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In Afghanistan, Sweden has maintained – and even gradually increased – its troop presence in the northern province of Mazar-e-Sharif, where, together with Finland, it leads a Provincial Reconstruction Team.
Today, Moon is entertaining a range of similar “soft” options – such as reducing military tensions, increasing people-to-people contacts, and offering more humanitarian aid – to help shift course gradually.
While China did decide to allow the RMB to appreciate gradually after that, it has relied on capital controls to prevent hot money from flowing in.
But that would require greater fiscal integration, so it would have to be phased in gradually.
A formula for burden sharing would be needed that gradually increases domestic financing.
America’s military presence in Europe will be gradually reduced, as will its willingness to take the lead in international crises – even those affecting Europe’s interests.
Many risks are gradually being added to the list of those that can be insured against.
Its key passage reads: “[…] we shall so wear down the Goyim that they will be compelled to offer us an international power that by its position will enable us without any violence gradually to absorb all the State forces of the world and to form a Super-Government.”
On the contrary, the US is continuing to thwart European efforts gradually to establish a rule-based international order.
That is why cities, regions, and countries can absorb technology only gradually, generating growth through some recombination of the knowhow that is already in place, maybe with the addition of some component – a bassist to complete a string quartet.
The government should gradually increase the retirement age for new workers, crack down on evasion of social-security contributions, and accept the no-deficit principle for supplementary pension funds.
Even structural reform reduces output in the short run, because it requires firing workers, shutting down money-losing firms, and gradually reallocating labor and capital to emerging new industries.
The recent IMF/World Bank annual meetings indicate that this is gradually being recognized, with emerging countries increasingly critical of China’s inflexibility.
The fact is that humanity cannot afford to act gradually on this issue.
Because bubbles tend to inflate gradually over a number of years before their abrupt collapse, letting them run a little further seems politically astute.
After all, in such markets, renters can find housing with security of tenure at price levels that are predictable, even as they evolve gradually over time according to market conditions, thereby ensuring that landlords have incentives to maintain the properties.
But, though the guests were expected to return home after two years, these controls gradually weakened as part of the general movement toward free trade and free capital movements.
Within this mechanism, countries that pursued reckless fiscal policies could be gradually excluded from the system by lowering their Blue Bond allocation.
And countries unhappy with the system’s evolution could gradually exit it simply by rejecting their annual Blue Bond allocation for a sufficient number of years in a row – thereby no longer issuing Blue Bonds or guaranteeing the fresh Blue Bonds of others.
Developed countries have been raising their retirement ages gradually, but trade unions and pensioner groups lobby hard against any increase.
Urban land prices in major Japanese cities have steadily dropped over much of the period since 1991, as the enormous faith in the miraculous powers of Japanese capitalism gradually faded.
In that case, North Korea will gradually become more unstable, despite China’s support, as economic collapse undermines its quasi-legitimate leadership.
For years I've tried to discover the underpinnings of this homophobia, which remains deeply rooted despite the progressive liberalization of public opinion in most areas of morality: contraception, premarital cohabitation, divorce, single motherhood, women's rights, have all gradually (if grudgingly) been assimilated into the spectrum of "normal" behavior.
Gradually, effective military cooperation between the US and Europe will shift from being unnecessary and unwelcome, to being impossible.
History suggests that a shift in global currency dominance is likely to occur gradually.
Nonetheless, over the next five years, the Castro government gradually repaid the full amount due, including all interest charges.
But elements of an Asian way are gradually emerging.
But, as European and Asian IT firms catch up, America’s advantage will gradually deteriorate.
The only way to resist these threats is to address their root cause: the imbalance of power at the top of the regime and within ministry staffs that is gradually robbing Karzai's government of legitimacy.
The Mystery of the Missing InflationNEW YORK – Since the summer of 2016, the global economy has been in a period of moderate expansion, with the growth rate accelerating gradually.
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