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Even worse, on at least one key point, the very language used among policymakers and leading journalists to describe finance is badly broken.
This experience has created a Pavlovian reflex to “buy on dips” that can be broken only by many months or perhaps even years of negative experience.
Over the past few decades, governments, nongovernmental organizations, and the private sector have broken new ground in the science of treating malaria, and have channeled extraordinary resources toward the cause.
Fortunately, research suggests that such habits can be broken.
As we argue in the Report on Economy and Development for the Development Bank of Latin America (CAF), the needed skills can be broken down into three categories.
But Brazilians may feel that they have already broken enough political barriers and taboos in recent years, and that Silva would represent one too many.
Second, the securitization model is badly broken and not likely to be replaced anytime soon.
The link between currencies and gold was irrevocably broken in 1971, when US President Richard Nixon decided to suspend the convertibility of dollars into gold for central banks.
Their conventional wisdom is that “the system” – global governance structures ranging from the World Trade Organization and the G-20 to the major central banks – is badly broken and in desperate need of repair.
A weak economy feeds perceptions that the system is broken, and that those in authority are not to be trusted.
If pundits continue to insist that the system failed, wonks will devote time and effort to figuring out how to fix what is not broken.
In Northern Ireland, the power-sharing government has broken down, and the UK government is not in a strong position to help restore constructive collaboration.
It was promptly released, and has since broken all of India’s box-office records.
“If enacted, Brown-Kaufman would have broken up the six biggest banks in America,” a senior Treasury official said.
Other major European countries do not collect data on police stops broken down according to the targets’ ethnic or religious background.
That partnership was never broken.
For example, the journalist Samar Yazbek has broken from the regime, documenting the revolution in her memoir A Woman in the Crossfire.
How Brazil Broke LooseCAMBRIDGE – Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff’s visit last week to Washington, DC, offers an occasion to consider how some once-poor countries have broken out of poverty, as Brazil has.
As their small and open economies were already heavily “euro-ized,” the pass-though of higher foreign prices into inflation would have been huge following any devaluation, which would also have broken their otherwise reasonably healthy banking systems.
Nonetheless, when Trump supporters attacked Republicans who had broken with him, a few re-endorsed him.
Saudi King Abdullah chastised Prince Muhammad for recklessness, but the King must also be thankful that his family has produced a security chief who has broken the back of Al-Qaeda, at least inside the Kingdom.
But now that we Brits have broken all the crockery in the shop, we have to piece together our national interest from the shards.
People are not broken just by the wave that submerges the life vest or the convoy that does not make it to the besieged town.
They are broken by the absence of hope – the soul-crushing certainty that there is nothing ahead for which to plan or prepare, not even a place in school.
Although he had managed to obtain medication from a local pharmacy for the agonizing pain – probably because his leg was broken – he could spare neither the time nor the money to see a surgeon.
Understandings are reached, only to be immediately broken, as with the North’s agreement in February, in return for US food aid, to accept International Atomic Energy Agency inspectors, suspend uranium enrichment, and halt missile and weapons tests.
In order to cope with these demographic shifts, the vicious cycle of making older people unproductive by labeling them so must be broken.
It has broken new ground in politics and culture, but its impact on social and economic life has been minimal.
Opposition parties found their feet, and the PDP’s power monopoly was finally broken – but not obliterated.
In Germany, talks to form a center-left, center-right coalition have broken down.
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