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But postponement is not a viable option, for the following reasons:- Russia itself placed membership for the Baltic three atop Nato’s agenda.
But it could be remembered as the day when Europe finally woke up, realizing that, to secure its future, its only option is to commit to reinventing itself.
Until recently, the bilateral relationship has tended to be guided by a transatlantic, trans-Eurasian perspective, while ignoring the trans-Pacific option.
Yet not to fight poverty is perhaps a worse option still.
But, with millions of lives at stake, backing down is not an option.
Despite such fervent opposition, however, the APA approved the change, deleting the so-called Bereavement Exclusion and adding a footnote giving the attending physician the option to diagnose depression after two weeks.
If Russia and Iran threaten to withdraw support, Assad will have no option other than to come to the table.
The question is whether Puerto Rico will have that option.
It is not clear that advocates of this option have fully comprehended its potentially severe adverse consequences.
The al-Sauds have no easy option.
They might welcome a return of their old Hashemite rulers to the Iraqi throne, an option discussed for any “regime change” that follows Saddam Hussein’s ouster.
In this context, China’s only option is to abandon its low-cost manufacturing export model and move up global supply chains.
Countries receiving assistance should be given the option of applying for an anticipated disbursement of EU funds.
Refusing to pay is not a viable option, because Germany and all other eurozone members are in the same boat.
It may also require establishing community childcare centers, so that women farmers have the option to spend more time farming.
Greece had no such option.
And adjustment – that is, currency devaluation – was not an option.
The only other option – expelling struggling countries like Greece or Portugal from the eurozone – carries serious short-term risks of contagion, as well as long-term social, economic, and security risks, such as the inability to police their borders.
For the first time since the 1930s, Chile's right emerged as a serious political option with voter appeal.
The Swiss have large reserves, but are so interlinked with global capital markets that exchange controls are not a realistic option.
This is true, but, in an integrated world economy, it assumes that export-led growth is still an option.
If just one of every 20 Chinese citizens exercised this option, China’s foreign-exchange reserves would be wiped out.
Rebalancing is China’s only option.
Originally proposed by Professor Sam Bowles of the University of Massachusetts to South Africa’s labor market commission 20 years ago, this remains the most compelling market-based option for addressing apartheid’s structural legacy of unemployment.
By contrast, wholesale restrictions on short-selling (and other such measures that pay no regard to whether an asset is over- or undervalued) – an option that some have suggested – could actually lead to greater instability.
Decoupling was not an option.
It would also provide Afghan peasants, who have been growing poppy despite forced eradication of the plant and incentives to change crops, with an option that is regulated by law and that, in time, could have an impact on the heroin trade.
One lesson is that unity is not an option; it is a condition sine qua non of the EU’s economic prosperity and political relevance.
To tackle the problem permanently, the only option is to prevent infections from occurring in the first place – with improved hygiene, sanitation, and disease surveillance.
Tapping a country’s own reserves may not be an ideal option, but at least it is fast.
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