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Similarly, a large share of farmers – most of them smallholders – in Argentina, Brazil, South Africa, China, India, and other countries, prefer GM seed because they make more money from the resulting crops.
As it stands, Mexico and Canada have been limited to dealing with the US on an individual basis because the three countries - for different reasons - prefer to keep separate bilateral links with their neighbors.
The ability to revoke citizenship without presenting any evidence in public is one reason why a government may prefer this course to arresting and trying terrorism suspects.
He simply takes it for granted that most people prefer to live with their own kind, and that policymakers must attend to this preference.
We continue to prefer living in free and open societies, so we have always reacted with calm and measured resolve.
There is no way to disguise the reality: newspaper readers, in the West at least, are getting older; younger readers prefer to get their information online, where readers spend far less time actually reading news than print readers do; and, most agonizingly of all for the industry, people who were willing to pay for newspapers are unwilling to pay for the same content on a screen.
Trump likes headlines and most likely he would prefer a favorable news cycle or two, given the recent gyrations in financial markets.
They prefer the West’s democracy-oriented approach, which emphasizes individual rights, underpinned by the free market agenda embodied in the so-called Washington Consensus.
Germany ranks a distant second, with 21% of those surveyed saying they would prefer a permanent position.
UnionPay, the market leader, is expensive for retailers to install, and many shops prefer cash to avoid tax.
Fortunately, North Korea's leaders prefer survival to suicide.
But in a brave new world of ad hoc transactions and raw power relations – the kind that both China and US President Donald Trump seem to prefer – these qualities would do Europe little good.
And, while many people might prefer a status quo approach that speeds up the development of new antibiotics while leaving current consumption unchanged, this solution brings its own set of ethical considerations – such as how and when to reduce the length of clinical trials.
Yet they tend to pluralize world politics by calling attention to issues that governments prefer to ignore, and by acting as pressure groups across borders.
With these considerations in mind, it becomes easier to understand why people would prefer to do something useful near home rather than where modern production takes place.
Deficit reduction eventually will be put into cold storage, either openly, as I would prefer, or surreptitiously, as is politicians’ way.
Politicians simply prefer to keep the burden on monetary policy and avoid pursuing difficult or unpopular policies – including structural reforms, debt restructuring, and the recapitalization of banks – aimed at boosting market access and flexibility, even if it means undermining medium-term growth.
All too often, they prefer bad jokes – until the last laugh is on them.
Whereas a global city like London needs to be open to the world – thereby attracting top talent, tourists, service workers, and maybe, inadvertently, criminals or even terrorists – most of the rest of the country would prefer to be closed.
While many Europeans admire America's devotion to freedom, they prefer policies at home that temper the liberal economic principles of individualism with a robust welfare state.
Our diet signals whether we cook at home, shop locally, prefer inexpensive dishes, or even think about what we eat.
President Sergio Mattarella is impartial, but he would prefer that the reforms go forward.
Record numbers of people are going into retirement, but many would prefer to work, at least part-time.
They would prefer to clinch deals with partners one by one, without being bound by the obligation to apply liberalization measures across the board and without being forced to abide by the rulings of the WTO’s dispute settlement mechanism.
Politicians, however, prefer to couch the objective in more uplifting and persuasive terms than that of crassly increasing consumption.
Narcissistic lone rangers like Berlusconi and Trump are accustomed to making personal deals, and prefer other strongmen as their interlocutors.
Unfortunately, those who choose ignorance are immune to – or simply prefer to ignore – reason.
Fixated on stability – a concept alien to US politicians and policymakers – the Chinese prefer, instead, to play a more active role in managing the adjustment of their currency.
While such ideas are not for everyone, certain Continental countries secretly prefer Britain’s disjointed scenarios, with some heads of governments even considering their countries’ commitments reversible.
No wonder so many prefer to stay home and work on their own, which may explain why so many developing countries are becoming more urbanized but not more productive.
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