Difficulty
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While modern central banks had
difficulty
in dealing with inflationary shocks, it had been generations since they had seen a deflationary shock that they could not handle.
And without better intelligence and backing from the UN Security Council to impose significant, timely, and certain penalties on nuclear violators, the IAEA will have
difficulty
in fulfilling its security mandate.
The most important lesson of APEC’s failure is a recognition of the enormous
difficulty
found in constructing a broad enough, and yet politically acceptable, package when trade negotiations are limited to particular beneficiaries.
The problem is that many women have
difficulty
with breastfeeding, lack access to high-quality and timely lactation support, and face heavy demands, especially from work, that make lactation difficult to sustain.
Given the
difficulty
of boosting economic activity while confronting political obstacles, a more realistic medium-term forecast for annual GDP growth is probably around 4%.
But, as a significant component of Europe’s policy toward its most crucial neighbors, the successes of the Barcelona Process were modest: a great idea on the launch pad had
difficulty
getting off the ground.
But the refugee crisis has exposed the flipside of the Schengen Agreement – namely, the
difficulty
of monitoring national and EU territory without border controls.
Europe's lukewarm--if not outright hostile--response to John Paul II's revivalist preaching testifies to the
difficulty
of this assignment.
Instead, when they recognize that they are having
difficulty
competing internationally, they resort to protectionism.
In that case, both China and India, like most of the world’s economies, could find themselves in serious
difficulty
– with an outright contraction of Chinese exports, as in late 2008 and early 2009, and heightened external funding pressures for India.
Part of the Kremlin’s
difficulty
stems from its remarkable lack of vision – a fundamental failure to understand what Russia is, will be, or can become.
Germany should care about Spain’s
difficulty
in adjusting, because the resulting rise in European unemployment will be absorbed mostly by Spain unless the Spanish government accelerates the adjustment process by leaving the eurozone and devaluing.
As the months pass, both parties will probably find that they face their greatest political
difficulty
in managing the fringes of their own camps – rightists in the Conservative Party, who don’t like the centrist moderation of the coalition’s policies, and leftists in the Liberal Democratic Party who don’t want to support a largely Conservative government.
Both cases raise issues that neither Iran nor the US wants to see repeated – but that both will have
difficulty
avoiding.
The
difficulty
for Tadic lies in convincing Serbian voters that drawing closer to the EU is infinitely preferable to remaining attached to an outmoded concept of statehood that can only lead to isolation and backwardness.
Meanwhile, cooperation in the realm of cyberspace is just getting started – with
difficulty.
As party leader, Shorten continues to generate mixed reviews, not least because of the
difficulty
he sometimes seems to have in suppressing his instincts as a former trade-union apparatchik.
I had no
difficulty
reassuring him.
Traditional Keynesian frictions like the
difficulty
of reducing wages and benefits in some industries, as well as non-traditional frictions like the
difficulty
of moving when one cannot sell (or buy) a house, may share blame.
The reason for this is, in a way, simple: world leaders and statesmen react only to acute crises and have terrible
difficulty
in mobilizing their own attention - and in trying to galvanize popular support in their own countries - when a crisis is "only" dormant and not yet violent.
The
difficulty
of loosening limits on immigration will require Japan to mobilize its underused female human resources.
The real obstacle to reform is not the
difficulty
of treaty change; it is the bureaucracy’s resistance to ceding power.
Today, the growing strength of the region’s democracies is helping to heal the wounds of that violence, but the
difficulty
of incorporating global factors into national political analysis continues.
But Iraqi leaders’
difficulty
in forming a government following last spring’s elections bodes poorly.
Still, we must always bear in mind the
difficulty
of forecasting bubbles.
Those who see the world through those old, fearful lenses have
difficulty
understanding Turkey’s rising profile and dynamism.
It is easy to see why: making it easier to fire labor or start new businesses has little effect on hiring when firms already have excess capacity and have
difficulty
finding consumers.
The reforms were serious; but they did not go far enough, and they can be rolled back without much
difficulty.
Perhaps because they are older and more cynical, European societies seem to bask in a “collective moroseness,” from which they have
difficulty
emerging.
The diversity of social models across Europe, and the
difficulty
of reaching agreement on common rules, would have acted as a natural brake on the pace and scope of integration.
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