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Will European countries try to pretend that Ahmadinejad’s militant rhetoric and provocations don’t matter and that some diplomatic solution to Iran’s nuclear ambition can be found?
Sadly, much of the case against China is true; no one here should ignore this, or pretend the facts are otherwise.
Companies face a problem of trust: with 58% of Europeans believing that many companies pretend to be green in order to charge higher prices, industry has a long way to go in helping consumers feel confident when making green choices.
No union can still pretend that it has captive employers who can and will pass wage increases on into prices without reckoning the consequences for profitability and employment.
What Congress cannot do is pretend that wrong-footed trade policy is the answer to its inability or unwillingness to refocus its domestic policy agenda.
We can pretend all is well with the global monetary non-system and hope that nothing goes spectacularly wrong.
Some analysts say anti-government leaders have hijacked the Royal Color to pretend that they have his support.
This failure is rooted in electoral politics’ confinement to individual countries, which forces politicians to pretend that they can address economic issues with national policies alone.
We can perhaps still pretend, against the odds, that all member countries will ultimately join the euro; but we cannot ignore the gulf between those who claim one can be a proud European Muslim and those for whom Christianity is quintessential to European citizenship.
By contrast, the Fed doesn’t have to recognize the loss; while free-market advocates might talk about the virtues of market pricing and “price discovery,” the Fed can pretend that nothing has happened.
“While cryptocurrencies may pretend to be currencies,” Carstens concludes, “they fail the basic textbook definitions.”
It is wrong to pretend that the risk of war is behind us.
Despots like to be backed by plebiscites, because they do not only pretend to represent the People; they are the People.
The official approach, Plan A, has been to pretend that these economies suffer a liquidity crunch, not a solvency problem, and that the provision of bailout loans – together with fiscal austerity and structural reforms – can restore debt sustainability and market access.
This “extend and pretend” or “lend and pray” approach is bound to fail, because, unfortunately, most of the options that indebted countries have used in the past to extricate themselves from excessive debt are not feasible.
But let us not pretend that Russia’s military operations, which, to date, have been aimed solely at providing Russia with mastery over Syrian airspace and protecting its interests on the ground, are bolstering efforts to defeat the Islamic State.
I do not pretend to be an expert on religious faith and spiritual values.
Most others dwell on the laudable, suppress the inglorious, and embellish the rest--or else pretend that the past doesn't exist at all.
Today, most emerging-market economies have (or at least pretend to have) floating exchange rates, and yet locals continue to borrow heavily in foreign currency.
Here it is no longer good enough for us pro-Europeans to claim that only atavistic Little Englanders make the case for leaving, or to pretend that, outside the EU, Britain would collapse or disintegrate.
It would be hypocritical, for example, to pretend that everyone in Western liberal democracies is enthusiastic about gay people or nudists – what matters is that their rights be respected, not that everyone like them.
But, with the economy in free fall, Putin cannot pretend forever.
For years, oil companies such as Exxon tried to pretend that climate change wasn’t real or that the risks were exaggerated.
When faced with the slaughter of civilians, it can no longer pretend that it does not know.
They must at least pretend that they intend to build it, in order to appease America’s powerful nuclear “isolationists,” who long for the past golden age of US strategic invulnerability.
We can no longer sweep this issue under the carpet or pretend that it is not our problem.
For Trump, all NAFTA really needed was a new name – one that, as Eswar Prasad points out, literally puts “America First” – to enable him to pretend for his supporters that he achieved something positive.
“To profess” has a spectrum of meanings: to affirm openly; declare or claim; to make a pretense of; pretend; to claim skill in or knowledge of; to affirm belief in; to receive into a religious order or congregation; to make an open affirmation; or to take the vows of a religious order or congregation.
The EU is not a democracy; nor does it pretend to be one.
Global risk-aversion has also increased, as the option of further “extend and pretend” or “delay and pray” on Greece is becoming less desirable, and the specter of a disorderly workout is becoming more likely.
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