Extent
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To the
extent
that this disconnect has led to mounting financial-market excesses, the exit will be all the more problematic for markets – and for America’s market-fixated monetary authority.
It is now up to Merkel, Sarkozy, and Brown to prove – despite all the differences that may exist between them – that they understand the challenges that globalization poses for Europe: the EU member states will be able to defend their interests in the world of the twenty-first century only to the
extent
that the EU itself is strong.
Decades of rising living standards have boosted the CCP’s legitimacy to an
extent
few could have imagined back in 1989, when Liu first rose to prominence at the Tiananmen Square protests.
A democratically elected leader retains legitimacy only to the
extent
that he or she behaves democratically once in office.
In fact, to the
extent
that a crisis could do more good than harm, warnings that the rapid credit expansion of recent years could trigger a debt crisis, or that the real-estate sector is on the verge of collapse, may not be as worrying as many believe.
While that is true to some extent, failing to account for technology-driven economic trends will merely exacerbate the problem.
Even if the US – and, to some extent, Western Europe – does retain a competitive edge, it is unlikely to retain the kind of global geopolitical control that it has had since World War II and, especially, since the Soviet Union’s collapse left it as the world’s sole superpower.
And if the aestheticexploration of the word was no longer the goal, it could not be abandoned entirelyand with disdain; whatever we wrote and now write, with whatever purpose,whether to express the struggle for freedom or the passion of a love affair,can approach the power of truth only to the
extent
that we are capable ofexploring the splendor of language brought into its service.
A more plausible explanation is that institutional differences in the ability to borrow dictate to some
extent
the disparity in savings rates across countries.
Following the crisis, I predicted that the US and China would have to swap places to some
extent
over the course of the next decade.
To the
extent
that demand factors drive an oil-price drop, one would not expect a major positive impact; the oil price is more of an automatic stabilizer than an exogenous force driving the global economy.
A decline in oil prices is to some
extent
a zero-sum game, with producers losing and consumers gaining.
And we do, to some extent, hold companies to account for their subcontractors’ working conditions.
The success of Macron’s presidency thus depends to a large
extent
on European cooperation.
We are being driven slowly but ineluctably to the realization that the people whom we are fighting will, to a significant extent, inherit the shattered countries that we leave behind.
Whether the Euromaidan revolution succeeds will depend to a crucial
extent
on the Ukrainian people and their ability to free themselves from the structures and forces of the past, and on the West’s support, generosity, and resilience.
A review of the pedagogical literature on the region’s education systems reveals the
extent
to which they have been designed for indoctrination.
Europe's obsession with public and standardized universities discourages competition in the R&D sectors and reduces the
extent
of a profitable relationship between higher education institutions and the world of entrepreneurs.
Then everything did change, exposing the
extent
of the transformation that had occurred beneath the surface.
They claim that technologies like Internet search and social networking cannot improve productivity to the same
extent
that electrification and the rise of the automobile did.
The economy, for example, is tracked and monitored to an unprecedented extent, allowing policymakers and the public alike to recognize very quickly when economic growth is slowing down, job creation is below potential, or demand is flagging.
To some extent, the explanation might seem obvious.
Because wages can increase to a greater
extent
without fueling inflation, the US Federal Reserve Board might be inclined to delay hiking interest rates, which it is now widely expected to do this summer.
To the
extent
that tariffs reduce China’s exports, the government and central bank can offset the economic impact by stimulating domestic demand.
Governance systems and constitutional structures differ in the
extent
to which they require broad consensus for official action, or to change policy direction in response to shocks or shifting conditions.
Sometimes the
extent
of sequence identity between two orthologs can be as low as 25-30%, and yet their folds remain strikingly similar, attesting to the robustness of function to evolutionary change.
Meanwhile financial fragmentation within the eurozone continues;Spain, and to a lesser
extent
Italy, suffers a seemingly irresistible rise in borrowing costs; and political strains grow more visible.
For Japan, it has had the additional effect of making its investment announcement look like a tit-for-tat response to the AIIB, even to the
extent
of topping the bank’s initial capitalization of $100 billion.
To some extent, history bears this reading out.
One option is to preserve the existing order to the greatest
extent
possible.
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