Extent
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To some
extent
this has happened in Europe.
If conflict over valuable resources is unavoidable, as examples throughout history suggest, there is little reason for a country not to exploit a given resource to the maximum possible
extent
prior to the emergence of scarcities.
To the
extent
that countries believe that resource-based conflict is inevitable in the future, negotiations to limit resource depletion become more likely to break down in the short run.
The absence of such a structure of peace has been obscured, to some extent, by America’s dominant role in Asia since the Pacific War.
While that is useful information, it does not say anything about the
extent
to which each forecaster believes that growth might turn out to be less than 1%, or even less than zero.
To the
extent
that the value of these assets would not have been sufficient to cover all of the derivative creditors’ claims, they would have had to bear some losses.
But the Netherlands, and Austria – and, to a lesser extent, Germany and France – are faring slightly better.
This improvement in human capital is bound to offset, to some extent, the net loss of labor.
That is only true to the
extent
that we think about the price of oil in dollars, since the dollar has fallen relative to other major currencies.
Such actions undermine the slow renovation of transatlantic trust since Edward Snowden’s revelations concerning the
extent
of American surveillance of European governments and citizens alike.
Some even sought to be highly economical with the truth, failing to disclose the true
extent
of their budgetary slippages and indebtedness.
And what is true for Egypt is true, to a greater and lesser extent, throughout the Arab world.
To what extent, they will ask, was it the inevitable result of deep flaws common to many of the region's societies and political systems, and to what
extent
did it stem from what outside countries chose to do (or not to do)?
Growth will need to rely to a much greater
extent
on sustained improvements in human capital, institutions, and governance.
Soon after the near-collapse of the financial system, the consensus view in favor of a reasonably normal cyclical recovery faded as the
extent
of balance-sheet damage – and the effect of deleveraging on domestic demand – became evident.
When a Republican politician compares US property taxes with the Holocaust, as one Senate candidate did in 2014, the mass murder of Jews is trivialized to the
extent
of becoming meaningless.
In some countries, such as China, Thailand, South Korea, and Vietnam, nominal GDP growth was driven to a large
extent
by real growth.
Perhaps the greatest uncertainty concerned the
extent
to which big US corporations would get what they wanted in the areas of investor-government dispute settlement and intellectual property protection.
It is impossible at this point to gauge the full
extent
of the damage with any degree of precision.
And, to a large extent, it can be seen as a protest vote against Merkel herself.
That is not a systemic bug; it’s a powerful feature – one that leaders today should be using to its fullest
extent.
Instead, the US would be wiser to limit itself to a narrower counterterrorism mission, one akin to what is being done in Somalia and Yemen (and, to some extent, in Pakistan).
And indeed, The Ordinary Virtues by the former Canadian politician Michael Ignatieff, which grew from a Carnegie study, indicates that even in the world’s most desolate and lawless corners, individuals have a strong sense of their own rights and also, if to a lesser extent, of the importance of treating those close to them with decency.
This would produce structural unemployment to the
extent
that the ex-construction workers could not do things in manufacturing that would make it worthwhile for manufacturing firms to hire them.
Still, South Africa is now taking the idea forward, by holding a “BRICS Plus” meeting on the third day of this year’s summit.These three developments underscore the
extent
to which an emboldened China now wields outsize power relative to its BRICS partners.
These three developments underscore the
extent
to which an emboldened China now wields outsize power relative to its BRICS partners.
To the
extent
that it is used to prop up declining industries, the stimulus could even prove harmful by delaying necessary adjustments.
To the
extent
that government becomes involved in restructuring financial institutions, it should avoid unnecessary wealth transfers from taxpayers to the security holders of the financial institutions.
Instead, we must map the scale and
extent
of the risk, and decide what is truly strategic.
The longer it takes to restore confidence in key public and, to a lesser extent, private institutions, the greater the impediments to our wellbeing and that of our children.
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