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The second implication, related to the first, is that the widely feared economic “hard landing” for China would have a devastating global impact.
It seems that the precipitous decline in oil prices – by two-thirds over the last 18 months – has not, as many feared, encouraged increased consumption.
In return, the Cuban regime made a sham gesture by releasing a small number of the prisoners of conscience – mostly those who were tortured and seriously ill – who the regime most feared would die in its notorious prisons.
This, they feared, would not only diminish their export competitiveness and push their external accounts into deficit; it would also expose them to the harsh consequences of a sudden stop in capital inflows when US policymakers reversed course.
Ukraine’s move toward a European model of economic and political competition, Putin feared, would spur similar demands in Russia.
At the end of Hu Jintao’s two-term presidency in 2013 many feared that the collective leadership model was inadequate for confronting vested economic interests, tackling inequality, and delivering basic public goods.
And loss of confidence, by discouraging consumption and investment, can be a self-fulfilling prophecy, causing the economic weakness that is feared.
So, in general, dependence on Russian gas should not be feared.
Then there were Argentina’s neighbors – particularly fellow members of Mercosur, the regional political and economic agreement – which feared a tidal wave of contagion.
Likewise, after Trump announced last June that the US would withdraw from the Paris climate agreement, many observers feared the worst.
It is also good news for the Obama administration, which had feared a regional setback soon after Obama’s historic address in Cairo on June 4.
Many people realistically feared the outbreak of World War III – and with good reason, according to many historians.
For much of its long history, leprosy was feared as an incurable, disfiguring disease.
The disease is highly feared on the continent; it can kill within hours or leave its victims with severe brain damage.
Nixon and his national security adviser, Henry Kissinger, sensed that it was time to restore relations with China, which also feared the Soviets’ hegemonic ambitions.
When disturbed by a question, she usually replies, “Would you have asked the same question to a man?”Ever since Laurent Fabius took a hit in the polls when he mocked her candidacy by asking, “Who will mind the children?”, her opponents have feared appearing misogynous when attacking her, and when they do criticize her, she immediately assumes the pose of innocent victim, unfairly bashed by schoolboy bullies.
I suspect some Arab governments feared that a court for Syria might set a precedent that would lead to efforts at accountability for crimes committed elsewhere in the region.
The late King Hussein feared that an independent Palestinian state could become a radical irredentist entity, and his own 1988 decision to waive Jordan’s claim on the West Bank, taken under pressure from the Arab League, was never ratified in parliament, and is still regarded by many as unconstitutional.
That chaos, Jordan’s government feared, could spread to the East Bank, potentially dealing a fatal blow to the Kingdom.
They probably feared that Iran’s participation in the talks would enable Iranian leaders to link efforts to end the Syrian crisis to negotiations over Iran’s nuclear program, enhancing their ability to resist international demands that the program be terminated.
Those who wanted to limit the use of juries supposedly feared a risk to state security in some instances.
And his silence in the face of it all confirms what many in India had feared: his economic sloganeering was merely a ploy to secure power.
In 1939, it appeared that Poland feared the Soviet Union more than it feared Nazi GermanyNo one can know whether Poland would have avoided German occupation had it agreed to the Red Army’s entry in the event of an invasion, much less whether WWII or the Holocaust might have been prevented.
There is also an American proposal to allow the Badr Brigade – a wing of the Palestine Liberation Army that is currently stationed in Jordan – to relocate to the Palestinian territories as Abbas’s rapid reaction force in Gaza in anticipation of a feared civil war.
The criteria of legitimacy are that the atrocities occurring or feared are sufficiently serious to justify, prima facie, a military response; that the response has a primarily humanitarian motive; that no lesser response is likely to be effective in halting or averting the harm; that the proposed response is proportional to the threat; and that the intervention will do more good than harm.
Now, it is feared, organized crime will intimidate his less talented successors.
At the time, many economists feared that a rapidly expanding money supply and sharply rising government debt would fuel inflation and weaken the dollar.
For example, when the Arab Spring rebellions erupted in 2011, many Europeans immediately feared that millions of North Africans would descend on their shores.
Even some in the Vatican feared this outcome.
The neighbors were watching, and our “owners” feared that we would encourage one another to escape – a risk that they mitigated by refusing to give us proper shoes, even in winter.
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