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In principle, Germany could try to boost domestic demand by leveraging up; but, unless the exchange rate adjusts upward to shrink the tradable sector at the margin, doing so would be inflationary.
This is helpful when people live at the
margin
– where cutting spending means foregoing food or medicines.
Given this, and the fact that the policies and values of John McCain and his vice-presidential nominee, Sarah Palin, are almost identical to those of Bush, you would expect Obama to be leading in the polls by a wider
margin
than he is.
It was this coalition, based on the politics of inclusion, which gave Barak his impressive victory: while Netanyahu won the 1996 election by a
margin
of 0.5%, Barak won this time by a
margin
of about 10%.
Had Al Gore maintained her husband’s high
margin
among women in the presidential elections of 1992 and 1996, the Supreme Court would not have decided his 2000 election fight with George W. Bush.
Unfortunately, the authorities do not have much
margin
for error in working to counteract the damage done by the international crisis.
Indeed, the government lost the popular vote and took power with a
margin
of parliamentary seats that was lower than the number of constituencies where serious irregularities were reported.
On the Republican side, Ted Cruz and Donald Trump are within the
margin
of polling error of each other in both Iowa and New Hampshire, which votes eight days later.
Although Trump leads by an enormous
margin
in national polls, the strength of his Iowa organization is unknown, and what matters are the state-level results as the nominating process moves ahead.
The average winning
margin
among the top eight World Cup national teams has steadily decreased, from more than two goals in the 1950’s, to about 1.5 goals in the 1960’s, 1970’s and 1980’s, and only 0.88 goals in the 2002 World Cup.
They have no
margin
for error, so they need to increase their chances of producing a crop.
But it also stands at or near the top in deficits, tax rates, prison inmates, and, by a wide margin, welfare recipients relative to population.
The big decision had been made in last year’s referendum, when the British voted by a narrow
margin
to leave the EU.
Imagine that Trump had won the popular vote by a wide margin, but suffered a narrow defeat in the Electoral College.
This has to do with another characteristic of the great ideas that define historical periods, namely the fact that they come from the
margin
of prevailing orthodoxies.
They were generated at the
margin
of an age with a much more liberal orthodoxy and picked up when the time was ripe by politicians who have found in them a useful organizing principle.
Both the internal and external environments in which Humala finds himself – and the fact that he won by a
margin
of only three percentage points – seem to call for moderation and consensus.
If the results of these boards had been counted, the opposition would have won the capital’s mayoralty by a wide
margin.
In each country, a number of prices are rigid, because sellers resist selling cheaper, as low productivity gains and wage defense by unions leave no
margin
for lower prices.
Every Asian country now trades more with China than with the United States, often by a
margin
of two to one.
Wrong – and by a substantial
margin.
To bolster the legitimacy of such a move, the Council would have to select the candidate more closely associated with the party that gained more votes, however narrow the
margin.
Israel made a similar mistake in thinking that it could use its enormous
margin
of conventional military power to destroy Hezbollah in last summer’s Lebanon War.
Privatization has been creeping in at the
margin
in the form of United Parcel Service, Federal Express, and others.
The other solution is to mutualize the cost of rescue at the
margin.
Greece is caught in a classic debt trap, as the interest rate on its public debt has soared beyond its growth rate by a considerable margin;Spain is teetering on the brink.
The ECB’s
margin
for error is much narrower—the support of its constituents less deep.
When the government tried to rein in the market last summer, it inadvertently triggered a large-scale sell-off, which quickly turned into a rout, largely because of those same financial innovations (for example,
margin
trading).
Given massive trading volumes, direct intervention can alter supply and demand for currencies only on the
margin.
According to SGP rules, the Commission should have proposed a fine to be levied on Spain and Portugal for overshooting their fiscal deficit targets by a wide
margin.
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