policy’s transmission channels to the real economy are broken, one cannot assume that QE will have a significant effect on economic growth.
But some are claiming that the cycle is now broken, especially in technologically savvy countries like the United States.
Spats have broken out between the Obama administration, future presidential contenders, senators, and arms control and defense experts.
Yet the EU truly has broken down and ceased to satisfy its citizens’ needs and aspirations.
Honest, daring, and sad, Alexievich’s books – containing stories in which life, broken and stolen, is worse than death – show how a woman’s perspective can humanize world problems and make them understandable to all.
And, in fact, real war has actually broken out over football.
The link between sovereign debt and bank debt has to be broken once and for all.
Simply put, product development takes a back seat in innovation strategy because the financial link between ideation and commercialization is broken.
Conflict has broken out in no fewer than nine Arab countries, and the carnage has reached unimaginable levels of inhumanity.
The old post-Ottoman “grand bargain” – Western acceptance of authoritarianism in exchange for the secure flow of oil, use of sensitive sea-lanes, and some tolerance for the existence of Israel – has broken down.
In March 2011, a Joint Committee of Parliament reported that “the current system of self-regulation is broken and needs fixing.”
The international financial system is broken down in the sense that it fails to provide adequate capital to countries that need it most and qualify for it.
Loan covenants have likely been broken, and lenders begin demanding that the borrower either put up new collateral or deleverage and repay part of the loan.
Can this vicious circle - which is not just a theoretical threat but an unfortunate reality in many countries - be broken?
First, the relationship between inflation and economic slack – the so-called Phillips curve – has broken down.
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