Losing
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The two sides of the city are united only in mutual economic dependence – the result of a policy that encouraged bringing Palestinian workers into Israel in the hope that jobs – and the fear of
losing
them – would make them reluctant to rebel.
Unfortunately, Hong Kong’s younger generation is
losing
confidence in democracy.
But no one was more dumbfounded than those on the
losing
side, which in both cases had been widely expected to come out on top.
When there are competing technological approaches, such as the famous contest in the 1970s between the Betamax and VHS standards for videotape, consumers are better served if these contests between similar standards are settled promptly and decisively, to preclude the risk of spending money on a
losing
technology.
Instead of hundreds of dead civilians, the Israelis were
losing
one or two a day.
Not surprisingly, given the EU authorities’ obvious inability to end the malaise, many member states are
losing
patience with austerity.
While those grievances are not exclusively economic, the geography of populism does fit that of the EU’s economic malaise: too many Europeans have been
losing
out for too long.
Second, governments are
losing
the war against crime, gangs, and cartels.
But other barriers can be overcome by reforming housing policies, reducing the cost of moving, and revising social-welfare policies in order to end fears of
losing
long-term benefits.
Traders are
losing
perishable stocks.
This matters, especially for labor-intensive activities (ranging from toy manufacturing to data-entry services), whether by affiliates of foreign multinational enterprises (which account for more than half of China’s exports) or by local firms, which are
losing
competitiveness in international markets.
Foreign firms that continue to conduct business in Iran now face the threat of sanctions, and banks that process transactions risk
losing
access to the US financial system.
Paying the recalcitrant bondholders would mean
losing
face and possibly triggering a salvo of copycat lawsuits; not paying would mean technical default and all of its attendant costs.
If it continues to allow such cases to go forward, it risks
losing
even more credibility among those Tibetans who, like the three environmentalists, have tried to stay within the law and avoid politics.
Can they, and other Americans who are
losing
vital services, really be expected to rise above it all and support funding to build new schools in Afghanistan?
But European priorities have to be the primary concern in this crisis – even at the price of
losing
office.
The question is whether key HDZ leaders prefer
losing
the presidency (and that is where real power in Croatia lies) to Granic's ascending the throne.
Europe’s first order of business should be to accept reality: the emerging economies are catching up in terms of innovation while the EU is
losing
traction, with China on the cusp of surpassing Europe as the second-largest hub for venture capital globally, behind only the United States.
Europe is
losing
its technological edge, whether in telecoms, technology, or the Internet, with its companies being displaced by those from emerging markets, while the US remains dominant.
They share a feeling of being dispossessed by foreigners, of
losing
their sense of national, social, or religious belonging.
Even to the most inveterate optimist, the G7 summit in Quebec earlier this month was proof that the geopolitical West is breaking up and
losing
its global significance, and that the great destroyer of that American-created and American-led order is none other than the US president.
If we decide we don’t like Facebook, we should be able to shift to a competitor without
losing
the links to contacts who remain on Facebook.
Throughout the EU, traditional center-left and center-right pro-EU parties are
losing
votes.
Use it or lose it, and the attempt at “radical transformation” implied
losing
it, through emigration and exclusion.
If principals misunderstand systemic risk, their agents, even if they do understand it, may not be able to respond without
losing
support, whether in the form of votes or assets under management.
This seems like an obvious goal, but in recent years India appears to have been
losing
sight of it.
In
losing
their “good jobs,” these men lost the central source of meaning in their lives.
The “martingale” doubles up on
losing
bets until the trader wins – or the money runs out.
By deciding to begin with health-care reform – an inherently complicated and highly divisive issue in US politics – the Trump administration risks
losing
some of the political goodwill that could be needed to carry out the kinds of fiscal reform that markets are expecting.
Theoretically, homeowners can use these new instruments to protect themselves against their home
losing
value.
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