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To a large extent, Sarkozy can be seen as Chirac with more, whereas Royal is clearly Mitterrand with less.
This is still true to some extent, but something crucial has changed: football, like other types of commerce, has gone global.
Of course, value-added includes profits, and to this
extent
the incentive for companies to manipulate transfer prices may reappear.
An economic and political system is to be judged by the
extent
to which individuals are able to flourish and realize their potential.
At the same time, emissions cannot be reduced at the
extent
required without the central contribution of the developing world.
For most equity investors, the value of any project depends to a large
extent
on effective post-investment management.
And the Bank of England announced on February 7 that UK rates could “be tightened somewhat earlier and by a somewhat greater extent” than had previously been forecast.
The short-term thinking that impedes environmental conservation efforts today could prove devastating; indeed, to some extent, it already has.
I leave it to the Hungarian public to decide whether and to what
extent
the figure of 2,301,463 participants (out of a population of 9.8 million) was inflated.
The speed of economic recovery would largely reflect the
extent
to which these steps are taken.
Access to life-saving medicines should not depend on the
extent
of one person’s benevolence.
Summers’s argument, in a nutshell, is that if the expected profitability of investment is falling, interest rates need to fall to the same
extent.
Against this background, we must ask ourselves a question that has no easy answer: To what
extent
should democrats – progressives and conservatives alike – bend the rules in order to protect democracy and the rule of law from those who seek to subvert it?
That shift then allowed other low-income Asian economies – South Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Singapore, and to some
extent
Malaysia and Thailand – to follow in Japan's footsteps.
We examined the
extent
to which firms’ earning announcements surprised markets (as reflected in stock-price reactions to these announcements) and stock analysts (as measured by the gap between announced and forecast earnings).
And it is difficult to detect which banks are not complying and to what
extent.
To some extent, this is the natural aftermath of any credit boom.
To be sure, the
extent
of collective liability for torture and other indecencies invites debate.
Unfortunately, because we have such limited data, we cannot know the
extent
to which any of these factors contribute to poor health outcomes and avoidable deaths in developing countries.
In the US, by contrast, members of the House of Representatives face an election every two years, forcing even the president and senators – who serve four- and six-year terms, respectively – to operate, to some extent, on a two-year time horizon.
We still don’t know the full
extent
of linkages among financial institutions, including those arising from non-transparent derivatives and credit default swaps.
For China, which to some
extent
still depends on external markets to drive economic growth, this environment is particularly challenging – especially as currency depreciation in Europe and Japan erode export demand further.
The fact that most participants in discussions about global poverty – the readers of this commentary included – know few, if any, people who live below the poverty line is an indication of the
extent
of the world’s economic segregation.
At the same time, to the
extent
that the Commission becomes less a body of technocrats and more a political body, the so-called "democratic deficit" will increasingly become a problem.
Both countries see a convergence -- at least to some
extent
-- of vital national security interests as the catalyst for their partnership.
Unfortunately, there is no country in a position to influence Iran to the
extent
that China can influence North Korea.
To a large extent, this is because military campaigns are usually motivated by geostrategic concerns, not financial logic.
In fact, international markets have not financed any of them to a considerable
extent
for the past three years; the European Central Bank has.
Despite their shortcomings, income measures are useful in gaining a better understanding of the
extent
of poverty and vulnerability worldwide.
Indonesia, another large, ethnically and – to a lesser
extent
– religiously diverse state many thousands of miles away, faces comparable difficulties.
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