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But China must also avoid reverting to greater state control of the economy – a
possibility
glimpsed in the authorities’ ham-fisted response to the correction in equity prices.
Another is the slowness to acknowledge the
possibility
of novel transmission mechanisms for spongiform encephalopathies (“mad cow disease”).
Back then, the Kremlin was frightened by the
possibility
of a so-called “color revolution” breaking out in Russia.
So, to resolve Europe’s sovereign-debt crisis, it is now imperative to prepare for the
possibility
of default and defection from the eurozone by Greece, Portugal, and perhaps Ireland.
On the contrary, the
possibility
of an orderly default – financed by the other eurozone countries and the International Monetary Fund – would offer Greece and Portugal policy choices.
Of course, we might still have yielded to pressure for protectionist measures, especially as WTO rules leave open the
possibility
of such a response.
Moreover, negotiations with the European Union have been resumed, greater understanding with the Vatican is being fostered, and Castro himself has publicly suggested the
possibility
of dialogue with the United States.
The EU should encourage such second thoughts, which means that it must stop treating Brexit as inevitable and instead offer the
possibility
of a compromise that would meet British voters’ concerns, but only on the condition that Britain remains in the EU.
There is no
possibility
of a two-year period of experimentation.
A third
possibility
is that society’s most distinctive ethnic or racial cleavage aligns with the divide that separates the masses from the propertied elite.
The risk that a systemic financial crisis will drive a more pronounced US and global recession has quickly gone from being a theoretical
possibility
to becoming an increasingly plausible scenario.
Opponents of the AU’s decision argue that there is no similar regional human-rights court elsewhere, and that the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court does not account for the
possibility
of complementary regional systems.
Everyone knows that markets have been booming, and everyone knows that other people know that a correction is always a
possibility.
If this determination, and Pakistan’s ensuing diplomatic isolation, prompts Pakistani generals to rethink their policy of sponsoring terrorism as an instrument of state policy, peace between the neighbors could once again become a
possibility.
Public-private sector collaborations are one
possibility.
Another
possibility
is that the IMF sourced its data exclusively from Chinese authorities.
MOSCOW – In 1811, assessing the
possibility
– or, rather, the impossibility – of Russia ever undergoing a Western-style transformation, the diplomat and counter-Enlightenment philosopher Joseph de Maistre famously wrote, “Every nation has the government it deserves.”
Airstrikes anywhere risk civilian casualties – and thus the
possibility
of inflaming the very sentiments one is trying to counter.
It is a judgment that will profoundly influence international law, deter those who might otherwise commit atrocities, and open the
possibility
of political reconciliation in Bosnia.
But there is another
possibility.
At the very moment when negotiations were beginning in Geneva, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu said in the Knesset (Israel’s parliament) that the
possibility
of a pre-emptive attack on Iran’s nuclear facilities could not yet be ruled out.
And the anachronistic 1920 Jones Act requires cargo carried between US ports to be shipped only on American ships (recall the confusion about the
possibility
of foreign ships coming to help during the BP Gulf oil spill).
One possibility, suggested by my ex-colleague, former US Trade Representative Carla Hills, is that a successful TTIP would be a major impetus for rekindling the moribund Doha Round of global free-trade talks.
A
possibility
here is to establish a second chamber of the European Parliament with members not elected by direct ballot, but by the parliaments of member States from among their ranks.
To be sure, these measures alone cannot eliminate the
possibility
that determined terrorists will strike a given school.
For stock markets, consider this possibility: 100 shareholders each hold 100 shares of the XYZ Corporation for three years.
Capital flows into Europe and major emerging economies picked up, as investors sought to benefit from the expansion, while enjoying both higher yields and the
possibility
of capital gains from currency moves.
But one such dispute, over Western Sahara, is often overlooked, despite the very real
possibility
of resolving it.
Bernanke also noted the
possibility
of temporarily raising the Fed’s medium-term inflation target (a policy that I suggested in this column in December 2008).
But a return to stagnation is also a
possibility
– one that can be minimized only if policymakers acknowledge it and begin taking preventive action right away.
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