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Instead, Western central banks have had to
confront
market failures, fragmented financial systems, clogged monetary-policy transmission mechanisms, and sluggish growth in output and employment.
Today's Asian policymakers
confront
a very different environment from that faced by their predecessors fifty years ago.
Three of the largest emerging markets – India, China, and Russia –
confront
distinctive challenges.
The United Kingdom is torn on whether to exit or not – a reflection of its political establishment’s own chronic unwillingness both to defend the EU and to
confront
its authoritarianism.
Accordingly, faced with a weakening global economy, they
confront
two basic policy choices.
In the coming weeks, South Korea’s government will
confront
one of the toughest choices that any government can face: whether the short-term cost in human lives is worth the potential long-term benefits (also in terms of human lives) that a famine-induced collapse of North Korea could bring.
Revisionist powers like Russia, China, and Iran appear ready to
confront
the global economic and political order that the US and the West built after the collapse of the Soviet Union.
An effective global leader must be able to
confront
his ally and offer a hand to his adversary when circumstances call for it.
No one on the Council wanted to upset Germany, for all of them recognized that the same problem could one day
confront
them.
But for any such parliamentary alliance to have democratic legitimacy, it will have to present itself not just as a coalition of likeminded MPs, but as a new political party, with a program to
confront
realistically the challenges of technological change and globalization.
Worldwide, more than a billion women
confront
grinding and overt gender discrimination in education, nutrition, health care, and salaries.
Of course, China’s rising national income will help the country
confront
the challenges it faces.
And that is why the [Israel] Lobby must keep constant pressure on US politicians to
confront
Tehran.”
One model worth emulating in the fight against both TB and NCDs is the approach taken to
confront
the HIV epidemic.
Though the ideal long-term response would be for the world to eliminate all greenhouse-gas emissions by the end of the century, we must
confront
the immediate challenges of protecting the planet’s most vulnerable populations.
The country needs to
confront
what he and others have called “white monopoly capital.”
Aylwin faced one of the toughest moral choices any leader of a newly re-established democracy can confront: how far to push prosecution of those who had abducted, tortured, and killed thousands of Chileans during General Augusto Pinochet’s dictatorship.
Should the ECB disappoint expectations, bond and foreign-exchange markets would
confront
an abrupt and damaging unwinding of positions: long-term interest rates would rise, stock markets would sink, and the exchange rate would appreciate.
Strengthening the non-proliferation regime in order to
confront
today's challenges would require no more than following this strategy.
A lot of patience will be needed but now at least the political will to
confront
Israel's domestic divide, and its long divide with the Palestinians, is there.
If we procrastinate, the dangers posed by climate change will
confront
us as we talk, debate, and plan.
To generate the political will that such reforms require, we must
confront
policymakers’ inertia and inaction with the grim facts of inequality and its devastating effects on our children.
But now that community must
confront
its greatest challenge: the rise of China.
China obviously has the strength to drive out the Vietnamese, the Filipinos, the Malaysians, the Indonesians, and almost anyone else it chooses to
confront.
Trump must now
confront
the nitty-gritty of managing America’s international relationships, and arguably none is more important for the world than that between the US and China.
More broadly, US-China hostility would be felt worldwide, and would disrupt international efforts to
confront
global challenges such as climate change.
Across the board, more global rules are needed so that global efforts to
confront
poverty, disease, and mass migration can be made consistent, predictable and most of all effective.
But just as the time is coming when the US will to come see the UN as indispensable, the Security Council and its members will come to see the creation of new bodies within the UN not as rivals, but as the only means for the world's people, in solidarity, to
confront
the myriad social and economic problems that they face.
Sarkozy has had to
confront
exceptionally difficult circumstances, and his record is far from poor.
To be sure, Trump is not wrong to
confront
China over intellectual-property theft and flagrant mercantilism.
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