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The rates are bounded by concerns about inflation, over-expansion of the state sector, and the central bank’s independence; but, with our relatively low levels of debt (Japan’s debt amounts to over 230% of its GDP) and depressed output and inflation, these limits are quite distant in the UK and the US.
With the Arab Spring an increasingly distant memory, the instability along this arc is deepening.
Although the payoff may seem distant, investing in today’s refugees could make all the difference in building tomorrow’s strong, stable trading partners.
The major banks’ recent effort, led by Citigroup, to convince the US Congress to repeal a key provision of the 2010 Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act that would have pushed much of their short-term trading to distant affiliates (which are not too big to fail) reinforces this interpretation.
The European imperial powers of the twentieth century would periodically hold out the distant prospect of independence to their colonial subjects – but not yet, not before they were ready, not before their Western masters had educated them to take care of themselves responsibly.
The very principles of multilateralism, a key pillar of global governance, seem to have become a relic from a distant past.
The Chinese foreign ministry responded by citing support for its positions from distant countries such as Sierra Leone and Kenya.
If Europeans do not want to go to war, and Americans do not want to get involved in protracted processes of institution building in distant places, an obvious potential for an international division of labor emerges.
Others, such as Margaret A. Boden of the University of Sussex and Oren Etzioni of the Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence, argue that human-level AI may be possible in the distant future, but that it is far too early to start worrying about it now.
The period of rapid progress is not in the distant past.
But that remains a distant prospect.
In the party’s primary last November, early polling had predicted a win for Alain Juppé, a prime minister under Sarkozy’s predecessor, Jacques Chirac, and had put Fillon a distant third behind Sarkozy himself (who was seeking to stage a political comeback).
It was already clear that Cameron wanted to push any possibility of a referendum into the most distant possible future.
How much to spend on foreign affairs and how to intervene in distant crises are important questions.
A United Kingdom embroiled in distant wars, asking itself whether it should disengage from continental Europe.
Despite these imposing obstacles to progress, there are reasons to believe that a cultural shift is afoot: researchers from geographically distant labs are forming non-traditional “federations” to combine their data sets, work on them collaboratively, and post the results for other scientists to analyze.
Murder in the ranks, starvation and suicides in distant army bases, run-away conscripts, even the spectre of soldiers selling out their fellow soldiers to Chechyn kidnappers, have become common in today's Russian military, which now sullenly sees itself as disgraced.
Let’s focus on resolving the most important of the problems – demilitarization, settlements, borders, and refugees – and allow the reality of peace to leave behind, or postpone until the distant future, the solution of problems that are essentially historical and theological.
For example, sub-Saharan African scientists should seek to tap distant yet potentially strong ties with expatriate scientists of African origin working in rich countries.
France, together with Great Britain, and with the more distant support of the US, is undeniably risking much, for it is easier to start a war than it is to end one.
If one wants to know how to deal with a banking crisis, the risk of a depression, or the threat of a default, it is natural to examine times when those dangers were around, rather than to rely on models that ignore such dangers or treat them as distant clouds.
Bellicose statements from the bowels of distant think tanks also have the unintended consequence of gaining support for North Korea among those who might be inclined, for whatever reason, to blame others for its behavior.
Indeed, there is a growing fear that a settlement of the Nagorno-Karabakh dispute is more distant now, because Turkey’s public backing has raised Azerbaijan’s expectations, while some Armenians fear collusion between neighbors out to railroad them into an unsustainable agreement.
The underlying theory is straightforward: if bosses can steal, distant owners will not buy shares.
Indeed, regulatory agencies like the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) arose because common-law fiduciary duties failed to protect distant owners.
The hubris of the Celtic Tiger years is a distant memory, owing to the worst recession in Ireland’s history as an independent state.
In it, he described a distant land where cartography – the science of making maps – was taken to ridiculous extremes.
Fairness and reasonableness are also distant goals, because there is vast disorder among Chinese law-making institutions, central and local alike.
But the UK, mortified by US President Donald Trump, has also grown more distant from the US, while France, under Macron, has grown somewhat closer.
Traditionally, the operation of commodity markets – corn, pork bellies, silver, and the like – has been quite distant from retail payments in stores like Starbucks.
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