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One prominent commentator, Max Boot, took “some small degree of satisfaction from the outcome of Iran’s elections,” because Obama would now find it harder to stand in the way of an Israeli attack on Iran’s nuclear installations.
Agreeing on the composition of such a council for Europe would be hard, but no harder than it was to agree on the makeup of the ECB’s board.
Finally, the argument must be made more forcefully that it will be much harder to protect our societies against the revolutionary terrorism of radical Islam without the active support of all law-abiding Muslims.
But, unless the US wants a Cold War-style confrontation in Asia, it must try harder to engage China in shaping a viable regional security structure.
With harder budget constraints imposed by the central government, local officials and state-owned enterprises (SOEs) have curbed their spending on investment, and are now being overly cautious.
And measuring turns out to be much harder than one might expect.
It is easy to tell whether the US is conducting military exercises with South Korea; it is much harder to ensure that North Korea is not engaging in underground research and development activities.
But pushing the “re-set button” on US-Russia relations may be harder than Obama and his team imagined.
A dramatic curtailment of state resources may eventually push the government toward modernization, but it might also produce an uglier shift— toward harder political crackdown, economic nationalism and an essentially isolationist course.
Russia’s diplomats have generally, but not always, adopted a harder line, while Rogozin has been pushing his own BMD agenda.
The ECB, however, will have a harder time making the case for wealth effects, largely because equity ownership by individuals (either direct or through their pension accounts) is far lower in Europe than in the US or Japan.
But how much harder would Brexit have been had the United Kingdom adopted the euro back in 2000?
The scientific ecosystem also serves us in ways that are harder to articulate.
The only difference is that, if exchange rates remain fixed, advanced countries will have to go through a protracted period of low inflation (or even deflation), which will make their debt burden even harder to bear, and emerging countries will have to enter an inflationary period as capital flows in, driving up reserves, increasing the money supply, and ultimately boosting the price level.
Perhaps recruiting support would have been much harder had the Danes also had to turn off their heat.
So, while Baku's hotels are crammed with oil men, the bankers who must fund construction are harder to find.
According to a 2017 survey by the Centre for Political Research at Sciences Po, 64% of French adults believe their local mayor is working harder than the executive branch to solve everyday problems.
As a result, bank credit will be harder to obtain.
It is harder to grow when construction workers and hedge-fund managers have to be retrained to work as welders and nurses.
As a result, it is harder for a dishonest official to find occasions to demand bribes or skim from government payouts.
And we could determine if increasing agricultural production would make it harder to manage natural resources; or if expanding renewable-energy sources would deplete the water supply in already-arid regions.
As the EU’s de facto leader, Germany should be making it easier, not harder, for NATO members to meet their obligations to collective defense.
But high- and low-skill migrants alike contribute to the efficient division of labor in their host countries, because cultural differences make it harder for them to compete with locals.
If we want the “peace on earth and mercy mild” promised in our Christmas carols, we will need to work much harder and more confidently to secure them.
Moreover, errors are even harder to correct.
After all, if politicians could not win elections by taking money from some-including future generations, which will have to foot a portion of the bill-and giving it to others, they would have to work much harder to display some ability in producing public benefits for all.
This is much harder than doling out credit, but more effective in the long run.
With broad agreement on the need to combat corruption in the health sector, the harder challenge will be developing workable remedies.
It artificially creates – as in France – socially homogenous poor neighborhoods where the unskilled live among themselves, disconnected from others, making it harder for them to benefit from the agglomeration economies that would boost their productivity.
But he has also taken a harder line on Russia than Trump, calling for a strong and united approach by the US and Europe.
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