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Even the hint of such a shift causes Russian friends of the Westto give pause.
That is not paternalism, just an encouragement to pause and reflect.
After any such media-stoked scandal, there should be a pause to allow better norms to take root.
The International Monetary Fund’s most recent statistics suggest, unexpectedly, another pause in the dollar’s long-term decline.
All this suggests conclusions that give pause for thought.
Or they argued that “Hamas does not recognize the state of Israel,” as if other ceasefire agreements with the Arab states and the PLO in the last 60 years had been based on recognition of Israel, rather than on a simple ethical principle that has guided Israel for many years, namely to gain, for us and our enemies, a pause in hostilities.
Germany should be using the current aging pause to ensure its social systems’ long-term sustainability, create age-appropriate jobs, and adapt housing and infrastructure to the needs of an aging society.
And North Korea has taken advantage of the diplomatic pause in recent years to develop its nuclear and missile technologies.
While that idea may give some people pause, the technology’s potential beneficial applications – such as enabling essential crops to withstand climate change and water salination – cannot be overestimated.
What gives me hope – and should give every future "ethnic cleanser" and every state-backed architect of mass murder pause – is that a universal sense of outrage was provoked leading to the eventual return of the Albanian population to Kosovo.
It's time for a pause in European integration efforts if only to avoid a complete, irreparable rupture of relations between nations that are supposed to be uniting.
That's why a pause now makes good sense.
As the IMF convenes in Washington, DC, for its annual spring meetings on April 15-17, we should pause to savor the importance of this achievement.
Renewing American LeadershipMADRID – December always provides an opportunity to pause and reflect on what was and what will be.
Nonetheless, the Fed and ECB actions sent three messages that should have given the markets pause.
The way in which the settlement was worked out should also give us pause – with Dimon having direct access to US Attorney General Eric Holder, America’s top law-enforcement official.
That is why they have committed to continue their talks, rather than pause ahead of the upcoming elections in the north in April.
Tillerson’s optimism about such a short pause reflects the pressure diplomats face in reassuring allies – and, in Tillerson’s case, his boss, President Donald Trump – and easing tensions with enemies.
But the episode underscored the media’s obsession with “clickbait” and the need for more outlets to pause before publishing pictures or words that reinforce outdated gender stereotypes.
Biden’s focus on fashioning a more nuanced and sustainable long-term China strategy will bring about an immediate and welcome pause in the Sino-American cold war.
Sisi’s foreign-policy credentials have also lately received a much-needed (though largely undeserved) boost from the pause in construction of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam on the Nile, Africa’s longest river.
But just six weeks later, at the FOMC meeting in late January, the Fed indicated that it would pause its rate hikes for the foreseeable future and suspend its balance-sheet unwinding sometime this year.
In December, when it signaled further rate hikes, Trump had been calling for a pause.
The addition of Clarida amid stalling inflation and tightening financial conditions no doubt proved decisive in the Fed’s decision to hit the pause button.
Taken together, these factors suggest that the Fed could remain in pause mode for the rest of 2019.
Should this scenario arise later in the year, or next year, the Fed could hike its baseline rate by another 25 basis points before settling into a protracted pause.
First, the warring parties should accept and immediately implement the UN-brokered ceasefire proposal, building on the Saudi-led coalition’s unilateral pause.
However paradoxical it may be, the fact is that even as faith in the EU has been severely shaken, European integration has continued without pause over the last decade.
Short-term interest rates on US Treasuries may have drifted higher as the Federal Reserve began to unwind its post-crisis stimulus policies (and may edge higher still after the Fed’s current pause), but longer-term US interest rates remain low by historical standards.
There is one drawback, which may give politicians pause.
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