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It follows, then, that the more liberals from New York or San Francisco, or indeed Houston, agitate for ways to control the sale of guns to civilians, the harder proponents of the right to own lethal weapons will fight back.
The longer this persists, the harder it will be for politicians to maintain control of their countries’ destinies and that of Europe’s collective enterprise.
But these powerful autocracies’ resentful nationalism still makes them harder to deal with than their more brutal, but less unpredictable, Communist predecessors.
Small firms and startups must always struggle for credit, and the Great Recession that followed the 2008 financial crisis made it harder for them.
The demand-siders say that innovation only makes recovery harder, because it enables firms to meet existing demand with fewer employees.
Only by exerting a harder budget constraint on the state sector, limiting fiscal expansion, and reducing dependence on government-led investment can China’s excessive currency issuance be addressed in the long term.
But as difficult as the talks with Iran were, negotiating with Kim’s Hermit Kingdom will be harder still.
Bush’s administration preferred a harder line, using the so-called six-party talks, begun in 2003 and involving the US, China, Russia, Japan, and North and South Korea, to act almost as a pressure-cooker.
At a minimum, it should be harder to buy back shares than to issue true dividend payments.
In a world of premature deindustrialization, achieving economy-wide productivity growth becomes that much harder for low-income countries.
Wolf recently excoriated the world’s big banks as an industry with an extraordinary “talent for privatising gains and socialising losses... [and] get[ting]... self-righteously angry when public officials... fail to come at once to their rescue when they get into (well-deserved) trouble....[T]he conflicts of interest created by large financial institutions are far harder to manage than in any other industry.”
(There are also all the separate costs of bad health, which are much harder to count or capture.)
Furthermore, as Harvard’s Jeffrey Frankel has pointed out, regulators increased margin requirements several times this year, making it harder to buy stocks with borrowed money.
Many will argue that refugees who lack the skills that the economy demands will be harder to integrate than other newcomers.
However foolish that stance may be, it is even harder to understand why China, Brazil, and India have not made a more determined effort.
With Israel refusing to accept a nuclear-armed Iran, and its patience wearing thin, the drums of actual war will beat harder.
Some are inclined to push harder.
By the time there are only a few – or even a few million – left, one can expect reaching them to be much harder.
These forms of poverty may be even harder to address, not least because China has less experience doing so.
They should be working actively to engineer a just and smart shift to a future free of fossil fuels, not making that future harder and more expensive to achieve.
Even harder to gauge was what it would take for the disaffected to say “enough is enough” and begin challenging their regime openly, defiantly, and in concert.
If eurozone membership cannot be taken for granted, if countries that do not abide by the common rules can simply be kicked out, countries will try harder to hold onto it.
But the EU’s demand that Yanukovych pardon Tymoshenko, who narrowly lost the 2010 presidential election, may prove harder to satisfy.
Social norms for fairness toward foreigners, for example, are much harder to sustain and diffuse than those that demand that mothers care for their children.
After all, the longer one is unemployed, the harder it is to find a full-time job at a decent wage.
But while Bush was not held back four years ago by the lack of a popular mandate in pushing his agenda, he may be emboldened by the seeming ringing endorsement to push even harder - such as making the tax cuts permanent and partially privatizing social security.
The Responsibility to Protect Comes of AgeNEW YORK – Good news not only sells less well than bad news, but also often seems harder to believe.
Promoting sustainable growth is much harder.
But this misses the point: It is harder to reach agreement precisely because all of the key leaders (representing around two-thirds of the world’s population and 80% of global GDP), whose support is needed for any truly global decision, are in the room.
During a campaign stop at a Whirlpool factory that was scheduled to move to Poland, he promised to take a harder line against the PiS government for its fiscal policies.
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