Plateau
in sentence
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The current standoff began in mid-June, when Bhutan, a close ally of India, discovered the People’s Liberation Army trying to extend a road through Doklam, a high-altitude
plateau
in the Himalayas that belongs to Bhutan, but is claimed by China.
And he chose to remain neutral last summer, when China’s road-building on the disputed Doklam
plateau
triggered a military standoff with India.
From a purely demographic perspective, the advanced economies’ productive capacity has reached a
plateau
of slightly more than two working-age people per dependent.
The company could be at a high
plateau
and could stay there for years, even decades, but does it really need $137 billion in cash for new investments?
For the first time in centuries, our population could
plateau
in most of the world.
Greek government spending per quarter climbed to a
plateau
of around €13.5 billion ($14.8 billion) in 2009-2012, before falling to roughly €9.6 billion in 2014-2015.
During his reign, the current Dalai Lama has seen his homeland – the world’s largest and highest
plateau
– lose its independence to China.
The next power vacuum in the Tibetan hierarchy could seal the fate of the Dalai Lama lineage and propel Tibet toward a violent future, with consequences that extend far beyond that vast
plateau.
The PLA began honing its “salami tactics” in the Himalayas in the 1950s, when it sliced off the Switzerland-size Aksai Chin
plateau.
Central banks in advanced economies have recently been providing a few more case studies confirming Goodhart’s Law, as they struggle to fulfill their promises to raise inflation to the stable
plateau
of their numerical targets.
But it is doing the same at home by shifting its focus from dam-saturated internal rivers to the international rivers that originate in the Tibetan plateau, Xinjiang, Inner Mongolia, and Manchuria.
In recent years, Chinese-controlled companies have launched a mining frenzy on the
plateau
that not only damages landscapes sacred to Tibetans, but also is eroding Tibet’s ecology further – including by polluting its precious water.
The level of intellectual attainment that resulted from the Industrial Revolution may turn out to have been a
plateau.
Succeed, and Lula may bring Latin America the politics of the plateau, one where democratic change is merely an alternation, not an abyss.
Of the assorted “headwinds” that he cites, the enormous increase in inequality and the
plateau
reached in educational attainment represent threats that differentiate America’s position from that of other advanced countries.
This reversal is driven partly by structural factors, including a
plateau
in the expansion of global value chains and a turning point in the process of structural transformation in China and other growth frontiers.
But, globally, the population-growth rate is actually falling, and population is expected to
plateau
later this century.
But, to keep Tibetans off the streets, China’s government had to saturate the entire Tibetan
plateau
with troops and secretly detain in unmarked jails hundreds of people for “legal education.”
It sent in more troops, hid details of protestors’ deaths, gave a life sentence to an AIDS educator who had copied illegal CDs from India, and for months banned foreigners and journalists from the Tibetan
plateau.
Good governance on the
plateau
is good for everyone.
As a result, China’s growth has reached a new
plateau.
Moreover, as if to substantiate the Chinese name for Tibet, Xizang (“Western Treasure Land”), China is draining mineral resources from this ecologically fragile but resource-rich plateau, without regard for the consequences.
Unsurprisingly, the
plateau
is the new hub of Chinese dam building.
Throughout their histories, the Indian and Chinese civilizations were separated by the vast Tibetan plateau, limiting their interaction to sporadic cultural and religious contacts; political relations were absent.
China has been using construction projects to change the status quo on the remote Himalayan
plateau
of Doklam, just as it has so often done in the South China Sea.
Second, as these other fossil fuels take up the slack when oil production reaches a
plateau
or starts to decline, the effects of fossil fuels on the climate must be brought under control.
The only time in recent history when CO2 emissions have looked as though they might
plateau
was in 2014-2016, owing to weak global growth.
In mid-2017, Indian troops were pushed into another standoff with the PLA – this time, at Doklam, a small and desolate Himalayan
plateau
where Chinese-ruled Tibet meets the northeastern Indian state of Sikkim and the Kingdom of Bhutan.
Indian troops stood up to the Chinese, as the PLA attempted to build a road to the India border through the uninhabited
plateau
that Bhutan, an Indian ally, regards as its own territory.
But this lofty
plateau
measured only a few fathoms, and soon we reentered Our Element.
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