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Indeed, non-sustainable products should be phased out gradually.
That compelled the Fed to keep interest rates at historic lows for an extended period, and rates were raised only gradually because of fears about the recovery’s fragility.
Since 2010, official discussion of Greek debt has moved fitfully from fantasy to gradually dawning reality.
At the same time, the protection that American forces offer Iraqi officials will diminish as troops are gradually withdrawn, and Iran will race to fill the security vacuum.
Banks have been gradually placed on a stronger footing, with more loss-absorbing equity capital.
Instead, they gradually erode children’s development prospects.
And symptoms accumulate: sight is gradually lost, genital lesions appear around puberty (sometimes increasing risk of HIV), and skin condition declines as millions of microscopic worms become intolerably itchy.
Some were blooded in politics during the students revolts of the 1970s who later backed a movement that, over two decades, gradually penned the Thai military back into its barracks and entrenched electoral democracy.
Since then, governments have gradually brought their countries into alignment with this standard.
In the process, Turkey’s status as a model Muslim democracy has gradually deteriorated and political polarization has deepened, amid growing threats to the country’s stability.
But would this sentiment extend to those of African descent and to members of other ethnicities who were gradually becoming a more visible part of Australian life?
And there is every reason to hope, and believe, that our experience is gradually becoming universal.
Most Westerners believe in a theory of liberal evolution, according to which sustained economic growth, by increasing wealth and the size of the middle class, gradually makes a country more democratic.
Gradually the impact of the shock is transferred to output and domestic prices, and the exchange rate moves towards a new equilibrium.
What is less appreciated, however, is the extent to which a broadly similar phenomenon may be starting to play out in finance, via a democratization process that could gradually reconfigure a notable part of the institutional landscape, particularly in consumer finance, while challenging regulators to adapt.
The nationalist regimes thus gradually lost domestic popular legitimacy, creating a vacuum that non-state actors have now largely filled.
The only parallel that could be drawn was limited to Asia: pundits wondered whether China was gradually becoming the modern equivalent of Germany under Kaiser Wilhelm II, with mounting regional tensions over China’s territorial claims resembling, to some extent, the situation in the Balkans on the eve of WWI.
Governments should levy gradually rising carbon taxes, using the revenues to finance low-carbon energy systems.
Gradually, however, the quest for it has become a global trend, one that continues to conquer new territories, just as blue jeans once did.
If this respite and refuge is gradually narrowed and invaded by the same kind of “products” as those that dominate the mass market, we are condemned to be perpetual captives of the same stunted universe of “practicalities,” the ordinary agglomeration of clichés packaged in advertisements.
If they do not act fast to re-establish themselves as credible and effective representatives of voters’ interests, they risk fading into the political background, allowing irresponsible populists gradually to take center stage.
A few decades ago, it was widely assumed that progress in mass education would gradually bridge the gap between scientific knowledge and popular belief, thereby contributing to a more serene and more rational democracy.
A key question for the next decade, therefore, is whether the Chinese authorities’ growth targets will be enough to preserve social cohesion as further economic and political reforms are gradually implemented.
As Assad’s narrative gains traction, fence-sitters will gradually embrace it, thus strengthening his societal support.
But they are more likely to follow such plans if they are already legislated and take effect gradually, according to a formula known in advance, rather than suddenly in some revolutionary departure from past practice.
Greece was then given unprecedented amounts of highly subsidized finance to enable it to reduce gradually its excessive spending.
Progressives wanted citizens to rule more directly, overturning a powerful and often corrupt political-industrial complex that had gradually usurped their rights.
Substantial primary surpluses will be needed for many years in order to stabilize the debt ratio and gradually reduce it to the economic safety zone of less than 60% of GDP (Italy and Greece are over 100%).
Gradually, under the guidance of his friend and mentor Shams of Tabriz, he turned away from orthodoxy, and decided to pursue a path of introspection and ecstatic worship instead.
Playing for time thus might enable them gradually to recapitalize themselves by retaining profits or attracting outside capital.
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