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Like a majority of MPs, Clarke opposed Brexit; but, unlike most of his Tory colleagues, he followed his conscience, and voted against the Brexit bill when it came before Parliament in March.
Since concluding a loan agreement with the government in March 2015, the International Monetary Fund has followed through with four substantial disbursements.
That refrain is followed by a chorus from the rest of the monetary union demanding to know why Germany is taking such an inflexible approach.
A poll conducted in January projected that in a four-way race, Lewites would come in first, followed by Montealegre.
It became clearer that the problem lay with instability in the global financial system itself – the bouts of euphoria and bubbles, followed by the sudden stops and sharp reversals that are endemic to unsupervised and unregulated financial markets.
This was followed by approval of the law, a request for its revision, and a surprise official meeting with the leader of Hamas.
It was not an earth-shattering policy revelation when she astutely followed reports of Sarah Palin’s $150,000 wardrobe by remarking casually on a late-night talk show that she was wearing a chain-store brand, and that “you can get lots of cute things online.”
The Myth of Inter-generational JusticeOXFORD: "Why do anything for posterity?" is an old rhetorical question, usually followed by "after all, posterity has never done anything for us."
The Netherlands heads the list, followed by Norway, Iceland, Finland, Sweden, and Germany.
At the bottom one finds a major surprise: the US, the richest large economy in the world, is in 26th place, followed by three much poorer countries: Lithuania, Latvia, and Romania.
But, beyond the absence of a referee, another issue looms: the wave of globalization that followed the end of the Cold War has, paradoxically, accelerated fragmentation, affecting democratic and non-democratic countries alike.
More attacks from Pakistan have followed, bringing more inconsistent and episodic responses from India, typified in the latest UN setback.
The two deepest US recessions since World War II had followed similar dramatic oil-price increases, caused by the Arab oil embargo and Iran’s Islamic Revolution.
Though Trump threatens punitive tariffs and demands that European countries increase their defense spending to 2% of GDP, he has not followed up his words with action.
Putin also followed Lukashenko’s lead in eradicating independent political parties and forcing opponents into exile or killing them (and sometimes both).
Would governments vow, like former Fed chairman Ben Bernanke in September 2008, followed by European Central Bank President Mario Draghi in July 2012, to do “whatever it takes” to ensure the currency’s survival?
The only solution, therefore, is a process of qualitative analysis followed by rigorous and reiterative testing against empirical facts until different paths or policy options are found – or, as Deng Xiaoping famously said, “crossing the river by feeling the stones.”
“Passportization” is the fifth step in this process, followed by protection and, finally, annexation of territory.
This would be followed by the establishment of liaison offices in Pyongyang and Washington, DC, and the removal of certain UN sanctions.
The BJP’s growth from the mid-1980s followed on the coattails of the RSS.
And it followed that up on May 18 with a broad-spectrum manifesto that elevates “employment first” policies to the level of traditional fiscal and monetary policy.
A concerted effort to demilitarize our world and build a feminist peace – beginning with a global ceasefire, and followed by a comprehensive reappraisal of how we allocate our resources – must be central to this vision.
Of course, it is strange for Ukrainian reformers seemingly to forget that they are being followed and recorded – whether by Russian security services or anti-reform oligarchs.
The bottom line is that the US dollar remains in first place by a wide margin, followed by the euro, the yen, and the pound sterling.
But the depth of the subsequent recession, and the long period of slow growth that followed, was the result not of continued financial system fragility, but of the excessive leverage in the real economy that had developed over the previous half-century.
But the wise course is not necessarily the one that will be followed.
Despite these cuts, the renminbi has not gone into free fall, as some might have expected: its current value against the US dollar is similar to that in mid-December 2017, when the PBOC last followed the Fed with a five-basis-point rate increase.
Ten years ago, many commentators suggested that Italy would have been better off had it followed a currency regime like Argentina’s, which allows for devaluation.
Populist criticism must be heeded, even if the radical proposals of populist leaders are not followed slavishly.
The energy sector was unprepared for the boom that followed WTO accession in the early 2000s, so there were too few power stations to meet the increase in demand from new factories.
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