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Ultimately, however, Trump’s trip to Israel contained little substance at all.
None of these problems can be resolved or even contained unilaterally.
Profits create incentives to respond to the information contained in prices.
Many Kenyans suspect that these politicians’ names are on a “secret list” of guilty officials from all sides contained in a recent report by Kenyan Justice Philip Waki.
This would have discouraged undue investment in some sectors, reduced non-performing loans, and contained excessive leverage in the corporate sector, while avoiding the mispricing of commodities.
Chinese exports (up to now) have contained little added value and a lot of cheap manpower, and the sophisticated products that it does produce, such as smart phones, have been conceived in the West.
We can count ourselves lucky if the emerging chaos can be contained in Iraq.
This resulted in a three-phase emulsion of oil, gas, and water that also contained sand and dirt particles.
Around the world, people are being admitted to hospitals with infections that do not respond to antibiotics, and relatively benign germs – like Klebsiella and E. coli – have become potent killers, shrugging off medicines that in the past easily contained them.
It would be less concerning if the rhetorical warfare were contained to social media.
For example, specialty-shop owners often find that doing business online is far more profitable than operating a brick-and-mortar store, because online retail expands the market for the knowledge contained in the products that they sell.
The turmoil may yet be contained and recede, sending oil prices back to lower levels.
The symptoms that Hippocrates associated with melancholic disorder – “aversion to food, despondency, sleeplessness, irritability, restlessness” – are remarkably similar to those contained in modern definitions of depressive disorder.
In the 1980s, protectionist US policies successfully contained the growth of Japan, which, like China today, maintained a large trade surplus with the US.
These tremors in the international financial system are serious and must be contained.
The next day, Salafists bulldozed the Sha’ab mosque (and the more than 50 Sufi tombs that it contained) in the center of Tripoli in broad daylight – uninterrupted by security forces, who were at the scene.
The provisions contained in Security Council Resolution 2139 provide clear political reinforcement to these basic tenets of international law, and they introduce some measure of accountability.
Many journalists spent time behind bars, and there was a price to be paid when the morning newspapers contained even accidental typos, such as occurred when a headline concerning a royal birthday read “suspicious” instead of “auspicious.”
But it contained coding errors discovered by a University of Massachusetts graduate student.
The added risks pushed the financial system past the tipping point, but the baseline problem was that it always contained too much risky debt.
The crisis in eastern Ukraine has been contained only partly by the Minsk II ceasefire agreement, and reflects the deepest rupture in the West’s relationship with Russia since the Soviet Union’s collapse.
Nor should they fixate on the mutual defense commitment contained in Article 5 of the NATO Charter, even though the principle that an attack on one NATO member is regarded as an attack against all is crucial to the alliance.
In countries like Germany, Italy, and the Netherlands, the rise in unemployment has been contained so far by massive use of short-time working schemes, which freeze workers with permanent contracts into their current jobs.
On the contrary, according to the IMF, “weakness has been contained to certain portions of the sub-prime market (and, to a lesser extent, the Alt-A market), and is not likely to pose a serious systemic threat.”
It cannot be repeated often enough that when the moral left and right have been strong, when groups like SOS Racisme set boundaries that are bright and clear, the FN has been contained electorally.
Second, Geithner assumes that risks at the largest US firms can be contained through regulation, when all our knowledge points directly to the contrary.
Researchers found three-quarters of water sources in the city contained high levels of coliform bacteria, a key indicator of contamination with fecal matter.
But the book contained other, non-market, examples as well.
The thinking behind the question of whether oil would cost less today if it were priced in euros seems to be that, since the dollar has fallen relative to the euro, this would have contained the rise in the price of oil.
Britain’s Retreat from Free SpeechNEW YORK – The ordeal of David Miranda – the partner of Guardian columnist Glenn Greenwald detained at London’s Heathrow Airport, interrogated for nine hours, and forced to surrender his electronic devices (some of which allegedly contained documents leaked to Greenwald by the former US intelligence contractor Edward Snowden)– is a shocking demonstration of the changed climate surrounding the press.
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