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Indeed, the Fed decided to delay raising interest rates partly because US policymakers expect dollar appreciation, by lowering import prices, to undermine their ability to meet their 2% inflation target.
A stronger dollar thus is not a legitimate reason to delay the normalization of US interest rates.
Moreover, while a preventive strike would delay Iran’s nuclear efforts, it would not stop the regime from rebuilding, and it might also create conditions that cause problems for the regime’s domestic opponents.
World leaders were slow to react to the crisis – and the delay caused tremendous suffering and loss of life.
The delay by the US represents a huge setback for the IMF.
Any delay by one country in moving in that direction would jeopardize efforts made in other countries.
This would be bad news for the German economy, which could delay possible ECB interest rate hikes.
Inaction or delay would be disastrous for the climate, but it would also be disastrous economically.
Indeed, European Commission President José Manuel Barroso has said that the EU may reject Scotland and Catalonia’s applications, or at least delay them considerably, even if the UK and Spain do accept their independence.
Such efforts aim to persuade North Koreans to freeze all missile and nuclear tests, in exchange for a scale-down and delay of annual joint exercises by US and South Korean forces.
The use of hormone blocking agents to delay puberty seems a reasonable option, as it offers both parents and children more time to make up their minds about this life-changing decision.
Such tactics enabled the industry to delay, for more than 50 years, regulation that could have saved millions of lives annually.
I believe that early adoption of the euro is not only possible, but preferable to delay.
Any delay in completing reforms will ultimately slow the process of real convergence that EU officials rightly hold dear.
But the run-up to the plebiscite has been fraught, with Sudan’s President Omar al-Bashir, who has been indicted by the International Criminal Court on charges of genocide in Darfur, seeking to delay, disrupt, and overshadow it.
Both the official minutes of the rate-setting meeting and Chairman Janet Yellen in her press conference mentioned heightened uncertainties abroad, including weakness in the Chinese economy, as key reasons to delay the Fed’s increase in interest rates.
But climate models demonstrate that Germany’s $156 billion expense will delay warming by just one hour at the end of the century.
The most important reason for this delay was the resistance of managers towards adapting the organization of labor in their firms to the new mode of production.
Bo Xilai Between the Dragon and His WrathLONDON – After a year of unexplained delay, the trial of Bo Xilai, the former Communist Party secretary of Chongqing municipality, is finally about to begin.
The delay in reaching an agreement enabled most private creditors to escape the consequences of their reckless lending to Greece.
Only at the climax will we know whether the effort to delay the inevitable contributed to undermining the idea of Europe for the current generation.
Not only has Italy’s new prime minister, Matteo Renzi, ramped up anti-austerity rhetoric;France plans again to delay meeting its obligation to reduce its deficit to below 3% of GDP within two years, and is calling for more flexibility in implementing the eurozone’s fiscal rules.
So far, those swaps have been forthcoming, but with delay and political baggage attached.
But 222 million girls and women worldwide who want to delay or avoid pregnancy are not using modern contraception.
Capital controls by themselves are no panacea, and they often create worse problems, such as corruption or a delay in needed reforms, than they solve.
If governments continue to dither and bicker, the most that it can do is delay the war for a while.
If governments continue to stumble from one patchwork remedy to another – a probability that remains uncomfortably high – the delay in implementing a comprehensive solution will eventually overwhelm the defenses that the ECB has so courageously put in place.
The five-day delay in allowing UN chemical-weapons experts to verify the attack gave Assad’s government ample time to conceal incriminating evidence, allow it to degrade, or destroy it with further shelling.
The first misstep was the ECB’s delay in tightening monetary policy, long after it had become obvious that interest rates had been held too low (at 2%) for too long (from June 2003 to December 2005).
He recently told the Los Angeles Times that such safeguards – earlier versions of which he helped to design – may only delay terrorists in using seized nuclear weapons.
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