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Opinion surveys suggest that Americans want to maintain many of the “discretionary” domestic programs – schools, hospitals, transportation infrastructure, recreational parks, etc. – that are now on the chopping block in budget negotiations.
Ultimately, hyper-human genetic enhancements will become feasible, too, and the economic and social advantages that wealthy countries maintain could be expanded into a genetic advantage.
Those who argue for de-emphasizing income inequality maintain that public policy should seek to ensure that all citizens enjoy basic living standards – nutritious food, adequate shelter, quality health care, and modern infrastructure – rather than aiming to narrow the gap between rich and poor.
Globally, the slowdown in economic convergence has similar implications, as richer countries maintain their outsize influence around the world – leading to disaffection and radicalization among the poor.
With falling birthrates, immigrants are needed to maintain European prosperity.
India can now wind down its polio-eradication campaigns, but still maintain its polio-free status.
Before Trump, 11 US presidents helped maintain stability on the Korean Peninsula by building alliances, using diplomacy, calibrating their rhetoric, and deploying American military strength.
In the absence of joint US-EU policies to maintain transatlantic cohesion, the West will quickly become a thing of the past.
But it makes sense for other countries to maintain some skepticism.
But we should also maintain a healthy skepticism about any great power seeking to use those arrangements to its own advantage.
The European Central Bank would then have to intervene to maintain the credibility of its commitment to price stability, which is its primary mandate.
Today, central banks are under attack for all of these reasons: for missing their inflation targets, for failing to maintain financial stability, for failing to restore stability in transparent ways, and for not adequately taking into account the global repercussions of their policies.
In terms of balance-of-power resources, that boosts America’s net position, but only if US leaders maintain these alliances and ensure international cooperation.
The capacity of US leaders to maintain alliances and create networks will be an important dimension of America’s hard and soft power.
Lately, political battles among key actors have not been about how to build a more effective of representative political system or a more equitable, dynamic economy, but about how to maintain control of accumulated power or distribute it among their allies.
For both, their nuclear programme is a matter of national security, they will forego future testing only if they are confident they can maintain their nuclear forces without such tests.
Even if a sudden upheaval in the Kingdom were to transform the balance of power in the Middle East, the country would still want to maintain its exports.
Yet, upon becoming president, he did not simply maintain Chile’s free-market system; he deepened it, signing free-trade agreements with a slew of countries.
Hamas’s crackdown thus highlights its desire to maintain control over its conflict with Israel.
The shift is aimed at ensuring that the US plays “a larger and long-term role in shaping this region,” where it has long helped to maintain stability and contributed to unprecedented economic growth.
For we often sought to import tried and tested Western practices -- private property, the free market, competition, strict observance of human rights, the creation of civil society, representative democracy -- in diluted forms that would somehow help us maintain elements of Socialism.
With the possible exception of the four Scandinavian countries, no society with a market economy found, or even sought, the equilibrium between state and market necessary to maintain a sufficient level of public services.
If Greece does not accept the conditions imposed on it to maintain its membership in the single currency, it risks being thrown out of the European Union altogether.
For this reason, it is dangerous to maintain the outdated legal concept according to which a company belongs only to its owners or shareholders.
Turkish diplomacy has thus become a well-calibrated balancing act, moving closer to European positions in the Middle East, but eager to maintain close relations with the US.
It is difficult but not impossible to identify various compromises that would enable him to create (but not necessarily to maintain) such a coalition.
To maintain competition is, thusly, not only a criteria for economic growth, but a matter of the good order of society.
And now it is seen as a major testing ground for Sino-American rivalry, with China stretching its new wings, and the United States trying to clip them enough to maintain its own regional and global primacy.
The tandem with Sarkozy was very useful to the Germans in advancing their views, while Sarkozy accepted his role in “Merkozy” in order to maintain France’s key role in Europe’s crisis management.
Yes, the Assad regime would remain in power, and Iran and Russia would maintain their influence in Syria.
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