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It lobbied regulatory agencies and Congress to delay or weaken reforms after they were enacted; urged Congress to block key nominees and withhold essential funding; and launched aggressive lawsuits to stymie implementation of important rules.
And yet, for all the woe, a resolution remains possible; to achieve it, five steps must be taken without delay.
As for the second objection, contrary to what most people assume, success in overcoming aging could itself give us breathing space to find solutions to the population problem, because it would also delay or eliminate menopause, enabling women to have their first children much later than they can now.
The authors call for a sequenced four-stage response: contain, delay, research, mitigate.
Our reporter was taught to encourage women to delay abortion and emergency contraception.
Senior WHO officials, for example, were criticized both for applauding the Chinese government’s efforts to contain the virus and for their own delay in declaring it an epidemic.
Instead, it granted a monopoly to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which proceeded to botch its first round of tests, causing a delay of several crucial weeks.
In an economy still reeling from near collapse, these policies inevitably will delay full recovery by raising costs and creating uncertainty.
After all, for every day that lawmakers delay, there will be even less hiring, more layoffs, and greater risk of corporate bankruptcies, especially among the growing number of companies whose financial resilience is eroding as they face tighter lending conditions and their cash burns continue.
Accordingly, the longer the delay, the greater the problems that any future package will have to address, and the harder it will be to design and implement.
With authorities unaware of COVID-19’s pathology or potential, they had to play catch-up – a delay that probably increased total fatalities.
Italy is paying a high price for its chronic delay in nurturing a digital culture.
Proposals in Parliament to seek a delay or to consider alternatives to May’s unpopular exit strategy were voted down.
The world must be made aware of the stakes: every delay, every concession, and every failure costs lives.
And as the Energy Transitions Commission described in its recent Mission Possible report, it is still possible to achieve that objective at relatively low economic cost, provided we adopt without delay the policies required to drive rapid change.
As Jesca Nsungwa Sabiiti, Uganda’s maternal and child health commissioner, has noted, the pandemic is likely to delay achievement of the targets even further.
But politics may have caused some of them to delay the switch to redistribution for far too long.
Every day of delay will add to the eventual stock of “stranded assets” once carbon prices have fully adjusted.
This is why the Elders, a group of independent global leaders, is calling on the international community to agree on a rigorous governance framework for geoengineering, and to put it in place without delay.
If Europe wants to prevent or at least delay that outcome, it must make substantial investments in its military and expand its own capabilities on a massive scale.
On one occasion, when Cohen was still, in his own words, prepared to “take a bullet” for his boss, he had to delay his son’s bar mitzvah ceremony, because Trump decided to show up late.
Waiting until another Ebola outbreak occurs may delay delivery of the vaccines.
In the US and the United Kingdom, governments are planning large fiscal packages to expand health-care provision, protect payrolls, provide additional unemployment insurance, delay tax payments, avert unnecessary bankruptcies, shore up the financial system, and help firms and households survive the storm.
Instead, the delay should be regarded as an opportunity for leaders to do their homework and lay the groundwork for a conference that places health considerations at the center of climate negotiations.
A protracted crisis in MICs – where emissions are increasing faster than in the developed world – will at best delay such efforts, and could have more damaging consequences.
The Communist Party of China’s clampdown on reporting about the outbreak, and its delay in informing the WHO, may well have reflected its determination to avoid taking the shine off Hu’s elevation.
That will mitigate the damage to balance sheets, prevent viable businesses from going bankrupt, and limit the kind of ripple effects that could delay the recovery.
Germany’s finance ministry is using lower-than-expected budget surpluses as an excuse to squeeze investment and delay tax cuts.
Carrying out such investigations effectively and without delay would restore the ICC’s credibility and bolster its ability to fulfill its intended role as a powerful force for international justice.
First, they must implement measures to stabilize commercial activity without delay.
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