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We have pressed ahead on reducing the tax burden by decreasing various rates, particularly on payroll taxes, thereby reducing hiring costs without harming workers’ purchasing power – one reason why Brazil is now one of the world’s few major economies with low unemployment.
If China were genuinely eager to see Syria’s people determine their own political future without Assad’s forced removal, it should have pressed for a modification of the resolution, calling for a ceasefire and the start of a political process that worked towards a settlement and Assad’s eventual departure from power.
What he did not address was the coming age of total politics, whereby all of a society’s institutions would be pressed into the service of a totalizing ideological struggle.
The US pressed Pakistan to move against them.
Pakistan’s embarrassed military pressed the government to begin distancing itself from the US.
Specifically, immigration should not be pressed too far, because it will be sure to ignite hostility.
Even though some, such as the British, wished to give the Union as little power as possible, the force of the argument was with those who pressed for political integration alongside economic integration.
James Surowiecki’s bestselling 2004 book, with the outrageous title The Wisdom of Crowds , pressed this idea forward at the very height of the real estate boom.
When pressed by his staff to speak more boldly and expansively, he replied, “It’s just not me.”
Short-term goals must have priority, because many Islamist parties are being pressed to produce positive results within a single electoral cycle.
Mario Monti, Italy’s prime minister at the time, has long pressed for capital investment to be treated differently than current expenditure, so that countries like Italy can still pursue desperately needed infrastructure spending.
Poor countries won concessions on access to essential medicines; and they pressed for, and received, promises that rich countries would address protectionist policies in several areas.
The political obsession with a better exchange-rate regime amounts to an invitation to private markets to make large amounts of money by betting against those central banks that are pressed by politicians to take a particular view of the exchange rate.
In the United States, the media often point out that most Americans would be hard pressed to find Ukraine on a map.
Finally, the Gulf States, Turkey, and Iran should be pressed to negotiate face to face on a regional framework that can ensure lasting peace.
It pressed the International Atomic Energy Agency for greater scrutiny.
One is hard pressed to find any analyst who believes that Israeli air strikes could do more than set back Iran’s program for a few months while unifying fractured Iranian opinion around support for nuclear weapons.
But a 2001 internal report from the Ministry of Public Security disclosed that the numbers "began a rise like a violent wind" from 1997, the year of the Communist Party's Fifteenth Congress, which pressed for factory firings in the name of "efficiency."
Since the terrorist attacks of September 11th, Saudi leaders have felt pressed to accommodate public revulsion about the mistreatment of the Palestinians, but worry that doing so may even further jeopardize their now brittle relations with America.
Although UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon pressed the UN Security Council to move rapidly to authorize the proposed joint force, member governments remain deadlocked over its mandate.
As a result, megabanks’ senior managers are not pressed to remove layers of opaqueness that shield their risk-taking from effective scrutiny.
As for Trump, while he has pressed China to change its trade policies, he has given Xi a pass on the South China Sea, taking only symbolic steps – such as freedom of navigation operations – against Chinese expansionism.
Indeed, if wage restraint were the main factor in Germany’s success, it would be hard pressed to outperform French, Italian, British, and Spanish exporters, who compete mainly on price by offshoring production to low-wage countries.
First, most emerging markets feel their currencies pressed to appreciate by growing capital inflows.
Using legislative language apparently drafted by Citi’s own lobbyists, the firm successfully pressed for the repeal of some of the 2010 Dodd-Frank financial reforms.
And they certainly don’t want to be pressed to apologize for holding hostage over $800 billion in foreign currency reserves, acquired to resist yen appreciation.
Most notable has been the work of Senator Ted Kaufman, a Democrat from Delaware (yes, a pro-business state), who has pressed tirelessly to fix the most egregious problems in the US financial sector.
Kaufman has consistently pressed them to do more – and do it much faster; to be sure, they and many others are now listening.
Pressed to clarify, the Palestinians admitted that there is no written promise to this effect.
Why should what worked in Northern Ireland – indeed, what was pressed on Britain by the United States – be unthinkable in the Middle East?
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