Expansive
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China has been stretching the limits of regional (and US) tolerance with its
expansive
sovereignty claims and massive land-reclamation activity – some 2,000 acres in the last 18 months – on Fiery Cross Reef and elsewhere.
A tilt toward monetary rigidity and an
expansive
fiscal policy through a creeping abandonment of the EU Stability Pact.
If he were in an
expansive
mood, the professor might add that the effect of free trade on an economy’s growth rate is not clear, either, and depends on an altogether different set of requirements.
Pakistan has a large nuclear weapons program and faces an
expansive
jihadi insurgency, which previously attacked military bases suspected of housing nuclear assets.
In this vision, Latin superiority consists in a more
expansive
view of the state’s capacity to secure incomes and create wealth, and less of the “Protestant” obsession with the individual’s work.
The first revision in 18 years of the bilateral defense guidelines was concluded, giving Japan’s Self-Defense Forces an
expansive
role in providing logistical support to the US.
And it is a task that Egypt’s leaders cannot avoid, because the social contract of the Mubarak years, whereby Egyptians traded freedom for an
expansive
welfare state and generous subsidies, is no longer sustainable.
Will the Fund require the tough policy changes it has demanded of countries in the past, or will Lagarde’s need to show that she is not biased towards Europe mean that future IMF interventions will become more
expansive
and less demanding?
Thomas Bingham, former Lord Chief Justice and Senior Law Lord of the United Kingdom, proposed a somewhat more expansive, though clearly compatible, definition.
Ideologically, many people are simply suspicious of
expansive
government.
If a “surplus country” such as Germany wanted to lower non-wage labor costs and increase value-added tax in order to boost its competitiveness, it would simultaneously have to adopt an
expansive
fiscal policy to compensate for the negative effects on its partners’ foreign trade.
The African Development Bank (AfDB), the presidency of which I am currently seeking, has a far more
expansive
mandate.
And Saudi Arabia’s power is
expansive.
Mainly because they see that the governments of the world have cast a vast and
expansive
safety net over the major financial institutions and markets.
Sweeping emergency regulations remain in place, arming the security forces with
expansive
powers of search, arrest, and seizure of property.
By continuing to maintain its illegal occupation of Japanese territory, however, Russia precludes
expansive
Japanese involvement in this effort, effectively leaving the Chinese to dominate the region’s development.
Obama chose the second, more expansive, option, which generated more or less the opposite dynamic: benefits became risks.
But they also believed that government had to be willing to step in directly, through
expansive
fiscal policy, to keep the overall level of spending in an economy stable.
But South Korea’s then-president, Syngman Rhee, in violation of the treaty and international law, instituted the “Syngman Rhee Line” to demarcate an
expansive
area, including Takeshima, within which South Korea unilaterally claimed fishery jurisdiction.
China has rebuffed the landmark ruling by the Permanent Court of Arbitration, which knocked the bottom out of
expansive
Chinese territorial claims in the South China Sea and held that some of the country’s practices were in violation of international law.
And, as our transatlantic relationship has grown both stronger and more expansive, so has democracy, prosperity, and stability in Europe, the United States, and around the globe.
Just as important for non-Americans, only robust economic growth can ensure that the US sustains its
expansive
role in the world, which supports the global economy and contributes to stability in Europe, East Asia, and the Middle East.
Nobody outside the US could force it to restrain either its monetary policy, which was becoming increasingly
expansive
under President Richard Nixon, or its fiscal policy, marked by mushrooming deficits due to the costs of the Vietnam war.
Indeed, so
expansive
are China’s claims nowadays that many Asians are wondering what will satisfy China’s desire to secure its “core interests.”
If gruff diplomacy was the only manifestation of China’s
expansive
territorial claims, Asian leaders could sleep more peacefully.
His
expansive
agenda of re-crafting NATO, withdrawing from the Trans-Pacific Partnership, revising (or even eliminating) the North American Free Trade Agreement, and undermining the One-China policy all have one thing in common: his belief that the US can control the world’s political and economic destiny.
Strong economic growth and
expansive
monetary policies further boosted the trend, as did protectionist measures, such as export restrictions.
It only means that an
expansive
European deposit-insurance scheme should not be established even after the bad loans now on banks’ books are cleaned up.
Floods, meanwhile, wash sewage and fertilizer into water supplies, triggering
expansive
blooms of harmful algae that are either directly toxic to humans, or contaminate the fish and shellfish that humans consume.
Trump’s “America first” approach is obviously inconsistent with an
expansive
international leadership role and would lead the US down a path of isolationism.
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