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Arab authoritarian regimes, unlike others that have given way to democracy, are incapable of self-reform; they have, however, mastered the tactics needed to prolong the life spans of their aging despotisms.
The question is why no country, not even China, managed to prolong its economic miracle?
So G7 leaders recently pledged to prolong the sanctions until both the 2014 and 2015 Minsk agreements are fully respected.
Even the Roman Catholic Church has long held that there is no obligation to use “extraordinary” or “disproportionate” means to prolong life – a view reiterated in the “Declaration on Euthanasia” issued by the Sacred Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith and approved by Pope John Paul II in 1980.
The West should send the same message to Lukasenko that it has sent to Libyan leader Muammar el-Qaddafi and Syrian President Bashar al-Assad: No IMF money to prolong the life of the regime.
If China’s leaders continue to choose debt-fueled growth over reform, they will only delay, and possibly prolong, the inevitable slowdown.
By taking an essentially passive position, this approach might merely prolong the Age of Terrorism needlessly.
This will prolong the conflict, further diminish trust, and, in the long term, make it harder to restore any semblance of mutually beneficial cooperation, implying significant long-term consequences for the global economy.
But any attempt to prolong Kuchma's rule will create such a political mess that it is not absurd to fear that Ukraine could follow Belarus and the Balkans of the early 1990's into outright dictatorship and chaos.
Continued reduction of interest rates and extension of repayment maturities have served only to prolong Greece’s struggles.
For starters, given ongoing concerns about post-crisis vulnerabilities and deflation risk, today’s Fed seems likely to find any excuse to prolong its incremental normalization, taking a slower pace than it adopted a decade ago.
Unless a future government is bold enough to violate the pact with abandon, its only alternative will be to increase taxes, which would merely prolong the very downturn in private-sector demand that has kept unemployment high.
This is one reason why Trump might choose to prolong the truce with the EU agreed in July.
He will be remembered for accepting the painful secession of Eritrea in 1993, rather than prolong the civil war, and for his efforts to reach an agreement with Egypt over the use of the Blue Nile waters.
In the absence of the rule of law and basic civil liberties, populist regimes can prolong their rule by manipulating the media and the judiciary at will.
The alternative – an attempt at negotiation between Syria’s government and an increasingly fragmented opposition – would serve only to prolong the war and raise the death toll.
The possibility that he may run for prime minister in order to prolong his rule when his presidential mandate expires is a logical continuation of this approach.
Indeed, it is likely to prolong wicked regimes.
But relying upon population growth and desertification to prolong their lives would be robbing Peter to pay Paul.
By his recent actions, President Viktor Yushchenko of Ukraine now looks like he has joined the long list of rulers who have sacrificed their country’s future simply to prolong their misrule.
When it comes to Russia today, appeasement will not lead to peace; on the contrary, a conciliatory approach will only prolong the conflict.
The challenge now is to figure out how to prolong their professional lives.
Iraq and Afghanistan proved to be strategic distractions, and, particularly in Afghanistan, the US should resist pressures to prolong a substantial military presence.
And they continue to push -- unsuccessfully -- for Ahtisaari’s removal in order to prolong the Vienna talks.
Last autumn in a bogus referendum Lukashenka had had removed two consecutive terms limit on presidency and thus he had made the first step to prolong his rule beyond 2006 when his current term expires.
To try to cut spending in a slump, as Osborne is doing, is to prolong the slump.
Moreover, housing busts tend to prolong recessions by almost three years.
For example, China could embargo exports of the rare earth minerals that are so vital to America’s tech industry, or prolong its boycott of US agricultural products.
Fostering a climate of deprivation and fear among migrants will serve only to prolong the pandemic and extend the human and economic suffering that come with it.
That means rejecting protectionism, which would only prolong the pandemic and deepen the already-severe global recession.
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