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Second, an extension would prolong the sense of uncertainty that has so far jeopardized Greece’s recovery.
Obviously, failure to reach a power-sharing agreement will prolong political instability.
So, even though central banks aren’t willing to give up on their formal 2% inflation target, they are willing to prolong the timeline for achieving it, as they have already done time and again, effectively conceding that inflation may stay low for longer.
It would be a mistake for Russia to respond in kind today by seeking to prolong the PCA negotiations in the hope that a possibly more amenable EU president may one day offer softer terms.
But there are steps they can take to prolong their success.
Finger pointing by both sides is likely to escalate as the European Union and the United States discuss whether or not to prolong sanctions on Russia.
The sad fact is that by keeping oil prices high, OPEC is doing far more for environmental conservation than Western politicians who seek to prolong the era of ecologically unsustainable Western consumerism.
Apparently, Dutch doctors are letting their patients die the old-fashioned way, rather than use the expensive new techniques to prolong their lives.
Roubini concludes that, “even though central banks aren’t willing to give up on their formal 2% inflation target, they are willing to prolong the timeline for achieving it.”
Some have even sought to prolong conflicts, believing that to do so serves their national interests.
But this would simply prolong community financing of the GIPS’ current-account deficits, now in its fourth year, for another couple of years.
That will prolong excessive government spending, and deficit targets will not be met on a sustained basis.
Obviously, holding a G-8 summit just before a G-20 summit, as happened in Canada this June, simply serves to prolong maintenance of separate clubs, which is unsustainable.
Golubchuk’s doctors thought it best not to prolong his life, but his children, arguing that discontinuing life-support would violate their Orthodox Jewish beliefs, obtained a court order compelling the doctors to keep their father alive.
But these organizations ultimately exacerbated violence, generated land dispossession and forced displacement, and helped to prolong the conflict for nearly five decades.
Braggadocio about carpet bombing, and accusations of appeasement against those who try to negotiate, will only prolong the agony, if not cause an even greater catastrophe.
Moreover, an increase in the demand for broadband connection has triggered the launch of an $800 million “Jin Dun (Golden Shield) Project,” an automatic digital system of public policing that will help prolong Communist rule by denying China’s people the right to information.
As a result, Turkey wants to prolong, at all costs, the time available for diplomacy.
Moreover, the domestic political calendar will most likely prolong the coalition talks.
But it isn’t as simple as that, because a continuation of the conflict (which is what “forgetting about it” would boil down to) would not only prolong what is a tragedy for both Palestinians and Israelis, but would also be too dangerous for the region.
But the decision to prolong Bouteflika’s presidency will not provide the kind of strong, transformational leadership that Algeria needs to materialize the regime’s stability promises.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel flew to Ankara on February 9 to make last-minute arrangements with the Turkish government to induce the refugees already in Turkey to prolong their stay there.
And the crises that often divide the leveraging and deleveraging phases cause additional balance-sheet damage and prolong the healing process.
And with the extra income that cooperatives provide, farmers can buy greenhouses to prolong their production season, and shield against erratic weather.
But it has also lost sight of the 1990’s – the first of its so-called lost decades – when the authorities did all they could to prolong the life of insolvent banks and many nonfinancial corporations.
For example, Germany’s reluctance to provide debt relief to southern European countries has helped to prolong their woes; now, however, it may have sufficient incentive to do more, as it would reap immediate benefits from an EU-wide solution to the refugee crisis.
Encouraging weak countries to prolong their reliance on budget deficits by holding out the hope of a de facto bail-out would be very costly for EMU’s more solid countries, while undermining EMU’s hard-won credibility as an area of stability and fiscal soundness.
Muddling through as before would only escalate and prolong the crisis.
Real economies have been artificially propped up by these distorted asset prices, and glacial normalization will only prolong this dependency.
Outrageously, Supari has charged that the WHO would give any viruses – not just H5N1 – to drug companies, which in turn would make products designed to sicken poor people, in order “to prolong their profitable business by selling new vaccines” (a charge oddly reminiscent of the plot of John le Carré’s novel The Constant Gardener ).
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