Mount
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And theglacier was useless as a shield against nuclear onslaught, thoughas an alliance of democratic states Nato never had neither thecapacity nor will to
mount
an offensive war.
Instead of waiting for the pressure to mount, the next president would do well to preempt it with an ambitious agenda on free-trade reform that would benefit everyone.
As a result, governments across Europe, North America, Asia, and Oceania are becoming more parochial in their concerns, starving international agencies and regional organizations of the funding, credibility, and leadership capabilities needed to
mount
a proper response to the challenges of globalization.
Yet such countervailing policies are rarely taken, allowing frustration to
mount
among the groups that are losing out.
Unable to
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a political alternative, however, the protesters’ rejection of the Islamist government served only to put the army back in charge.
But we believed, and I still believe, that it would be neither wise nor responsible to attempt to limit it, and that the correct way to respond to a perceived insult is to present a counterargument, not to
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a terrorist attack.
So Israel chose to
mount
punitive raids against Egyptian and Jordanian military outposts and villages that harbored marauders.
For the Greek program to have any chance, the Papandreou government must
mount
a monumental effort to convince its domestic constituents that economic pain is the price they are paying for a brighter future – and not just a means to satisfy external creditors.
The return of a threat from Russia has created the need to upgrade NATO’s military forces so that the Kremlin will not be tempted to
mount
further attacks.
But, as the costs of responding to Katrina mount, adding to the federal deficit, it seems difficult to proceed as planned.
In the absence of other financing options, existing development funding is often siphoned off to
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an emergency education response, as happened in the areas afflicted by the Ebola virus and the Nepal earthquake.
But, because they are freely tradable, they can be used to
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bear raids – a type of stock market strategy by which a trader (or group of traders) attempts to force down the price of a stock to cover a short position.
China should use this brief period to
mount
even more structural changes, and upgrade its exports.
The near $1 trillion bailout of troubled financial institutions that the US Treasury has had to
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makes emerging-market meltdowns – such as Mexico’s “peso” crisis in 1994 or the Asian financial crisis of 1997-1998 – look like footnotes by comparison.
Moscow’s academic economists listen intently to the Forum each year, hoping to hear something radical, or even a little defiant, though they themselves are unwilling to
mount
a challenge.
Such an interpretation makes the act easier to understand: a cog in a terrorist network would be compelled, even brainwashed, to
mount
such an attack.
Inspired leadership is crucial to any process of nation building, and Africans should look to figures such as Bolivar, Martin Luther King, Jr., Georges Padmore, W.E.B. Dubois, Kwame Nkrumah, and Cheikh Anta Diop to
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a resistance movement against their mostly corrupt and incompetent leaders (a Herculean task, indeed).
All grandstanding notwithstanding, neither Iraq nor Iran will
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an effective oil embargo on the US.
Rather than trying to
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a last-ditch defense of the fixed exchange rate, the government, at the suggestion of the Bank of England, agreed to abandon the gold standard and devalue the pound.
International imbalances continued to
mount
until the system came crashing down in 1971-1973.
The proposal highlights how difficult it is to
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an international response to the North Korea nuclear issue.
If policymakers fail to
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a response that is proportionate to the problem, the rich will continue to get richer, and the poor to get poorer, faster than ever.
But even with the new legislation, job losses could continue to
mount
in the second and third quarters of this year.
As the real-world costs of climate-driven disasters
mount
over time, denialism will become less of an issue.
More gradualism will only prolong the pain and allow political opposition to
mount.
Finally, and regrettably, most Sub-Saharan African countries’ ability to
mount
anything approaching the necessary fiscal and monetary policy response is severely constrained.
Together with a diminished Labor Party (six seats) and the small left-wing Meretz party (four seats), Blue and White could
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a vigorous opposition to Netanyahu’s right-wing nationalist and religious coalition, which will control 65 seats.
In the EU, the capacity to
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an effective response and withstand unavoidable damage (including from the overall decline in demand) varies across member states.
The costs – for economies, health systems, and women’s wellbeing – will continue to
mount.
But Lebanese civil society faces far stiffer opposition today than anything the embattled Syrians could
mount
in 2005.
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