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But solving the complex coordination and distributional problems that such adjustments will generate will not be easy, and, convinced that we cannot afford an aggressive mitigation strategy at a time when we are faced with so many other pressing challenges, policymakers could be tempted to defer action on the ground.
Putin must be convinced that he cannot do either without paying a cost that Russians will not willingly bear.
Putin must be convinced that by gaining Crimea, he has lost Ukraine.
Sachs knows the freebies to farmers guarantee gains in the short run, but he’s convinced that African villagers, once freed from “the poverty trap,” can thrive on their own.
The US government does not need to be convinced about that, but the American people – and ordinary Iraqis – want to see the troops go home.
The frozen conflict in eastern Ukraine can be thawed if Russia is convinced to observe the Minsk Protocol, withdraw its troops from the border, and help facilitate local elections under international standards.
But Uganda’s international donors are not convinced; the United States has voiced strong concern, and Belgium has suspended development aid to Uganda’s health-care sector.
Not only did he broker an agreement to bring North Korea to the Winter Olympic Games in PyeongChang; he also convinced US President Donald Trump that doing so was in fact Trump’s idea.
That change convinced mortgage lenders that their activities were ultra-safe: they no longer even had to worry about the quality of the borrower.
Latin American governments had again convinced not only themselves, but also voters, that their policies were behind the previous boom.
Breeders are convinced that with permitting systems and detection technologies, legal horns could be identified, law enforcement could prevent illegal horns from being trafficked, and domestic trading could reduce the stress on wild populations.
India’s nationalists were determined to enjoy the democracy that their colonial rulers had denied them, and convinced themselves that the British system was best.
But until its targets are translated into action, the world’s least-developed countries may not be convinced that the developed countries are serious about equity – or “climate justice.”
Not just younger, they are more educated than the old leaders, and are convinced that they know better how to deal with Israel.
The very fierceness of the financial crash convinced everybody that there was no longer any free money that enterprises had to manage on their own.
The rhetoric of xenophobic demagogues appears to have convinced him that he had to kill the children of the social-democratic elites in order to protect Western civilization against the dangers of multiculturalism and Islam.
The less determination the West demonstrates in Syria, the more the Iranians become convinced that they can play with the international community’s nerves and patience indefinitely.
Still, I am convinced that the costs of the transformation are not simply to be dismissed.
Somehow her calm and focus on the poor convinced those left behind by India's new economy that she was with them.
Most Israelis – certainly the current government – are convinced that Palestinians must be prevented by force from killing Jews.
Indeed, the vast popular protests that took place during the “Orange Revolution” in Ukraine five years ago convinced the Kremlin that they could not allow any spontaneous outburst of public emotions.
The question is whether the German public can be convinced of this argument.
People vote for all kinds of parties, from the far right all the way to the left, so long as they are convinced that the parties will deal with their social concerns and grievances.
He evidently thought that this would strengthen his hand; instead, it merely strengthened the position of those Germans convinced that the time had come to let Greece drop out of the euro.
Owing to a major shift in public sentiment in the past few months, many Democrats are now convinced that they will win seats, and potentially reclaim control of the House of Representatives.
Most people are now convinced that this shortcoming is inherent in the financial system.
Prime Minister Tony Blair is apparently convinced of the strategic desirability of joining the euro, but because a Yes vote in a referendum now looks so implausible he is unlikely to try.
At the same time, the Europeans, having convinced Russia and China to back their strategy, approached the US with another stark choice: either join an international coalition to apply diplomatic pressure on Iran, or pursue dubiously effective military measures on your own.
Indeed, the more I speak to girls like Rosanna, who were wrenched out of childhood and married before the age of 18, the more I am convinced of the inverse relationship between the prevalence of child marriage and access to education.
Henry Ford once scouted Florida in hopes of buying tracts of land to plant sugar cane, convinced that the United States would not tolerate the pollution from burning fossil fuels or the dependency implicit in importing oil to produce gasoline.
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