Decision
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Those who do not are often victims of their family’s
decision
to put them to work or marry them off as child brides.
No matter how much central banks may wish to present the level of inflation as a mere technocratic decision, it is ultimately a social choice.
So an invasion might have led to the death of 80 million Americans and the obliteration of Cuba simply because Kennedy’s government did not have the facts right (which is often more common than not when the executive must take a solitary decision.)
So did the US deficit, which resulted from the failure to finance the second Iraq war with new taxation – a
decision
rooted in the wild miscalculation that the war would be finished in six weeks.
This means that our
decision
on where to draw the poverty line probably will influence not just the World Bank’s mission but also the development agenda of the UN and all countries around the world.
Given that we are already committed to the goal of ending extreme, chronic poverty by 2030, our first
decision
was to hold the yardstick for measuring poverty constant.
The sources cited by Vanity Fair confirm that the intelligence on which the team made the
decision
to “go in” was impressionistic and incomplete (that is, the target, judging from the length of his shadow, was “tall and thin” like Bin Laden, but his identity was not 100% certain).
Jongen described Chancellor Angela Merkel’s
decision
to give shelter in Germany to large numbers of refugees from Middle Eastern wars as “an act of violence” toward the German people.
More than 50 distinguished US academics signed a letter protesting the Hannah Arendt Center’s
decision
to invite Jongen to speak.
But the first argument is surely false – a desperate attempt at reputation management by those responsible for a disastrous
decision.
Any kind of bold
decision
essentially requires unanimity.
Worse still, US President Donald Trump’s recent
decision
to withdraw the US from the 1987 Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty with Russia raises the threat of a renewed arms race.
Indeed, before announcing its decision, the Court felt it necessary to state that while it did not conclude that the Convention had been violated, statistics still revealed “worrying figures, and the situation in general in the Czech Republic regarding Roma children’s education needs to be improved.”
The Court’s president, Jean-Paul Costa, expressed a similar view, without questioning the legitimacy of the decision, although Judge Cabral Barreto wrote a dissenting opinion.
It is this imperative that underlies the importance of the coming decision, for it provides an occasion for the Court to reassert the fundamental principle of non-discrimination that defines our democratic societies.
The
decision
has been postponed until early next year.
Yet it has managed to thrive, thanks partly to its unorthodox
decision
to unlock its public wealth by incorporating portfolios of assets into public-wealth funds, making professional managers responsible for public commercial assets.
The
decision
to permit foreign direct investment in multi-brand retail and civil aviation has been pursued, even at the cost of losing a recalcitrant coalition ally.
In Europe, anti-establishment parties have been gaining ground in local, regional, and national elections, complicating government formation (for example, in Spain) and influencing major policy decisions (such as the UK Conservative Party’s
decision
to hold the upcoming “Brexit” referendum).
It could not have been an easy decision: Whereas President Vladimir Putin and his government campaigned in 2012 on a promise that the Russian economy would grow at 5-6% per year during his six-year term, the growth rate is now expected to average just 2.8% from 2013 to 2020.
As ever, the unpredictable – a terrorist atrocity or a rash
decision
by a national leader – will take its toll.
The European Central Bank’s belated embrace of quantitative easing was a welcome step forward, but policymakers’ enormously destructive
decision
to shut down a member state’s banking system – for what appears to be political reasons – is a far larger step backward.
In the run-up to the downgrade, an analyst at Moody’s said that the
decision
would be based largely on whether the government heeded the Gallois report’s call for a “competitiveness shock” to France’s economy.
To gauge public opinion in advance of a
decision
scheduled for later this year on whether to allow commercial planting of GM crops, the British government sponsored (at great expense) a series of public discussions around the country.
Indeed, China’s phenomenal economic success – illustrated by its world-beating trade surplus, world’s largest foreign-currency reserves, and highest steel production – owes a lot to the West’s
decision
not to sustain trade sanctions after the Tiananmen Square massacre.
Rivero made his
decision
to go beyond the revolution's definition of journalism in 1989, when he broke from the writer's union and joined with nearly a dozen other intellectuals to sign an open letter raising the issue of political prisoners.
But this is also how many people felt back in 2001, when George W. Bush beat Al Gore, following an extraordinary Supreme Court
decision
that ended the vote recount in Florida.
China has made a conscious strategic
decision
to alter its growth strategy.
In this context, the IMF and major governments should support Venezuela’s
decision
to treat would-be holdouts no better than creditors with which it reaches agreement.
That decision, notes Pat Roberts, a Republican senator from Kansas, “is not going to go down well in farm country.”
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