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Airstrikes anywhere risk civilian casualties – and thus the possibility of inflaming the very sentiments one is trying to counter.
Although there are more than 570 million farmers and seven billion consumers worldwide, just a handful of companies control the global industrial-agriculture value chain – from field to shop counter.
To counter the impression that it was turning common fears into treatable conditions, DSM-IV added a clause stipulating that social anxiety behaviors had to be “impairing” before a diagnosis was possible.
Entrusting monetary policy to an independent central bank promised to be a perfect way to counter the political pressure to print money.
The North Korean announcement took pains to differentiate the Pyongyang regime’s program from the Iranian one, and fell back on shopworn lines that nuclear weapons were necessary to counter the United States’ “hostile polices.”
A long, painful period of high unemployment runs counter to what most experts believed the flexible US economic model would ever produce.
Who else would have shown Afghanistan's dead children on prime-time TV, while denouncing the use of terrorism to counter terrorism?
There is little appetite on either side for large-scale military intervention in Iraq and Syria to counter the Islamic State.
If other powers do not step in to counter further challenges to the territorial and maritime status quo, the next five years could entrench China’s strategic advantages.
The Bank of Japan’s Haruhiko Kuroda and the European Central Bank’s Mario Draghi maintain such policies to this day, in order to stimulate economic activity and counter deflationary pressures.
New agencies such as the Department of Homeland Security, the Director of National Intelligence, and an upgraded Counter Terrorism Center have not transformed American government, and, for most Americans, personal freedoms have been little affected.
For example, policymakers must defuse the competitive pressures between food and fuel by designing schemes to counter price volatility for basic foodstuffs.
Lukashenko, sensing the danger, has been making overtures to the EU to counter what he sees as a growing rift with the Kremlin.
To be sure, by the standards of most countries, Saudi financial reserves are enormous; but so are the aspirations of its disgruntled public, not to mention the growing regional problems and the regime’s sense that it must step up its efforts – often financial – to counter Iran’s growing regional influence.
This is not the first time that Western media have adopted a perspective on Chinese political developments that runs completely counter to the prevailing view in China itself.
More importantly, the IMF typically helped countries that had their own currencies and thus could counter international capital movements by adjusting their exchange rates.
Putin is perplexed about how to counter the threat posed by slow growth.
It comes as no surprise, then, that the idea of a common European bond is becoming popular as a way to counter the risk of rising EMU interest-rate spreads.
The Obama administration has developed policies to counter these negative effects, but, in my judgment, they are not adequate to turn the economy around and produce a sustained recovery.
Those of us who are active in building a pan-European progressive political movement believe that only transnationality-in-action can counter the sectarian, nationalist narratives that conceal the underlying struggle.
Efforts have been made to counter – or, at least, highlight – the ethics violations that Trump and his team are accumulating.
But a better understanding of biological “information flow” could help us use methane clathrate in ways that could actually counter global warming.
And the subsequent “color revolutions” in places like Ukraine only instilled greater caution among the surviving authoritarian regimes, prompting them to implement measures to counter foreign-inspired democratization initiatives.
And, as if being called “Octamom” weren’t bad enough, pop stars such as Cher have come forward to denounce her; blogs have been created to track the details of her plastic surgery; and entertainment Web sites have sent reporters to stalk her and write shaming exposés of her sojourn at an expensive cosmetics counter.
Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras is trying to counter his leftist rival Alexis Tsipras in the same way.
As a result, any country formulating strategies to counter the destructive forces of globalization should give overriding priority to a self-centred economic development strategy, preferably within a regional framework.
Most do not have the financial clout to counter the extraordinary pressures from financial markets.
With “gene doping” close to becoming a reality, WADA is already working to counter it.
Third, we must counter the ideology of the terrorists.
The TPP, in particular, would not only offer a new approach to multilateral trade negotiations; it would also counter China’s growing influence in Asia.
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