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Taylor plays Tommy McCoy, a handsome boxer who has to contend with the mob, his drunken father, and the
prospect
of having his perfect pan punched to a pulp.
So it is only a matter of time – and not much time – until Iran’s neighbors and the international community will confront a fateful choice: either accept Iran as a nuclear power, or decide that the mere prospect, as it becomes more realistic, is leading to war.
And with the
prospect
of general elections in 1998, the political front is infinitely less quiet than in Germany.
The
prospect
of AI achieving superintelligence may seem too distant to worry about, especially given more pressing problems.
More broadly, Trump’s decision could have serious implications for global nuclear nonproliferation efforts, which now face the
prospect
of backsliding.
Unfortunately for the Brexiteers, the effect of these warnings has been counter-productive: instead of triggering an upsurge of preparations, the
prospect
of aircraft being grounded, hospitals running out of medicines, and exports coming to a standstill have made a no-deal Brexit implausible to the point of absurdity and probably discouraged business decision-makers from wasting money preparing for such an unrealistic contingency.
Without that prospect, no candidate country would go through the painful process of adopting the tens of thousands of rules and regulations contained in the Acquis Communautaire (the body of EU law).
The
prospect
that repealing Obamacare would cause more than 20 million people to lose their formal insurance coverage, as the Congressional Budget Office has estimated, is understandably a serious barrier to legislative progress.
It is not surprising that the
prospect
of adding these costs for tens of millions of patients to states’ budgets and to hospital costs causes state governors and hospital administrators to protest when Congress proposes cutting back on the Medicaid program.
Nonetheless, as in 2007, the
prospect
that lost savings will trigger social unrest cannot be dismissed, especially at a time when tools like social media enable citizens easily to share information, air grievances, and mobilize protest.
Machines were rapidly replacing human labor, holding out the
prospect
of vastly increased production at a fraction of the existing human effort.
Mainstream parties of the center left and center right have confronted this
prospect
by hiding their heads in the ground, hoping against hope that the problem will disappear.
What if the stock market is not scared off by the
prospect
of higher interest rates?
With a heavy and stifling bureaucracy and the
prospect
of a dynastic political succession, sheer lack of hope drove hundreds of thousands of Egyptians onto the streets.
In India, this takes the form of loan waivers for distressed farmers (which weaken the banks); price controls for water, electricity, and public transportation (which wreck government budgets and undermine the
prospect
of long-term investment in those areas); and more subsidized food in the corrupt and inefficient public distribution system.
Today’s Russia has neither the economic nor the political strength to regain and integrate the lost Soviet territories, and any attempt by Putin to press on with his plan would impoverish its people and lead to further disintegration – a bleak
prospect.
That
prospect
has already sparked renewed financial-market volatility.
Countries that fail to build inclusive education systems face the
prospect
of sluggish growth, rising inequality, and lost opportunities in world trade.
While this
prospect
seemed real enough at the time, we now know that such an outcome was highly unlikely, given the economic and political bankruptcy of the system.
Righting the EU ConstitutionThe
prospect
of multiple referenda on the European Union Constitution has dramatically altered the betting on ratification.
Both europhiles and eurocrats shudder at the
prospect
that rejection in several member states, particularly in a large one, might kill the project, leaving the Union to muddle through with the Nice Treaty.
By excising from the draft Constitution the
prospect
of a welfare state run by judges, its framers will increase the chances that Britain and other doubters will, in the end, ratify the final product.
Anticipating the
prospect
of such future fire sales (of loans, financial assets, or institutions), it is understandable that even strong banks will restrict their lending to very short maturities, and their investments to extremely liquid securities.
It is views like these that, along with the violence, risk reinforcing the deep ambivalence within the EU about the
prospect
of any new enlargement.
Success in Oslo could bring hope and the
prospect
of recovery for millions of vulnerable people.
Almost half a million children are facing the
prospect
of severe and acute malnutrition, 300,000 of them in Borno alone.
But US President George W. Bush’s invasion of Iraq in March 2003 blew that
prospect
to smithereens.
As SOE profitability, despite their privileged position, continues to decline (it averaged less than 2% in 1995) because of ongoing deterioration in the management of assets and competition from the non-state sector, policymakers and workers in state industries begin to open their minds to the
prospect
of more change.
For most Hong Kong citizens, the
prospect
of being handed over in 1997 from one colonial power to another was never an entirely happy one.
Moreover, as was true in Poland, Burma’s opposition leaders must strike a delicate balance: satisfy their impatient supporters (many of whom have suffered mightily under the old regime), while offering those still in power the
prospect
of a worthwhile future.
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