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Even though there was no official guarantee, the US government’s failure to come to the rescue could destroy confidence in government debt, and, by association, other financial paper as well.
The housing bubble was bursting by last fall, and banks with large mortgage holdings started reporting huge losses, sometimes big enough to destroy the bank itself, as in the case of Bear Stearns.
We cannot afford to sacrifice a generation, or, rather, risk creating a lost generation that could destroy Europe’s social fabric and stability.
The first feature of the liberal order is that democracies must not tolerate those who set out to destroy democracy.
He can hardly afford to start another round of fighting that would destroy everything again.
If Putin has indeed set out to destroy the EU, such an approach is the best way to help him.
After all, Russia is the one country with enough missiles and nuclear warheads to destroy the US.
Whether reform momentum is maintained will depend largely on whether the government recognizes that the crash was the result of a regulatory failure, or remains adamant that it was the work of some nefarious foreign force, determined to destroy the Chinese economy.
A military coup is not the only way to destroy a free society.
We stood before a stark alternative: either destroy that social peace by anticommunist witch-hunts or reform the old regime and move ahead to a new era of national peace and economic prosperity.
Indeed, Iran is the only country that openly declares its desire to destroy another member of the United Nations.
Israel never said that it wants to destroy Iran;Israel never openly proclaimed that it would enrich uranium and build nuclear bombs in order to destroy another country.
But that does not mean that we can afford to ignore an obvious threat from countries that want to destroy us.
The disease does not just destroy lives; it also impoverishes families and undermines economic growth.
But the stakes are high; another failure could reignite civil conflict and all but destroy any remaining hope for reconciliation.
With a general election to be held by the end of May, voters should insist that those who seek to represent them in Parliament go there to debate and deliberate, not to disrupt and destroy.
This kind of thinking helped the Nazis destroy German democracy in the 1930’s.
For example, Kaiser Wilhelm II dismissed Otto von Bismarck as chancellor in 1890, less than 20 years after the formation of the Second Reich, and began to destroy Bismarck’s carefully crafted alliance network.
The deflationary debt trap is threatening to destroy a still-incomplete political union.
If you want to negotiate a change of tack with your creditors, you are unlikely to succeed if you destroy your own credibility and rant and rave about those whose money you need to avoid default.
The truth probably lies somewhere in the middle – the microfinance sector has made some mistakes, which politicians have exaggerated in an effort to destroy an industry that undermines them by making the poor more independent.
The Earth is 45 million centuries old, but our century is unique, because it is the first in which a species could destroy the entire basis of its own existence.
NATO troops should be given the green light to help the Afghan army fight opium – destroy the heroin labs, disband the opium bazaars, attack the opium convoys, and bring the big traders to justice.
And he reminded the executives that, “Civilization requires energy, but energy use must not destroy civilization!”
Though the continent is responsible for only 4% of greenhouse-gas emissions, it is suffering more than any other continent from climate change, as rising temperatures, shifting seasons, and proliferating droughts deplete biodiversity, destroy ecosystems, and undermine security and stability.
They not only hold fast to their nuclear industries; they mismanage those industries’ waste, which can destroy ecosystems, from oceans to forests, while infecting humans with deadly diseases.
As Vladimir Lenin once reputedly put it, “the surest way to destroy the capitalist system [is] to debauch its currency.”
Conversely, a crash in house prices does not destroy any real wealth (the houses still stand).
Unless Merkel comes to her senses, she will eventually destroy it.
A more practical problem is that Russia lacks the capability to destroy space-traveling ballistic missiles.
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