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Problems could arise only because of unanticipated shocks, temporary local political difficulties, and – the favorite culprit – irrational markets.
It will be hard, to say the least, to agree on additional competences and a stronger European Parliament at a time when so many in Europe, starting with the radicals, consider the EU the main culprit for their current woes.
Others suggest that Iran’s almost non-existent banking system is the culprit.
Facebook is the chief culprit: with an average of 1.32 billion daily active users, its impact is massive, yet the company refuses to give outside researchers access to the information needed to understand the most fundamental questions at the intersection of the Internet and politics.
After the assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafic Hariri in 2005 led the international community to finger Syria as the culprit, Assad stonewalled a United Nations tribunal investigating the matter and silenced domestic critics by once again conjuring foreign bogeymen scheming to weaken the country.
A major culprit behind this reversal is the deep recession and slow recovery following the 2008 economic crisis in the advanced economies.
The culprit of this storyline is the Club of Rome, a global think-tank that, in the 1970s, spurred energy anxiety with its absurd prophecies derived from questionable models.
Weak aggregate demand is the primary culprit for subdued GDP and employment growth.
“An eye for an eye” asks that the culprit should be the sole target, and not others, whose only crime was to be related to him.
The culprit is a large saving deficit;The country has been living beyond its means for decades and drawing freely on surplus saving from abroad to fund the greatest consumption binge in history.
And the entire global financial spasm has been largely blamed on a single culprit: China.
Sometimes fraud consists in plagiarism: the culprit takes credit for someone else’s work.
However, especially in the most competitive scientific fields, fraud often takes the form of forgery: the culprit fabricates data.
Indeed, one of America’s great achievements in the charade of trade negotiations during the past year has been to portray Europe as the culprit.)
It is too late to debate whether the culprit was the unwillingness of the European public to embark on the path toward political union or the timidity of its national politicians to exercise leadership.
(Sugar is the main culprit, as Robert Lustig, the author of Fat Chance, has argued.)
Assertions by Republican Party leaders that excessive social support is the primary culprit – a favorite theme of vice-presidential candidate Paul Ryan – are just as mistaken as Democratic Party leaders’ claim that permitting tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans to expire at the end of this year would cure all.
In response, they have fixated on the Chinese component of a long-gaping trade deficit, charging that currency manipulation is the culprit to the long festering woes of the American middle class.
The Too-Quiet AmericanNEW YORK – It is now apparent that the United States is the main culprit in preventing the ten-year-old multilateral trade negotiations known as the Doha Round from being closed this year.
Meanwhile, another favorite culprit, refugee inflows, has a compelling alibi: there are actually very few asylum-seekers in the countries spearheading attacks on the EU’s migration policies.
One obvious culprit may be globalization and economic openness, which have made it difficult for countries like Brazil and India to compete with East Asia’s manufacturing superstars.
And, if we think managers are paying more attention than ever to quarterly results, we might think we have found the culprit.
It would be absurd to condemn, as some do, globalization as the main and only culprit in the erosion of traditional sources of support for the poor.
Sometimes the culprit is lousy internal controls in financial firms that over-reward subordinates for taking risk.
It is sheer political chicanery to single out China, America’s NAFTA partners, or even Germany as the culprit in a saving-short US economy.
But the chief culprit is France’s own labor code – a forest of regulations that offers the strongest employment protection anywhere in the world.
The real culprit behind Germany’s low per capita GDP growth must be sought elsewhere.
In the United States, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration reports that 3,477 people were killed and 391,000 were injured in motor vehicle crashes involving distracted drivers in 2015, with texting being the biggest culprit, particularly among young people.
The loss of US manufacturing jobs accelerated after 2000, with global competition the likely culprit.
The country's highly developed federal structure, together with a lack of political leadership, is seen by many as the main culprit for the stalemate.
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