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In the midst of political, social, and institutional vulnerabilities, as well as the vast damage to human and physical infrastructure that are the legacy of conflict, this is a monumental task.
If this right is violated, citizens may petition the courts to compel violators to desist, and to pay to repair the damage.
A Clinton administration would benefit from already having something to work with, and a Trump administration would benefit from low expectations, while being restrained from doing more damage than it otherwise could have done.
Weapons of mass destruction, nuclear bombs in particular, certainly cause more damage faster than conventional armaments do.
The Ecumenical Patriarchate, as a foreign observer observes, only receives “collateral damage.”
This damage will become permanent if those who oppose the security laws go completely unheeded.
Democrats, for their part, pretended that the tax cuts had already harmed the economy, when they ought to know that the greatest damage is still to come.
Why Climate Change Is an Education IssueNEW YORK – Climate change affects us all, but we still are not acting as quickly as we should to address its causes, mitigate the damage, and adapt to its effects.
His targets were the IMF, the OECD, the LSE, and all the other covens of economists who argued that leaving the European Union would damage the British economy.
These incremental costs are insignificant compared to the economic and other damage – including, for example, rising and volatile commodity and food prices – implied by unrestrained climate change.
India understands, though, that the collateral damage would be too high, the price in civilian lives unacceptable, and the risks of the conflict spiraling out of control too acute to contemplate such an option.
But if production entails environmental damage for which companies do not pay, incentives are distorted; companies may turn a profit, but they function inefficiently in economic terms.
If China is to reverse the damage, it will need to focus on debt deleveraging, repair its capital allocation mechanism, and delay the abolition of capital controls.
The recent deal to save Cyprus, which includes forced losses on large depositors, was similarly surprising – and is threatening to damage further the eurozone’s already-delicate relationship with financial markets.
Although Cypriot lawmakers decisively rejected the plan to impose a one-time tax of almost 7% on such deposits only a couple of days after it was presented, the damage has been done.
Unpredictability could damage the eurozone even more than the crisis itself.
Interestingly, in cultured mouse or human cells, the mammalian SIR2 gene determines a cell's response to DNA damage.
If China threw a handful of sand in the gears of these chains, it could disrupt entire production networks, doing serious damage to the US (and, indeed, all the countries participating in such networks).
Abuse in all of its forms – whether torture, rape, forced marriage, or forced labor – does more than cause physical damage.
To put it starkly, such drastic carbon cuts are likely to do a lot more damage than climate change to our quality of life (especially for those in the developing world).
The collapse from 2007 to 2009 of equity, credit, and housing bubbles in the United States, the United Kingdom, Spain, Ireland, Iceland, and Dubai led to severe financial crises and economic damage.
But if they try to prick bubbles early on with higher interest rates, they will crash bond markets and kill the recovery, causing much economic and financial damage.
However, excessive zeal and pursuit of cases with dubious economic justification, as has sometimes happened in merger cases, can do serious damage.
Examples of this include the decisions to veto the merger between Airtours and First Choice, and also between Tetra Laval and Sidel - decisions that where based on dubious arguments and were eventually reversed by the European Court of Justice, with serious damage to the Commission's credibility.
But in those regions headed by strong politicians – Astrakhan, Chelyabinsk, Krasnodar and Stavropol regions, for example – the damage Putin has suffered in the past week makes it unlikely that he will be able to oust leaders who oppose him.
President Vladimir Putin claims that his economic policies remain consistent; in fact, he has wisely changed course, limiting the damage that could have been done had he not.
Meanwhile, globalization and technological innovation have had profoundly negative effects on certain social cohorts, and public policies have failed to mitigate the damage.
As the Fed exhausts the power of traditional monetary instruments, it is heading into uncharted territory, with the potential of unpredictable outcomes and unprecedented collateral damage.
But Xi is unlikely to make any concessions, because doing so could damage his political standing within the CCP and undermine a central component of his political vision: the reassertion of political control over a dynamic society.
Ultimately, the key question looming over the summit is whether Xi will be able to offer enough to repair the damage done to Sino-US relations in recent years.
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