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Faced with a rapidly growing health crisis, the British authorities – equipped with little scientific understanding of the disease, and under pressure from a powerful industrial lobby – made a fatal mistake.
It even insisted that it could imprison an American citizen, José Padilla, incommunicado for an indefinite period without criminal charges until, faced with the prospect of Supreme Court review, it suddenly pressed charges that had nothing to do with the allegations that had formed the basis for his detention.
The numbers and causes of neonatal deaths, the capacity of the health system, and the obstacles faced differ between and within countries, as does support from policymakers and the availability of resources.
The same logic applies to another core concern that I faced throughout my decade at the Commission: the need to deepen the eurozone while maintaining the integrity of the EU as a whole.
In short, we seized the momentum of the crisis to provide a structural response to the challenges we faced, in particular by establishing a European banking union.
The Eurozone’s Calm Before the StormNEW YORK – A little more than a year ago, in the summer of 2012, the eurozone, faced with growing fears of a Greek exit and unsustainably high borrowing costs for Italy and Spain, appeared to be on the brink of collapse.
Instead, we faced a catastrophic economic situation: runaway inflation, unsustainably high interest rates, a collapsed currency, and a general loss of confidence.
Even if such perverse incentives are removed, tougher questions about controlling costs need to be faced.
Yet the company faced only negligible repercussions: after a little bad press, it was back to business as usual.
Faced with strong competition and the threat of extinction, companies typically try to innovate to survive.
Why are we faced today with worldwide economic blizzards?
How could a government that steered Australia comfortably through the global financial crisis, and that has presided for the last six years over a period of almost unprecedented prosperity, have faced extinction in the national election due later this year, as every opinion poll last month was predicting?
The possibility of higher import prices and potential spillover effects on underlying inflation would hit middle-class US workers, who have faced more than three decades of real wage stagnation, especially hard.
Faced with these remarkable numbers, most Europeans, in particular the French, have responded almost viscerally by looking for flaws in America's performance: surely these numbers must conceal some dark blemish; surely they must contain some artificial economic growth.
In the 1980’s, as Western corporations in diverse sectors faced the onslaught of what was seen as the daunting Japanese challenge, I accompanied Western managers to Japan to learn about the country and its management and production techniques.
The tasks that faced Yeltsin when he attained power in 1991 were monumental.
At some level, he sensed that Russia’s potential could be unleashed only if the government either faced down, or bought off, the special interests – military, industrial, and agricultural – that stood in the way.
Meanwhile, Central Europe faced its worst flooding in decades after heavy rains swelled major rivers like the Elbe and the Danube.
National minorities everywhere faced expulsion or enormous official pressure to assimilate.
But it has also faced harsh criticism, with some lenders being accused of profiteering.
Would Hitler, wicked as he was, have gone to war had he faced an assured threat of total destruction?
When only one company faced legal and financial problems, investors who had made a decision to put their money in Russia were ready to ignore this kind of development.
No such prospect faced his predecessors.
Shortly after taking office, the administration faced a crucial strategic decision about the scope and breadth of its agenda.
Faced with demographic decline, it, too, is attempting to shift toward a more internationalized post-industrial economy.
Faced with that risk, creditors demand higher interest rates from the outset or refuse to grant additional credit, thereby imposing a measure of discipline on debtors.
Most politicians try to avoid telling outright lies; they bob and weave like prizefighters when faced with questions that might ensnare them in outright mendacity.
If Bush is to stand for freeing trade here, he will need pressure from Brazil because US farm lobbies are gearing up to keep Latin America's agricultural exports under the same strict controls they have faced for years.
In the short to medium run, increasing Greek competitiveness requires remedies targeted at specific binding constraints faced by exporters.
Never having had much of an ideology in the first place, the soft-left social democrats, faced with a real socialist, ended up having nothing much to say.
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