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If the IMF were to ease the terms on its Greek loans, it would likely face
fierce
protests from its less wealthy debtors and risk compromising its status as senior creditor – an outcome that even the Fund’s largely quiescent Board of Governors is unlikely to accept.
The US has experienced a
fierce
debate over bankruptcy reform, demonstrating that there is no simple answer to the appropriate design of bankruptcy law or regulation.
Market-oriented reform, by leveling the competitive playing field, would hurt their interests and reduce their privileges, making
fierce
opposition likely.
The most important concern public employment, pensions, labor legislation, and the length of the workweek, all of which generate
fierce
resistance.
In parliamentary debates,
fierce
ideological battles may be the order of the day, but ad hominem attacks are off limits.
As the two brothers sat on platforms together, challenging each other’s views, they tried to maintain the double fiction that, on the one hand, there was no special bond between them, and, on the other, that their sometimes
fierce
disagreements did not taint their fraternal affections.
Arguably her most important decision – which almost cost her the chancellorship, but might ultimately shape her legacy – was her 2015 decision to accept, despite
fierce
opposition from many in her own party, almost 1.5 million asylum-seekers and push for their integration into German society.
Allowing freer flows of people across borders would equalize opportunities even faster than trade, but resistance is
fierce.
As a result, the
fierce
and lively debate – in Turkey and much more emphatically in the EU – about whether Turkey really belongs to Europe has continued, despite the start of negotiations.
The path to truth is often convoluted, and those who travel along it often must navigate
fierce
competition and professional intrigue.
In banking, for example, competition is extremely fierce, and China is one of the few economies where concentration (the market share of the top five players) has declined in recent years.
To dismiss the
fierce
criticism of Germany and its leading players that erupted after the diktat on Greece, as many Germans do, is to don rose-tinted glasses.
China’s Darwinian capitalism, with its
fierce
competition among export firms, a weak social-safety net, and widespread government intervention, is widely touted as the inevitable heir to Western capitalism, if only because of China’s huge size and consistent outsize growth rate.
Of course, such an antitrust policy would face
fierce
political resistance.
In the West, many economists and observers now portray China as a
fierce
competitor for global technological supremacy.
But the bill met
fierce
opposition from key constituencies of Hollande’s Socialist Party, especially the intelligentsia and human-rights groups, and even party insiders – placing Hollande in an awkward political position.
Public debates across Eastern Europe soon started to exhibit a
fierce
confrontation between two different hidden memories: the memory of the Holocaust and that of the communist terror and crimes.
British hostility to this objective has become increasingly fierce, as John Major lost his Tory majority in parliament, and fell under the power of the anti-Europeans in his party.
Deconstructing DeglobalizationPRINCETON – US President Donald Trump and his advisers’
fierce
rhetoric on trade and immigration has led some to wonder if our current era of globalization is now at risk.
Specifically, a settlement-building spree might end up triggering a particularly
fierce
third Palestinian intifada.
This year’s annual United Nations climate-change conference in Lima, Peru, finally concluded in the early hours of Sunday morning, more than 24 hours after the scheduled close, after
fierce
argument in the final days.
So another
fierce
battle on this issue can be expected next year.
Opposition was
fierce.
The policy was met with
fierce
opposition from the domestic cashew-processing industry, which had just been privatized.
Today, we Asians are witnessing, on an almost daily basis,
fierce
political assaults on the tools and policies that have helped lift hundreds of millions of our citizens out of poverty.
Like all such transfers, the demand for more security in old age produces a
fierce
clash of opposing interests.
These assumptions provoked
fierce
criticism; the Boston Globe published the headline: “The Trump Administration Content to Sit Back and Watch Planet Warm.”
She is passionate about the Palestinian cause, mixing her cutting-edge legal advocacy with a willingness to listen to decent people from all sides of the conflict, and a
fierce
attachment to peace in the region based on due process and justice.
One solution might be to scale back price supports in Western Europe; but this would incite
fierce
resistance from farmers, especially in poorer countries with larger farm sectors.
These and other reforms will involve
fierce
struggles of national vested interests, which means that they will not be settled quickly; until they are settled, however, the negotiations with candidates from the East cannot be completed.
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