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If these trends continue, the Arab world’s demographic dividend will become a catastrophic burden.
A handful of provinces and cities have gone so far as to abolish it, without catastrophic consequences.
When voters are reminded of the potentially catastrophic cost of being excluded, not just from the Single Market area, but from the decision-making structures in the Council of Ministers and the European Central Bank, what is at stake in the referendum becomes clear.
Winston Churchill famously regretted overseeing the United Kingdom’s catastrophic return to the gold standard in 1925, when he was Chancellor of the Exchequer.
Such a reversal would be catastrophic for global efforts to tackle climate change.
But even achieving the Paris agreement’s goals will not be enough to avert a catastrophic rise in global temperature.
We are feeling the shocks each day in catastrophic floods, droughts, and storms – and in the resulting surge in prices in the marketplace.
And the results have been catastrophic.
Here was a case of a catastrophic intelligence and security failure that allowed a group of four who were known to the police to be members of a globally active terrorist organization to operate with relative ease in the French capital.
In a region that is not yet firmly anchored in structures like NATO and the EU, ethnic, territorial, or religious divisions could have catastrophic consequences.
If it does prove to be a turning point for efforts to prevent catastrophic climate change, its importance will dwarf anything else that happened in 2015.
Failure would expose future generations to catastrophic climate risks, while trapping millions of people in poverty as a result of more frequent, intense, and protracted droughts, floods, and storms.
Dear South Korea: We are sorry that Trump’s eagerness to match Kim Jong-un insult for insult last year stoked fears of a catastrophic war on the Korean Peninsula.
To prevent such catastrophic outcomes, we need a comprehensive approach for strengthening health-care delivery in low- and middle-income countries.
A collapse of 11 percent of national income in investment finance is catastrophic: it has thrown these countries into deep recession.
After two catastrophic wars, Europeans decided to build institutions that would make military conflict redundant.
None of these catastrophic scenarios has occurred, but they certainly cannot be ruled out.
Given how catastrophic the invasion of Iraq has turned out to be, it is hard even to remember when interventions on moral grounds – whether to thwart a dictator, as in the case of the Balkan wars, or to put an end to anarchic cruelty, as in the case of British intervention in Sierra Leone – seemed like a great advance in international affairs.
This led to a precipitous drop in net oil-export revenue, from $95 billion in 2011 to $69 billion in 2012 – a catastrophic decline for a country in which oil sales comprise 80% of export earnings and 50% of government revenue.
The only thing that could come to an end is the world’s attention and engagement in Afghanistan, which could well lead to catastrophic consequences.
Japan, whose armed forces were entirely blamed for driving the country into the catastrophic Pacific War, was not even supposed to have an army or navy after the war.
The ecological disasters that today’s economic activity has already produced and the catastrophic potential of those to come have at last brought home the fact that energy policy and environmental protection cannot be separated.
When, after the eight catastrophic years of George W. Bush’s presidency, Barack Obama entered the White House, it seemed for a moment as if America might be able to arrest its downward slide.
The consequences could be similarly catastrophic.
China’s strategic gains from a successful military intervention would include not only control of what happens on the Korean Peninsula, where it presumably would be able to establish military bases, but also regional gratitude for having prevented a catastrophic war.
The consequences of a major outbreak among the 22 million inhabitants of Africa’s largest city could have been catastrophic.
He argues that economists became blind to catastrophic macro failure because they mistook the beauty or elegance of theoretical models for truth.
That catastrophic assessment led the new government to enact a tax package which hiked taxes on middle income wage earners and exempted earnings from dividends or interest.
The economic slowdown in 2009, the worst year of the crisis, was nothing short of catastrophic.
But the longer the ECB delays, the greater the hit to people’s jobs and savings, the deeper the enduring damage to investors' confidence in the eurozone financial system, and the bigger the risk of a catastrophic mishap.
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