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Under these conditions, another global downturn could prompt Italy and other countries to exit the eurozone altogether.
Central banks that also regulate the banking industry were asked tough questions about their insouciance in the face of rapid credit expansion, but they were widely praised for their prompt and decisive response when trouble hit.
The obligation under Article 6 to reduce arsenals cannot be interpreted to require prompt disarmament unless that would enhance stability.
Indeed, the more frequent the bouts of financial volatility in the months to come, the greater the risk that it will lead consumers to become more cautious about spending, and prompt companies to postpone even more of their investment in new plant and equipment.
If adopted, this policy would set a new global standard and perhaps prompt other nations to follow suit.
Defense missions must be more adaptable, prompt, multinational, and multi-instrumental.
It has taken a tragedy of great proportions to prompt some leaders to act to avoid similar calamities at nuclear reactors elsewhere in the world.
This should be enough to prompt a reassessment.
Indeed, Iran’s prompt support for Iraq’s Shia-led government was partly intended to preempt competition from regional adversaries.
Nowadays, many economists complain that the financial crisis did not prompt a serious rethinking of conventional economics.
These words prompt a sad smile;Leonid Brezhnev used precisely the same phrase in August 1968 to justify the Red Army’s intervention in Czechoslovakia to help beleaguered Communist hardliners there crush the Prague Spring reform movement.
One corner of Europe is in particular need of prompt action: the Baltic Sea Region.
Trump’s recent vulgar remarks about immigration should prompt all Americans to remember that Hitler and his fellow Nazis were once big fans of America.
Economists have been much criticized for the post-2008 Great Recession, but thanks to prompt fiscal and monetary action based on macroeconomic theory, GDP fell by only 3.1% in the United States.
One would think that this congeries of problems would prompt Europeans to strengthen the EU, in order to take control of the situation and mitigate the growing risks.
Such an agreement could, however, prompt a public referendum in Germany, at which point all bets would be off.
Whatever our emotions may prompt us to do, at the level of public policy and corporate decision-making, we should understand that numbers matter, and act accordingly.
For starters, prompt resolution can be ruled out (or nearly so) in both cases.
Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk has made the right suggestion here: prompt establishment of a European energy union, starting with the market for natural gas and including joint external representation and a common pricing policy.
A risk-sharing facility could limit the decline in actual growth after a crisis, while prompt EU-financed investment would prevent a country from shifting to a lower growth path.
A situation in which the US muddles through with growth that is positive but slower than the growth rate of potential output--today's conditions--is unlikely to prompt drastic action from the Fed.
Moreover, the capacity for prompt, accurate laboratory-based diagnosis of TB and drug resistance must be strengthened.
France’s health, ecology, and agriculture ministers promised a prompt investigation and threatened to ban imports of Monsanto’s GM corn to the European Union.
The Catalyst Foundation’s curriculum is likely to include universal themes to prompt youths from very different national, religious, and cultural backgrounds to interact with one another, online or in person, by sharing their own insights and experiences.
The FBI’s intent, it seems, is to prompt lawmakers to respond to public outrage.
Though prompt action halted the 2008 financial meltdown, and initial monetary and fiscal stimulus helped to end the recession itself in 2009, the recovery since then has been painfully slow, owing mainly to destructive fiscal policy: misguided drag in 2010-13; repeated self-inflicted crises in 2011-13; and no progress on the genuine longer-term fiscal problem.
Voters, indeed, increasingly see through such cynical toying with ethnic and religious divisions, for it is clear that prompt arrest and prosecution of those who instigated the Godhra incident would have brought independent voters flocking to the BJP.
Current efforts to curb global warming may not have much bite, but in the long term, the fact that fossil fuels are major contributors to the rise in atmospheric carbon dioxide and thus climate change is likely to prompt policymakers – and investors – to take serious action.
But when we glimpse an alternative, our culture’s inadequacies (and even insanities) are immediately apparent, which may prompt a cultural shift, collective action, and change.
Tomorrow’s autonomous vehicles will prompt another wave of innovation, from optimization of road capacity to intersection management.
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