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They have defended their empirical methods and
insist
that they are not the deficit hawks that their critics portray them to be.
They want to abolish it, and
insist
that failing financial firms simply go through a court-supervised bankruptcy process.
If Germany and the other northern European countries continue to
insist
on pursuing current policies, they, together with their southern neighbors, will wind up paying a high price.
A new M5S/League government could still
insist
that the EU no longer count the debt held by the Banca d’Italia in its official statistics.
But many in the US Congress
insist
that provisions must be added to the agreements to prevent currency manipulation.
Let’s be clear: If the US were to
insist
that “strong and enforceable currency disciplines” be part of trade agreements, no deals would be concluded.
But to
insist
that protesters, old and young, fathers and mothers, numbering as many as 150,000, were willing to risk their lives sitting under a scorching Tropical sun for two months only for money strains credulity.
His position seemed less to deny the existence of global warming than to
insist
that policies mitigating climate change not impose an unreasonable burden on American companies.
In the long run, if donor countries
insist
on being penny wise and pound foolish, they run the risk of contributing to outbreaks of more virulent strains of HIV and TB than they ever imagined possible.
Food should not be used to fuel cars, opponents
insist.
Official surveys
insist
that 86% of Russians – and it is usually 86% – support him on everything from the annexation of Crimea to his latest term as president.
The year 2005 will offer many opportunities for citizens around the world to
insist
that their leaders keep their Millennium promises.
After all, only small children would
insist
that, “It wasn’t me, it was him,” even in the face of irrefutable evidence.
But what is required is to
insist
that governments comply fully with their human rights obligations, including the right to food, the right of all peoples to freely dispose of their natural wealth and resources, and the right not to be deprived of the means of subsistence.
But congressional Republicans may
insist
on paying for the cuts in personal income tax by limiting the deductions that individuals now use to lower their tax bills.
Americans find it difficult to understand why Europeans
insist
on such restrictions, and accuse the EU of practicing bio-trade protectionism.
They worry that even after undertaking structural reforms to reduce the attractiveness of unemployment benefits and increase the ability of workers to move to jobs and of firms to move to workers, central bankers will continue to
insist
on tight money.
They must convince their constituents that using public money to provide sweeteners for debt restructuring and to recapitalize the banks is essential to the internal devaluation strategy that they
insist
their neighbors follow.
This will now happen, because Germany will
insist
on it.
What exactly are we doing if we
insist
on Turkey’s acknowledgement that the Armenian genocide did take place as a condition of its membership in the European Union?
The CCP, they insist, has proved its resilience since the Tiananmen crisis in 1989 and the collapse of Soviet communism in 1991.
Indeed, to
insist
on greater labor-market flexibility, without ensuring that workers, who face a constant need to adapt to technological disruptions, can rely on continuous social-safety nets, is to advocate a lopsided world in which employers have all the flexibility and employees have very little.
True, some people still
insist
that if the Fed doesn’t urgently raise interest rates and rein in the money supply, the US economy will go the way of Zimbabwe (where inflation far exceeded 25,000% in late 2008).
As a high-ranking European Commission official once asked me: “Your debt will be cut come hell or high water, so why are you expending precious political capital to
insist
that we deliver the restructuring now?”
Public-sector investment invariably rekindles the age-old struggle between those who
insist
that government should stay out of efforts to create jobs and those who believe that part of government’s role is to put underutilized human resources to work.
Palestinians are caught in a Catch-22: if they
insist
on a settlement freeze, Israel preemptively begins to build new settlements.
The Germans were smart to
insist
on putting the European Central Bank there.
By regarding all suicide bombers as irrational fanatics, rather than drawing distinctions between millenarians and nationalists, the US and its allies have ceded crucial political ground to groups like Al Qaeda and JI that
insist
on the impossibility of negotiating with Islam’s “enemies.”
So it should come as no surprise when policymakers
insist
that the industry’s efforts at innovation be channeled into areas that provide the most benefit to taxpayers and patients, rather than those – like financial maneuvers – that might be most profitable for the industry in the short term.
For example, leftists
insist
that university education should be free of charge, instead of focusing on the quality of that education.
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