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Had the European Council’s heads of state and government taken this foreseeable decision a year ago, the euro crisis would not have escalated to the
extent
that it has, the total bill would have been lower, and European leaders would have been rightly praised for a historic feat.
But neither he, nor Tyndall, nor anyone in their distinguished audience could possibly have anticipated the
extent
to which the experiments’ results would preoccupy the world 150 years later.
This is to some
extent
justifiable: The breadth of topics is staggering, ranging from international norms for state behavior in cyberspace to challenges like cybercrime and growing censorship.
Georgia and Moldova both face secessionist-minded, Russian-dominated enclaves that are to a large
extent
controlled from Moscow – Abkhasia and South Ossetia in Georgia and Transdniestria in Moldova.
The reason that hasn’t already happened is that the government has, to some extent, been propping up these sectors since the global financial crisis, by implementing massive stimulus packages focused on investment in infrastructure and real-estate development.
By acting to invigorate an Asian order that rejects hegemonic dominance, even to the
extent
of improving its military ties with the US, Vietnam has shown that it has learned its own lessons from the blood and treasure that it lost in its long wars of independence.
Probably, but the
extent
to which it serves the cause of sustained growth and higher inflation depends on the so-called “third arrow” of structural reform, which has yet to hit real targets.
They began to engage in the systematic inquiry of how the natural world (and to a lesser extent, the social world) functioned.
Lebanon’s resilience has confounded expectations, given its lack of a shared national identity – a result of deep social divisions that resemble, to some extent, those besetting Iraq – and notoriously weak state institutions.
This is not only a problem from the standpoint of democratic principles; the results of the recent election have shown the
extent
to which it can influence political outcomes.
To a great extent, this is a nuclear multipolar system: possessing nuclear weapons contributes to a country’s global status as a major power.
The North Koreans seemed to share our desire to connect, as they sought to engage with us to whatever
extent
they could.
To the
extent
there is any calculation on their part, it is that we will huff and puff and inevitably move on to another of the world’s numerous crises.
The answer is that the districts from which House members are elected are gerrymandered to an
extent
that citizens of most other democracies would consider preposterous.
But these gains have come at the expense of – and to some
extent
because of – industry rationalization and employment reductions.
Rather, it is about developing a way of thinking about a discipline that reflects a particular perception of how “knowledge” is established, its
extent
and limitations, how it describes nature, and how it can be usefully applied in a variety of contexts.
Yet the
extent
to which any of these goals is negotiable remains unclear.
To what
extent
has uncertainty about the US commitment in Asia stoked tension between China and America’s Asian allies?
But to say that, one must also assume that to some
extent
he himself is unbalanced and has shifted from a kind of guerilla warfare against the West, always with some possibility of retreat, to all-out combat.
In short, economies and policies adjusted in an unsustainable fashion, to some
extent
obscuring the need for a more sustainable pattern of adaptation.
As Nobel laureate Joseph Stiglitz has pointed out: “[T]he
extent
to which the global economy and polity can be shaped in accord with our values and interests will depend, to a large extent, on how well our economic and political system is performing for most citizens.”
I fear that the inspections effort is not intended to uncover the full
extent
of Iraq's illegal weapons program.
People like Bishop Williamson and Geert Wilders are useful to the
extent
that they allow us to do just that.
Whether we believe those goals are just will depend on the
extent
to which they reflect our commitments to human welfare, liberty, equality, and individual responsibility--or whichever other values we may think deserve recognition in our society.
Indeed, the IMF could help countries to prevent evasion of the regulations, and, together with the G-20 and the FSB, should lead a global dialogue about the
extent
to which countries should coordinate such regulations.
But the
extent
of misalignment remains an open question.
Bush’s policies have been worse, but the
extent
to which he has openly served America’s military-industrial complex has been more naked.
But, in Nevada, which is similar in size to Ireland, the local banking system’s losses were absorbed to a large
extent
by US “banking union” institutions, particularly the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) and the federal mortgage-refinancing agencies, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.
To that extent, 2018 seems likely to be a year of substantially increased risks, especially given the tensions in the Persian Gulf and Lebanon, the war in Syria, the hegemonic struggle between Saudi Arabia and Iran, and the nuclear brinkmanship on the Korean Peninsula.
On Dodd-Frank, Democrats – including Obama – are apparently of two minds on the
extent
to which they should stick up for their own reforms.
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