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But the big risk to any investor is the
possibility
that inflation will virtually annihilate a currency’s value.
Almost everyone in Israel suspects that the Palestinians and their Arab supporters may not be satisfied with what is on offer: a demilitarized state within the 1967 borders, as well as legal status in Jerusalem, without the
possibility
for refugees to return to Israel.
Neither side wants any ambiguity in their message before the election, thus ruling out the
possibility
of any immediate changes in tax expenditures or future Social Security pensions.
But, as the Conservancy’s latest report – The Power of Rivers: A Business Case – demonstrates, accounting for environmental, social, and economic risks up front can minimize delays and budget overruns while reducing the
possibility
of lawsuits.
High levels of inequality are also correlated with the
possibility
of political capture by elites who defend their interests by blocking egalitarian reforms.
In particular, the North Korean nuclear threat remains acute, with the
possibility
of a sudden escalation raising the risk of conflict between the US and China.
But there remain a host of questions about the
possibility
of lawsuits in myriad other areas.
The bloodshed in France, however, has changed the calculus completely, pointing toward the
possibility
of a rapprochement between Russia and the West.
Even so, the 20th anniversary of the establishment of the ICTY is worth celebrating, because the movement it has led has forced military commanders, guerrilla leaders, and heads of state around the world to take into account the
possibility
that they will face justice if crimes against humanity are committed on their watch.
A few people, of course, clung to the
possibility
of what was once called “actually existing socialism.”
Until recently, the bond markets treated all euro sovereign debts as virtually equal, not raising interest rates on high-debt countries until the
possibility
of default became clear.
We will be able to take a blood sample, determine the
possibility
of genetic defects, and create a probabilistic health history of what is likely to happen.
In the case of defence and warfare, unpredictability includes the
possibility
of young men dying in action.
The most radical differences in opinion can be found in communal perceptions of control of the future – the
possibility
of building a better life in post-Saddam Iraq – and security.
They offer the
possibility
for the Sunni community to participate in the new system.
American diplomacy, therefore, did nothing to oppose EDI, and even welcomed the
possibility
that it might induce Europe’s political elites to support more military spending, reducing the burden on the US.
Unfortunately, failure to implement policies based on genuine respect for this perspective plunged Sudan into its second costly North-South war, fueled the violent conflicts in Western and Eastern Sudan, and created the
possibility
of the South’s secession.
On top of that, there is the
possibility
of health-care costs resulting from exposure to radioactivity.
More appealing, however, was the
possibility
of tracking the scholarly influence of oneself and others over time and across fields, and identifying the most highly cited scientists, papers, journals, and institutions.
But, like the United States’ effort to expand home ownership in the years preceding the 2008 crisis, Chinese policies went too far, creating a financially unsustainable situation that implied the
possibility
of major price declines and dislocations.
Against this background, we must take seriously the
possibility
that the next economic crisis could lead to a large-scale military confrontation.
Terrorist networks could acquire the materials to assemble a nuclear weapon, wreaking havoc on global peace and stability, with the
possibility
of extraordinary loss of life and economic damage.
For example, it creates the
possibility
that, say, British MPs could legally trade shares on information acquired in the course of normal business, because they do not qualify as “insiders.”
But this view ignores the
possibility
that the array of choices offered by chance to natural selection may be sufficiently extensive to allow an optimal or near-optimal solution to emerge, in which case the process is actually close to obligatory and reproducible under the prevailing conditions.
The “surge” also opens, perhaps for the first time, a serious
possibility
of pouring water on the insurgent fires in Anbar province, the heartland of the Sunni insurgency.
Fiscal deficits so large that they put the debt-to-GDP ratio on an explosive upward trend do not merely act as a drag on long-term economic growth; they also create the
possibility
that at any moment the economy might face an immediate macroeconomic and financial disaster.
But so is the
possibility
that the current crisis galvanizes enough consensus to move ahead and do some of the hard work that every country in the end achieves.
But we know that the single currency will be an innovation of unprecedented magnitude; and we cannot assume that it will proceed without turbulence, nor exclude the
possibility
that turbulence will lead to stress, or even to failure.
As a result, their inability to reform, combined with rapid population growth and a rising cohort of young people, is placing them under pressure, creating a
possibility
of explosive change.
So far, at least, those who wish for a better world, and who participate in the struggles for it either as activists or as sympathizers, have refused to face the tragic
possibility
that they will have to choose between good actions, and between moral imperatives.
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