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Berlusconi regards his “commercial diplomacy” as a formidable defensive weapon, which may help explain why he is not too concerned about how his actions in this area are perceived on the international front.
And, while a flagging economy may explain a small portion of the drop in US carbon emissions, the EIA emphasizes that the major explanation is natural gas.
Indeed, Zidane’s status as an emblematic champion of the world’s most universal and popular sport does not fully explain why people have been so obsessed with him.
Now someone needs to explain it to Trump.
To be sure, there are cases where the absence of trust-building efforts could partly explain why a conflict drags on.
(And, as I explain in my new book The Curse of Cash, Bitcoin can hardly be considered a long-term substitute for large-denomination bills.)
But, given that these parties are competing with the far right for the same disenchanted voters, their humanism on these issues has become a severe political handicap, which may explain why the extreme right has lately been more successful electorally.
Information is at work on each level and comfortable theories explain how the separate ones operate.
Beyond this, there are at least 17 other narratives to explain dollar weakness.
Economists will no doubt point to current-account positions to explain what is happening.
Genetic research, in particular, must be free to find new models to explain, and enhance, twenty-first-century scientific discovery.
I have no idea why Casablanca is an up-and-coming center, and the GFCI’s compilers do not explain.
But the real challenge for Obama is to do more to explain what the “pivot” means, because already his bold side trip to the unfinished project in Myanmar is being perceived as yet another effort to contain or, worse, encircle China.
This may explain why, once an emotion is aroused, it is so hard for us to turn it off at will.
This may explain why most of the administration’s protectionist rhetoric comes from Trump and some of his academic advisers, and not from the experienced CEOs who occupy key cabinet positions.
The phrase “new normal” is a clever bit of messaging by China’s leaders, who must explain to the country’s 1.4 billion citizens why the economy will no longer be growing by 10% a year.
And difficult macroeconomic conditions explain little (if any) of the slowdown in Medicare spending per enrollee since 2001.
The Council of Economic Advisers, whose members write the president’s report, surmise that structural changes – including stronger incentives for efficiency by hospitals and providers, more cost-sharing in insurance policies, and the substitution of generic drugs for branded drugs – explain most of the deceleration in per capita spending growth.
And dogs don’t gesture with their forepaws or use an elaborate grammatical language when trying to explain things.
Such terms seek to borrow legitimacy from the past and to explain the present – in a way that most serious scholars of either Islam or terrorism never found very helpful.
The objective is not to account for everything, but rather to pinpoint a small number of variables than can explain key factors, albeit neither perfectly nor fully.
The OBR, reviewing its recent mistakes, accepted that “the average [fiscal] multiplier over the two years would have needed to be 1.3 – more than double our estimate – to fully explain the weak level of GDP in 2011-12.”
Financial analysts are inclined to explain it in terms of America’s extraordinarily well-developed financial markets, which promise unparalleled liquidity.
This might explain some right-wing populists’ animus against monarchy.
But that account does not explain why the generals soon allied with another “fundamentalist” group (a faction of Algeria’s Muslim Brotherhood, Mouvement pour la société Islamique) and gave them several top posts, including control of the Ministry of Religious Affairs and Endowments.
In order to limit the consequences of disagreement, Americans should explain their position and offer alternatives when a proposed international arrangement is deemed undesirable.
To explain the rise in inequality that began in the 1980s and has accelerated since the turn of the century, many have pointed out that indicators of globalization, such as the trade-to-GDP ratio, have also risen since 1980.
This may help to explain why Trump’s scheduled state visit to the UK has been postponed indefinitely.
During this winter’s crisis with Iraq, the Clinton administration sent messages to Khatami’s government to explain the dispatch of additional American ships and military personnel to the Persian Gulf, and to pledge a limited American deployment based on Iraqi behavior.
An overabundance of certainty might explain the 2000-2001 dot-com bubble, and many others.
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