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The main question now is the
extent
to which those reviews will influence their successors’ behavior.
The authorities clearly wish to control the
extent
of the thaw in Syria's political culture.
An early test of the
extent
of the Kremlin's commitment to the Minsk agreement should be whether it frees Nadiya Savchenko, Ukraine's first woman fighter pilot.
In Britain, which in June will hold a referendum on withdrawal from the European Union, these sentiments are crudely stirred by anti-EU ministers who lie about the
extent
to which an allegedly dictatorial regime in Brussels interferes with the discharge of their official duties.
Incidentally, I think it would be far more revealing to draw up a list of those states that have destroyed or damaged the relationship of trust with their citizens to such an
extent
that they can only secure their tax revenues by criminalizing tax evasion and trampling on privacy.
But, so far, few studies have indicated that structural factors are adequate to explain the
extent
of the decline in China’s potential growth rate over the last couple of years.
Tariffs offer the prospect of some additional revenue to the importing country, though precisely how much would depend on the
extent
to which imports fall.
What all of this means is that by measuring the effectiveness of vaccines merely in terms of “lives saved,” we could be seriously underestimating the full
extent
of the benefits that they offer.
But, to the
extent
that they contain a stop-loss element – and they often do – they will cause bouts of selling into declining markets, and that in turn will amplify volatility.
I know that one of the results of the coming air strikes will be the destruction of Milosevic's war machine, to the
extent
that it will never arise again as did the Serb machinery in this century.
Thus, the past year’s currency alignments have, to some extent, simply brought relative domestic price levels and exchange rates into better balance.
The ad shows the
extent
to which the language of human rights has become politicized.
On the contrary, according to the IMF, “weakness has been contained to certain portions of the sub-prime market (and, to a lesser extent, the Alt-A market), and is not likely to pose a serious systemic threat.”
Consider the
extent
to which capital – that is, shareholders – rules in large businesses: if a conflict arises between capital’s goals and those of managers, who wins?Looked at in this way, America’s capitalism becomes more ambiguous.
I agree with Chua to this extent: a reluctance to tell a child what to do can go too far.
Another couple believes in “self-directed learning” to such an
extent
that one evening they went to bed at 11 p.m., leaving their five-year-old watching her ninth straight hour of Barbie videos.
In fact, to the
extent
that dampened trading diminishes market feedback to firms and their directors, it could make managers complacent.
Yes, we can deal with the problem to some
extent
by using modern technology or video replays to review controversial refereeing decisions.
In 1994, Mexico shook the global economy when the
extent
of its domestic (but dollar-denominated) debt in the so-called tessobonos became apparent.
But the
extent
of this inversion is best exemplified in the increasing prevalence of obscene comparisons between Israel’s policies toward Palestine and the Nazis’ treatment of the Jews.
To the
extent
that China makes progress on the road to consumer-led rebalancing, it will shift from surplus saving to saving absorption.
To the
extent
that America fails to boost its domestic saving, the lack of Chinese capital may well force the US to pay a steeper price for external financing, through a weaker dollar, higher real interest rates, or both.
He worked assiduously to fan the flames of sectarian civil war, succeeding to the
extent
that now the chief reason for not intervening to stop the killing is the impossibility of doing so effectively in an environment of sectarian violence.
As the full
extent
of the cover-up was revealed, foreign investors, like GIC Private Limited (Singapore’s sovereign wealth fund), rebelled.
If these persons were employed to the
extent
such workers are employed in America--through liberalization of labor markets or through wage subsidies (as France and Holland have done on a modest scale)--European labor productivity would be pulled down markedly.
Brexit not only diminishes Britain; to a lesser extent, it also diminishes the EU.
Nonetheless, recent events should compel China’s leaders to reconsider the
extent
to which they control the country’s economy.
Global institutions already use disciplines of this type to some
extent.
The question is the
extent
to which they will be applied.
Pious Western sermons about the need to form a unified, democratically elected government sound utterly irrelevant, given the
extent
of social and political fragmentation.
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