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But Turkey's top generals and an array of parties, left and right, fussed and stewed over the
potential
for the emergence of an Islamist state if Refah remained in power.
The most immediate cause of
potential
instability is North Korea, which now poses not just a conventional military threat to South Korea, but also a nuclear threat to all of Asia, as well as to the US.
Like the hijackers of 9/11, who were also Saudi/Wahhabi ideological exports (15 of the 19 men who carried out those terror attacks were chosen by Bin Laden because they shared the same Saudi descent and education as he), Saudi Arabia’s reserve army of
potential
terrorists remains, because the Wahhabi factory of fanatical ideas remains intact.
Greater openness and integration necessarily increase the
potential
for cascading crises and amplification of shocks.
It is his administration’s
potential
impact on global politics and the natural environment that should worry us far more.
Croatia is already an EU member;Montenegro and Serbia have begun membership negotiations;Albania and Macedonia are accession candidates; and Bosnia and Herzegovina and Kosovo are
potential
candidates.
For example, political obstacles to comprehensive economic policymaking in many advanced economies have undermined the implementation of structural reforms and responsive fiscal policies in recent years, holding back business investment, undermining productivity growth, worsening inequality, and threatening future
potential
growth.
Their size not only made them crave access to outside markets; it also made other market actors more willing to integrate them into regional pacts, owing to their limited displacement
potential.
Given Ukraine’s location, history, and the
potential
for trouble, the international community’s greater attention to the crisis there than to the disaster unfolding in Venezuela is not surprising.
But even if the ISCC’s patent applications are not excluded on these grounds, there is another
potential
roadblock for applicants: Under European law, an invention can be patented only if its commercial exploitation is deemed not to controvert “ordre public” or morality.
The Basel III agreement on capital adequacy and other recent reforms still have not ring-fenced trade financing from these
potential
shocks.
Moreover, low and especially negative interest rates make holding cash costly, prompting investors to seek riskier investments with higher
potential
returns.
Though it has not yet been implemented, its waste targets have the
potential
to save the European Union 190 million tons of CO2 emissions per year.
In most cases, there is
potential
to raise revenue by 3-5 percentage points of GDP over the next few years.
Doing nothing will only constrain the region’s tremendous
potential
to achieve sustainable and inclusive growth.
In other words: readiness to defend a democratic state and its values against violence, aggression and evil should be nothing less than a natural extension of the inherent will of each individual to defend one's own dignity against
potential
threats.
Germany seems to be congealing into an introspective provincialism, and that at a time where its potential, its leadership even, are more urgently needed than ever.
Moreover, the movement of a limited number of individuals between government agencies and private contractors results in a form of regulatory capture, particularly when government employees are tasked with overseeing former colleagues and
potential
employers in the corporate world.
Moreover, the high payroll taxes needed to finance these benefits constitute another deterrent to hiring, as does the high minimum wage, which tends to price unskilled labor above its
potential
productivity.
But if the country is to realize its enormous soft-power potential, it will have to rethink its policies at home and abroad, limiting its claims upon its neighbors and learning to accept criticism in order to unleash the full talents of its civil society.
Likewise, even proponents of a no-fly zone are doubtful about its
potential
efficacy.
Trump knows that the EU has the money, technology, and know-how to be a global power equal to the US, and it is not his problem that Europe lacks the political will to harness its full
potential.
This gap point to a unique opportunity to realize social enterprise’s underappreciated
potential.
The changing climate on climate change provides political leaders in Europe and other
potential
members of this “coalition of the willing” an unprecedented opportunity to move beyond mere rhetoric.
If the ECB is the eurozone’s lender of last resort, Europe’s leaders agreed, it must have direct knowledge of its
potential
clients’ balance sheets.
Potential
obstacles abound: more aggressive monetary tightening, especially in the United States; a further escalation of protectionism; a harder-than-expected economic landing in China; and a return of tensions in the eurozone, triggered by concerns over the fate of Italian finances.
In many places where the labor market remains out of balance, domestic action is required to strengthen economic
potential
and improve access to employment.
It would leave to the governments of countries at risk of overheating the task of using fiscal means to cool down their economies – and to those of the still-struggling countries the task of unlocking their economic
potential.
China balks at interfering in the “internal affairs” of a neighbor from whom it gets precious natural gas and
potential
access to the sea.
That question has been haunting economists ever since, as the recognition has slowly taken hold that, in the supposed “golden age” preceding the crisis, they were blind not only to the
potential
consequences of failure – but also to the true cost of “success.”
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