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The Fed and Treasury feared that the lesson being taught in the last half of 2007 and the first half of 2008 was that the US government guaranteed all the debt and transactions of every bank and bank-like entity that was regarded as too big to fail.
Muslim leaders everywhere worried that they would be stigmatized, perhaps nowhere more so than in Saudi Arabia, whose regime feared that its decades of friendship with the US might end.
The referendum happened for one reason: in 2013, then-Prime Minister David Cameron feared that he would be unable to secure sufficiently his Conservative Party base in the general election that year.
But the feared deterioration in loan quality is exaggerated.
The third moment came after the Berlin Wall fell, and it was feared that an enlarged Germany might destabilize Europe.
If not, it is to be feared that they will agree only on platitudes and hope for the best.
In addition, both Kennedy and Khrushchev feared that rational strategies and careful calculation might spin out of control.
At the time, it was feared that this eastern enlargement would create tensions within the EU because new members from Central and Eastern Europe were poor and some had large agricultural sectors.
The Soviets, with their fragile legitimacy, always feared betrayal.
That reality was reflected in the eruption of street protests across the Middle East soon after Trump’s announcement, though the large-scale violence that some feared has not occurred.
Fossil-fuel producers willfully drove us toward the grim future they feared by promoting their products, lying about the effects, and aggressively defending their share of the energy market.
CAMBRIDGE – In the 1950’s, many Americans feared that the Soviet Union would surpass the United States as the world’s leading power.
Europeans will also see the dismantling of their welfare states and social security systems; the cherished “European model” of pensions, healthcare, and unemployment benefits risks being replaced by the despised and widely feared “American model.”
The idea is that investors become so worried about a recession, and that stocks drop so far, that bearish sentiment feeds back into the real economy through much lower spending, bringing on the feared downturn.
Ivanov, however, apparently intervened not because he feared a miscarriage of justice, but because the Kremlin hierarchy recognized that a verdict exonerating Budanov would leave the army itself vulnerable.
This, too, was guided by political considerations: it would have been more efficient to inject new equity into the banks, but Obama feared accusations of nationalization and socialism.
Like their predecessors, the Whigs, Republicans favored high import tariffs in order to advance the economic interests of manufacturers in the Northeast who feared competition from Europe.
Before the election, when polling showed Mélenchon and the other leaders within the polling margin of error, many feared that the second round could be a runoff between him and Le Pen.
They feared the brave new digital world, because it was beyond the reach of their analogue security establishments.
The market prices of most RMBS rebounded as losses due to homeowners simply abandoning their properties were much lower than had been feared at the height of the crisis.
What happened to the science-based technocratic state that my humanities professors feared?
STOCKHOLM – At the start of 2017, many feared that the European project would experience a near-breakdown within the next year.
But all who had feared a “great Israeli offensive” in Gaza should make every effort to strengthen the truce and create a climate for relaxing tensions that could, with time, lead to a peace agreement with the Palestinian Authority.
If the West approaches these discussions with Russia without illusions, with a clear understanding of its own strategic interests, and with new ideas for partnership and cooperation, the worst to be feared is failure.
According to the government’s latest calculations, Germany’s population could remain above 80 million until 2060, and the reduction in the labor supply might not be as drastic as was previously feared.
Had Wang Lijun, the former Chongqing police commissioner and close ally of Bo Xilai, not feared for his life and fled to the United States’ consulate in Chengdu, Gu would still be helping Bo to rule the city.
Many in the US feared that, just as the nineteenth century had been British and the twentieth century had been American, the twenty-first century would be Japanese.
When the euro was introduced, it was widely feared that Germany’s competitiveness problem could not be resolved, because the authorities would no longer be able to adjust the exchange rate.
While the NPT is not entirely responsible for the absence of dozens of nuclear-armed states that many people once feared would emerge, it generated a standard of behavior that continues to guide most countries.
Many Americans feared being overtaken after Japanese per capita income surpassed that of the United States;Japanese manufacturing set the international standard; and some books even predicted an eventual war with a Japanese nuclear superpower.
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