Depend
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We all
depend
on people willing to sell to us, buy from us, lend to us, manage our savings, educate our kids, accommodate us at their hotels, feed us at their restaurants, connect us to the Internet, allow us to travel to their countries, pay with credit cards, and afford us the respect that people are normally entitled to.
Today’s great Pax Europa and today’s pan-European prosperity
depend
on this.
And, because an estimated three billion people
depend
on seafood as their primary source of protein, pirate fishing has significant food-security and humanitarian consequences as well.
We are obliged to ensure that the fish that we import is caught sustainably, so that our markets do not fuel the decline of the oceans and the fishing communities that
depend
on them, especially those in the poorest countries.
What is at stake are millions of jobs that
depend
on healthy oceans.
So property rights rely on courts and legal enforcement, and markets
depend
on regulators to rein in abuse and fix market failures.
In order to achieve growth targets, the government thus must
depend
on exports and investment – an approach that leads to the accumulation of massive reserves, which subsequently need to be sterilized.
Those analysts realized that most, if not all, of the solutions to the world’s biggest challenges
depend
on local or regional contexts.
Deficit reduction in a depressed economy is the road not to recovery, but to contraction, because it means cutting the national income on which the government’s revenues
depend.
In fact, some rapidly aging and slow-growing provinces already
depend
on central government subsidies.
Realizing Ahtisaari’s proposal will
depend
on EU solidarity and persistence, coupled with strong American support, to manage the vicissitudes of UN debate, lobby skeptical non-permanent Security Council members, such as Indonesia and South Africa, and persuade Russia to abstain rather than exercise its veto.
What struck me on both occasions was the sustained, and evidently successful, attempt to reach out to the two target groups upon whom the future of science and technology will
depend.
You and I may
depend
on each other, but if I
depend
on you less than you do on me, my bargaining power is increased.
In financial markets, the odds do
depend
on what people think.
Our ability to prevent “water wars” will
depend
on our collective capacity to anticipate tensions, and to find the technical and institutional solutions to manage emerging conflicts.
In the long run, this does not bode well for their global reputations, which
depend
on users’ trust in the openness and independence of their products and services.
Sometimes, a lack of professional freedom prevents those who may be most familiar with the data – for example, analysts whose livelihoods
depend
on the government(s) involved in the conflict – from using their expertise for purposes that could be politically damaging.
The outcome of future rounds in the struggle against jihadi terrorism will
depend
on our ability to avoid the trap of “jujitsu politics.”
But it will have to sustain labor productivity growth of at least 5% annually for the next 15-20 years – an outcome that will
depend
on rising urbanization and deepening technological progress.
And yet, given that the non-tradable sector is constrained by its reliance on domestic demand, recovery – if it comes – will
depend
on the tradable sector’s growth potential.
And whether the EU regains unity of purpose, or instead spirals into disarray, will
depend
on what happens now in Italy.
One problem is that development outcomes also
depend
on poor countries’ external economic environment, which is shaped by the policies of the major economies.
Another line of reasoning is that businesses that
depend
heavily on continuity – for example, hospitals, outsourcing firms in India, and stock exchanges – will invest in their own backup systems.
This holding pattern is particularly harmful because profound transformation will surely
depend
on financing from a sound sovereign bond market, which cannot function properly until uncertainty related to the government’s contingent liabilities – all those implicit guarantees – has been resolved.
In his groundbreaking General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money, John Maynard Keynes referred to “animal spirits” as “the characteristic of human nature that a large proportion of our positive activities
depend
on spontaneous optimism, rather than mathematical expectations, whether moral or hedonistic or economic.”
Facts will not be checked by those whose beliefs
depend
on not checking them.
But, as in the 1970’s, the success of Nigerian diplomacy will
depend
on the government’s ability to win legitimacy at home.
For the sake of the planet, and the people who
depend
on it, let us make 2015 Earth Year.
In turn, Lukashenko has decided for economic reasons that his country needs EU support and can no longer
depend
exclusively on Russia without paying a heavy political price.
And some in the US Congress want to cut food stamps – on which some 23 million American households depend, threatening the poorest children with hunger.
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