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Good reasons to delay exist.
The damage of not enlarging Nato soon just as the damange of not introducing the "Euro" in January 1999 will far outweigh anything that might be gained by delay.
Indeed, the fragility of the global economic recovery is often cited as a justification to delay such action.
In spite of their desire not to raise them, European leaders face the uncomfortable prospect of having to answer them – and without much delay.
Often embodying the properties of “natural monopolies,” they are not only shielded from disruption but can also repress and delay beneficial innovations.
All they can achieve with their current policy of rejection is to delay the much-needed stabilization of the region following the break-up of Yugoslavia, and to make life miserable for Kosovo and its people.
In addition, some member governments, like those of Germany and Austria, have demonstrated serious anxiety that EU enlargement will incite a flood of job-seekers from Central and Eastern Europe, and made clear that they will demand a long delay in granting free movement of labour to any new member state.
According to the International Energy Agency, for example, a ten-year delay in deploying CCS would increase the cost of decarburizing the power sector by €750 billion ($880 billion).
Encouraging victims to speak and then giving the defendant the right to filibuster the proceedings by touting his merits as a political leader amounts to a formula for infinite delay.
If we continue to delay military action, we will have to intervene with greater force when the carnage spreads to Lebanon, Israel, Jordan, Turkey, and Iraq.
Cambodia’s long delay complicates the task of preserving evidence, including human memory, that is so essential to proving guilt.
Hence, everybody waits for others to move first, creating obvious delay.
It would be a mistake of historic proportions to delay it.
But most Indians believe that the BJP pressured the EC to delay the announcement as long as possible, so that it could attract voters with last-minute giveaways that had nothing to do with flood relief.
This will not only delay the restoration of economic growth, but will also have dire political consequences.
Everyone should be governed according to law, insulated from the personal discretion of those in power, and legal disputes should be resolved without prohibitive cost or inordinate delay.
But, as recent experience has shown, a change in such conditions can force countries either to allow currency depreciation or to delay it by purchasing large amounts of local currency using the central bank’s foreign-currency reserves.
The House of Lords will almost certainly vote no, but can only delay.
This will create considerable opportunities for obstruction and delay from the anti-Brexit majority there, at a time when a slowdown– a direct result of the Brexit vote – will be sapping the government’s popularity.
Does this mean additional delay in the process of EU enlargement?
But that is no reason to delay the expansion of investment cooperation.
Senate Democrats, for their part, worked hard to delay approval of Trump’s cabinet nominations, undermining further the administration’s functioning.
In this sense, the EU’s decision to delay implementing its association agreement with Ukraine in order to create space to pursue consensus with Russia is a positive indicator.
For Brazil, Russia, India, and China, the delay in reforming the IMF is a serious annoyance.
And they regard this outcome as the worst-case scenario, one that implies a delay of any further economic measures, deep policy uncertainty, and the risk of an even less favorable electoral outcome.
Jobs could be eliminated by technology, but not by global competition; and, unsustainable, debt-fueled domestic-demand growth helped to delay the current employment deficits.
With Cataphora’s new software tool called Digital Mirror, you can see the top asymmetries in your own relationships: whom you respond to before others versus whom you postpone, reschedule, or otherwise delay – and who does the same to you.
Even without adding energy exports to its diplomatic arsenal, Russia may take steps to mitigate that risk, by encouraging Iran to delay reaching a final nuclear agreement with the international community.
The problem is not that science and medicine wish to avoid finding cures; it is that they are too strongly motivated by an irrational, unconscious need to cure death to be fully motivated by the lesser task of preventing and curing disease in order to delay their patients’ – and their own – inevitable ends.
So, do such practices constitute a real threat to the conventions for protecting the stratospheric ozone, or are they “only” a factor that will delay the final phase-out of CFC’s within years or a decade?
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