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As a result, immigration is to some
extent
rationed, based on some combination of time spent waiting, family ties, education and skills, and even lotteries.
But there are limits to the
extent
of such cooperation – or rather, the
extent
to which common rules can be enforced.
These include demographics, fiscal conditions, social policies that affect income distribution, access to public services, the
extent
of upward mobility, the backlog of past extra-legal immigration, the ethnic composition of the country, and the values that define national identity.
We no longer live in that US-centric world, where the Fed was the only game in town and changes in its monetary policy powerfully influenced liquidity conditions at home and to a large
extent
globally.
It is difficult to determine the
extent
to which the Fed’s QE1 during the crisis owed its success in bringing interest rates down to the fact that it was being reinforced by what foreign central banks worldwide – notably in Asia – were doing simultaneously.
To what
extent
do we accept a world where the non-rich die in situations in which the rich would live?
To what
extent
do we hold on to our belief that when it comes to saving lives, medical care should be distributed on the basis of patients’ needs, not their wealth?
To a certain extent, governments have no choice in going after middle-class entitlements.
The influence and effectiveness of diplomats and international civil servants will increasingly depend on the
extent
to which they can mobilize scientific and technical expertise in their work.
Although this time, the gains presumably will be smaller and slower to arrive, owing to the likely pace and
extent
of Fed tightening, interest paid on savings will move household income in the right direction: up.
Of course, a multitude of political reforms, each with potential positive implications for welfare, could reduce the
extent
of inequality further.
Alternatively, can “politically correct” behavior be a form of recklessness, to the
extent
that it evades difficult issues and focuses on what is easier to justify rather than what is right?
It rejects Klaus’s truncated democracy, and, although it supports (to some extent) Havel’s vision, Havel himself is no longer the motor of civil society in action.
To the
extent
that other countries rely on China for preserving the trading system, they are correspondingly less likely to object to China’s other strategic initiatives, in the South China Sea and elsewhere.
Valuing care means valuing it enough to expect men to take on caregiving responsibilities to the same
extent
that we now expect women to take on breadwinning.
This attests to the
extent
to which parts of the financial intermediation process remain over-reliant on Fed experimentation, even as small and medium-size companies still find it difficult to obtain adequate credit at reasonable cost.
In the Schengen Area, some countries’ inability to protect external borders adequately – owing to a lack of administrative capacity (especially true in Greece, but also, to some extent, Italy), together with geographic challenges like long and fractured coast lines – have undermined confidence in the face of the refugee crisis.
The Jewish community in the United States, and to a lesser
extent
President Barack Obama’s administration, has attempted to convince Chile and Mexico, which have not yet made their stances explicit, that nothing would be gained by isolating Israel (or the US, for that matter) on this issue.
Traditional recommendations like free trade, competitive exchange rates, and sound fiscal policy are worthwhile only to the
extent
that they achieve other desirable objectives, such as faster economic growth, lower poverty, and improved equity.
Though Israeli leaders claim to have been surprised by the
extent
and sophistication of the tunnels they discovered, Israel’s military briefed the government on the tunnels more than a year ago, and the government created a special task force to consider how to deal with them.
They dominate the intellectual scene to such an
extent
that alternatives seem to have no chance.
To a large extent, Helmut Kohl held up the same picture, which he used to persuade his European counterparts that they should rush to bind Germany to a more integrated Europe.
To some extent, Sanders’s silence can be explained by his broader aversion to discussing foreign-policy issues.
The full
extent
of the political damage that Germany’s bailout policy for the eurozone, with its austerity, mass unemployment, and economic depression, has caused in southern Europe remains to be seen.
That in no way excuses the
extent
of the killing and imprisonment that occurred.
Regardless of whether, and to what extent, they believe their own claims, they can be confident that for many of their supporters, the magic will never wear off, no matter how badly they fail or how baldly they lie.
Indeed, despite territorial disputes and other divisive issues, the commissioners of the patent offices of Japan, South Korea, China, and, to a lesser extent, Singapore and Taiwan meet often to define and coordinate their intellectual-property (IP) policies.
To the
extent
that this is true of other advanced economies, the global economy faces an extended multi-year period of low growth, with residual downside risk coming from policy gridlock and mistakes in Europe, the US, and elsewhere.
While academics and journalists rightly debate the
extent
to which ordinary people exercise real power in the Indian parliamentary system, dominated as it is by various political and economic power structures, a look back over the 50 years of Indian independence does provide some evidence that it works for the poor and the commonweal as well as for the better off and privileged.
But there is more behind the spontaneous protests that have choked the great central vistas of Delhi (to such an
extent
that the government was forced to change the venue for meetings with visiting Russian President Vladimir Putin).
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