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(Chile’s inflation figures have been criticized, too, though to a much smaller extent, and Chile’s state statistics institute is far more independent of the government than Argentina’s.)
For their part, state governments, forced by new limits on the deductibility of state and local taxes to pare their budgets, are likely to move further in the direction of limiting the duration of unemployment benefits and the
extent
of their own food and nutrition assistance.
What matters in this worldview is not the nature of any country’s political system, but the
extent
to which it improves its people’s wellbeing.
Whether America is able to strengthen its global influence in the future will depend not so much on its moral esteem, but on the
extent
to which it succeeds in revamping its economy and forging new alliances.
The direct impact on the world economy is likely to be limited by the fact that other countries will to some
extent
gain from Britain’s loss.
But older people, living outside large urban areas, have voted instead to build barriers and – to a significant
extent
– attempt to close off the country from the rest of the world.
To some extent, tax cuts will be justified with overly optimistic projections regarding their impact on economic growth, as was done under President George W. Bush, with generally disastrous effects.
They understand what it means to face severe – and, to some extent, insurmountable – resource constraints.
Finally, to the
extent
that we continue to rely on fossil fuels, we must capture the resulting CO2 emissions at power plants before they escape into the atmosphere.
To that extent, the ICTY has done more than bring a measure of justice to victims and survivors in the former Yugoslavia.
The Ukrainian crisis may prove helpful, though that appears less likely now – which may be a good thing to the
extent
that one unintended consequence could be a loan to Ukraine that is larger than it really needs.
In the realm of international economics, being perceived as boring confers power to the
extent
that it allows major decisions to be made without a great deal of external scrutiny.
Indeed, Germany, the EU’s Middle Republic, is European nowadays only to the
extent
that Europe furthers German economic interests.
To what
extent
can – and should – a company be held to account for the choices of those who may be several links removed?
Protests in Egypt went further, culminating in a military coup that deposed Morsi, who had been popularly elected only a year earlier, while restoring, at least for now, the army’s dominance of Egyptian politics – an outcome that reflects the
extent
of Egyptians’ dissatisfaction with the Brotherhood’s leadership.
Central banks are using so-called “forward guidance” to assure market participants that they will, to some extent, maintain ZIRP and QE for years to come.
But its success will depend heavily on how it is implemented, as well as on the
extent
to which the government pursues complementary reforms.
But eurozone members that currently benefit from exceptionally low borrowing costs – Germany, Austria, Finland, the Netherlands, and, to a lesser extent, France – maintain that Italian and Spanish borrowing costs largely reflect these countries’ failure to reform their economies and strengthen their public finances.
Moreover, this kind of support is and should be conditional on the
extent
of the reforms carried out in Italy and Spain, the eurozone’s third- and fourth-largest economies, respectively.
When Japan emerged as a world power, imperial conquest followed, whereas a rising China’s expansionist impulses are, to some extent, checked by other Asian powers.
The governments of Egypt, Saudi Arabia, and, to some extent, Morocco, epitomize Arab regimes’ seeming inability to escape the autocracy trap – even as current circumstances suggest that another popular awakening is imminent.
To a limited extent, the same applies to the EU bailouts and ECB interventions.
Dire warnings about Africa’s position as an exporter of raw materials to the UK and Europe assume that the full
extent
of cooperation between the two continents will forever be limited to commodities trading.
Malaria can be prevented to a significant extent, and can be treated with nearly 100% success, through available low-cost technologies.
But, according to reports too numerous and too credible to discount, Assad’s regime (and to some
extent
his opponents) has not complied with the plan after signing on to it: troops were withdrawn from urban areas prior to inspection and returned when the monitors left.
After several months of listening to Israeli (and, to some extent, US) war rhetoric, the regime began issuing its own menacing bombast, as a matter of substance and to defend the pride of a regime that views itself as the heir to the glorious imperial tradition of Persia.
France’s unemployed are, to that extent, better off than many low-paid, unskilled workers in the more unequal societies of Britain or America.
The tax office and Luke would end up clashing over impossible estimates of the
extent
to which Ken’s salary would have risen, or fallen, had he still been employed.
But to what
extent
is Nexus genuinely autonomous in a manner that the harvester is not?
To the
extent
that automation improves productivity and corporate profitability, the whole of society would begin to share the benefits.
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