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If not, when the next crisis comes, those who opposed the FSOC’s proper functioning will bear the lion’s share of the responsibility.
He was also a leader of the America First Committee, which opposed going to war against Hitler.
Though he supported the deal after it was signed and opposed withdrawing from it, Trump could use Engel’s own position on Iran to push him to adopt a more aggressive posture or risk appearing “weak” on national security.
Former Finance Minister Palaniappan Chidambaram has said that his dream is to see 85% of Indians living in cities and only 15%, as opposed to the current 60%, engaged in agriculture, because to be an agrarian society in the modern era is to be poor and powerless.
Zhao opposed this.
A leader who can represent this purely moral – as opposed to political – image helps to provide a focus for voters.
This was clearly intended to provoke the US, Canada, and a handful of other countries opposed to his presence.
Those who used to say that they favored a debate on the issue now support legalization; those who opposed it now accept the need for debate; and those who continue to oppose legalization do so on moral, rather than rational, grounds.
But Khatami lacked the support of Khamenei, who firmly opposed his reforms.
It can be opposed with equal fervor, like that which enabled Europe's conservative powers to defeat Napoleon in 1815 and the Allies to defeat Germany in World War II.
I was one of those who opposed the US-led invasion of Iraq in 2003.
China is strongly opposed to American hegemonism, particularly as it effects security in the Pacific.
Is Parliament totally opposed to crashing out of Europe with no deal?
That will make for an interesting meeting, because two diametrically opposed views of the global financial system will face off against each other.
It will prove even harder in a country like Nicaragua, which is relatively short of human capital and governed by what the University of Chicago’s James Robinson and MIT’s Daron Acemoglu call extractive (as opposed to inclusive) political and economic institutions.
But Bitcoin’s success, which remains highly uncertain, ultimately depends on it attaining sufficient stability to perform the most essential function of any currency (as opposed to a speculative commodity) – that of providing a relatively predictable medium of exchange.
The aim of the concept of potential – as opposed to actual – GDP is to take into account that, like an engine, an economy often operates below or above potential.
The foreign-policy “realists” opposed a supposedly idealistic “humanitarian” intervention.
In fact, none other than George Kennan, the originator of America’s Cold War containment strategy, opposed NATO enlargement in the 1990s on precisely these grounds.
Though the UK has said that the proposal should be considered, Russia is openly opposed.
Indeed, the social benefits of many real innovations (as opposed to the novel financial “products” that ended up unleashing havoc on the world economy) typically far exceed what their innovators receive.
PSDB-allied diplomats and former senior officials strongly have opposed the PT’s support for Latin America’s authoritarian regimes (particularly in Cuba and Venezuela), its futile insistence on a permanent seat on the United Nations Security Council, and its excessive embrace of non-aligned, anti-imperialist positions.
A democracy that produces governments led by Hamas, Hezbollah, or the Muslim Brotherhood is inevitably bound to be anti-Western and opposed to an American-inspired “peace process” with Israel.
Meanwhile, job losses in the short to medium term can be minimized by focusing cuts in capacity on a relatively small number of large industrial vessels, as opposed to small-scale artisanal fleets.
Elvira Nabiullina, the governor of Russia’s central bank, declared in December that “we don’t legalize pyramid schemes,” and “we are totally opposed to private money, no matter if it is in physical or virtual form.”
Indeed, when China’s Premier Wen Jiabao visited Prague in May 2009 for the 11th China-European Union summit, he explained that China is opposed to the G-2 concept.
The ratio of exports to GDP in the euro area, for example, is about 17%, as opposed to 12% in the US.
If true, the implications for coordinating fiscal policies would be diametrically opposed to those implicitly assumed by the Commission.
The Commission, for example, is particularly opposed to the Irish policy of reducing indirect taxes rather than social contributions, because the latter are supposedly more inflationary.
The US, the EU, and Japan are in favor, while emerging countries, as well as Canada and Australia, are opposed.
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