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The world’s dictators, of course, know exactly what to make of the international community’s failure of will and
inability
to coordinate effective measures.
Discussions within the G-20 have produced two possible explanations for Asian countries’
inability
to attract more private capital to infrastructure projects.
Its
inability
to end the 44-year military occupation of Palestinian lands has not gone unnoticed.
The global financial crisis thus revealed the Mexican economy’s
inability
to innovate, promote investment, create jobs, or provide conditions for social mobility.
Deep-seated biases and resentments – China’s so-called century of humiliation following the Opium Wars of the nineteenth century and America’s
inability
to get out of its own skin when assessing the ideological threat posed by a socialist state like China – sustained a long-simmering distrust that set the stage for the current conflict.
In reality, this memory problem concerns ordinary absentmindedness that emerges in the wake of trauma; it does not refer to an
inability
to remember the trauma itself.
Incomplete encoding of a trauma must not be confused with amnesia – an
inability
to recall something did get into memory.
In contrast, the phenomenon of dissociative amnesia supposedly entails victims’
inability
to remember their traumatic experiences, not an
inability
to remember their entire lives or who they are.
Claims of prior
inability
to remember imply that they had attempted unsuccessfully to recall their abuse, only to remember it much later.
It is
inability
to remember that constitutes amnesia.
But, given the absence of any conspiracy, falling inflation, and the
inability
to use gold as a currency, such arguments cannot be sustained.
Yeltsin’s
inability
over the past six years to choose a clear policy path and stick to it corresponds to these two sides of his nature: one authoritarian, the other a reformer.
All the opportunities that the US market presented to Mexico could not offset the consequences of policy mistakes at home, especially the failure to reverse the real appreciation of the peso’s exchange rate and the
inability
to extend the productivity gains achieved in a narrow range of export activities to the rest of the economy.
The next day, the US government had to extend an $85 billion bailout to American International Group (AIG), the world’s largest insurer, owing to its
inability
to back up its deteriorating derivatives position.
Now the project is buried under the weight of America’s
inability
to protect Lebanon’s fragile democracy and Palestine’s democratic experiment.
And, while the
inability
to repay loans can contribute to a high debt burden, the nonperforming-loan (NPL) ratio for China’s major banks stands at less than 1%.
Europe’s
inability
to get its own house in order has engendered a new Italian majority that is planning to expel a half-million migrants, blowing fresh winds into the sails of militant racists in Hungary, Poland, France, Britain, the Netherlands, and, of course, Germany itself.
To my mind, the biggest failure of post-2008 economic policy has consisted in governments’
inability
to find creative ways to write down unsustainable debts, for example in US mortgage markets, and in Europe’s periphery.
The Fed’s
inability
to anchor expectations would not only harm its credibility with investors, but would also make it much harder to fulfill its dual mandate of pursuing price stability and maximum employment.
The shortfalls of the civilian effort and the unwillingness or
inability
of the Afghan government to provide good governance are the country’s central problems.
Although the current
inability
of Palestinians to work in Israel has had devastating economic consequences, there may be a silver lining: over the longer term resources might be reallocated towards export-oriented activities, as lower employment in Israel and lower levels of remittances pull down wages and thereby improve export competitiveness.
Indeed, as eurozone members’
inability
to print their own money effectively relegated them to the status of less-developed countries that must borrow in a foreign currency, risk premiums widened accordingly.
The greatest crisis facing many Americans is their increasing
inability
to meet their monthly mortgage payments.
While a process of "peaceful evolution" offers the best prospect for change in this mutating "people's republic," the Party's demonstrated
inability
to countenance even the most modest quotients of political challenge--even with a new generation of leaders in power--does not inspire confidence in the prospect for piecemeal reform.
They reflect an
inability
to get results.
China’s people and government are especially dismayed by the Mekong killings, which seemed to demonstrate, once again, the government’s
inability
to protect its citizens from being murdered abroad, despite the country’s newfound global status.
In fact, it still struggles with imbalances today, owing to its
inability
or unwillingness to embrace badly needed structural reforms – the so-called “third arrow” of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s economic recovery strategy, known as “Abenomics.”
An absolute
inability
to consider the point of view of the other and to go beyond a sense of collective martyrdom still lingers, unequally to be fair, over the entire region.
In late 2008, after months of effort, the US, joined by other countries in the process, ended the negotiations with the North Koreans, owing to the
inability
to secure adequate verification that they were fulfilling their commitments.
Partly because of the floods, which will shave off at least 1% from GDP, partly because of the administration’s
inability
and unwillingness to curb non-essential expenditures, and partly because of slowing export growth, Pakistan is once again facing serious fiscal and balance-of-payments problems.
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