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But, to the extent that they contain a stop-loss element – and they often do – they will cause bouts of selling into declining markets, and that in turn will amplify volatility.
The UK no longer needs to protect its trade routes to colonial India, and the US no longer needs a ring of military bases to contain the Soviet Union.
Lines on the map no longer contain the gravest threats, and the players are no longer divided neatly into two camps.
The proposed constitution will contain a Charter of Fundamental Rights, which is intended to enhance the political and moral legitimacy of the EU.
At the same time, they can help to contain China’s economic power and strategic influence in Asia.
So the ECB may not have to increase interest rates very much in order to contain inflation.
Meanwhile, even as a civil-military showdown in Pakistan compounds Washington’s regional challenges, the new US push to contain Iran threatens to fuel greater turbulence in neighboring Afghanistan.
America’s fond hope to contain terrorism regionally promises instead to ensure that Afghanistan and Pakistan remain a festering threat to regional and global security.
As a result, Turkey is now seeking to contain a rapidly deteriorating regional security situation.
As a result, its exports contain an ever-increasing share of imported goods and services and the share of domestic value-added in its exports per unit of output is rapidly declining.
We want US firms to benefit from that…Now, financial firms are different because of the risk, but you can contain that through regulation.”
But, while this solution would contain the problem of the commons, the dangers could outweigh the benefits.
The facts are that while China's neighbors and America have no great love of the Chinese Communist Party, they seek neither to "contain" nor overthrow it.
So it is time to ask: what viable steps have been taken to create a financial architecture able to contain and reduce this number?
Governments, in order to contain the fallout of the crisis, ran up public debt, including in countries whose balance sheets had already been weakened significantly by declining GDP growth.
They would have to default on their debts, precipitating global financial turmoil that may be beyond the capacity of authorities to contain.
The Containment Debate, Round TwoPARIS – At the Cold War’s outset, there was an intense debate in the United States between those who wanted to contain communism and those who wanted to roll it back.
The goal cannot be simply to contain Russia.
Everything changed in 1971, when US President Richard Nixon, unable to contain the fiscal deficit resulting from spending on the Vietnam War and expanded social-welfare programs, abolished the dollar’s direct convertibility to gold.
For Kan, the real priority was his government’s effort to maintain its grip on power, not reassuring Japan’s neighbors of the actions it was taking to contain a potential threat to their citizens.
Moreover, the virus has claimed the lives of many doctors trying to treat victims, and forced the closure of hospitals that were unable to contain the virus.
The Saudis even spent billions of dollars to build a security wall along its vast border with Iraq, in order to contain the violence that it was exporting there.
The park’s waterways contain one-tenth of the world’s remaining 1,000 giant river otters, along with black and speckled caiman, pink river dolphins, and capybaras.
In the 1960’s, America wanted Pakistan to be on its side as it sought to contain the spread of communism in Asia.
Third, the Books of Life for humans, fish, flies, and yeast contain a large number of shared words (although the spellings are somewhat different).
After US investment bank Lehman Brothers collapsed in 2008, it did not take long for advanced-country central banks to recognize that conventional monetary policy would be inadequate to contain the fallout of the ensuing crisis.
Since the early 1990s, Jakarta’s government has sought to improve traffic flows with a rule that private cars driven during rush hours in the city’s central business district must contain three or more passengers.
These conflicts have taught Africa that, in order to contain the centrifugal pressures that encourage fragmentation within our relatively new states, a conscious effort must be made to nurture and entrench national unity, which must include democratic practices.
China’s New Normal and America’s Old HabitsNEW HAVEN – China is generating a lot of confusion nowadays, both at home, where senior officials now tout the economy’s “new normal,” and abroad, exemplified by America’s embrace of Cold War-style tactics to contain China’s rise.
In the meantime, China faces another, equally daunting challenge: the United States’ growing determination to contain its growing influence.
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