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The main obstacle to be overcome in establishing such a system will be to convince donor countries’ governments to pay for their carbon emissions.
But the changed international climate, and the possibility of a bout of severe dollar weakness, could convince the US to go along with a conversion scheme that would alleviate excessive pressure on the dollar.
Because the US and Japan have neither territorial claims in the South China Sea nor an interest in the natural resources – including oil, gas, and fisheries – that it contains, they are the ideal candidates to deliver this message and, one hopes, convince China to negotiate a multilateral security agreement.
So here are ten good reasons to believe in Europe – ten rational arguments to convince pessimistic analysts, and worried investors alike, that it is highly premature to bury the euro and the EU altogether.
Unfortunately, if you get your news about the United States from Facebook, Twitter, or cable TV networks, the stories you are being told might convince you that the country is hopelessly divided.
For to convince the world that they would continue reforming, Poland and Hungary’s postcommunists formed coalition governments despite winning overwhelming parliamentary majorities.
That is why the bonds issued by the eurozone’s rescue fund, the European Financial Stability Facility, are trading at a substantial premium relative to German debt, while efforts by Klaus Regling, the EFSF’s head, to convince China, Japan, and other Asians to buy the bonds have gotten nowhere.
It is Europe’s responsibility to convince Russia that there is no hope of a return to the past.
If Europe today cannot convince itself that it has a vital interest in its neighbors’ future, who will believe in Europe tomorrow?
On the contrary, any proper understanding of ideologies must reckon with their power to seduce and even genuinely convince people who care little about their emotional appeal – whether to pride or to hate – but who think they actually offer rational policy solutions.
With a referendum on the UK’s continued EU membership set to take place before the end of 2017, the talks are the first step toward negotiating changes which, EU leaders hope, will convince British voters to choose Europe.
How do you convince your passionate followers if other, equally credentialed, economists take the opposite view?
Social-democratic governments have been on the defensive against those who claim that redistributing wealth exacts too high a cost on economic growth, and unable to convince voters to fund yet another massive expansion of higher education.
All of this has served to convince the US that its China engagement policy has utterly failed.
Opening the door to migrants would have to be a gradual and controlled process, with determined efforts made to convince Europeans of its benefits.
EU leaders are weak, divided, and seemingly incapable of setting out a credible vision of the future benefits that European integration could provide, without which they cannot rally popular support and convince recalcitrant governments to bear their fair share of current costs.
They must exercise their leadership to convince the public that migrants – above all, those most in need of protection – give more than they take.
His approach – to convince bureaucrats, opposition-party leaders, and the general public to support gradual reform – may seem to reflect cautious conservative timidity, but it has enabled the long-term success of his government’s measures.
After futile attempts to convince Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad to begin a transition to a more open system, the Turkish government has unequivocally called for Assad’s departure, and is actively trying to secure a legitimate framework for intervention.
There comes a point when promises of independence no longer convince anyone.
After all, it was many of those same lobbyists who in the past managed to convince legislators to insert clauses and provisions that contributed so much to the lax standards that created the systemic risks for which taxpayers are now being forced to pay.
US Vice President Joe Biden, usually a sharp critic of Russia, arrived in Moscow in March, supposedly to convince Putin to surrender his presidential ambitions for 2012.
Does the United States support Putin in the elections, or, by recognizing Putin’s historic importance, do the Americans mean to convince him to leave power?
When politicians convince people that they are in a life-or-death battle – that survival is a matter of “us or them” – anything becomes possible.
Netanyahu, it should be noted, tried to convince Russian President Vladimir Putin not to complete precisely that arms deal last year.
By signaling their intention to contain price pressures, they would alter inflation expectations – and thus essentially convince the public and the government to do the heavy lifting.
In this context, Xi must convince the public that he will not allow vested interests to block change.
Five years ago, Mexico’s President Vicente Fox tried to convince Bush that something had to be done before a nativist backlash in the US complicated its relations with Latin America and made goals such as a Free Trade Agreement of the Americas (FTAA) impossible.
The Irish problem remains how to convince popular opinion to accept a Treaty that was decisively rejected by 53.4% to 46.6% in the June 12 poll.
Xi’s moves to strengthen his hand have helped to convince observers that he means business with the reform agenda.
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