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Romania will have to decide whether or not it actually wants to have a past before its people can begin to
confront
and live with theirs.
Unless we
confront
the inequality challenge head on, social cohesion and democracy itself will come under growing threat.
The European Union’s new members from eastern and central Europe have been hit much harder by the crisis than the old member states; they are also much less prepared to
confront
the situation psychologically and socially.
In particular, politicians need to be willing to
confront
teachers’ unions, which have traditionally resisted reforms that introduce competition and accountability.
Larry Summers, the former US Treasury Secretary and now president of Harvard University, once called the single European currency a “distraction” from the serious supply-side reforms Europe needed to
confront.
The Chinese believed that the entire purpose was to
confront
and contain their country’s geopolitical rise.
A third option would be to
confront
the European banking union’s shortcomings by setting out a comprehensive plan to restructure, recapitalize, and consolidate the Italian banking system, thereby ending decades of poor governance and bad supervisory practices.
The new regime will take into account the debt/GDP ratio (removing Italy’s ability to maintain its outsize debt burden) and implicit liabilities (for example, a country with an oversized banking sector will have to
confront
potential rescue costs).
Several other countries, from Argentina to Namibia to Laos, have been ensnared in a Chinese debt trap, forcing them to
confront
agonizing choices in order to stave off default.
When a state or association of states is in mortal danger, it is better for its leaders to
confront
harsh reality than to ignore it.
A courageous Western leader might
confront
Myanmar’s leaders with a threat that would really frighten them: deeper engagement.
To
confront
the threat, Africa will need to develop and adopt green technologies, while channeling more investment into resource efficiency and clean energy.
As a result, increased burden-sharing among Asia-Pacific countries is needed to
confront
shared threats like cross-border terrorism, pandemic diseases, climate change and environmental degradation, and trafficking of people, drugs, and weapons.
To address today’s deficit, policymakers must recognize its true causes, and seek real solutions – even as they
confront
significant challenges in winning political support for deficit-ending policies.
It is at such moments that we demonstrate our ability – or lack of it – to
confront
the unexplained, the unplanned, and the unfathomable.
But as the world attempts to mount a civilized response to Southeast Asia’s human tragedy, it must also
confront
the humbling amorality of nature, and thus comprehend the environmental effects that will shape the lives of survivors and their descendants.
Private (sometimes for-profit) clinics are common worldwide, yet do not
confront
the opposition that for-profit schools elicit.
During this period, the challenges of rapid societal aging will
confront
mainly the developed world.
How, then, should policymakers
confront
the new and difficult challenges for employment (and, in turn, for the distribution of income and wealth), especially in developed economies?
Personal transparency and accountability, on the other hand, are harder, owing both to a lack of visibility and to people’s reluctance to
confront
one another – or themselves.
Though personal transparency is uncomfortable, wouldn’t you rather answer to a piece of software than
confront
your friends’ candor face-to-face?
Nigeria must
confront
years of anti-education propaganda generated by Boko Haram, whose name in the local Hausa dialect literally means, “Western education is forbidden.”
The term, after all, is predicated on a dangerous misdiagnosis of the problems that
confront
the United States and other countries, leading to bad forecasts and bad policy.
The European Commission has few powers of its own with which to
confront
the recession as it spreads throughout the European Union; most powers belong to the European Central Bank.
But it was not until 1934 that the assassination of King Alexander I of Yugoslavia and French Foreign Minister Louis Barthou prompted the League of Nations to make the first attempt to create international judicial mechanisms to
confront
terrorism.
The main problem, however, is that Obama has been unable to confront, and put to rest, US labor unions’ fear-driven hostility to trade.
Nor has he been willing to
confront
the business lobbies that are willing to hold the Doha Round hostage in order to extract ever more concessions by other countries, even though they know that the trade talks are about to be sucked into the Bermuda Triangle of the 2012 US presidential election.
The lesson from history is not that the robots should be stopped; it is that we will need to
confront
the social-engineering and political problem of maintaining a fair balance of relative incomes across society.
But Germany had no debt overhang to
confront.
Broadcast radio and television were the first to
confront
this problem, because they could not prevent those with a receiver from getting the signal.
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