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Central banks, in an effort to keep capital away and hold down the exchange rate, risk becoming
locked
into a cycle of competitive easing aimed at maximizing their countries’ share of scarce existing world demand.
CAMBRIDGE – The United States is
locked
in debate over immigration.
Toledo had every reason to seek Villanueva's help: as everyone knows, despite being
locked
up at the Callao Naval Base, Vladimiro Montesinos continues to exercise influence and can find ways to bring down Toledo's government.
Rather than diversify from a position of strength, managers became stuck in “active inertia” – trying to do more, but still
locked
into their established approach, even as it came up against fundamental challenges.
In addition to the Yom Kippur War of 1973 and the Iranian Revolution of 1979, productivity growth began to slow at the same time that unions still had substantial pricing power, and previously negotiated wage increases were already
locked
into many workers’ contracts.
And with both countries now
locked
in a zero-sum competition, Team GAFAM (Google, Apple, Facebook, Amazon, Microsoft) and Team BATX (Baidu, Alibaba, Tencent, Xiaomi) are waging a war of technical know-how and data access on a global scale.
Poor people are
locked
into a low-level asset (or capability) trap.
Palestinians were so
locked
in their opposition to Zionism that they were unable to appreciate the Jews’ existential needs, just as they failed to appreciate the effects of indiscriminate acts of violence against Israeli civilians.
When he sought a lawyer to defend his rights, his mother, who had been made his legal guardian, had him
locked
up in a psychiatric hospital for seven months.
Most economies, however, are still
locked
into old patterns of trade, though some companies are exploring new trade options.
Eight of the new members are former Communist countries that were
locked
behind the Iron Curtain for nearly half a century.
Making matters worse, India and China are
locked
in a longstanding border dispute.
Without the proper assistance, poor countries risk becoming
locked
into reliance on coal and oil for at least another generation, putting the entire planet in danger of out-of-control climate change.
These markets were long
locked
up by Qatar, Russia, and Australia, but now the global liquefied natural gas (LNG) industry, like the oil market, has entered a period of overproduction.
Some FM stations have been
locked
down and are silent.
(My father-in-law is among the more than 300 officers who were
locked
up, and my wife and I have been active in documenting the case’s fabrications.)
Yet, if Argentina receives sufficient investment to build the infrastructure – the pipelines, railways, silica mines, and waste sites – needed to make Vaca Muerta profitable, the country may become effectively
locked
into full exploitation.
In any other scenario, we would probably already be
locked
in a profoundly dangerous power struggle with a revanchist Russia reclaiming what it had lost.
Indeed, because most bank loans in China – unlike, say, in Europe – are now
locked
up in infrastructure and other physical assets, boosting demand is preferable to deleveraging.
The US, long
locked
in a codependent economic relationship with China, cannot afford to ignore this shift.
Locked
into the single currency, mainstream French politicians’ powerlessness to take real action renders their promises worthless.
The old elites remain,
locked
inside their gated communities, fending off the poor, whom they have no incentive to empower, because plentiful cheap labor is so beneficial to those who employ it.
The inability or unwillingness of either side to put itself in the other’s shoes, a precondition for any compromise, kept both
locked
in a spiraling arms race.
They are shut out of schools,
locked
out of opportunity, and condemned to live in unbearable conditions – subject to child labor or forced begging, sold into marriage, trafficked, conscripted into gangs, or recruited by extremists.
Rather than remaining
locked
in battles that began before he was born, Obama continued, he would seek to cooperate with Latin American leaders to solve today’s problems.
The real truth of what happened in l989 was
locked
in secret Party archives in Beijing for over a decade.
Since 2008, eight EU countries have been
locked
out of financial markets at one point or another, requiring emergency assistance from the International Monetary Fund.
During those fifty years, however, the map of world conflict has been rewritten and the means of warfare transformed, while Japan remains
locked
in viewpoints forged in the trauma of wartime defeat and US occupation.
The polls are very close, and voters have not yet
locked
in their decisions.
The two 50-basis-point RRR increases just
locked
up the same amount of liquidity.
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