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The reason is simple: a government default would destroy the credit system as we know it.
Many banks would have a similar problem: a collapse in US Treasury prices (the counterpart of higher interest rates, as bond prices and interest rates move in opposite directions) would destroy their balance sheets.
When, despite unbearable pain, you are interrogated – including in your cell – for dozens of hours without a break, and an authoritarian regime’s entire system of coercion, including its media, is trying to discredit and destroy you once and for all, prayer becomes the only intimate, trusting, and reassuring conversation that one can have.
Excessive wages destroy the labor-intensive upstream product stages too fast and also impairs other labor-intensive sectors like textiles, simple services, tourism, and construction.
Stalin, Hitler, and Mao did their best to destroy buildings and works of art associated with cultures and ideas viewed as dangerous.
Leaders wishing to mold a society around a new and different set of ideas, loyalties, and forms of behavior first need to destroy adults’ existing identities and prevent the transmission of these identities to children.
This is desirable for many reasons, including the fact that those who destroy cultural sites, and enslave and kill innocent men, women, and children, acquire the resources they need in part from the sale of looted treasures.
There is no substitute for stopping those who would destroy cultural property before they do it.
If a gradual process of disintegration eventually makes a eurozone breakup unavoidable, the path chosen by Germany and the ECB – large-scale financing for the eurozone periphery – would destroy the core central banks’ balance sheets.
And just one or two nuclear weapons could effectively destroy a country of Israel’s size.
During the election campaign, Trump described climate change as a “hoax” perpetrated by the Chinese to destroy American industry.
Such an operation would make America appear to be doing Israel’s bidding – even George W. Bush refused when former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert asked the US to attack a Syrian nuclear reactor – and destroy Obama’s strategy of reconciliation with the Muslim world.
Though Trump seemed to suggest during the campaign that he would do all of these things, he will inevitably be confronted with the far-reaching consequences of decisions that would destroy the global order.
But it is hard to imagine that a one-party regime would be willing to destroy its political base.
He understands better than anyone that misguided fiscal and monetary policies have been the underlying cause of Europe’s economic underperformance, and are largely responsible for the political tensions threatening to destroy the EU.
It will destroy the EU if the bureaucracy remains incapable of reform.
According to Perminov, the proposals that Roscosmos is considering do not envision trying to destroy the asteroid, but rather to use the laws of physics to change its path.
A few scientists, and many science-fiction writers, have also speculated about using nuclear weapons to destroy or damage an asteroid, comet, meteor, or alien spacecraft heading toward the earth.
So is the fact that state officials threatened Guardian editor Alan Rusbridger with criminal charges and forced Guardian employees to destroy computer equipment at the newspaper’s offices.
But we must be more ambitious if we are to win the war of ideas, sustaining the cultural space that Daesh calls the “the grey zone,” which it longs to destroy.
There is a real danger that the euro will destroy the EU and leave Europe seething with resentments and unsettled claims.
Eurobonds would imply lingering soft budget constraints and huge political moral hazard effects that would destroy the European model.
We would destroy the German building boom, which is beginning to lead to higher wage demands and that has the potential for inflating the country.
But any strategy that aims to destroy Hamas as a political force, were it feasible, would only aggravate the crisis by transforming Hamas into a cluster of violent armed groups with which dialogue would be almost impossible.
If a similar virus has infected a cell’s parent, the descendant will recognize it, and ad hoc machinery will destroy it.
For example, in the case of cancer, we would want to destroy those genes that allow the multiplication of tumor cells.
As in Vietnam, America had to destroy the city in order to save it.
In both cases, independent institutions begin to be perceived as enemies, which the caudillos and their client corporate groups seek to destroy.
Finally, Obama should promise to continue working with likeminded entities to degrade and destroy the Islamic State.
All occupied European societies were complicit to some degree in the Nazi effort to destroy the Jews.
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