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In several countries, debt-financed housing booms have left households and companies over-leveraged; and governments have reduced deficits to contain their own debt.
The Chinese believed that the entire purpose was to confront and contain their country’s geopolitical rise.
It was thought that these measures would help in the short term to accelerate bank repair, and that they would end financial fragmentation, establish a level playing field, reduce the risk of future banking crises, and ultimately contain and share the costs of banking failures.
Even here, the MDGs contain no numerical target for financial aid or any other aspect of rich countries’ assistance, in contrast to the highly specific poverty-related targets set for developing countries.
China can help by stiffening the resolve of Pakistan’s military to move more aggressively to contain Taliban extremists on its territory; open border regions to help resupply NATO forces in Afghanistan; and invest in the country’s infrastructure.
Ordinary bullets often consist of lead, tank-buster missiles contain uranium, and explosives are organic nitrogen compounds, sometimes containing mercury.
Wartime conditions would prevent emergency crews from getting to an affected plant to contain radiological releases should reactor containments fail.
A task we all have in the pro-Europe camp is to try to contain the forces that Brexit has unleashed, and to assert the sort of values that have in the past earned us so many friends and admirers around the world.
Moroever, they are “our kind” of democracy – constitutional democracies that contain all the features we take for granted in modern Western systems, not “Islamic democracies” like Iran.
(Ironically, Israel’s health-care system resembles a more intensive Obamacare program, with mandatory insurance and strong national regulation to contain costs, which Romney opposes.)
A fully capable regional financial safety net could contain the contagion of financial shocks emanating from individual economies and prevent disruptions to the region’s key growth drivers – intra-regional trade and investment.
Israel’s security and the desire to contain Iran are equally important.
And, with the economic crisis becoming ever more global in nature, the next challenge for policymakers will be to try to mitigate its effects at home – and to contain their constituents’ impulse to reduce engagement with the rest of the world.
Unlike Lebanon during its 15-year civil war, no regional power today would be able to contain Syria’s war within its borders.
And rejecting the JCPOA would only encourage the Iranian regime to resume the very activities that the deal was meant to contain or curtail.
That would be a grave error, given that any kind of cooperation with Russia wouldn’t contain or end the war in Syria: In fact, there is reason to fear the opposite: Any military cooperation with Assad – which is Putin’s aim and price tag – would drive a large majority of Sunni Muslims into the arms of radical Islamists.
The typical entrepreneurial university will contain, or be surrounded by, a penumbra of firms that originated from academic research, perhaps even sharing infrastructure.
He claims that “cases like this should be closed from all sides,” because “they contain state secrets.”
In the end game of such a war, Syria might be asked by the Arab countries and the international community to take greater responsibility in Lebanon, in order to contain Hezbollah and its military profile.
What Should China Do?STANFORD – The Chinese government’s heavy-handed efforts to contain recent stock-market volatility – the latest move prohibits short selling and sales by major shareholders – have seriously damaged its credibility.
The euro exists, and the global financial system’s assets and liabilities are so intermingled on the basis of the common currency that its collapse would cause a meltdown beyond the capacity of the German authorities – or any other – to contain.
The second factor that is spurring a shift in America’s attitude is the recognition that a new Syrian government is vital to defeat – or even contain – the Islamic State.
Moreover, there are some great websites, including Crash Course and Ted-Ed, that contain short general education videos on a huge variety of subjects, from philosophy to biology to history.
Disturbingly, recent reports indicate that the ocean may contain one kilogram of plastics for every three kilograms of fish by 2025.
Encouraging economic and political reform are important objectives, but they can never serve as a substitute for a serious effort to contain Russia’s deep-seated expansionism.
But Reinhart and Rogoff’s estimates in 2010 had already been superseded by a 2012 paper that they wrote with Vincent Reinhart, which used a more extensive data set that did not contain the error.
But it is likely that the very same populists and nationalists who drove EU leaders to craft the agreement with Turkey in order to contain the refugee crisis will now lead the backlash against visa-free access for Turkish citizens.
Whereas our diets typically contain safe levels, highly concentrated antioxidant supplements can be hazardous.
In low-income countries, diets consist primarily of starches, such as rice, and legumes, like peas, that contain very little protein.
Here, too, aggressive – and at the time controversial – policy action, especially by the European Central Bank, helped contain the fallout from the near-collapse of the global financial system.
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