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But there is a clear correlation between unrest at the EU’s doorstep and Europe’s irresistible instinct to keep trouble at arm’s length.
But if he does, he is likely to prove irresistible.
Yet that would be the outcome if the attraction towards the center proves to be as irresistible for significant segments of the Socialists and conservative parties as it now seems .
After the war in Iraq and the Bush administration’s slow reaction to Hurricane Katrina, America’s subprime mortgage crisis is perceived by many as simply accelerating the irresistible rise of Asia and the shift from a unipolar to a multipolar world, even if the wider financial crisis will equally affect Asia’s growth.
It was so very gentle, so strong and irresistible.
Big agriculture gets paid for growing the corn (often subsidized by the government), and the food processors get paid for adding tons of chemicals to create a habit-forming – and thus irresistible – product.
This would represent an almost irresistible opportunity for China to champion global free trade and arrest the trend toward protectionism.
For the search for law has an irresistible energy.
And the temptation to consider oneself the incarnation of the state, rather than its servant, is often irresistible among southern European politicians.
It should ask if the current system is creating irresistible incentives for Fed technocrats to highball their inflation forecasts.
But she confessed that the SEC had many other items on its agenda, and had placed the issue on the back burner – a polite way to say that the SEC, like the heroic students in Tiananmen Square, had surrendered under irresistible pressure.
The individual with obsessive-compulsive disorder both dreads and is ashamed by irrational obsessions and compulsions, yet finds engaging in these thoughts and actions irresistible.
At that point, an old-fashioned trade war may seem irresistible, to provide distraction and political cover.
Of course the pressure to expand is always irresistible.
The West, after all, never put irresistible pressure on any Arab regime to undertake reforms, and deserted its autocratic clients in Tunisia and Egypt only when they failed to nip the revolutionary bud.
Putin’s irresistible urge to remind everyone that Russia has recovered its strength suggests underlying insecurity.
From their short-term perspective, it’s an irresistible play – and their bottom line confirms this.
Irish reunification would almost certainly make another independence referendum in Scotland irresistible, though it is impossible to know which way it would go.
In this environment, a Thai government bond yielding 1.35% is irresistible, even though Thailand displays classic signs of financial trouble ahead: a tourism-dependent economy expected to contract by 7% this year and a government that lacks popular support.
This put irresistible pressure on the ECB to introduce policies with a quasi-fiscal dimension, provoking accusations that the ECB was exceeding its mandate.
It could then lend to those same banks at sharply negative rates, giving them money on such concessional terms that they would find lending it irresistible.
But she would not be repelled; she forced him to throw down the axe, and drew him away by both arms, with irresistible strength.
In every way they thus tried to attenuate matters, trembling with fear for the morrow, judging it dangerous to acknowledge the irresistible savagery of a crowd set free amid the falling structure of the old world.
But he felt himself at the end of his courage, he was no longer at heart with his mates; he feared this enormous mass of the people, blind and irresistible, moving like a force of nature, sweeping away everything, outside rules and theories.
The need for peace, an irresistible need for happiness, was carrying him away; and he saw himself married, in a neat little house, with no other ambition than to live and to die there, both of them together.
She fell at last into a condition of irresistible drowsiness.
In wonderment, we leaned on our elbows before these show windows, and our stunned silence remained unbroken until Conseil said:"You wanted to see something, Ned my friend; well, now you have something to see!""How unusual!" the Canadian put in, setting aside his tantrums and getaway schemes while submitting to this irresistible allure.
But, in exchange, I experienced that irresistible desire for sleep that comes over every diver.
Sliding under our hull, this block then raised us with irresistible power, lifting us into less congested strata where we now lie on our side."
Just as we were crowding each other to reach the platform, two more arms lashed the air, swooped on the seaman stationed in front of Captain Nemo, and carried the fellow away with irresistible violence.
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