Prospect
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Now she is confronted with the
prospect
of a reconstituted Franco-German axis – one that would be more balanced, and therefore more stable, than before.
Some in Israel, such as Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman, seem to want to cut off Gaza completely from the West Bank, in contravention of the Oslo accords (and the
prospect
of a two-state solution!), and push it in the direction of Egypt.
This
prospect
is hardly encouraging.
England would be left to wave its flag of St. George over Wales and Northern Ireland, a rather sour
prospect.
With the
prospect
of the US Federal Reserve raising interest rates in the near and medium term, it is perhaps not surprising that the International Monetary Fund’s 18th Annual Research Conference, to be held on November 2-3, is devoted to the study and discussion of the global financial cycle and how it affects cross-border capital flows.
When not, but conscience urges the country to act – against, say, a dictator killing a large number of his citizens – the US should not intervene alone and should use force only if there is a good
prospect
of success.
The end of the West is a dim prospect, to be sure, but we aren’t there yet.
And the
prospect
of significant improvement in 2014 – or in the foreseeable future – seems unrealistic.
The first anointed dauphin of President Duhalde, Reuteman's joy at this
prospect
was short-lived.
If the economy declines again – a highly plausible
prospect
– we would have a triple dip, although perhaps not an outright second recession.
These same countries now face the
prospect
of a world in which American leadership is likely to be less of a factor.
This awful
prospect
is exactly the sort of thing global-warming evangelists like Al Gore have in mind when they warn that we must take “large-scale, preventive measures to protect human civilization as we know it.”
Turkey’s pro-Western forces find just as much fault with their country’s political system as the European critics, but they expect the
prospect
of EU membership to accelerate the progress of reforms.
Many economists outside of China have argued that the December depreciation resulted from betting by investors that Chinese policymakers, facing the
prospect
of a hard landing for the economy, would slow or halt currency appreciation.
But if Trump opts to confront China in the South China Sea or abandons the One China policy, US-China relations could be tipped into free fall, raising the frightening
prospect
of a direct military conflict.
In particular, it is time to embrace the
prospect
not of camps but of cities – places where up to a million refugees of any particular nationality can live safely and learn how to build a better future.
Arrhenius was not in the least troubled by the
prospect
of global warming.
Indeed, like Ukraine, Moldova and Georgia have been left without any clear signals from the EU that they will have the
prospect
of membership at some point in the future.
On the left, the social democratic wing of the Socialist party, which backed Dominique Strauss-Kahn against Royal, may be tempted to align with Bayrou, too, owing to the
prospect
of a post-electoral alliance between the center left and the center right.
In the course of the summer, the
prospect
of a perilous fall has become only more likely.
Indeed, a Bosnia-type scenario can no longer be excluded, while the
prospect
of the Syrian government’s loss of control over its chemical weapons poses an immediate threat of military intervention by Turkey, Israel, or the US.
But, because the outcome is unknowable, and depends on politics as much as on economics, let us leave that frightening
prospect
to one side and look instead at what we know about the underlying performance of the European Union economy.
This
prospect
is already prompting the authorities to delay critical reforms.
That would turn Xi’s Chinese Dream into a more elusive
prospect.
Israelis believe that Iran is galloping into the nuclear club, and will shrewdly use the
prospect
of talks with the US to pre-empt tougher sanctions or a military strike.
Constitutional amendments in the US must be ratified by three-quarters of the states, which means that at present there is no realistic
prospect
of changing the constitution sufficiently to overcome the flaw that has made the current crisis possible.
Another reason why we do not give to prevent disasters should be familiar to anyone who has ever delayed going to the dentist because the
prospect
of serious pain in the coming weeks or months just wasn’t as motivating as the reluctance to face some more immediate slight discomfort.
But with transatlantic relations at their lowest point in decades, the
prospect
of that happening any time soon is remote.
Following April’s general election, not every Shia is delighted by the
prospect
of another term for Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki; but they were not prepared to vote for Sunni parties to prevent it.
Most newspapers and broadcast media enthusiastically welcomed the
prospect
of NATO enlargement in the hope that Romania would be invited into the club.
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