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Now a more radical possibility has been raised.
British Prime Minister David Cameron has raised the possibility of a “Brexit,” a British exit from the European Union.
The recognition of an exit possibility reverses that basic process of forging bonds of loyalty.
Despite their hawkish approach to North Korea’s nuclear threats, South Korean officials know that uranium enrichment and spent-fuel reprocessing remains only a distant possibility.
The problem in the advanced countries is not a jobless recovery, but an anemic recovery – or worse, the possibility of a double-dip recession.
And if H1N1 becomes more severe, people (and communities) who have prepared for that possibility will probably fare better than those who have not.
In fact, with Trump seeking to use bilateral deals to secure reductions in America’s trade deficit, the possibility that the US will leave the WTO altogether – a nightmare scenario for the EU, which advocates shared norms over force – cannot be excluded.
AQAP is firmly rooted in this region as well, implying the possibility that local residents will seek its help in defending against an expected Houthi onslaught.
The possibility that US President Barack Obama and the Republicans in Congress will fail to reach a compromise before mandatory deep spending cuts and tax increases take effect on January 1 is very real.
These structures provided executives with incentives to give insufficient weight to the possibility of large losses, which in turn motivated executives to take excessive risks.
On the whole, though, it is reasonable to expect that giving poor people access to knowledge and the possibility of connecting with people anywhere in the world will be socially transforming in a very positive way.
As before, they would get no real power in return, and any possibility of genuine change from within the existing power structure would remain minimal.
Proving the possibility of cloning from the nucleus of an ordinary human cell would transform the debate about the value of potential human life, for we would find that “potential human life” was all around us, in every cell of our bodies.
This possibility highlights the weakness of the argument that abortion, too, is wrong because it destroys a genetically unique human being.
There is a real possibility that global growth will register its first contraction since World War II.
Just as business and credit cycles there tend to be more frequent and extreme, the real possibility of de facto currency crises in the eurozone, owing to higher sovereign borrowing costs and slow adjustment to shocks under fixed exchange rates, renders massive balance sheets unsupportable and thus obsolete.
The mere possibility that the Fed might reduce its purchases of long-term assets – the so-called “taper” – sent market interest rates in the United States soaring and currencies in countries like Brazil, Turkey, and India plummeting.
One possibility is that German policymakers believe that we are approaching an every-country-for-itself scenario – and only gold guarded by one’s own police is worth anything.
Likewise, no one, not even bookies, believed that Brexit was a real possibility.
Finally, geopolitical risks in the Middle East are rising, owing to the possibility of an Israeli military response to Iran’s nuclear ambitions.
Lost in all of the hype was the fact that neither markets nor financial analysts were terribly perturbed about excessive exchange-rate volatility or the possibility of an actual currency war.
The October 2006 test suggested the possibility of a faulty design, while there were questions about whether the 2009 effort was even nuclear in nature.
This does not exclude the possibility that constituents might act with enlightened self-interest, by taking into account the consequences of domestic action for others.
Indeed, in withdrawing from the six-party talks, North Korea did not completely abandon the possibility of resolving the nuclear standoff through dialogue.
The possibility for more unconventional monetary policies will be limited by bloated balance sheets and the lack of headroom to cut policy rates.
If Europe’s vigilance breaks down, violent conflict will become a possibility once again.
What Volkswagen claims was the work of a couple of rogue engineers could turn out to be a catalyst for new thinking and approaches in the car industry, particularly given the possibility of new legislation to combat climate change.
Bush makes no allowance for the possibility that he may be wrong, and he tolerates no dissent.
To the extent that this outcome remains a distinct possibility, the financial Dutch Disease represents a serious threat to fast-growing emerging markets.
Modern technology, possibly including weapons of mass destruction, increases the possibility that any terrorist success will cause damage of great magnitude.
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