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After the Catalan parliament declared independence, the Spanish national government invoked a constitutional provision to take administrative control of the region, escalating the crisis.
Of course, Germany is not the only country in the world facing healthcare costs that are unnecessarily escalating unnecessarily because of over-stimulated demand and inadequate competition on the supply side.
When Europeans were offered healthcare on the cheap, they grabbed for it, not realizing that they were buying into a system of ever escalating healthcare costs and eventual disenfranchisement.
America’s main goal is to prevent the standoff from escalating to the point that it would be forced – against its own interests – to take Japan’s side.
Yet, again, when Xi refused to yield to Trump’s demands, the US president did not hesitate to hit back “using Chinese tactics,” including suddenly changing negotiating positions and unpredictably escalating trade tensions.
If anything, Israel has accelerated settlement construction since the latest round of talks began, while escalating its demands, especially regarding the stationing of Israeli troops in the Jordan Valley.
To resolve them quickly – and thus to deter the social and economic instability that could arise from escalating conflicts – China needs reliable, affordable, and independent mechanisms that separate specific economic interests from broader political and social objectives.
Now preparing to take power, Trump is using many of the same tactics he used during the campaign, prioritizing rallies over press conferences, weighing in on the US comedy show “Saturday Night Live” instead of focusing on, say, the escalating crisis in Syria.
The US is killing massive numbers of Iraqi civilians, embittering the population and the Islamic world, and laying the ground for escalating violence and death.
Thus, Iraq is seeing both escalating intra-sectarian violence and cautious steps towards inter-sectarian alliances.
Escalating oil-prices created a super-rich feudal aristocracy in the Gulf States.
A key challenge will be to avoid escalating credit risk, which could undermine the process of reform and rebalancing.
There will be no end to the vicious circle of escalating violence without a political settlement of the Palestine question.
For example, China began pressing territorial claims in the South China Sea, as well as escalating a longstanding border dispute with India.
Recent months have witnessed no terrorist incidents, no escalating rhetoric, and no diplomatic flashpoints.
In light of the escalating violent repression of the opposition Movement for Democratic Change – and of those whose support apparently helped the MDC to prevail in the presidential election, the results of which have still not been announced after four weeks – an international arms embargo on Zimbabwe is urgently needed.
The Democratic Hopes of IraqisThe escalating violence in Iraq gives a bleak impression of that country’s prospects.
Demands for political and economic reform are escalating.
For six months we have seen escalating violence and repression.
On one occasion, some UN personnel were trapped in a rapidly escalating conflict zone.
So, after the November elections, the strong US economy may be threatened by an escalating trade war or the specter of higher taxes.
That befits the year of the tiger in Chinese astrology – a year in which China roared by ratcheting up tensions with neighbors from Japan to India by escalating territorial feuds.
But such small-scale schemes will be inadequate to meet escalating demand for helium in Asia.
Making matters worse, escalating geopolitical and trade tensions threaten to set us back, rather than take us forward.
It will produce a juggernaut of escalating regulation and surveillance, which will reduce trust further and encourage cheating.
The Middle East crisis demonstrates the disturbing consequences of this: lack of a clear US policy towards that escalating conflict has clearly been caused by target confusion.
The crisis was the product of escalating short-termism in financial markets.
With American influence at low ebb, the world is in danger of sliding into a vicious cycle of escalating violence.
Given rising natural-resource scarcity and the escalating risk of supply-chain disruption owing to extreme weather events linked to climate change, companies can no longer afford to ignore their activities’ externalities.
But the Bush administration can seek ways to contain global energy prices – and it should begin by refusing to be baited into escalating tensions whenever Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad pleases.
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