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Governments in Eastern Europe cannot credibly match the broad deposit guarantees issued by their Western neighbors, and the generous recapitalizations have brought down Western banks’ relative funding costs, further weakening local institutions’ competitiveness.
The Chinese soldiers allegedly assumed firing positions, leading the Indians to withdraw in order not to provoke a shooting match.
The country may not match up to its Asian neighbors in prosperity, but Indians have always been able to boast of the vitality of their parliamentary system.
There are many such “customer relationship” services, which rely on data sources that match usernames and email addresses using unspecified means.
History will record that the match Bouazizi lit on December 17, 2010, became the fortuitous spark that ignited an Arab prairie fire.
With Russian forces now directly participating in the unrest in eastern Ukraine, the match lit by President Vladimir Putin could spark a conflagration.
But America’s dwindling leverage cannot match the influence of the region’s “axis of evil.”
For the duration of the match, we are entranced; afterwards, everything returns to how it was.
Until now, says Roubini, China’s export-led growth has depended on “making things that the rest of the world wants, at a price that no other country can match,” a consequence of cheap labor and economies of scale.
When it became clear that the “Remain” camp had lost, the pound’s slide seemed to be on track to match the historic 14% depreciation of the 1967 sterling crisis.
But Russia is no match for the US militarily and no match for China economically, and its soft power is virtually non-existent.
Though she turned out not to be a good match for the young woman, a nurse asked her if she would be willing to donate her kidney to someone else.
In our view, the limits of managerial capitalism explain why, after approaching US levels of per capita income in the late 1980’s, both Western Europe and Japan failed to match America’s information-technology-driven productivity resurgence that began in the 1990s.
Moreover, the emirate appeals to foreign investors with special economic zones that few other states can match.
Finally, in 1997, the IBM computer Deep Blue defeated world chess champion Gary Kasparov in a short match.
I believe that a stability pact for the region could help to match what was achieved a decade ago in the Balkans.
The reason, I proposed, was that “[t]here are two sustainable ways to make money in finance: find people with risks that need to be carried and match them with people with unused risk-bearing capacity, or find people with such risks and match them with people who are clueless but who have money.”
The fragmented supply chains that emerge would be much less efficient, as no single country can match China in terms of infrastructure, the industrial base, or the size and skill of the labor force.
France does not need to match Germany’s economic might.
Workers are demanding higher compensation to match the fast-rising cost of living in China’s cities, as manifested in an ongoing and high-profile labor strike at a Honda plant based in Guangdong.
In the 1970s and 1980s, we were annoyed when commercial channels ambushed us with advertisements seconds before the end of a cliff-hanger movie or basketball match.
Japan is keen, but its views on regional monetary cooperation do not match China’s.
Closing the gender gap in labor-force participation would deliver 54% of those gains; aligning rates of part-time work would provide another 23%; and shifting women into higher-productivity sectors to match the employment pattern of men would account for the rest.
But countries could match gains in the best-performing economy in their region.
So does the ability of households to borrow and lend in order not to be forced to match income and expenditure every day, week, month, or year.
While China’s military capacities are no match for America’s, its current military build-up is viewed as posing unacceptable risks nonetheless, because China also is seeking technological means to negate America’s military advantages.
France had just elected a clever, young, handsome, and brave new president, who seemed to match the city’s ambience.
By spending just 8% of this amount, the Russian army could match its expensive new weapons with soldiers who are able and willing to handle them well.
National leaders must speak out, and they must match their words with concrete actions, to help signal to the public that the speculative bubble cannot be expected to continue.
Even if they were, collectively, to match America's defense spending, they could not match US defense capability unless they combined their defense spending in a single budget.
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