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Respondents to the same recent Hope Not Hate poll agreed by almost two-to-one with the proposition that, “It would be better to … pause the process and seek a consensus by gathering ordinary people together to discuss the options.”
This may surprise the other speaker so much that they pause, giving you the opportunity to explain that what you agreed with was not what they were hoping.
Some observers credit Richard Nixon for ending the Vietnam War, but he sacrificed 21,000 American lives to create a face-saving “decent interval” that turned out to be an ephemeral pause on the road to defeat.
The start of a new decade is thus an occasion for pause and reflection.
A cease-fire in the current battle is nothing more than a politically expedient pause in what is likely to be an enduring Cold War-like conflict.
But in January, the Fed announced a pause, which now looks to be extended: the dot plots of Federal Open Market Committee members currently indicate no rate rises for the remainder of the year.
That also will be the moment for governments, scientists, and the public to pause, take stock of lessons learned, and introduce plans to make societies more resilient and better able to cope with possible future pandemics.
Many financial commentators argued that the Fed should pause its monetary-policy “normalization” and eventually shift to interest-rate cuts.
In early 2019, it indicated that it would pause its rate increases, and now it is signaling a sequence of rate cuts in the near future.
On the other hand, the fact that no similar multilateral organization has been established since the early 2000s – at least not on such a scale – should give us pause.
The next time Trump feels like excoriating Fed Chairman Jerome Powell for tightening monetary policy too quickly, he might pause to consider the role that higher US rates and a stronger dollar have played in taming China’s self-confidence.
China is a highly leveraged economy, it cannot afford a sustained pause today anymore than fast-growing 1980s Japan could.
The legacy of the eugenics movement alone – and its apotheosis in Nazi “racial hygiene” – should give anyone pause, and yet proponents of heritable genome editing typically dismiss it.
Or would it have given pause to the troika of Greece’s lenders (the European Commission, the International Monetary Fund, and the ECB), causing them to think twice before they closed down Greece’s banks and issued their Grexit threats?
Instead of rushing to mine the seabed, we need to pause until we can protect the biodiversity of the high seas and show that exploiting what lies beneath them can yield long-term net benefits for sustainable development.
The Kingdom’s policy shift should give pause to American politicians who boast that the United States has achieved energy independence through shale.
Markets are now pricing in the Fed’s monetary-policy pause for the entire year, but the US labor market remains robust.
What are your particular sins?' he continued without the slightest pause, as if anxious not to waste time.
'What do you feel?' asked Levin in a whisper, after a pause.
Well, as far as I am concerned I do my duty, which is all I can do.''Will you come and see me?' said the Countess after a pause.
He nearly jumped for joy as he went away.''And has anything been brought?' inquired Serezha, after a pause.
'But it's time for you to get dressed,' she said after a pause when she had recovered; and without releasing his hands she sat down by his bed on a chair on which his clothes were lying ready.
Oh, what a dreadful, what a charming man he was!...Yes, what were we talking about?' he concluded after a pause.
So you think he will propose to-day?' he added after a pause.
He wished to bring her back to her first remark about her childhood; but without wishing to, after a pause, he replied to her last words:'I have only heard that the white boleti grow chiefly on the outskirts, but I can't even tell which are the white ones.'
But at the first pause Anna turned to the architect, to draw him into the conversation.
'N'est-ce pas immoral?'[Isn't it immoral?] was all she said after a pause.
There was a pause, during which Vronsky, since he had to look at something, looked at Levin: at his feet, his uniform; and then his face, and noticing the sombre eyes fixed upon him he remarked, just to say something:'And how is it that you, living constantly in the country; are not a Justice of the Peace?
There was a pause, and the mother exchanged glances with her daughter.
After a pause she smiled and said, 'Yes, yes, I never could do it.
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