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Unilateral resort to trade restrictions, by making diplomatic cooperation more difficult, complicated efforts to mobilize a coalition of the willing to contain the Nazi threat.
Can its political system contain growing popular frustration or channel it through existing institutions?
In these conditions, a strong judicial system and police force do not always suffice to contain corruption.
It would then be able to contain Merkel’s red-green affinity.
A second answer – that politicians have short time horizons, owing to electoral cycles – may contain a kernel of truth, but it is inadequate, because the adverse consequences of timid action often become apparent well before they are up for re-election.
At the same time, financial-sector problems may be particularly difficult to address: if politicians emphasize the need for action too strongly in order to get a mandate, they might precipitate the very turmoil that they seek to contain.
And yet global statesmen made good use of the new organization as a forum to contain superpower tensions.
Peacekeeping missions, not even mentioned in the Charter, were devised to contain conflicts around the world, and to prevent them from igniting a superpower conflagration.
But the French state does what it has to do to repress and contain anti-Semitism.
Inflationary AngstPRINCETON – Can central banks contain inflation?
There is a growing risk that the new Chinese leadership will interpret a heavier US presence in the region as an attempt to contain China’s rise and stunt its growth.
We can build machines that reduce combustion to its essence and contain it.
In many settings, the best solution is to use good fires to contain bad ones.
In response to former US President Barack Obama’s efforts to create a Pacific-rim trade bloc to contain China, Xi launched his Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), which is now being met by an American-led Indo-Pacific initiative under Trump.
The ECB should drop its inflationary bias because the European economy is weakening, and the weaker economy will contain whatever inflationary pressures now exist.
That, in turn, would sharply contain the risk of financial contagion.
At the same time, the best way to contain financial contagion would be to implement a pan-European plan to recapitalize eurozone banks.
The reason for this resilience is probably best understood not as the consequence of poor law enforcement but of the profitability of slavery, which generated incentives too strong for laws to contain.
Macron’s critics have enlisted the help of legal experts who argue that the laws already on the books are sufficient to contain fake news.
The profit motive provides an incentive system to respond to the information that prices contain.
The European Central Bank would contain the collateral damage by flooding Europe’s banking system with liquidity (against subpar collateral).
Marriage is a way to contain our dangerous desires.
But victims often do not understand that this actually tends to contain potentially embarrassing scandals, by preventing real – that is, accountable – law enforcement from getting involved.
Rare-earth ores in southern China – all except for those in Inner Mongolia – contain radioactive substances that pose significant threats to human health and the environment.
Because black particles contain soot and absorb sunlight, they are believed to increase global warming.
The river water, it turned out, corroded the city’s aging pipes; by the time it left the taps, it could contain high levels of toxic lead.
The neighboring Middle East is in turmoil; the West is attempting to contain a newly aggressive Russia; and China, already the world’s largest source of savings, the largest trading country, and the largest overall economy (in terms of purchasing power parity), is confronting the West with new economic and strategic realities.
Of course, money spent to contain violence is not always a bad thing.
Moreover, when governments overspend to contain violence, they waste money that could otherwise be invested in more productive areas, such as infrastructure, business development, or education.
At the same time, selective repression can contain social frustrations and discontent only temporarily.
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