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These central banks offered their services primarily to domestic actors, but they also extended their largess to foreign private entities.
But regional stability primarily requires the clarification of Pakistan’s role in Afghanistan.
Looking ahead, the region’s main export markets, primarily in advanced Europe, are not expected to grow as fast as in the past.
If these liberal democracies – which do wield their share of soft power – remain passive, the international order will continue to weaken, potentially to the point that it is shaped primarily by brute force, rather than diplomacy, cooperation, or the rule of law.
Indeed, resettlement of laid-off SOE employees, and other social implications of layoffs, should now be addressed primarily by government through the social safety net, rather than as part of the bankruptcy process.
Who would deny that companies have a clear responsibility to earn profits for their shareholders, or that most shareholders invest primarily to make money, not to make the world a better place?
While China’s consumer price index rose 5.3% in the year ending in July 2004, this was due primarily to a spike in food prices; both before and since, inflation has been negligible.
But they believe that good and secure jobs are gone, and that greedy multinational corporations are responsible, primarily the bosses who behind closed doors made reckless decisions about people's lives and became unbelievably rich from doing so.
Israelis are primarily concerned about Iran’s nuclear ambitions.
The fact that international financial markets welcome the placement of new debt by countries with obviously large and unresolved twin deficits primarily reflects their search for any kind of yield in an era of exceptionally low global interest rates.
The FCI was established in 1964 primarily to implement price-support systems, facilitate nationwide distribution, and maintain buffer stocks of staples like wheat and rice.
The unbanked, who live primarily in developing countries, comprise nearly half of the world’s working-age population.
Xi’s motive in pursuing modernity is not, as many in the West have wrongly inferred, to establish China as a superpower on par with the United States; on the contrary, Xi views his current challenge and mission as being primarily domestic.
Wherever demographic growth outstrips economic growth, the fault lies primarily with corrupt and inefficient regimes and the obstacles they put in the way of entrepreneurship and wealth creation.
Indeed, it is important to remember that the earth’s surface is primarily ocean, which plays a critical role as both a carbon sink and a regulator of the climate.
But the idea that transparency will restore public trust in democracy rests on several problematic assumptions, primarily the belief that “if only people knew,” everything would be different.
The Fed will decide on monetary policy for the United States based primarily on US conditions.
Brazil's economic policy is now driven by politics, primarily the need to secure a second term for the president.
Respect for any nation’s unique character; the manner of its development; and, the degree to which a community decides its fate, is determined primarily by those living within it.
In other words: those who defile “our” identity are primarily ourselves – we who should be its protectors and guardians.
I repeat: if a nation's identity is jeopardized, it is placed in that position primarily from within; it is placed in jeopardy by choice – often the choices expressed at the ballot box – and out of negligence or indolence.
Threats to identity nowadays are primarily not matters of dictates from outside.
Moreover, the Republicans’ uncompromising stance has been reinforced by the extreme position taken by many within its congressional delegation that Planned Parenthood – a health-care provider that primarily serves women – must be defunded as a condition of any budget deal.
Even when world trade finally began to revive after the depression ended, it remained fragmented, developing primarily within trading blocs and regions.
They gave assurances that, while NATO has adopted a global approach to security, its main activities outside Europe and Afghanistan will primarily comprise dialogue with partners or, in special cases, joint defensive measures with other security institutions under a UN mandate, such as in the Gulf of Aden.
Yet the majority of the million refugees flooding into Europe this past summer – primarily from Syria – had access to that “ubiquitous and mobile Internet” that is part of the Fourth Industrial Revolution.
Although these failures are found primarily in sub-Saharan Africa, Central Asia and the Middle East, the interesting thing about East Asia is that it contains both remarkable success stories and abject failures.
This challenge is particularly difficult, because economic policy has not focused primarily on the adverse distributional trends arising from shifting global market outcomes.
Until Byrnes’ “Speech of Hope,” the Allies were committed to converting “…Germany into a country primarily agricultural and pastoral in character.”
Indeed, despite progress in 2012, we have not been able fully to interrupt the spread of the poliovirus in Pakistan, owing primarily to obstacles affecting program implementation and management.
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