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Political survival is one reason: when in a minority, the option of pressing for an Islamic state, with all its undemocratic potential is closed.
Prince Charles might have been far happier as a gardener, but this was never an option.
Creating such living wills is not an option; it is a requirement of the law.
That often leaves girls with one option: marriage.
At the same time, it would avoid the complications of having multiple Europes – an option that may be attractive to veteran Eurocrats from a purely functional perspective, but soon becomes hopelessly complicated.
Libya’s decision to abandon its nuclear option in December 2003 and the Iran deal this year were both possible for precisely this reason.
Even if the US continues to allude to the possibility of war, American military leaders know that the use of military force is not really a viable option, given its prohibitively high costs and risks.
I thought it necessary to remind those in Romania who did not know, or who wanted to forget, about the tragedy to which the nationalist option once led.
While helicopter drops are a viable policy option if deflation is spiraling downward, as it was in the late 1920s and early 1930s, that is not the case today – neither in the eurozone nor in the global economy.
But increasing its resources to a trillion dollars or more is not a realistic option, either.
And it’s not even an option for smaller companies; selling equity is hard when you’re an SME.
Marriage was now her only option.
The Copenhagen Consensus study also examined a portfolio option of the sort heralded by the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
If Merkel wants to protect her chancellorship, her only option after the 2013 general election is a grand coalition with the SPD, and, to emerge on top in such an arrangement, she needs every vote within the center-right camp that she can get.
The third option to consider is a public information campaign about diseases, symptoms, and risk factors.
Inaction is simply not an option for the new government.
For early-stage breast cancer patients, genetic markers show whether chemotherapy is likely to have an impact, or if hormone therapy alone is the better option.
All they needed to do was boost the stock price, then cash in their option.
And perhaps the most pragmatic choice would be to remain in the EU, at least for now, thereby preserving the option of changing their collective mind later, should new information warrant it.
By linking European means of production together – first through the European coal and steel community, and later through the common market and the euro – the EU hoped to bind Europe’s states together so closely that war between them would no longer be an option.
Staying the course is not an option.
Therefore, one of the “nudges” they recommend is to make organ donation as the default option in the case of a fatal accident.
There is only one sensible option.
Conspicuously, Bashir’s regime has been disqualified in the eyes of its neighbors in Africa and the Arab world to a degree that makes the South’s secession a more acceptable option to the main regional stakeholders than ever before.
India’s best option is to hold out a credible threat of military action, while imposing, together with other democratic powers, economic sanctions that undercut support for Yameen among the Maldivian elite, many of whom own the luxury resorts that now have far too many empty rooms.
For those peoples and countries now marginalized from the process of technological development, production, and exchange I believe that only one viable option exists: a new assertion of themselves as independent states, regionally integrated in as many ways as possible.
But this option is all but foreclosed, because union membership or organizing can lead to dismissal, blacklisting, violence, or worse.
As a result, governments with limited fiscal room might be reluctant to consider it as an option.
The fifth option is perhaps the least wise, for it implies the lost decades and EU collapse that Europe is trying to avoid.
The fourth option would be wonderful; but, if anyone knew how to bring southern Europe's enterprises up to the productivity levels of the north, it would have happened already.
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