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They might not have dared to do so had they not found a reasonably credible alternative.
Moreover, Red Bonds could be conveniently ring-fenced so that they do not destabilize the banking system, thereby ensuring that the no-bailout clause that applies to them becomes a credible proposition.
If the international community is to remain credible, a regional initiative for collective security – a Madrid II – needs to be taken.
Now that the Fund has squarely acknowledged the huge capital holes in many European banks, it should start pressing forcefully for a comprehensive and credible solution to the eurozone debt crisis, a solution that will involve either partial breakup of the eurozone or fundamental constitutional reform.
Raising interest rates to the sky won't be credible because it would cause a recession and the ECB could not hold to such a policy for long.
And, though the UN cannot enforce the promises that leaders made, the summit catalyzed a popular demonstration that has moved the political spotlight back to the climate-change challenge, where it is likely to remain until governments take credible action.
A new fiscal compact – and new governments in Greece, Italy, and Spain – spurred hope of credible commitment to austerity and structural reform.
Finally, the single most important step that US President Barack Obama could take is to put the credible threat of force back on the table.
But Europe’s last chance to be a credible actor in a multi-polar world rests precisely on its ability to present a single, united, responsible voice.
And their claim that a non-European Britain could effortlessly retain the EU's benefits while ditching its burdens is simply not credible.
That global effort will almost certainly not succeed without a credible Chinese threat to sever Kim’s economic umbilical cord.
If this commitment is to be credible, however, China must follow up by creating a level playing field for market competition among foreign companies, private Chinese firms, and SOEs.
In any case, once a strong middle class has been established, the focus can shift toward building a credible and sustainable liberal democracy.
In fact, despite the overthrow of authoritarian regimes, Egypt has so far proved unable to build credible democratic governments or enforce the rule of law effectively, change in Tunisia remains tenuous, and Libya is substantially worse off – economically and politically – than it was before 2011.
Indeed, it has long demanded that Syrian President Bashar al-Assad cede power before a credible peace process can begin.
If its pivot to Asia is to be credible, the US will eventually have to agree to be one among a number of great powers in Asia, a co-equal partner with China, Japan, and India in shaping the region’s strategic environment.
Ultimately, though, a credible response to the refugee education crisis must involve a fairer approach to burden-sharing.
In such a scenario, America’s nuclear umbrella would amount to Europe’s only credible protection.
With the US looking more toward Asia, where China’s unilateral assertion of territorial claims in the South China Sea has jeopardized regional stability, it may become stretched too thin to provide a credible deterrent to Russian aggression, especially when it takes the form of unconventional, hybrid attacks.
When the communist regimes collapsed in 1989, the communist parties of Poland and Hungary transformed themselves into credible democratic-left parties that became formidable opponents of the newly emerging political right.
In the absence of a credible democratic left party, Czech center-right politicians had the upper hand, and were relatively united, until 1997.
At the same time, the EU should not lift sanctions until a credible political settlement between the regime and opposition forces has been reached.
As things stand in Saudi Arabia, the US administration has no credible ally for change outside of the existing regime.
If the Republicans’ threats were credible, any news that increased the likelihood of a problem with the debt ceiling would send Treasury bond prices down and yields up.
The Republican leadership is making threats that are not credible.
The timing was highly significant: Merkel goes to China, the emerging global power, after declaring her own commitment to strengthening the eurozone, if not the EU as a whole, as a credible pole of an emerging multipolar world.
Grillo – much like Lega Nord’s Matteo Salvini – has scant political experience, little knowledge of European history, few refined arguments, and no credible vision for the future.
The only way the Muslim Brotherhood can hope to regain broad acceptance as a legitimate democratic player is with a constitution that includes credible mechanisms for guaranteeing pluralism and due process.
But such a commitment would not have been credible.
But without transparency, the INDCs would not be credible.
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