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Unemployment is high, income disparities have worsened, and corruption remains widespread, notwithstanding important improvements in recent years.
But foreign-policy issues loom large as well, and, notwithstanding the ongoing conflict in Syria and the possible spread of war across Africa’s Sahel region, the consensus in Washington is that 2013 will be the “year of decision” on Iran.
The most important reason for optimism, notwithstanding all the surrounding political noise, is that global long-term real interest rates are still extremely low.
The fishing industry is, on its own, incapable of reversing the "fishing down" trend, notwithstanding arguments by commentators who should know better.
An unprecedented feature of our global civilization is that it is basically atheistic, notwithstanding the billions of people who profess, whether actively or passively, to believe in a religion.
We find that, notwithstanding the 2008 collapse of the firms, the bottom lines of those executives for the period 2000-2008 were positive and substantial.
If the global economic environment continues to improve, the UK might luck out in its timing for withdrawing from the European Union, notwithstanding the growth-weakening effects that Brexit will surely have.
As long as US policy supported stable prices in world markets, the system worked well, notwithstanding the asymmetry and built-in conflict over the control of monetary policy.
Free trade with both Russia and the EU would obviously have been good for Ukraine’s economy, thus providing a boost to the Russian economy as well, notwithstanding the oft-used but fundamentally bogus argument that EU goods would flow into Russia via Ukraine.
Emerging countries’ resilience will not extend to double-dip recessions in America and Europe: they cannot offset sharp falls in advanced-country demand by themselves, notwithstanding their healthy public-sector balance sheets.
Between these two intervals, from 1992 to 2000, there was a clear reversal of the trend, notwithstanding a popular orgy of dollar declinism around the middle of that decade.
But, notwithstanding the damage that the Palestinian strategy is inflicting on Israel’s increasingly fragile international standing, Abbas might be embarking on what could turn out to be a self-defeating diplomatic exercise.
For the rest of us, notwithstanding the Union's unprecedented eastward enlargement, the schisms that erupted over the Iraq war, and the other frictions that are bound to result from Europe's flexible, evolutionary approach to constitution-making, there is also a lot of hope in this extended struggle for self-definition.
Manufacturing growth notwithstanding, the US has experienced a jobless recovery.
We know that it is no longer an economic power (oil reserves notwithstanding).
So the past century demonstrated time and again, which is why China - nostalgic egalitarian rhetoric notwithstanding - opted for all-out capitalism under its post-Mao rulers.
A chorus sang Romanian and Jewish songs and everybody expressed the vow that Vadim would be the "next and the first Christian President" of Romania, the yarmulke notwithstanding!
The original sin of the European project is that, Brussels notwithstanding, there is no European constituency.
This is an intriguing anomaly, for, notwithstanding Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s vile anti-Semitic rhetoric, the implications of Iran’s emerging power extend far beyond the Jewish state.
Indeed, notwithstanding the conventional wisdom that the main post-Cold War division pits the poor South against the rich North, the ferment within Islam suggests a struggle between rich and rich.
He has also concluded that it is not worth resisting China’s claims to large parts of the South China Sea, notwithstanding a 2016 international court ruling rejecting those claims.
But, notwithstanding the occasional bust-ups, Korean and Taiwanese democracies seem remarkably robust.
But, notwithstanding recent defeats, it is far too early to give up on an integrated Europe.
Moreover, notwithstanding the green radicalism that it showcased in Doha, the government launched the project without an engineering design or environmental-impact studies – not to mention the indigenous peoples’ agreement.
Successful experience notwithstanding, most people interpret “incentives” as painful kicks in the butt, and they want none of it.
France’s Sophia Antipolis, a top-down attempt by the government to create an innovation hub near Cannes, never evolved beyond its origins as a relatively tranquil technology park – notwithstanding its mythological name, California-like weather, and the surrounding area’s unbeatable gastronomy.
This undermines the potency of monetary policy notwithstanding bold and imaginative efforts by the Bank of Japan to inject liquidity into the economy.
Non-seaworthy vessels notwithstanding, their only alternative would be to swim – or, like those on board the Princess of the Stars, to sink.
Europe’s position as the world’s largest trading bloc, with nearly 40% of all international commerce, and the growing importance of the euro – crisis notwithstanding – as a reserve currency, mean that the EU, just as much as the US, can set the agenda for negotiating the new global rulebook.
The old proverb notwithstanding, “Truth” alone never set anyone free.
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