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American universities are on the front line of this debate, pushed by their students, who are young enough to face the brunt of climate change in the coming decades.
Import competition and preferential trade arrangements such as the 1994 North American Free Trade Agreement share the brunt of the blame these days.
The brunt of this cost will fall on low-income countries, where 25% of populations will still live in extreme poverty.
In reality, in far too many countries, ordinary citizens do not benefit from any of this money; in fact, they must bear the brunt of the environmental and social costs imposed by mining and drilling operations.
In other words, private markets need to be convinced both that there is a low probability of default (hence the importance of credible plans), and that there is some additional loss-bearing capacity in the new funding, so that, if there is a default, outstanding or rolled-over private debt does not have to bear the full brunt.
They were killed in droves before the war entered its second year, and they bore the brunt of many German offensives.
Africa’s Unique Vulnerability to Violent ExtremismADDIS ABABA – Africa bears the brunt of lives lost, economies ruined, and relationships fractured by terrorism.
Death rates have plunged by 60% since 2000, and in Africa, which bears the brunt of the malaria burden, deaths have nearly halved, from 764,000 in 2000 to 395,000 in 2015.
But these battles also came at a steep cost to my soldiers, who bore the brunt of the jihadists’ ferocity;ISIS killed thousands of our fighters, while the US military, which suffered some 4,500 casualities during the Iraq War, has lost only four soldiers in Syria.
Now that the crisis has finally come to pass, it is Turkey’s population that will bear the brunt of it.
Typically, this meant painful unemployment and weakening unions; the eurozone’s poorest countries, and especially the workers within them, bore the brunt of the adjustment burden.
Having borne the brunt of the blame for the government shutdown of October 2013, Republican leaders decided to stifle their more radical “Tea Party” members and refrain from similar dead-end showdowns in 2014.
What the eurozone needs is a solution that does not force any one country or group of countries to bear the brunt of the adjustment – and that means a controlled segmentation of the currency union.
Unsurprisingly, the poor bear the brunt of the burden.
It is Germany’s partners in the eurozone, especially badly hit countries like Greece and Spain, that bear the brunt of the costs.
This crisis of long-term unemployment is having a profoundly damaging impact on the lives of those bearing the brunt of it.
Meanwhile, low-income Greek households have borne the brunt of austerity.
The case of Spain – where a competent and respected government is bearing the full brunt of a financial crisis that began elsewhere – is identical.
But, for the countries bearing the brunt of China’s recalcitrant approach to territorial and maritime disputes, this emphasis raises new doubts about America’s commitment.
The German navy is defending the Lebanese coast against Hezbollah, while other European nations bear the brunt of policing Lebanon on the ground.
But the issue is actually simple: Who will bear the brunt of measures to reduce the budget deficit?
The withdrawal of NATO forces before the job is done will leave India on the front lines to face the brunt of greater terror from the Afghanistan-Pakistan belt.
The United States bore the brunt of these closures, with biomedical R&D expenditure declining by more than $12 billion from 2007 to 2012.
True, failed firms’ creditors, owners, and managers bear the brunt of the losses initially.
In Fayyad’s vision, Palestinians, who bear the brunt of the occupation and are in a greater hurry than the Israelis are to be free of it, are to accept a peace strategy that aims at realizing statehood.
Unless and until US consumption patterns change or a rebounding dollar increases oil production, Americans will bear the brunt of single-currency oil pricing.
But that price can take the form of morally squalid decisions in which innocent people bear the brunt of the cost of freedom’s defense.
Developing countries bear the brunt of the TB and NCD epidemics, as most of the people suffering and dying prematurely from these diseases are in low- and middle-income countries.
No doubt the satisfying emotion of schadenfraude – pleasure at the pain of others – is coursing through the minds of central bankers and policymakers in emerging markets, who for long bore the brunt of US hectoring about free-market principles.
Greece, Italy, and Malta have borne the brunt of the impact of accommodating new arrivals, with all of the financial, social, and political costs this entails.
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