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Here the task is to build roads, air links, and internet connectivity to help these distant regions create productive ties with the world.
This may seem like a distant prospect; but if the security situation on the peninsula is resolved, it would not be out of the question.
More importantly, the Taliban in government would not necessarily support Islamic insurgencies in other countries or engage in distant terrorist attacks in Western countries, whereas al-Qaeda almost certainly would.
It is in fact, to quote T.S. Eliot, that “awful daring of a moment’s surrender...”Greece will now need to grind away at austerity, hoping that in some distant future “internal devaluation” – that is, wage and price deflation – will help to spark a recovery.
European unification never meant to limit freedom by expropriating individual rights in favor of a distant supranational power.
The connections between state and citizen have become increasingly distant, leading to the loosening of the social bonds that hold the nation together.
Balance-sheet considerations rank, at best, a distant fourth on the list of worthy monetary-policy goals.
But while such a future may indeed arrive, it remains, for the moment, a distant prospect.
More recently, despite its impressive hard-power resources, South Korea has found that an alliance with a distant power like the United States continues to provide a useful insurance policy for life in a difficult neighborhood.
Former Prime Minister Tony Blair’s incomplete devolution made the English the UK’s only people not to have their own dedicated assembly or parliament, leaving them dependent on a Westminster parliament that many feel is distant and unrepresentative of their concerns.
For me, Ockhi was no distant headline.
It is more feasible to diversify the supply chain, albeit incrementally, by importing gas from distant producers rather than from monopolistic suppliers next door.
Previously, patients would travel to distant health clinics only to find that the medicines that they needed were no longer in stock.
In this social context, and if economic hardship persists, protests and even revolt may not be a distant prospect.
But, despite the best efforts of governments, reaching those goals by the 2015 target date still remains a distant prospect for many countries, not the least of in Africa.
After the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks in the US, many Americans drove to distant locations rather than fly, even though statistics showed that flying remained far safer.
An international treaty regarding how to regulate drone use also is a possibility, though a distant one.
While a crawling-peg system can eliminate short-term depreciation expectations, thereby reducing the associated capital outflows, it cannot eliminate depreciation expectations in the more distant future, let alone reduce capital outflows unrelated to depreciation expectations.
The Islamic State is attempting to return to an even more distant past.
In sum, those determining policy were distant from the pain.
This seems a distant memory after the steady decline in prices in Greece since 2013, alongside a debt crisis and collapse in output.
Nonetheless, much of the development-policy community remains stuck in the distant past.
Such a scenario might appear to be a distant dream today, given the region’s myriad conflicts.
As a result, diversification of Russia’s economy seems a distant prospect – all the more so because Russia’s bureaucracy, together with the state’s interest in “strategic” areas of the economy, repels foreign business.
And the US is an especially distant outlier when it comes to families: only three other countries – Tonga, Suriname, and Papua New Guinea – lack a national policy on paid family leave.
Never have the European Union and Turkey needed one another more, and yet rarely have they been so distant.
Likewise, buying a home is a distant dream.
But, although the revolutions toppled dictators and transformed societies, these core objectives remain as distant as ever.
Back in 2012, when Putin appeared onstage with the Nobel laureate economist Paul Krugman at a Moscow bank conference, Russia’s 1998 economic crisis seemed a distant memory.
Moreover, surveys of consumer expectations show that US households expect prices to rise at more than 2% in both the coming year and the more distant future.
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