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The fact is that the challenges inherent in completing the TTIP are no more intractable than those that EU leaders have faced in the last few years of crisis.
For example, the economic hardship faced since 2008 by many eurozone countries, which have traditionally accounted for a substantial share of global trade, has discouraged consumption, hiring, and much more.
Of course, any regulation in this field requires at least some involvement by a doctor but the Oregon Act recognizes the fundamental dilemma faced by doctors confronted with a patient’s request to die and strives to keep that involvement to a minimum.
But in many developing countries, the resistance that British suffragettes faced a century ago, rooted in misogyny, persists.
Actually, in every decade since the 1950s, throngs of foreign policy experts have asserted that NATO faced some new crisis.
During the negotiation of the Trans-Pacific Partnership – which would have lowered tariffs and non-tariff barriers faced by US agricultural exports in participating countries – Republican members of Congress representing such districts were among the strongest supporters of freer trade (including at a House Ways and Means Committee meeting at which I testified).
Given the apparent parallels between the challenges that Zhu faced and those that current Premier Li Keqiang is now attempting to address, not to mention their shared commitment to economic transformation, this shift could signify rising support for structural reform.
Blessed at the start with a very low inflation rate in the euro area, the common currency soon faced a series of one-off shocks.
As The Guardian reported in 2011, women soldiers in Iraq faced a higher likelihood of being sexually assaulted by a colleague than they did of dying by enemy fire.
We are now faced with the twin challenges of improving the lot of those at the lower end of the wage distribution, while creating enough new high-quality jobs for the tens of millions of new labor-market entrants each year.
As this self-inflicted deadline approaches, the Greek government will probably back down, just as Ireland and Cyprus capitulated when faced with similar threats.
He tricked the International Monetary Fund into extending a $3.4 billion loan, promising freer elections in December 2010 – only to burn that bridge with a brutal crackdown when faced with an adverse election result and the largest protests his regime had ever seen.
As Kissinger observed at the time, “the United States has not faced a more diverse and complex array of crises since the end of the Second World War.”
The International Financial Institutions (IFIs) are now faced with a novel task: to protect the periphery countries from a storm that emanated from the center.
In modern terms, the Romans faced a monetary squeeze.
Twenty years ago, key world leaders demonstrated resolve, faced up to opposition and immense pressure, and the Wall came down.
There is an analogy to the problems countries faced when they tried to re-establish the gold standard after World War I. Until the war, money was backed by gold and could be redeemed at a fixed rate.
The ICC has faced challenges in recent months, including the collapse of its case against Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta and a stalemate at the United Nations Security Council that has prevented an investigation into mass criminality in Syria.
When unification began after WWII, democratic Western Europe was faced with the memory of the horrors of two world wars, and with the threat of Communist totalitarian rule.
Protectionism Will Not Protect Jobs AnywhereCAMBRIDGE – As US and European political leaders fret about the future of quality jobs, they would do well to look at the far bigger problems faced by developing Asia – problems that threaten to place massive downward pressure on global wages.
Faced with the grassroots popularity of this movement, by 1982 the government of then Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamed decided to co-opt Anwar Ibrahim into his United Malays National Organisation (UMNO), the dominant party within the country’s ruling coalition.
Such factors contributed to the optimism of China’s stock-market bulls about early reform dividends, even as the bears recognized that the economy faced stronger-than-expected headwinds, including weak global aggregate demand, propped up in many economies by expansionary monetary policies.
By 1942 when a 59-year-old Schumpeter published the book Capitalism, Socialism, and Democracy, he realized that a lot of the innovation was coming from very large corporations that faced rather limited competition.
Faced with tight fiscal (and political) constraints, policymakers should abandon the flawed notion that investments with broad – and, to some extent, non-appropriable – public benefits must be financed entirely with public funds.
Even before his imprisonment, he faced constant police surveillance and harassment.
After all, when faced with excessively high debt, other European countries – including Belgium (from 1995), Ireland (from 1991), and Norway (from 1999) – maintained similar surpluses for at least ten years each, typically in the aftermath of a financial crisis.
If the Irish Supreme Court were to decide that the ESM requires popular consent, the EU would be faced with the prospect of yet another Irish referendum on Europe.
In the recent history ofour country, we South African writers have been faced directly in our poetry,prose, and plays with the daunting challenge of which Milosz spoke.Transformation of the world of apartheid by literary means and or style wassimply not a possibility in a world of racial classification, mass relocation,and removal of peoples; the silencing of our people by detention without trial;the banishment of our people to our own Devil’s Island; and the overwhelming andever-present racist rhetoric of Verwoerd, Botha, and Terreblanche.
California recently adopted a similar approach, issuing IOUs when faced with the impossibility of access to funding.
Faced with high premiums, most businesses would simply opt to wait on the sidelines until the storm passed.
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