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The question is how long this relative calm will prevail.
How did reasonable economic policies prevail in this crisis?
And were we not right, at the time, to ignore those who told us that the dissidents were a minority who would never, ever, prevail against the granite ideology of communism?
But which one will prevail?
One hopes that those who understand the economics of debt and austerity, and who believe in democracy and humane values, will prevail.
What might loosely be called Islamism is based on a politicization of religion that is fundamentally incompatible with the modern world, for it assumes that there is one true religion, only one interpretation of that religion, and that this interpretation should prevail and dominate all countries’ politics, government institutions, and social life.
And will China’s coastal export interests again prevail in exchange rate policy decisions, at the expense of poor inland consumers?
The very low interest rates that now prevail have driven investors to take excessive risks in order to achieve a higher current yield on their portfolios, often to meet return obligations set by pension and insurance contracts.
If there are no suitable female candidates, it was argued, then the best candidate should prevail, regardless of gender.
Although science disproved these explanations decades ago, they still prevail in Mexican popular culture because they all fit into that culture's rigid, polarized definitions of masculinity and femininity.
But I remain hopeful that we will prevail in the end, when higher courts hear Tempo's appeal.
Let’s hope that wiser heads at the Treasury Department prevail.
Difficult as it was for the forces of freedom and democracy to prevail over totalitarianism, it will be even more difficult to win the peace, to develop and enforce optimal patterns for a new life together of states and nations on this planet that addresses the world's present condition.
Europe’s bizarre decision-making structure has allowed domestic German politics to prevail over all other considerations.
One could also ask whether the arrival of one million “Russians,” regardless of their actual ties to Judaism, had a negative effect on Israeli society, by encouraging ideological rigidity and a disdain for democracy that did not prevail before.
Incremental intergovernmental solutions will continue to prevail, and Europe’s economy will soldier on, steadily losing ground to the US and emerging economies like China and India.
That said, there are still reasons to hope that sanity will prevail.
The question for Egypt is whether the agenda of a truly pluralistic democracy – proclaimed by the avant-garde young protesters at Tahrir Square, the admirably self-empowered Facebook and Twitter generation – can prevail against the resilient forces of the past.
Faced with difficult questions in foreign, fiscal, and social policy, he would be wise to turn toward the center rather than conciliate his conservative base, but it remains unclear whether the politics of conviction or of pragmatism will prevail.
Indeed, since the onset of the ongoing financial and sovereign-debt crisis, advanced-country governments and central banks have allowed fiscal policy to prevail over monetary policy.
In its own interest, Europe must not allow this policy to prevail.
The truth: below a critical threshold--a threshold far beyond the levels of inflation that now prevail in Europe and North America--there is no evidence of significant adverse effects from inflation.
First, purchasing managers and stock market investors may be betting that sanity will yet prevail.
But the most damaging shocks often hide in plain sight – and then hit precisely when and where almost everyone thought stability would prevail.
The way this issue plays out will determine whether peace continues to prevail across the Pacific.
Nowadays at the College of Europe, the “culture of doubt” among students from Old Europe seems to prevail over what was once the pragmatic confidence of students from New Europe.
For starters, Germany is close to full employment – in sharp contrast to the double-digit unemployment rates that prevail in much of the eurozone.
And the European Central Bank has begun to buy government bonds, including those of Greece, at prices well above those that would prevail in a free market.
Such rates currently prevail in the eurozone, Switzerland, Denmark, and Sweden.
Ending the Tragedy of DarfurThe critical conditions that continue to prevail in Darfur are causing immense suffering to its people.
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