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While the United States is ahead of the pack, some of its gains could soon be lost, as accumulating inventories begin eroding profits.
Just as inflation helps debtors by eroding the real value of their debts, deflation hurts them by increasing the real value of what they owe.
As a result, Europeans had shifted their attention to other issues, such as refugees and security, that were threatening political stability and eroding consensus for the European project.
The most dangerous force eroding the Treaty's credibility is the inclination of some nuclear-weapon states to reinterpret at will the package of agreements reached in the past.
The continued use of chemical weapons in the Syrian conflict is not only causing terrible suffering among the country’s civilian population; it also risks eroding the convention’s credibility.
The challenge for policymakers on both continents is to contain the rise of terrorism without eroding hard-won freedoms.
In an era defined by amoral political leadership and eroding social values, thinking about the essence of humanity has never been more important.
Moreover, the extensive use of fertilizers and pesticides – 99% of the world’s soy is genetically modified, and is routinely treated with pesticides – is also contaminating ground-water sources, destroying biodiversity, and eroding the soil.
Unloading at an Atlantic port instead of a southern European port thus entails substantial additional financial and environmental costs, eroding Europe’s competitiveness.
But the most important cause, the one that should be addressed before all others because it is eroding Israel’s very viability, is the near paralysis of the political system.
The filters that give users “what they want” had the effect of polarizing populations and eroding the legitimacy of fundamental democratic institutions (most notably, the free press).
Chest-thumping exceptionalism has given way to a more sober patriotism, in which ordinary citizens recognize the long-term trends eroding the promise of equal opportunity, particularly the shortcomings that beset the country’s health-care, education, and infrastructure systems.
The fact that loss-making enterprises were allowed to churn out cheap products, eroding the profitability of high-quality enterprises (and thus their incentive to invest), prolonged the deflation.
At the same time, democratic norms and institutions in the Western Balkans have been eroding.
In Beijing recently, Chinese analysts told me that they believe that Japan is entering a period of right-wing militaristic nationalism, and that purchasing the islands was a deliberate effort to begin eroding the post-WWII settlement.
And it is corruption, combined with a loss of accountability, that is eroding the checks and balances of India’s democratic order.
Then, in the early 1960s, Somalis in northern Kenya, with support from the Somali government in Mogadishu, fought for secession, further eroding regional stability and setting the stage for the failure of the Somali state in the early 1990s.
As China’s global economic role increases, its labor costs will rise and its currency will appreciate, eroding its competitiveness.
The underlying charge in the Chief Prosecutor’s indictment is that the AKP has been eroding secularism.
Even Greece, despite its rapidly eroding competitiveness and increasingly unsustainable fiscal path, could attract the capital that it needed.
Unsurprisingly, trust in Indian media is eroding.
But, above all, two key developments that have been eroding the liberal international order: the United States’ withdrawal from global leadership and Europe’s prolonged crisis.
International inaction on Syria is bad news not only for the country’s people; it is also eroding the legitimacy of one of the world’s most important multilateral institutions.
The so-called War on Terror that began in 2001 has evolved into multiple brutal conflicts that are destabilizing the entire Middle East, eroding people’s freedoms, undermining their safety, and transforming the very nature of their societies.
He can appease both factions by ending a naturalization policy that confers citizenship on foreign-born Sunnis, eroding the Shia majority.
The government would be forced to reduce spending, including on the military, throwing the economy into recession and eroding Venice’s international influence.
Major companies are snatching up stations across the United States and, in the process, eroding the scope and quality of local news reporting.
Furthermore, the decline in the working-age cohort would squeeze labor supply, fueling wage growth and eroding the country’s economic competitiveness.
Rather than demand an end to censorship now – an impossible dream – Google is working to make that happen by eroding government control over information.
In the last 18 months, the peso has appreciated 6% more than the renminbi, eroding Mexico’s ability to compete with Chinese exports to the US, by far Mexico’s largest export market.
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