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But such tough rhetoric might create a dilemma for Obama.
The dilemma in Britain is the same as that of any West European country: the move by left-of-center parties to the middle ground, and their acceptance of market forces, means that right-of-center parties have lost their traditional claim to govern on the grounds of economic moderation and good sense.
America’s support for democracy in the region heightens its dilemma.
But he has been maneuvered into a peculiar dilemma.
India, the land of asylum for the Dalai Lama and the angry young hotheads of the Tibetan Youth Congress, finds itself on the horns of a dilemma.
The answer comes down, in part, to the so-called prisoner’s dilemma.
Game theory, which provides mathematical models of conflict and cooperation between rational decision-makers, has generally not offered much in the way of desirable strategies for overcoming this dilemma, let alone an optimal strategy for resolving actual conflicts.
Axelrod held tournaments among major game theorists and political scientists to identify the most effective approach in a repeated game of prisoner’s dilemma.
To grapple with this dilemma, we must understand culture's place in human life.
Governments face a dilemma.
Don’t Follow The FedThe US Federal Reserve faces a dilemma, for it needs to continue raising interest rates in the face of a hurricane-devastated economy.
Caught on the horns of this dilemma, the Fed could do nothing to solve America’s problems.
Given these facts, there is no dilemma about whether it is necessary to act.
Spain may soon face a similar dilemma.
The unpopularity of Hong Kong's incompetent and sycophantic Chief Executive, chosen by China for a second five-year term that will only end in 2007, creates a grave dilemma for the country's communist rulers.
So the Saudi dilemma has been heightened, not lessened, by its changed stance on Iraq.
In essence, the EU’s fundamental dilemma is not that different from NATO’s.
For many elected officials, migration poses a complex political dilemma: how to reconcile their citizens’ demands with the interests of migrants.
The incompatibility of the national goal (maintaining the parity) and America’s international role as sole provider of the reserve currency was the essence of the dilemma that the Belgian economist Robert Triffin foresaw (as early as 1960) as a risk to the Bretton Woods system.
One way or another, China will figure prominently in the resolution of this modern “Triffin dilemma.”
The only way out of this dilemma is to set a reachable and realistic goal.
The Fed’s dilemma results form the long lag that occurs before monetary policy takes effect – nine months or so – which means that the Fed must front-load its action before it gets to see what the Treasury does.
What to do about it poses a grave dilemma for the Organization of American States (OAS).
The combination of the highest share of Catholics in the world with a decline in the share of religious adherents leaves Francis facing a strategic dilemma.
At the root of the problem are the structural trade and current-account imbalances that arise from the so-called Triffin dilemma: in order to meet global demand for the US dollar as a reserve currency, the United States must run persistent current-account deficits with the rest of the world.
Of course, the Triffin dilemma can be avoided, and America’s outsize influence over the monetary system reduced.
A more serious dilemma arises if one of the countries is targeting or even fixing the exchange rate, as many Latin American governments did to kill off high inflation in the late 1980’s and early 1990’s.
And may they be spared the dilemma, depicted in Roth’s novel, of having to choose between two equally dreadful fates: that of the victim, Winchell, or the willing hostage, Bengelsdorf.
In one dilemma, you are standing by a railroad track when you notice that a trolley, with no one aboard, is heading for a group of five people.
In another dilemma, the trolley, as before, is about to kill five people.
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