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For the first few decades, this system leaned heavily toward “peg,” owing to the US dollar’s direct convertibility to gold.
In the decade since the 2008 global economic crisis, advanced economies have leaned heavily on easy monetary policy, hoping that large amounts of liquidity and ultra-low interest rates would generate enough demand to eliminate excess capacity.
As emerging-market central banks leaned against heavy capital inflows in order to mitigate exchange-rate appreciation, their currencies became less volatile.
The industrial Great Lakes region tended toward the Democrats while the Midwestern farm states and mountain states leaned Republican.
Instead of relying on state structures to govern, he leaned on a small coterie of minions and members of his tribe.
They know that Hezbollah would be unable to contain a possible Sunni uprising in Lebanon, which is why Hezbollah has leaned on the Lebanese army to help repress Sunni militancy.
Governments in Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, and Uzbekistan have infiltrated and undermined civil-society organizations, kicked out Western observers and aid workers, and leaned on local courts to guarantee favorable election-related rulings.
Yanukovych has leaned towards Russia in the short term, but has already reached the point that he needs other powers to balance Russia.
As mainstream politicians leaned toward protectionism, the extreme economic nationalism espoused by the likes of France’s National Rally (formerly the National Front) – whose leaders favor putting “France and French people first” – seemed increasingly reasonable.
By contrast, central banks in advanced economies had little space to lower interest rates, so they have leaned heavily on quantitative easing.
Trump’s predecessor, Barack Obama, leaned so heavily on soft persuasion that the US lost much of its credibility as a guarantor of global stability.
On the stage the singer, in a glitter of bare shoulders and diamonds, was bowing low and smiling as she picked up with the help of the tenor – who held her hand – bouquets that had been clumsily flung across the footlights; she went up to a gentleman; with hair shiny with pomatum and parted in the middle, who was stretching his long arms across the footlights to hand her something – and the whole audience in the stalls and in the boxes stirred, leaned forward, shouted and applauded.
When they started on their walk in advance of the others and had passed out of sight of the house on to the hard, dusty road, strewn with rye-ears and grain, she leaned more heavily on his arm and pressed it.
The gallery was crowded with smartly-dressed women who leaned over the balustrade and tried not to miss a single word of what was being said below.
Levin did not hear what she was speaking about while she leaned toward her brother but was struck by the change in her expression.
But you want to be in the right, so in the right you must be!'His hand closed, he leaned back, and his face assumed a still more stubborn look.
It was not that it prevented him from sleeping, but they leaned against the wall so heavily that at last they damaged it.
The hunt was on again, and Commander Farragut leaned over to me, saying: "I'll chase that animal till my frigate explodes!"
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.
None of the weeds carpeting the seafloor, none of the branches bristling from the shrubbery, crept, or leaned, or stretched on a horizontal plane.
Then, his operations finished, he went and leaned his elbows on the beacon housing, his eyes straying over the surface of the ocean.
I stood up, went, leaned on my elbows before the window, and I saw it.
The longboat's coxswain took the tiller; his four companions leaned into their oars; the moorings were cast off and we pulled clear.
I leaned my hand against one of the windows, but the heat was so great, I had to snatch it back.
Next, natural towers with wide, steeply carved battlements leaned at angles that, on dry land, the laws of gravity would never have authorized.
On the fine summer evenings, at the time when the close streets are empty, when the servants are playing shuttle-cock at the doors, he opened his window and leaned out.
She leaned back against the wall and covered her eyes with her hands.
But the springs of the right side having at length given way beneath the weight of his corpulence, it happened that the carriage as it rolled along leaned over a little, and on the other cushion near him could be seen a large box covered in red sheep-leather, whose three brass clasps shone grandly.
She took his arm and leaned on it in a manner which Julien thought strange.
As soon as the meal was ended, she asked Julien to give her his arm for their walk; she leaned upon it in a friendly way.
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