Heavy in sentence

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That will disappear, and it will leave behind a heavy burden of foreign debt that will be further swollen by the budget deficits of the next few years.

Mergers are no silver bullet, but they could help to alleviate serious problems relatively quickly – though, in the longer term, the banks would still have to tackle the legacy of heavy and rigid structures and rebuild their reputations, with a strong focus on consumer service and fairness.

In China, it is the northeastern region that is being hit hardest by job losses, owing to overcapacity and the closure of polluting and loss-making heavy industries.

This freedom of enterprise would stimulate innovation and create employment far better than the heavy hand of the state.

We should consider the front pages of every free nation’s newspapers as a precious set of documents, to be replicated and shared openly throughout the world, especially in countries where heavy state censorship exists.

But the inevitable consequence within China was wasteful construction investment and enormous overcapacity in heavy industrial sectors such as steel, cement, and glass.

This has helped Turkey not only to maintain its own internal balance, but also to win markets and keep friends without the heavy baggage and risks of divisive geopolitics.

We know, too, where most PM2.5 comes from: power plants, heavy industry, and motor vehicles.

As Rafael Di Tella and Robert MacCulloch have shown, the world’s poorest countries are not characterized by naive trust in capitalism, but by utter distrust, which leads to heavy government intervention and regulation of business.

But if the American military footprint is too heavy, the Islamic State’s soft power will be strengthened, thus aiding its global recruiting efforts.

But Europe will be unable to provide many new jobs in the private sector until it levels the playing field by reducing the heavy tax and regulatory burden which is discouraging companies from adding employees.

A heavy dose of labor market deregulation, including unemployment compensation, should also be added.

And these costs could fall significantly if, as is likely, hydrogen emerges as a major route to decarbonization across many sectors – including aviation (via synfuels), shipping (by using ammonia derived from green hydrogen instead of heavy fuel oil), and long-distance trucking (where hydrogen fuel cells may play a significant role).

Stringent controls on the real-estate market placed a heavy burden on the developers themselves, as well as related industries like steel.

The most profitable firms in the US are no longer in heavy industry; they are in sectors that capitalize on research and development, brands, software, and algorithms.

Concern over the Chinese economy’s marked slowdown and the Argentine peso’s steep slide against the US dollar has triggered heavy selling pressure on an array of emerging-market currencies.

The reasons are mainly homegrown: a poor investment climate, heavy capital outflows, and a shriveling current-account surplus.

Chinese officials are drawing lessons from this heavy debt burden, as they fear the prospect of local governments creating an internal “Greek crisis” for the rest of China.

Among the most obvious was the heavy burden placed on the Chinese economy from the accumulation of huge volumes of foreign-exchange reserves, which peaked at nearly $4 trillion in June 2014.

However, if the war drags on, if Baghdad comes under siege with heavy civilian casualties - or if weapons of mass destruction are actually used - all bets could be off.

This has led to aggressive US Army sweeps, backed in some cases by heavy bombers.

To be sure, pro-active anti-poverty programs, loose credit, a commodity-export boom, and heavy government spending (financed by an equally heavy tax burden) lifted millions out of poverty.

There is only one kind of primary energy (energy embodied in natural resources) that was not known to the first high civilizations of the Middle East and East Asia and by all of their pre-industrial successors: isotopes of the heavy elements whose nuclear fission has been used since the late 1950’s to generate heat that, in turn, produces steam for modern electricity turbo-generators.

For South Koreans, it is a heavy burden, rooted in Japanese colonization and the myriad horrors of World War II.

In that case, the price of oil could shoot up to $150 a barrel or more, dealing a heavy blow to the global economy.

By contrast, even Latin America's star performer, Chile, remains largely a resource-based export economy, with a heavy concentration in copper and agricultural exports.

Within the Turkish government, this opening is viewed as an immense opportunity to reduce Turkey’s heavy dependence on energy imports.

It was to foil this agreement that the military branch of Hamas, run from Damascus, engaged in the provocation that brought a heavy handed response from Israel—which in turn incited Hezbollah to further provocation, opening a second front.

And raising borrowing costs for governments with dangerously heavy debts – thereby discouraging them from further borrowing – is precisely what we should want to do.

The risk in this American activism is that it will provide the excuse for Europeans to sit back and cheer while someone else does the heavy lifting.

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