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In the “hard” sciences, such as mathematics and physics, the truth can be established more transparently, making these fields less prone to scientific misconduct.
In a world that is highly integrated financially and prone to episodes of volatility, weakened multilateralism will reduce the ability of global bodies – like the World Trade Organization and the International Monetary Fund – to mediate disputes.
Special interests hold undue sway over official decision-makers in many countries, and regulators are always prone to see the world through the eyes of the people whose activities they are supposed to oversee.
With the US increasingly prone to using its currency as an instrument of diplomacy, even of warfare – a process known in Washington as “weaponizing the dollar" – China, Russia, and Saudi Arabia, for example, may well be reluctant to shift even more of their wealth into US Treasury bonds.
The main risk now is that events in the suburbs of large French cities will serve as an example to other young people, whether in the less urban areas of France or in other European countries, who feel socially excluded and are, perhaps, just as prone to violent outbursts.
Economic adjustments of this magnitude are always painful, but the economic pain is greater today because the winners are less prone to spend.
So my guess is that we would be well-advised to put our money on the theory that our central bankers today are more skilled, more far-sighted, and less prone to either short-sightedly jerking themselves around or being jerked around by political masters who unpredictably change the objectives they are supposed to pursue year after year.
The likely result is a shortsighted agenda prone to sudden politically motivated reversals.
Open countries are less prone to macroeconomic problems, such as financial crises or rates of inflation in excess of 100%.
In a news environment increasingly prone to hyperventilation, it can be difficult to separate fact from fabricated or deliberately skewed content shared via social media.
China’s government, as prone to political maneuvering and policy gridlock as any, appears to agree that immediate economic growth is crucial and that an 8% annual rate is essential.
The need for profit encourages employers to give genetic tests to workers to discover who may be most productive, or who may be prone to illness that might lead to costly claims for compensation.
She noted with gravity today’s migrations from poor to prosperous countries, the globalization of evil, the contradictions and conflicts of modernity, the angry terrorist response to it, and the contrast between a rational, pragmatic West and a more idealistic and superstitious East, prone to religious fanaticism and political extremism.
Depressed consumption and higher savings have affected all age groups, but the relatively old have been more prone to the trend than the relatively young.
And, if the BRICs slow down, they may be more prone to debt and currency crises.
But Abe’s revisionism is rooted in a nationalist ideology, which is prone to justifying historical atrocities instead of drawing lessons from them.
It is also prone to tax evasion, owing to different definitions of corporate income in the member states and the vast opportunities for cheating offered by ALP (since reference market prices often do not exist), not to mention profit-shifting to low-tax jurisdictions.
In other words, financial markets are prone to produce bubbles.ampnbsp;
Because financial markets are prone to create asset bubbles, regulators must accept responsibility for preventing them from growing too big.
While populists might be particularly prone to advocating facile solutions, they hardly have a monopoly on that tactic.
Italians, who have long been frustrated by poor governance and a clientelist system, are prone to hail charismatic figures as national saviors.
Democracies are prone to populist uprisings, especially when inequality is on the rise.
Sadly, Malaysia may soon become prone to the same type of violent protest and economic decline that have gripped Thailand in recent years.
But, all three leaders are prone to making hasty decisions that affect real people.
Although the GCC countries have built world-class infrastructure over the last four decades, they remains prone to malinvestment, especially during periods of sustained high oil prices.
With incomplete models of risk dynamics and a complex and constantly changing global financial system, detection is, they argue, either impossible or so prone to error that the effort would be counter-productive.
Or genes that make you gay, religious, prone to divorce, or even genes that determine how you vote?
Sarkozy is a man prone to following his instincts.
His words are no less prescient today; in a world that seems increasingly prone to domestic and international conflict, there is no time to waste when it comes to investing in education.
Subjects prone to exploiting others demonstrated a number of characteristics, including callousness, disagreeableness, deceitfulness, egocentrism, lack of honesty or humility, and an excessive interest in one’s personal talents and goals.
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