Losing
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Yet ever more people are
losing
confidence that international cooperation can solve today’s problems.
Indeed, as industrial production migrates to East Asia and innovation remains in North America, Europe risks
losing
its position in the most attractive international markets.
The Fed has neither the legal authority nor the political mandate to run fiscal policy; if it tries to do so, it runs the risk of forever
losing
its independence.
Since the plan’s adoption, scandals involving overpricing and corruption have multiplied, with many defense executives
losing
their jobs.
A paper written last year by Carmen Reinhart and Kenneth Rogoff, called “Growth in a Time of Debt,” has been widely quoted for its analysis of 44 countries over 200 years, which found that when government debt exceeds 90% of GDP, countries suffer slower growth,
losing
about one percentage point on the annual rate.
The troika should have given itself more time between the successful outcome of the last raw-materials case and the initiation of a new one, allowing China to draw the necessary conclusions after
losing
the first case.
Being out of step also focuses attention on the fact that the ECB is in danger of
losing
control over inflationary expectations.
Thus, a growing proportion of the workforce – often below the radar screen of official statistics – is
losing
hope of finding gainful employment, while the unemployment rate (especially for poor, unskilled workers) will remain high for a much longer period of time than in previous recessions.
Americans now see Europe as compounding its military weakness by
losing
its leading position in science.
For Russia, regime change in Syria – its last military outpost in the region – would be another bitter defeat; for Iran, it would mean
losing
its most important ally in the Arab world, implying even deeper isolation.
Then came David Cameron, who wavered in his attempt to keep the Conservative Party united, and ended up with
losing
both Europe and the party.
Of course, European leaders strongly oppose any such reform: they fear
losing
not only important opportunities to have their photographs taken, but real power as well.
With the government
losing
$4.5 billion every year by subsidizing passenger fares, it has little money to spend on upgrading infrastructure, improving safety standards, or speeding up the trains.
According to Kirchner’s inner circle, he wanted to avoid becoming a “lame duck” and
losing
power at the end of a second term in office.
In the Caucasus, everyone is losing, though some more than others – foremost the civilians who have lost their lives or homes.
Despite massive evidence of the widespread death, poverty, suffering, and dysfunction she and her late husband, the dictator Ferdinand Marcos, inflicted on the Philippines, the only real disappointment she has subsequently endured has been
losing
the last presidential election she was allowed to contest.
Even China, North Korea’s main patron, is
losing
patience with its client state.
China is therefore not only
losing
export-market share, but is doing so in a shrinking global market.
The Soviet and other top-heavy regimes increasingly found themselves
losing
the battle of ideas and, as a result, the support of their own citizens.
But this seems to be too much to ask of ex-KGB man Putin, for whom there can be no distinction between
losing
power and leaving it gracefully.
But appearances can deceive, for the legacy of Putin's first term is that he is
losing
his fight with the state apparatus that he inherited.
Joining the euro was certainly ruinous for Greece, but there is always “a great deal of ruin in a nation,” as Adam Smith remarked 250 years ago, when
losing
the American colonies seemed to threaten Britain with financial devastation.
Through such endeavors, Brazil hopes to contribute to a more balanced international order, one less subject to hegemonies of any kind, without
losing
sight of the importance of mutually beneficial partnerships with developed countries.
Losing
a country and a special place in the world is the sort of trauma that could lead to the emergence of extreme and potentially violent nationalism.
Russia’s Ukrainian Path to the FutureMOSCOW – Russia and the West are
losing
each other yet again.
Just like the veterans of World War II who commemorated the fiftieth anniversary of the victory over Nazi Gerrmany are a dying out, so the generation, which has been shaped by the early years of the Cold War and whose support for c1ose transatlantic ties was instinctive and unquestioning, is
losing
political influence in both Europe and America.
Middle-class people are increasingly careful about their food purchases; the near-poor are
losing
headway and falling below, rather than staying above, the poverty line; and the poor and vulnerable, not surprisingly, are suffering even more.
In its regulatory processes, science-based arguments are increasingly
losing
out to public opinion, while possible opportunities are undervalued.
This is a shocking lapse on two counts: first, the US and the world are
losing
time on decarbonization; and, second, the US is squandering the chance to develop its own future high-tech industries.
The West is right to insist on norms of decent government, but it risks
losing
its capacity to influence events in Africa when it automatically links aid to elections.
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