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Several countries in the periphery (Greece, Spain, and Portugal) were responsible for the
circumstances
that led to and precipitated the crisis, and there may be fundamental solvency issues that need to be addressed even if the liquidity shortfall is addressed.
And training that prioritized technique over intuition and theoretical elegance over real-world relevance did not prepare economists to provide the kind of practical policy advice needed in exceptional
circumstances.
In these circumstances, austerity is exactly the opposite of what is needed.
Similar exceptions will probably be made for other countries that cannot reconcile aspects of the new pact with their national
circumstances.
An unpopular war would have made military recruitment difficult in any
circumstances.
The fact that non-governmental actors, such as terrorists, disregard this law of war should under no
circumstances
be a pretext for countries to behave similarly.
Basic economics courses cover the curious case of the “backward-bending supply curve of savings”: In some circumstances, lower interest rates can lead to higher savings.
Such a course would allow Venezuela to choose the next conflict, postponing a showdown until deteriorating
circumstances
make conflict both inevitable and more dangerous.
If A is legally bound to return B’s cow when she strays onto his land, and then C’s cow strays onto B’s land in relevantly similar circumstances, B must also be bound to return C’s cow.
And the United States – indifferent to the integrity of the Malian state and the welfare of its citizens in normal
circumstances
– was aware of the possibility that Mali’s vast territory could fall under fundamentalist/terrorist control.
Leaders are never bound to rise or fall by
circumstances
alone.
Banishing StarvationVIENNA – Of the world’s almost seven billion people, about one billion are starving, owing to a long list of unfortunate local events and circumstances, together with steadily increasing demand, unpredictable weather patterns, and poor financial management.
They acknowledge that in some
circumstances
intervention, or at least the readiness to intervene, may be effective, but only if a number of associated conditions are met.
The IMF has recently accepted that controlling capital inflows could be appropriate under certain
circumstances.
Over the past year, a number of radical Muslim clerics have been killed in mysterious
circumstances
in Mombasa, the major city on Kenya’s restive coast.
The flawed nature of the current European Security Strategy – drafted in 2003, with a token revision in 2008 – reflects the
circumstances
surrounding its conception.
Under such circumstances, the upper middle classes in developed countries increasingly came to look for capital gains instead of improving their living standards through productive work.
Rules that are beneficial in some
circumstances
may become counterproductive in others.
Under these circumstances, inflation expectations are not a cause for concern.
Despite lingering concerns about coexistence, societal attitudes “do not escalate into reactionary behavior except for very exceptional circumstances.”
It is easy to get wedded to particular models and fail to recognize that changed
circumstances
require a different model.
In a world of diverse and changing circumstances, social scientists can do real harm by applying the wrong model.
Scholars who are able to navigate from one explanatory framework to another as
circumstances
require are more likely to point us in the right direction.
The goal should be to shift from a fixed-price system, with occasional government-decreed adjustments, to a market-based price regime, in which the government makes a credible pledge not to limit prices, with the exception of pre-defined extreme
circumstances.
Under the circumstances, my government took hard decisions and took them quickly.
The Georgia package is not a done deal, and
circumstances
elsewhere are different, but it shows that standard instruments can go a long way.
Long before Trump, that party – and its cheerleaders in the right-wing media – had started to demonize its opponents and effectively told its followers that they could never opt for “European-style socialists” and other un-American abominations under any
circumstances.
So, for example, patients close to death are resuscitated, against the doctor’s better judgment, because they have not specifically stated that they do not want to be resuscitated in such
circumstances.
Trump, too, has been engaging in behavior that under normal
circumstances
would be politically disqualifying: attacking the parents of a Muslim-American soldier killed in combat, mocking a disabled reporter, and impugning Senator John McCain for being captured during the Vietnam War (he was held and tortured for more than five years).
Despite Faust’s rejection of divestment, Harvard and other universities have long accepted the principle that divestment is the correct choice in certain
circumstances.
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