Option
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Of course, the out-of-towners have the
option
of buying from somewhere else.
The “Chinese option” – economic rights and prosperity in exchange for public quiescence – is not feasible, owing to these regimes’ ineptness and rampant corruption.
Many rural Indians withering under the heat now see urban migration as their best
option.
While this
option
would be difficult to implement in areas with chronic water shortages, government-led distribution programs have worked elsewhere.
We now have it from the US government lawyers’ own mouths: this law may put journalists at risk, or at least the lawyers explicitly refuse to rule out that
option
for their client – and, as Forrest put it, they have “one very big client.”Forrest
Obviously, in the context of the eurozone, this is not an
option.
Given the stakes, failure to prepare for the worst is not an
option.
(It is, after all, unlikely that a candidate would win over the P-5 but fail to win a majority in the Security Council, given the
option
of casting unlimited votes.)
Ahtisaari’s bold proposal, which recommends Kosovo’s independence with initial supervision by a strong international civilian and military presence, is the only viable
option
for the international community, and for Europe in particular.
So the time may be coming where the only option, if NATO wants to avert defeat, is to send in troops.
The
option
of such a compromise seems by now to have been ruled out by the savagery of Milosevic's repression of the ethnic Albanians.
Without the joint-depreciation option, central banks responded to the 2008 crisis with interest-rate cuts that were unprecedented in scope, size, and speed, as well as massive purchases of long-term securities (so-called quantitative easing, or QE).
While external powers would probably accept the latter option, the killings in Benghazi might have been only the beginning.
To try and ease the harm that all this assistance was doing to EU competitiveness, the European Commission’s Directorate General for Competition warned that it had little
option
but to block state aids – but then quickly capitulated to vociferous national protests.
The best
option
for Europe might be to wait and let the market operate.
Whether or not the UK – one of the world’s most outward-looking countries – remains in the EU, globalization rules out that
option.
As a member state, the UK has the
option
of choosing whether to go it alone in foreign affairs or cooperate with Europe on a case-by-case basis.
Otherwise, they could end up without any handle on the Iranian nuclear program, and only one – useless –
option
left, a military strike.
By all means, the Six should keep the
option
of more biting resolutions as an inducement to Iranian compromise.
One
option
is that eurozone members remain sovereign and claim back their monetary powers, which implies not only the death of the euro, but also a threat to the internal market and to the EU’s very existence.
The other
option
is to cede more sovereignty to the EU, which implies not only the survival of the euro, but also, and perhaps more importantly, the birth of Europe’s political union.
The Palestinians, after all, never accepted any of the left’s peace proposals over the years, and the current fragmentation of Palestinian politics – defined by a weak and ineffective PLO and a Hamas obsessed with an irrational and self-defeating war
option
– does not give room for much optimism.
And besides, early retirement can still be made an option, as long as it is marked down accordingly.
The other
option
is to close the Round by resolving the US-India discord on agriculture.
If that
option
were formalized, markets would price it in, and member states without deep capital markets would pay a premium.
The FDP campaigned on an exit option, and its leaders, having been out of parliament for four years, will not want to risk their credibility by backing away from it now.
This leaves Western powers with one option: to launch a financial war against Russia.
This may be one reason why Syrian President Bashar al-Assad mentions war as an option, as he recently did in Madrid.
By legitimizing the concept of an EU breakup, and thus turning a fantasy among political extremists into a realistic
option
of mainstream politics throughout Europe, Brexit threatens to trigger an irresistible disintegration process.
There are at least three good reasons why considering a nuclear
option
would be foolhardy for Germany.
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