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China’s investment in strategic assets like the Gwadar Port in Pakistan has reinforced India’s anxiety.
This flight fuels a broader sense of fear and uncertainty among everyone from investors to employees, which is reinforced as it becomes apparent that the CEO isn’t fulfilling promises made during the interview process.
Last but certainly not least, America’s strong military presence in Asia – which underpins its robust regional alliance system – has reduced the need for Asian countries to develop large military programs of their own, and has reinforced a status quo that discourages armed adventurism.
This trend is reflected in and reinforced by what some experts call a “memory boom” or “commemorative fever”: the proliferation of museums, memorials, heritage sites, and other features of public space emphasizing links with local identities and history.
They will choke on the commission’s recommendation of a new criminal offense for reckless conduct that leads to taxpayer bailouts, reinforced by a new “senior persons” regime that would ascribe all bank functions to a specific individual, who would be held personally liable when things go wrong.
If he does, the dollar’s international appeal would be reinforced over time.
Recent events have reinforced the risks in the Bush administration’s approach.
This is liable to be reinforced by any negative experiences that Muslims may suffer themselves.
Catastrophic events like Hurricane Katrina have reinforced this stance.
The political opposition – divided and ineffectual – was reinforced by a hybrid and loose military wing operating under the banner of “The Free Syrian Army,” and by hundreds of jihadis who entered Syria through porous borders and began to launch both military action and terrorist activity.
These defections have weakened the regime, reinforced the opposition, and sent a message of inevitable collapse.
These firms often benefit from intellectual-property monopolies, reinforced by free-trade agreements designed to strengthen corporate power.
Sarkozy already took on this role in the Georgia crisis; now he has reinforced it.
Trump reinforced this view with his stark inaugural address, in which he asserted a “right of all nations to put their own interests first.”
They want Putin gone, not punished (mostly); they realize that it is the system that produced Putin, who then reinforced the system.
What Workers’ Party loyalists described as an illegal coup reinforced Brazil’s divisions.
A revised and reinforced International Monetary Fund package is imperative if the necessary reforms are to be enacted.
However, the shock of sudden Sunni disempowerment generated a discourse, widely shared in the Muslim world, in which the Shia are guilty of collusion in the US occupation of the country – a view reinforced by events in Syria.
Europeans are undoubtedly more pessimistic than Americans about progress in general, and recent events merely seem to have reinforced this stance.
Finally, banks that take losses as a result of these restructurings will need to have their balance sheets reinforced.
This authority was reinforced by requiring unanimity among member states to overrule the Commission – a provision that has strengthened the smaller states against the larger ones.
This correlation is reinforced by the convergence hypothesis – the benchmark theory for estimating an economy’s potential growth rate – which states that a rapidly growing developing economy’s real growth rate will slow when it reaches a certain share of the per capita capital stock and income of an advanced economy.
The Chinese authorities have reinforced this effort by tightening controls on capital outflows.
The United Nations Chernobyl Forum, a consortium of eight UN agencies and representatives of Belarus, Russia, and Ukraine, reinforced these findings.
The revaluation effect would be reinforced by rising wage pressures inside China, which are already leading some labor-intensive Chinese firms to invest abroad (there are more than 700 Chinese affiliates in Vietnam alone).
To some degree, this hope is reinforced by Iran’s perception of US President Barack Obama as a motivated partner in the nuclear talks.
His inaugural address sounded like a campaign speech; and, after taking office, a series of false statements and provocative executive orders has undercut his credibility with the center but reinforced it with his base.
By demonstrating its confidence in the renminbi’s continued rise, the IMF has reinforced global expectations of – and lent implicit support to – the renminbi’s progress toward internationalization.Whatever challenges China faces, its steady march to the forefront of the global economy is set to continue.
But Pakistan’s behavior indicates that it is, for now, satisfied with its arrangement with China – a sentiment that is probably reinforced, if unconsciously, by the billions of dollars in aid the country receives each year from the US.
Turkey, whose membership in the European Union Customs Union was already supporting its economic transformation, moved closer to eligibility for eventual EU membership – a process that reinforced the country’s motivation to make progress on democratic reforms.
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