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Animals with big round eyes, like baby seals, arouse more empathy than chickens, on whom we inflict vastly more suffering.
On the contrary, the longer Greenspan plays down America’s dangerous macroeconomic imbalances with happy talk, the more damage they will ultimately inflict on the global economy.
We should not underestimate humans’ abilities to inflict damage on their community, their environment, and even the entire planet.
To aim an anti-dumping measure against an Asian manufacturer may inflict most of the damage on a European producer.
In reality, what they don’t like is competition itself, and they fight it by deploying an instrument that can inflict even greater damage on themselves.
If allowed to continue, Europe’s labor-market crisis will inflict lasting damage on an entire generation, with unforeseeable medium- and long-term effects on employment, productivity, and social cohesion.
Not long ago, I criticized the British government's stance, first announced at last year’s Kyoto conference on climate change, and was chided for being wrong about the limited amount of economic damage that climate change would inflict.
Because many contracts are “sticky" (that is, not easily revised) in monetary terms, inflation and deflation would both inflict damage on the economy.
In fact, Hamas made similar attempts to attack the Dimona complex in 2012, as did Iraq in 1991, with the aim of releasing the site’s contents to inflict radiological damage on Israel’s population.
A snippet from the ad: “To those who scapegoat Israel...yet remain silent about the oppression and violence Hamas, Iran and other countries inflict on the gay community: Shame on you.
The unspeakable human suffering that they inflict is the same whatever flag they may bear.
Iran’s war rhetoric and threat to inflict a deadly blow on Israel is served by dispatching a drone in the general direction of Dimona.
Second, the drone’s arrival from the Mediterranean underscored the danger that terrorist organizations, supplied with deadly modern equipment, can inflict damage “without a return address.”
In a country obsessed by the costs that the euro crisis may inflict upon domestic savers, the anti-euro party Alternative for Germany received less than 5% of the popular vote, which gives Merkel exceptional political strength.
Experience from previous tsunamis and other major floods suggests that the environmental damage they inflict is linked to saltwater intrusion in ground water and to the disappearance or relocation of beaches.
ECT’s critics seem to think that if they do not protest against its use at every opportunity, its advocates will inflict it on people who do not need it.
Ending the Torture TradeBUENOS AIRES/BRUSSELS/ULAN BATOR – Shock belts, spiked batons, and electrified thumbscrews can serve no other purpose than to inflict pain on people.
In Buddhism: “A state that is not pleasant or delightful to me must also be so to him; and a state that is not pleasing or delightful to me, how could I inflict that upon another?”
And the Chinese may be in a better position to respond to US attempts to inflict pain on them than the US is to respond to the pain that China might inflict on Americans.
It follows that we have no grounds for confidence that we could survive the worst that even more powerful future technologies could inflict on us.
While all-out nuclear war may be less likely now, these arsenals – and the doctrines and operations attached to their deployment – threaten to inflict serious long-term damage on the global environment, which would be true even if their deployment were confined to one region.
Still, it was clear in the wake of September 11 that a small number of people, motivated by a radical form of Islam, was determined to inflict as much harm on America and Americans as they could.
In one fell swoop, the risk of currency wars, and the harm they can inflict on the world economy, would be eliminated.
The capacity to use the Internet to inflict damage is now well established.
An existing border dispute was used as a pretext to launch a swift invasion (one that caught Nehru’s India by surprise), inflict a humiliating defeat, and then stage a seemingly magnanimous unilateral withdrawal designed to highlight India’s impotence.
Assad and his cohorts are encouraged by the world’s failure to respond effectively to their brutal suppression of the revolt in Homs, and have proceeded to inflict vicious punishment on its survivors as a warning to opponents elsewhere.
Its failure to do so not only inflicts avoidable pain and suffering on the unemployed, but also threatens to inflict long-term costs on American society.
On the one hand, they should help pay for any damages they indirectly inflict on poorer countries (scientists will be needed to establish or disprove such linkages), and on the other hand, they should take serious and long-term actions (such as reducing the use of fossil fuels) to limit the environmental costs they are imposing on themselves and the rest of the world.
The most startling revelation in the report, however, is the staggering number of fish on which humans inflict these deaths.
America blames China for its trade deficits and the pressures they inflict on workers, citing a massive accumulation of foreign-exchange reserves as evidence of an unconscionable currency manipulation.
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