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Democracy carries certain costs, but they are always lower than the costs of evading popular participation.
On the contrary, accumulating reserves beyond a certain threshold carries a high opportunity cost and suggests the need to let the currency appreciate.
While we cannot know for certain what the next 10-20 years will bring, we have a few important clues.
What is certain is that delaying much-needed reforms would be more than risky; it would spell disaster for the eurozone.
Like the system of mass production, they are “inherently political,” because their core functionality demands certain social practices and discourages others.
A huge number of elderly people would mean a lot of people wanting to live in certain locations, seeking certain kinds of living quarters, and consuming certain kinds of services.
For example, she is calling for a small tax targeting certain kinds of high-frequency trading prone to abuse.
What is certain is that the development of cybersecurity norms will be a long process.
If Bulgaria sends this man back to Turkmenistan – where he faces certain torture and the threat of a brutal death – our claim to be part of a democratic, rights-respecting Europe will ring hollow.
Standard economic theory suggests that you can affect it by taxing some transactions – such as, say, greenhouse-gas emissions – or giving money to certain groups of people, while letting the market do its thing.
The Rohingya have already been stripped of their Myanmar citizenship, and a raft of new and proposed legislation that would further marginalize Islam seems certain to provoke further violence.
Burundi's donors need to join hands with African leaders to make certain that the agreements are implemented.
And in a largely dollarized world economy, the only certain tool for avoiding such crises is a lender of last resort in dollars.
Populists will promise anything, including policies that are untenable or that will lead to certain disaster.
Global warming will cause certain phenomena, such as heat waves and hurricane wind speeds, to become more extreme, while others, including cold waves and hurricane frequency, will become less so.
What is certain is that the vacuum left by Sharon’s departure from politics is all the more striking in view of the images of chaos emerging from the Gaza that Israel has vacated, and the collapse of the Palestinian authority before our eyes.
Less certain, however, is the premise that the world order would collapse without “American leadership.”
What the new government would then look like is difficult to know, but it certain that Milosevic would not be its leader.
If financial markets lose that confidence – if they conclude that the Fed is too much under the president’s thumb to wage the good fight against inflation, or if they conclude that the chairman does not wish to control inflation – then the economic news is almost certain to be bad.
Even Egypt, with its highly centralized and bureaucratized state, has devolved certain policing and security functions in marginalized urban communities or rural areas to baltagiyyeh (thugs) and to former henchmen of the ruling party, village headmen, and clan elders.
The New Climate EconomicsNEW YORK – This Friday, in its latest comprehensive assessment of the evidence on global warming, the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change will show that the world’s climate scientists are more certain than ever that human activity – largely combustion of fossil fuels – is causing temperatures and sea levels to rise.
Even if the Democrats take only the House, life for Trump will become far more complicated, owing to the raft of investigations that the new majority would be certain to launch, and possible impeachment proceedings.
I am less certain.
“To enjoy this city you need a good apartment and a certain salary.”
I now had a good apartment and a certain salary, so Irving Howe’s conditions for life in the city were fulfilled.
Inflationary expectations, as measured by the rates on certain market instruments, actually fell after the hike, indicating increased confidence that the ECB will keep a lid on price pressures.
While no one is quite certain how the government managed to estimate prices, given that there is virtually nothing for sale in the shops, most indicators suggest that Zimbabwe does have a good shot at breaking world records for inflation.
When the court finally convicts Bo – and he is certain to be convicted – he will probably face a prison term similar to that of former Shanghai Party Secretary Chen Liangyu, who received 18 years, or former Beijing Party Secretary Chen Xitong, who was sentenced to 16 years.
When an agricultural research unit called the World Agroforestry Center discovered that a certain tree could help African farmers grow more food, they introduced a new and valuable approach to overcoming Africa's chronic food crisis.
We will then end up with an agreement that will have been wildly oversold and is certain to lead to disappointment in the future – especially in developing nations.
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