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Just as Germany took a step forward by giving up its Deutshce Mark in
favor
of the euro, France must evolve beyond the classical framework of the nation-state.
Although some eccentrics
favor
a return to gold as the monetary anchor, most would prefer to leave this relic of another age to its peaceful retirement.
But he soon fell out of Tudjman's
favor.
Pakistan’s homegrown terrorist groups know that the country is at a tipping point, and are attacking candidates and voters who
favor
a secular state.
When the world’s nations decided in
favor
of the creation of an independent Jewish state, they did not designate it only for the 600,000 Jews then living there.
This includes the notion that social justice can be achieved only by abandoning the path of reform and rejecting “bourgeois” democratic forms in
favor
of “real” democracy, born of revolutionary purity and the leader’s millenarian dreams.
Second, the international financial system is biased in
favor
of the wealthy center.
A decade of historically low interest rates has led to economic imbalances in
favor
of sectors that are highly leveraged: the financial sector, the housing market, and private equity.
Even people who are very much in
favor
of freer trade – and even of some version of the TPP, like Bergsten and Gagnon – believe that some Asian countries have overstepped the boundaries of reasonable behavior.
Technology and InequalityCAMBRIDGE – Until now, the relentless march of technology and globalization has played out hugely in
favor
of high-skilled labor, helping to fuel record-high levels of income and wealth inequality around the world.
One day Russia will be stronger, and if expanding NATO to Central Europe now would discourage revival of an imperial foreign policy then, this would be a strong argument in
favor
of doing so.
Russia's democrats, who have an enormous stake in a peaceful future, are adamant that extending alliance membership to Central Europe will isolate their country from Europe, strengthen Russian political forces that
favor
authoritarian rule at home and neoimperial policies abroad, and, by appearing to threaten Russia, provide a rallying point for reconstructing Russian military power.
To make us choose what is good for us, they avoid fines, compulsion, and prohibition in
favor
of “nudges” – institutional arrangements that we could, in principle, easily override, but that, given our tendency to rely on System I, we end up going along with.
Even if greed is ruled out as an acceptable motive, in
favor
of traditional ethno-cultural nationalism, a profusion of tiny tribal states might make the world far more unstable.
The 2.5 million Southern Sudanese known to live in the North are under explicit instructions by the South’s Sudan People’s Liberation Army to boycott the referendum, as the SPLA has grounds to believe that Bashir would use their registration to rig the results in
favor
of unity.
Under Hollande, France’s Socialists
favor
achieving that renewal through a process of social dialogue that convinces rather than imposes, that focuses both on revenue measures and on boosting government efficiency, and that may adopt some of northern Europe’s more successful “flexicurity” policies, which combine greater labor-market flexibility with strong social protection.
But it should not lead the rest of Europe to
favor
Brexit.
This already can be seen in PTAs whose rules on conventional issues like anti-dumping are often discriminatory in
favor
of members.
So is replication, the other most commonly cited argument in
favor
of data sharing.
In response, China has launched its “Silk Road” initiative to create an economic zone that will
favor
its own priorities.
Unfortunately, he did not
favor
this suggestion.
If Russia has created a linkage between Eastern Europe and the Middle East, America’s allies in the region expect their superpower friend to make it work in their favor, not to allow it to undermine further an already-delicate regional security balance.
Trump is at the other end of today’s illiberal-capitalist spectrum: no less comfortable than Putin with deep income inequalities, but not as inclined to use the state to
favor
particular businesspeople (other than himself).
He is in
favor
of protectionism and cheap money, presumably because these positions play well with his core political constituency – white working-class voters.
The private sector's role in decision-making, too, often needs to be clarified--where businesses have too much influence over government, their need to operate profitable may lead to policies that
favor
the few over the many.
Mexico, with its popular and reform-minded government, strong growth, and a current-account deficit below 2% of GDP, has gained
favor
with investors, who have turned away from Brazil, with its political risk, faltering growth, and yawning external deficit.
Meanwhile, the investigation into Trump and his campaign’s relations with Russia in connection with its meddling in Trump’s
favor
in the 2016 election has continued out of the public’s sight.
For example, while a fully floating currency would create a beneficial combination of discipline and flexibility, it might best be delayed in
favor
of an adjustable (“crawling”) peg to some anchor currencies.
Finally, the GCC needs to
favor
greater exchange-rate flexibility and monetary independence.
And in many Western democracies, a strong left-wing constituency regularly organizes demonstrations in
favor
of Palestinian independence.
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