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After the ugly scandal surrounding Dominique Strauss-Kahn, her predecessor at the Fund, the Fund, critics will insist, can’t afford such a distraction.
BRUSSELS – For months now, a fight over sovereign-debt restructuring has been raging between those who
insist
that Greece must continue to honor its signature and those for whom the country’s debt should be partly canceled.
Forget all that, Republicans insist: cut business taxes, they say, and all that ails America will be cured.
Trump and the congressional Republican majority
insist
that the proposed tax cuts will be self-financing, because they will spur economic growth, causing revenues to surge.
Yet critics still
insist
on getting the root cause of these efforts wrong.
Britain’s Path of DenialSANTIAGO – Visit London nowadays and you will notice something strange going on: the worse the British economy tanks, the more fervently Prime Minister David Cameron’s ministers and Tory economists
insist
that draconian spending cuts are good for economic growth.
Even as FIFA, the world football association, or the International Olympic Committee
insist
that they are above politics, their grand events are politically exploited by all kinds of regimes, some of them less than savory.
Compounding the lack of transparency, Yale maintains its own campus police force, to which sex-crime victims are encouraged to report their complaints if they
insist
upon formal documentation.
Through a rigorous review process, the Academies
insist
that each report be limited to what science can say about the subject based on evidence and logic, without preempting the decisions that need to be made by others.
If bondholders knew that the government would protect them, they would not
insist
on getting stricter contractual terms when they face greater risks.
Some of the benefits of a government policy that induces bondholders to
insist
on stricter terms when financial firms take larger risks would not be fully realized if bondholders believed that the government might protect their interests in the event of a bailout.
When I began in recent years to
insist
that the traditional silence and anonymity assigned to rape victims does not protect them, but only perpetuates a Victorian framework in which rapists attack with impunity and victims are asked to carry the “shame,” my argument was met with hostility.
The KRG’s decision not to
insist
on holding a referendum on independence augurs well for stability in Iraq and the region.
After this expropriation, they insist, no one will ever again invest in Argentina.
What if the French were to insist, as an absolute precondition for further security cooperation, that Germany not only increase its defense budget immediately, but also make good on its accumulated backlog in defense spending from recent decades?
Defenders of this practice
insist
that princelings are well educated and highly qualified.
Market prices, economists insist, do not measure moral worth but market worth.
He writes:“Why
insist
on pensions?
In this scenario, Russia would avoid attempting to govern Ukraine directly but would
insist
that Ukraine refrain from joining hostile blocs and alliances.
Invariably, when she traveled on business to Beijing, she would
insist
on first shopping for a present for the former Chinese leader, Zhao Ziyang, with whom she had negotiated Hong Kong’s handover.
This has occurred while rebel groups not closely aligned with al-Nusra have become weaker, allowing the Syrian regime to
insist
that it is not suppressing a rebellion, but fighting a war against terrorism.
Stiglitz levels a not-so-subtle attack on Summers for failing to
insist
on a larger fiscal deficit when he ran the National Economic Council under the Obama presidency.
Trump administration attorneys
insist
that the case is “nonjusticiable,” meaning that the courts are not the proper venue to resolve the issues in Juliana; even if this was not the case, they continue, the plaintiffs lack standing to sue.
Yet officials endlessly
insist
that there is, as a Scottish health official put it, “absolutely no need for the public to be concerned.”
It is therefore vital that the United States and other NATO allies speak out now and
insist
that functioning democratic checks and balances are safeguarded.
Heraclitus's warning against bathing in the same sea twice is lost on our economic ministers, who
insist
on bathing regularly in contaminated waters.
At the same time, the US has every right to
insist
on fair access for its multinational corporations to operate in foreign markets; over the years, more than 3,000 bilateral investment treaties have been signed around the world to guarantee such equitable treatment.
They must
insist
upon real and dramatic changes – rather than cosmetic improvements – to Russia’s political system.
Instead, they have rejected these steps and
insist
on unrestricted access to international assistance in producing enough fissile material for as many as 50 weapons a year, far exceeding what is believed to be India’s current capacity.
In return, China uses its economic pressure and diplomacy to freeze the immediate threat posed by North Korean tests, but does not
insist
on a freeze on US forces.
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