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Indeed, China must be mindful of India’s “core interests” as well, especially because it has grievously damaged at least one such interest by enabling Pakistan to develop nuclear weapons.
In 1967, another Labour government, led by Harold Wilson, was damaged by a devaluation spurred by a speculative attack;Labour lost the subsequent general election.
This severely damaged the government’s credibility.
Indeed, a politician's reputation can be damaged even if no one doubts the truthfulness of his statements.
What is not on the decline, though, is our exposure to risk and the high price that we pay in terms of lost jobs, destroyed or damaged homes, and disruption to education, health services, and transport infrastructure.
Finding that the pottery has been damaged in transit, they demand compensation from the airline.
The credibility of Europe’s national supervisory agencies has been irreparably damaged in recent years, owing to financial stress tests that gave clean bills of health to institutions – Laiki Bank of Cyprus and Bankia of Spain, among others – whose balance sheets were later found to have enormous holes.
In Sierra Leone, paralegals are monitoring officials’ compliance with a new free health-care policy, and representing a community whose land was unlawfully damaged by a firm mining iron ore.
A woman will have to carry an ectopic pregnancy, or a fetus so damaged that it cannot live, until complications become severe enough that her life is “directly” in danger.
Although Baghdad's strategic significance was limited, the British government needed a success to restore its international prestige, badly damaged by the failure of the Gallipoli expedition.
In the process, he damaged Russia’s reputation as a reliable supplier of natural gas.
China, for example, would lose from an attack that severely damaged the American economy, and vice versa.
To be sure, the Ottoman mosaic is badly damaged and in the process of slowly disintegrating.
In the early 1970's a major methyl mercury-poisoning catastrophe occurred in which an estimated 10,000 people died and 100,000 were severely and permanently brain damaged.
In his effort to restore seemingly irreparably damaged relations with the West, Gaddafi has played the oil and gas cards that he holds extremely well.
For China, mending relations with its Southeast Asian neighbors, which have been damaged by territorial disputes, is a higher priority.
In addition, construction in coastal areas damaged by extreme events could be prohibited, as has been done in Hilo, Hawaii.
Dogs showing symptoms may bite a human, but they can also transmit the virus simply by licking if their saliva comes into contact with a scratch, damaged skin, or mucosa.
Even if there were a government willing and able to carry out the necessary fiscal adjustment, the political fallout of the Petrobras affair has damaged Brazil’s credibility severely.
Severe lapses in bank regulation – in Germany, Britain, and perhaps France – have damaged the credibility of national systems of supervision.
Indeed, China’s policies have damaged its relations with nearly all of its neighbors.
This potential could be used to repair damaged circuits.
But Russia, too, has unnecessarily damaged its international image.
The spent fuel in pools adjacent to each reactor, containing more radioactivity than the reactors themselves, has also been severely damaged, has leaked radioactivity, and is still without needed stable cooling.
In the process, the US damaged the reputation for effective economic management that it had earned during the global financial crisis, when bold and timely measures prevented a period of reckless private risk-taking and financial leverage from ending in Great Depression II.
But it will be endangered if the credibility of the WTO is damaged by a Doha Round failure.
In both of these cases, and in many others, brand power did more than lead to price behavior that was disconnected from fundamentals; it also caused a dangerous overshoot, which, when subsequently reversed, damaged the brand.
They will have materially damaged their standing and, consequently, the future effectiveness of their policy stance.
To be sure, the EU’s lengthy internal crisis over the proposed constitution was a major distraction, and damaged the Union’s reputation in the Balkans.
Agriculture there has been damaged by the cutting of walnut, apricot, and mulberry trees for winter fuel, and by a failure to replant poplar, willow, and tamarisk – the trees that hold fragile meadows in place.
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