Possibility
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Thus, while investors can no longer profit by basing their trading decisions on standard anti-takeover provisions, our findings leave open the
possibility
that an investment strategy based on other features of corporate governance might be worthwhile.
One
possibility
would have been to focus solely on providing education to Lebanese children – thereby upholding our country’s long-held status as an important intellectual center in the Middle East – and to outsource the refugee problem to the international community.
Though Republicans relish the
possibility
that Clinton will be indicted for routing official business through a private email server when she was Secretary of State, prosecutors would have to prove that she intended to break the law, which is unlikely.
So it seems that the Cubans are hoping to find resources elsewhere, and the only possibility, as remote as it seems, is the Inter-American Development Bank.
Yet all of this leaves out the
possibility
of change, particularly change influenced by the United States’ unsettling role in the world.
Others, however, expect China’s GDP growth to continue to trend downward, with the
possibility
of a hard landing.
A further slowdown in China is a distinct
possibility.
In 1919, the economist John Maynard Keynes described the
possibility
of an Englishman in London using a telephone to order goods from around the world to be delivered to his house by the afternoon.
Fortunately, the Council seems to have internalized this lesson, leaving open the
possibility
of reconsidering its commitments after COP21.
One
possibility
is that expanded public and private investment begins to reverse the downward productivity trend, thereby generating real growth.
Indeed, if there is a danger in the proposed US-India accord, it is the
possibility
that either North Korea or Iran might conclude that it is only a matter of time before the world comes to accept their nuclear status.
Iran’s leaders, though, would be unwise to proceed with an unconstrained nuclear program and discount the
possibility
of US military action.
But right now, and leaving aside the
possibility
of an existential battle between man and machine, it seems quite plausible to expect a significant pickup in productivity growth over the next five years.
For a country that has spent the past two decades looking with suspicion at a world that it perceived as hostile everywhere, the
possibility
of congenial neighbors must be enticing.
Nuclear power offers the
possibility
of cheap, plentiful electricity, which will contribute to social and political stability.
But, in my old life, I would be encouraging my analysts to spend more time considering just that possibility, because, on the off-chance that this crackpot notion were true, there would be some serious money to be made in today’s generously valued markets.
There is also the
possibility
that new developments will bring about a more constructive policy approach.
While unlikely anytime soon, this
possibility
should give everyone pause and spur us to find policies that will help Arabs find the political dignity and good governance they deserve through an ordered, peaceful process.
In summary, the hard facts about nuclear energy are inconsistent with the
possibility
of a worldwide renaissance of nuclear energy.
Another
possibility
would be to exploit, on an ad hoc basis, the existing flexibility in EU treaty provisions.
Existing public statistics, it is believed, do not provide enough relevant information to analyze the
possibility
of discrimination in employment or housing.
Madison’s answer to the
possibility
of an “American Mussolini” was a system of institutional checks and balances ensuring that the US would never resemble Italy in 1922 – or Russia, China, or Turkey today.
The actual decision to do so often can wait until the next stimulus, that is, the next day that a big drop occurs – hence, the
possibility
of a sequence of large one-day declines.
But, again, the report offers little in the way of solutions, and it largely rejects the distinction between therapeutic and enhancement applications, which leaves open the
possibility
that such technologies could be misused for cosmetic purposes.
For decades, the international community has largely adhered to the UNESCO declaration, adopted in 1997, which was updated in 2015 with the injunction that all countries “should renounce the
possibility
of going it alone” on germline gene therapy.
Berlin is consumed not with the question of what Europe might need in this historical situation, and what Germany’s role should be, but with fear – of the conservative and tabloid press, of further losses in state elections, and of the
possibility
that the German constitutional court will intervene and overturn the existing programs to contain the euro crisis.
If they do not raise their game, the Council’s global authority will wane, and it will face the real
possibility
of sliding back to the marginalized impotence of the Cold War years.
Peace in Cyprus would be a strategic game changer for Europe, opening the
possibility
for the rapid revival of Turkey’s accession process, which has been largely stalled as a result of objections by the Republic of Cyprus.
The limited gold reserves created the
possibility
of a self-fulfilling panic.
But consider another possibility: suppose that the financial regulator is mistaken in its approach to a particular issue.
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