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Obasanjo is anxious to thwart the region’s growing armed insurgency, which is driven by widespread poverty and oil industry-related ecological damage.
(In fact, it may not even be desirable, given the possibility of collateral damage and unintended consequences.)
The wider damage associated with fossil-fuel subsidies is insufficiently recognized.
Such a dictatorship would damage Islam by associating Islam with unjust rule and creating enemies for Islam.
They are not getting enough out of monetary expansion at this point; the risk of collateral damage and unintended consequences is rising; and pro-growth structural reforms are overdue.
But there is a strong belief across the region that the costs of removing autocracies, as high as they might be, are low compared to the damage inflicted by the current rulers.
A free-trade agreement that includes financial services will minimize the damage from Brexit for all parties involved, because European firms will still rely on London as the region’s only global financial center.
At moments like these, financial crises look like a heart attack – wreaking immediate and devastating damage to the whole of the economic body.
But if the US airstrike left a bruise on Russia, the damage done to Assad’s forces is less clear.
To be sure, they lost about 20 aircraft and suffered significant damage to bunkers, fuel tanks, munitions storage facilities, and air-defense radars.
On the contrary, policy errors and delays in individual countries will seriously damage economies worldwide.
In a heartbeat, the damage was done.
These sites will rely on a new technique that allows tiny samples of key organs, such as the liver or lungs, to be extracted with a needle, causing minimal damage to the body of a deceased child.
And yet, even with damage to infrastructure such as road and rail links, the tsunamis’ overall economic impact is expected to be minor.
But, in a global village, misperceptions can arise all too easily – and can do great damage.
Most costly of all, perhaps, will be the damage to the company’s reputation.
Beyond affecting America’s immediate negotiating partners, the latter approach would gravely damage progress in establishing a rule-based global system.
And the crises that often divide the leveraging and deleveraging phases cause additional balance-sheet damage and prolong the healing process.
Countries vary widely in terms of household balance-sheet damage, which clearly affects the propensity to save – and hence the multiplier effect.
At a time when the EU is still struggling to make use of the Lisbon institutions, some member states perceive a risk that admitting the Balkan countries too soon could damage the Union.
The biggest players, including Wall Street, the automobile companies, the health-care industry, the armaments industry, and the real-estate sector, have done great damage to the US and world economy over the past decade.
But this is a grave mistake – based on a failure to understand how big banks can damage the economy.
The long-run damage could be devastating.
And if we do not take urgent action, we will irreparably damage the natural systems on which life depends.
Severe mismanagement by European politicians has caused damage that will last for decades.
The three countries that served as pillars of regional stability for the past several years – Nigeria, Kenya, and South Africa – are now too pre-occupied with political troubles of their own to provide the peacekeepers, reconstruction funds, and political pressure that often limit the damage from conflicts elsewhere in the region.
Inflicting maximum damage from the air was and remains Israel’s strategy toward Hamas-ruled Gaza.
Even the prospect of a trade war with China could be enough to damage the US economy.
Yet, given the enormous global pressures that we face, including vastly unequal incomes and massive environmental damage, we must find new technological solutions to our problems.
But huge damage was done in 2001, when then-Prime Minister John Howard’s government refused to allow the Norwegian freighter MV Tampa, carrying 438 rescued Afghans from a distressed fishing vessel, to enter Australian waters.
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