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As Ellen Lutz and Caitlin Reiger have pointed out, “the waxing and waning of political fortunes still dominates the
extent
to which former leaders are held judicially accountable for their crimes at all.”
“The times when we could completely rely on others are, to an extent, over,” Merkel said, “and therefore I can only say that we Europeans must really take our fate into our own hands.”
To the
extent
that their breeding ground can be destroyed, as Al Qaeda’s was in Afghanistan, there will be fewer newly minted terrorists to worry about.
While the European Central Bank’s bond-purchasing scheme has calmed financial markets to a considerable extent, some European economies – including Italy, Spain, Greece, and Portugal – are still at risk, because they are not growing fast enough to narrow their deficits and stem the growth of their national debts.
Propositions regarding the
extent
of presidential power that once would have been considered preposterous – both constitutionally and according to longtime practice – are now being discussed as if they were normal ideas.
The true measure of any policy’s success is the
extent
to which it benefits the most marginalized.
Recent US monetary-policy measures and statements have reflected the belief that America’s stake in EMDCs’ financial stability is limited to the
extent
to which volatility poses a risk to the near-term US economic outlook.
To some extent, the over-accumulation of US debt reflects the global perception of zero risk.
But the large-scale destruction of financial assets because of underlying uncertainty about the
extent
of losses in the wake of the sub-prime crisis, and especially after the bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers, shook that assumption.
Instead, the insecurity is political in origin, with short-term considerations, especially with regard to Russia, overwhelming a coherent energy – and, to some extent, foreign – policy.
By ensuring that the agreement aligns, to some extent, with the rhetoric of Russia’s strategic posturing, Western leaders would provide the Kremlin a minimally risky escape route from the current deadlock.
As with illicit drugs, it is difficult to estimate the
extent
of smuggling operations.
Israel’s defenders are right to point out that public opinion in Europe, and to a much lesser
extent
in the United States, tends to be much more critical of Israeli atrocities in Gaza than about bloodier violence committed by Muslims against Muslims in other parts of the Middle East.
An important criterion for the choice of additional measures should be the
extent
of their influence over broad financing conditions in the private economy.
No single entity keeps track of the real
extent
of the abuse of all human subjects engaged in research either in the United States or worldwide.
Only by strengthening UN sanctions to such an
extent
that North Korea is forced to abandon its missiles and nuclear weapons – and China to reconsider its knee-jerk support – can the regime be dissuaded from further, and more ominous, maneuvering.
The upshot is that Turkey’s institutions, unlike Brazil’s, are being captured and corrupted to an
extent
that will hamper economic growth and development for years to come.
In the long term, though, European leaders’ ability to save the deal will depend on the
extent
to which they can act in their own interests, rather than being a hostage to the caprices of the Trump administration.
Some government reports had anticipated the
extent
to which non-state actors could hurt large states, but their conclusions were not incorporated into official plans.
To the
extent
that the trillion or more dollars of unfunded war costs contributed to the budget deficit that plagues the US today, Bin Laden was able to damage American hard power.
Once the
extent
of Greece’s financial crisis and the difficulties encountered by other member states became known, the eurozone economies found themselves on the brink of disaster.
Both Muslims and non-Muslims have not always agreed on the
extent
to which this is compatible with genuine Islam.
In the short term, supply may be able to respond to the
extent
that there is reserve capacity (there isn’t much now).
To some extent, it’s already working – by spreading.
Second, the transaction cost of using a foreign currency as a medium of exchange is inversely proportional to the
extent
to which that currency is used globally.
From a military perspective, the main impact of the strike – which apparently destroyed 20% of Assad’s operational aircraft in less than an hour – will be to boost deterrence, though to what
extent
remains unclear.
Of course, the former NSA contractor Edward Snowden’s revelations of the global reach and the
extent
of America’s Internet and telephone surveillance are, to say the least, unpleasant.
After all, the eurozone crisis was rooted in the emergence of imbalances generated by the euro’s introduction and, to a lesser extent, German reunification.
The IMF is rounding up the money from the usual sources: its own funds, the World Bank, the Inter-American Development Bank, foreign governments, and to a modest extent, foreign commercial banks.
The executive order will provide an early test of the
extent
to which US courts can restrain the Trump presidency.
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