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But its consistent preference for lining up on the other side of the divide – even when doing so runs counter to its own national interests – calls into question whether it has the internal fortitude to be a leader.
This approach also applies to the environmental pillar of development: intervention to counter damage generated by the economy is not enough.
Critics might counter that no one should care how much profit a company earns, so long as it provides a worthwhile service.
Given this, the Fed will be the site of rising tension, as regional presidents counter the governors’ preference for monetary stimulus by pushing for policy tightening.
On the contrary, sulfur emissions have been reduced over the last few decades in both Europe and North America, owing to a desire to promote health and counter acidification; and China, too, seems to be taking measures to reduce sulfur emissions and improve the country’s terrible air quality.
Meanwhile, the EU and Asian steel-importing countries, like India and Indonesia, are preparing to adopt safeguard measures to counter a potential surge of imported steel diverted from the US.
Moreover, impugning populists’ intelligence and seriousness only plays into their hands: See how the arrogant, entrenched elites, they will counter, dismiss the common sense of the people.
Advocates of this position go on to deploy the so-called "precautionary principle" to counter the argument that there is no scientific evidence that DDT spraying damages natural capital.
One way to help counter that priming – supported by past surveys – could be to direct voters, first, to consider what they actually know about the topic, including what they understand by the key terms.
To counter these forces of disintegration, the EU must do less and do it better.
Chabahar is not useful only to counter China; it will serve as a vital link for India to transport goods to Afghanistan, Central Asia, and beyond.
But that mindset is waning, and government and business leaders now routinely warn of bubbles and adopt policies to counter them.
In striking the right balance between immediate economic stimulus and medium-term fiscal sustainability, the most urgent step will be to counter properly the looming fiscal cliff, as temporary tax cuts expire and deep, across-the-board spending reductions kick in automatically.
To counter the rising resistance, Putin turned to patriotic nationalism, which reached its apotheosis with the 2014 annexation of Crimea.
It is everyone’s task to counter extremism actively and speak out about radical statements, in public and in private.
The gun lobby in the US remains powerful, and politicians are afraid to counter it.
In Europe, policymakers have failed to counter an expanding sovereign-debt crisis in the eurozone’s periphery, despite many summits and programs, multiple expensive bailouts, and the imposition of painful economic sacrifices on societies.
Yet it is also true that the US is uneasy about China’s not-too-hidden aim to dominate Asia – an objective that runs counter to US security and commercial interests and to the larger goal of securing a balance in power in Asia.
Action to counter the disaster must be taken, regardless of the cost.
Instead, they are traded mostly over the counter in illiquid markets.
Establishing floor prices for many agricultural products, and ensuring that Mexico produces what it consumes, runs counter to many NAFTA provisions – and to Trump’s goal of reducing the bilateral US trade deficit.
Voluntary export restraints were widely used in the 1980s – often by the EU itself, to counter competition from East Asia.
As part of comprehensive corporate tax reform that includes a revenue-neutral rate cut, the US Congress is currently considering a hybrid territorial reform and evaluating several measures to counter tax-base erosion and income shifting, including those used by other advanced countries.
Whenever we are encouraged to oppose a dictator, the specter of Adolf Hitler is invoked, and the ghosts of 1938 are resurrected to counter skepticism about hasty “preemptive” war.
In response, former US Treasury Secretary and former president of Harvard Larry Summers is calling for “responsible nationalism” to counter the often chauvinistic, anti-immigrant, and protectionist language of the populist right.
There is an urgent need for a moderate, humanist, global, and “constructive” populism that can counter the extremists, not with complicated mathematical models of, say, the employment implications of Brexit, but with simple yet powerful ideas that resonate with millions.
To counter this tendency, Keynes advocated replacing any system in which “the process of adjustment is compulsory for the debtor and voluntary for the creditor” with one in which the force of adjustment falls symmetrically upon debtors and creditors.
To be sure, this runs counter to the triumphalism emanating from Asia, in particular.
It is likely that the regime will attempt to counter this eruption of nationalism while maintaining its strong statist rhetoric.
In this crowded power play, only Japan is left out, choosing for the most part to remain aloof and cultivate its relations with the US, which is now to supply anti-missile technology to counter the North Korean threat.
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