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For low levels of debt, increasing the debt burden increases the flow of payments that creditors get; but this relationship is reversed once the debt volume crosses a certain threshold.
If he crosses over to their side, he could even become their leader and triumphantly return to the throne that he formally abandoned only recently.
To take just one example, the crankshaft of a BMW Mini crosses the English Channel three times before the car is completed, which means that any delay at the border will destroy the profitability of that supply chain.
Little more than half of the region’s population has access to electricity, and only around 3% of power generation currently crosses borders (based on current capacity levels).
These factors, together with the self-righteousness of true believers in a political cause, embolden social-media users like the BJP’s trolls to say anything that crosses their minds.
With Iran’s nuclear program advancing and political uncertainty looming over the region, Israel supports a military operation against Iran in 2012, before, in the words of Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak, it crosses the “immunity zone,” beyond which intervention would be futile.
Solutions will have to be found at all “scales,” meaning that we will need water solutions within individual communities (as in the piped-water project in Senegal), along the length of a river (even as it crosses national boundaries), and globally, for example, to head off the worst effects of global climate change.
When a river that crosses a border or flows through disputed territory becomes a matter of life and death, or food prices skyrocket because a local crop has failed (or even because a major global producer redirects its exports to its own hungry people), conflict can start and spiral out of control very quickly.
At its core, globalization entails the increasing volume, velocity, and importance of flows – within and across borders – of people, ideas, greenhouse gases, goods, dollars, drugs, viruses, emails, weapons, and a good deal else, challenging one of sovereignty’s fundamental principles: the ability to control what crosses borders in either direction.
And that contribution is probably an underestimate, because income generated on the tradable supply side produces income that becomes demand on the non-tradable side – a multiplier effect that crosses the tradable/non-tradable boundary.
Of course, there are clear rules about how responsibility for refugees is delineated: according to the so-called Dublin Regulation, the first EU member state into which a refugee crosses is responsible for that person’s asylum application.
For example, on February 26, at a garment market in Benghazi, Libya, members of a powerful Islamist militia rounded up dozens of Egyptian Coptic Christians – identified by crosses tattooed on their right wrists – whom they then detained, tortured, and threatened with execution.
Dirty air crosses national borders, nuclear war would affect the entire planet, and artificial intelligence is changing people’s lives around the world.
But we think that an over-diagnosis rate of more than 50% crosses the clinical significance threshold.
The candidate who crosses the threshold of 270 electoral votes wins the presidency.
She and her daughter Guillermina have for years organized groups of mothers to paint crosses around the city at sites where girls and women have disappeared, a visual reminder of a problem that the city has failed to address for two decades.
When the crosses fade, the mothers repaint them.
Groups like these yearn to establish a distinct national church for Poland, and are among those defiantly planting crosses at Auschwitz.
Perhaps it is right that the use of religious symbols has become the subject of public debate, though I think that wearing headscarves and even veils is as much a part of individual freedom as is the wearing of Jewish skullcaps and Christian crosses.
That applies even to the numerous new plant varieties that have resulted from “wide crosses,” hybridizations that move genes from one species or genus to another – across what used to be considered natural breeding boundaries.
In any case, on March 11, when Michelle Bachelet crosses the presidential sash over her chest, a new Chile will set itself in motion.
What this means is that we have to build a movement that crosses party lines, and devise new ways of communication.
Scientists recently discovered that the red-necked phalarope starts its migration from Scotland’s Shetland Islands, crosses the Atlantic via Iceland and Greenland, flies south along the United States’ eastern seaboard to the Caribbean and Mexico, and ends its journey off the coast of Ecuador or Peru.
In the light of Iraqi nationalism that crosses sectarian boundaries, it is farfetched to consider the Iraqi Shia merely proxies of Iran.
And on the day that a judge finally crosses a political line, speaking constitutional truth to usurped power, the government’s refusal to comply threatens the interests and ideals of an articulate and motivated segment of society.
And it is undoubtedly convenient to be able to drive from Berlin to Barcelona without having to wait in line at each border one crosses.
As a result, politicians often look the other way when corporate behavior crosses the line.
Students in public schools cannot wear conspicuous religious symbols, which is usually interpreted to prohibit the headscarves worn by Islamic women, as well as the yarmulkes (skullcaps) worn by Jewish boys and large crosses worn by Christians.
The recent pipeline deal can also be considered a win for Ukraine: Gazprom had previously insisted on a one-year deal, because it already has the Nord Stream-1 pipeline, which crosses the Baltic Sea to Germany, and will soon complete Nord Stream-2.
But for fundamentalist Christians, there is a deeper logic to opposing masks: Christians wear crosses; it is Muslims who cover their faces.
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