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Tung turned out to be shallow, radical in his views, more chauvinist than China’s top leaders, and prone to rash decision-making on important policies with wide-ranging social and economic consequences.
That is why they are prone to overshooting.
Left to their own devices, markets are prone to extremes of euphoria and despair.
Indeed, the need to pursue financial liberalization to maintain growth is a central reason why middle-income countries are so prone to financial crises.
Its financial system was unstable and prone to panics, and its political system was immature and prone to populism and nativism.
In fact, while states can be inefficient and prone to inflationary temptations, private banking systems can also allocate capital badly, sustaining credit cycles that leave behind profound economic malaise.
The result is an electorate prone to blaming the EU for everything that goes wrong, but with no interest either in campaigning for more European democracy or in leaving the EU’s single market.
But, whereas most democracies are less prone than the French Republic is to impose “national values” on their citizens, the law cannot be totally divorced from shared values either.
Asia needs more help with infrastructure investment than the World Bank and the Asian Development Bank can provide;China can play a useful leadership role; and the participation of countries with high governance standards can help prevent the cronyism, corruption, and environmental damage to which large-scale infrastructure projects are prone.
Western conservatives are no less prone to creative destruction than Western liberals: conservatives, indeed, are well known for inventing traditions.
We can thus comprehend why children born into such circumstances have more problems in school, are more likely to commit crimes, and are more prone to heart disease, diabetes, and a host of other physical and mental illnesses later in life.
Women with HIV, for example, are particularly prone to the disease.
Political parties appear far removed from citizen demands, beset by internal divisions, incapable of addressing deep-rooted inequality and lawlessness, and prone to populist or authoritarian leadership that promises quick fixes to entrenched problems.
Indeed, scientists predict that India will become significantly hotter over the next few decades, and therefore more prone to a range of weather-related calamities such as droughts, floods, crop failures, and cyclones.
Local power outages may be unavoidable, but one can create grids that are less vulnerable – and less prone to bringing large parts of the economy to a halt – by building in redundancy.
But a new kind of leader – moderate, intellectually humble, and prone to gradualism – has been in ascendance since the 1990s.
And the market is prone to temporary fits of shared enthusiasm – for emerging-market debt, for Internet stocks, for residential mortgage-backed securities, for Greek government debt.
US-India summits are particularly prone to this hubris: the Great Republic meets the World’s Largest Democracy.
A system governed by such rules is prone to give rise to various social conflicts, and perhaps to violence.
Why, then, were the bank loans so short term -- and therefore so prone to panic?
Multilateral agreements are always prone to gaps in application; the international non-proliferation regime is no different.
For example, restricting antibiotic consumption in certain populations could lead to job losses for those prone to illness.
They are also more likely than older women to die of birth-related complications, and are more prone to abuse.
Similarly, if the refugee crisis can be brought under control, the panic will subside and the European public will be less prone to support anti-migrant policies.
The unspoken truth is that, compared to “blue-staters,” those who live in red states exhibit less responsibility, on average, in their personal behavior: they are less physically fit, less careful in their sexual behavior, more prone to inflict harm on themselves and others through smoking and drinking, and more likely to receive federal subsidies.
Evidently, people in New England, New York, and Hawaii, who more often vote Democratic, are not just slimmer, but are also less prone to engage in unprotected sex than those in the South and Republican-leaning Midwestern states.
It would be unseemly and perhaps “elitist” to point fingers at fellow Americans and imply that they are promiscuous, fat, gluttonous, lazy, uneducated, or that they are more prone to divorce, drunkeness, and gun-related deaths.
The current winner-takes-all electoral system tends to favor regional opposition parties that are identity-driven and not prone to political compromise.
Despite these differences, Americans are prone to cycles of belief in decline.
Nonetheless, he was a flop in his brief earlier incarnation as opposition leader in 2008-2009, widely seen as arrogant, non-consultative, and prone to spectacular errors of judgment.
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