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The window of opportunity to create a Europe that is whole and free after a half century of division and misery may not remain open indefinitely.
Those with a proactionary bent are happy to increase the planet’s human population indefinitely as nothing more or less than a series of experiments in living, regardless of outcomes.
The oil that the Arab countries of the Persian Gulf have in abundance also works against democracy, for it creates an incentive for the rulers to retain power indefinitely.
Because of that fear, Americans allow themselves to be spied on indiscriminately by their own government, and permit terrorism suspects to be tortured and locked up indefinitely without trial.
But, just when America’s Sino-centric Asia policy became noticeable, Japan put the US on notice that it cannot indefinitely remain a faithful servant of American policies.
That behavior reflects banks’ uncertainty, but leaving the money with the ECB is a loss-making operation that cannot be sustained indefinitely.
When a boom or bust lasts for such a long time, it begins to seem like it will continue indefinitely.
And just as governments cannot run huge financial deficits indefinitely, countries cannot continue to run large annual ecological imbalances without depleting their natural capital – and thus weakening their economic health.
The pressure of looming deadlines, with the need to produce “deliverables” both for the formal meeting itself and the usual surrounding buzz of bilateral engagements, often force agreement on important but contentious issues that would otherwise remain indefinitely unresolved.
This will make it difficult, if not impossible, for the domestic private sector to finance the budget deficit indefinitely.
Governments may try to resist the fall of the dollar, but in today’s world of deep and fluid capital markets, they will not succeed indefinitely, even in Asia.
One thing seems clear: the status quo is unstable and cannot be sustained indefinitely.
The world's high- and middle-income countries should not imagine that the relatively rich can fence themselves off indefinitely from poverty and misery in the poorest countries.
It is unthinkable that the global economic system will continue indefinitely to allow the US to import more goods and services than it exports.
But negotiators on both sides must also take care to avoid any outcome that could poison UK-EU relations indefinitely.
But more remote risks simply do not stimulate our emotions, so we often postpone taking action indefinitely.
It can do this indefinitely, and it seems likely that it will.
Governmental brutality and intimidation can withstand the march of history for years, but not indefinitely.
But neither diplomatic stance is likely to continue indefinitely.
To address this failing – while coping with economic conditions that simply cannot deliver double-digit growth indefinitely – China’s central leadership has, in the last five years, begun to change the way it evaluates local officials’ performance.
But this cannot go on indefinitely.
Finally, in America, the National Defense Authorization Act, enacted by Congress in December, allows the president to suspend due process for US citizens, detain them indefinitely, and render them for torture.
Moreover, the idea that China’s leaders will continue to avoid serious policy errors indefinitely, and that their capacity as crisis managers will never be tested is, quite simply, fanciful.
Admittedly, consumption cannot be sustained indefinitely by running up the national debt; the imbalance between consumption and investment must be corrected.
That does not mean that the US should maintain the discount rate close to zero and run up government debt indefinitely.
But the bad news is that even if interest rates are expected to remain low for a while, they will not stay this low indefinitely.
A binding international treaty with no provision for exit, the Good Friday Agreement was signed under the assumption that both Britain and Ireland would remain in the EU indefinitely.
The nationalism and homophobia that Putin and Medvedev have mobilized against the liberal wave is more dangerous to them – and their plan to swap jobs with each other indefinitely – than the liberals and leftists are.
Another recently ruled that the president may call anyone anywhere an “enemy combatant” and detain him or her indefinitely.
The US must reiterate clearly that indefinitely prolonging the status quo on the Korean Peninsula would imply a strategic loss for China, and that China must join the international community in its efforts to halt North Korea’s nuclear program.
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