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But by overcoming differences and coordinating efforts to defeat the Islamic State and conquer Ebola, we are reinforcing support for a world order grounded in collective solutions to common problems.
Cooperation is equally vital in reinforcing the bedrock economic principles on which America and other countries built their postwar prosperity.
They tend to look for short-term gains at the expense of others, reinforcing a generalized skepticism about the market.
In some countries – notably, the United States, Spain, and Ireland – rising real-estate prices, speculative construction, and financial risk-taking were mutually reinforcing.
If the central bank attempts to spur inflation by expanding its own balance sheet through monetary expansion and by lowering interest rates, it will cause the budget deficit to fall further, reinforcing the cycle.
Reinforcing both countries’ military capacities indirectly reinforces those of the EU.
Unless and until German workers accept the need for greater flexibility in the face of global competition, export profits will continue to be invested abroad, reducing overall production costs – and reinforcing the bazaar economy at home.
Recent experience, however, suggests that, far from supplanting national law enforcement, international justice is beginning to spur toward national prosecutions, reinforcing rather than replacing local efforts.
The Chechen war both masks and motivates the reestablishment of centralized power in Russia – bringing the media back under state control, passing laws against NGO’s, and reinforcing the “vertical line of power” – leaving no institutions and authorities able to challenge or limit the Kremlin.
Global challenges grow, while the agendas of international summits contract, reinforcing the myth that they are mere talking shops.
Though China may have the means to finance the large-scale infrastructure projects that the initiative demands, such a fragmented strategy would inhibit integration, while reinforcing the view that a rising China poses a threat to the international order.
In the post-2015 era, the fight against poverty and the fight to protect the environment will go hand in hand, reinforcing each other.
As opportunities to break the cycle are missed, these disadvantages are passed on to subsequent generations, reinforcing their impact.
This agenda includes centralizing European debt through Eurobonds, mobilizing sufficient rescue funds, allowing the ECB to exercise the full range of central-banking powers, and reinforcing policy coordination in order to sustain economic activity in austerity-stricken member countries.
And these processes are mutually reinforcing, with each propelling and intensifying the other.
Exposing foreigners’ ethical failings and ruthless business practices sends the message that China must remain vigilant, while reinforcing the legitimacy of a powerful, interventionist state, including state-owned enterprises, which have come under increasing fire in recent years.
China dazzled the world as host of the Olympic Games, reinforcing its status as a significant international player.
What is troublesome is that the Obama administration has been reinforcing this damaging trend by bolstering ties with Southeast Asian autocrats.
CAIRO – The aggrieved supporters of ousted Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi and the jubilant protesters who pushed the military to remove him have divided Egypt into two irreconcilable camps, both reflecting and reinforcing the country’s deeper problems.
Nowadays southern African countries are committed to reinforcing their regional integration through economic harmonization.
Instead of reinforcing its foundations with solidarity and compassion, the Union has fractured.
The result is competing and mutually reinforcing nationalisms that imperil the region’s future.
These facts beg the question: are Iran’s declared intentions serious, or are they simply slogans aimed at reinforcing national unity?
By accepting European demands for democratic reform as a pre-condition for EU membership, Erdogan played a liberalizing role, reinforcing his claim that his party represents a genuinely democratic option for a Muslim-majority country B indeed, that it is an Islamic version of the Christian Democratic parties that have long dominated Europe's political right.
By pressing for membership in the EU, he is reinforcing Turkey's long-held western orientation.
The challenge today is to unite these goals in a mutually reinforcing way.
But if we commit to recapitalize banks with debt-financed fiscal expenditure, we may simply shift solvency concerns from banks to sovereigns, reinforcing one of the most pernicious dynamics in the evolution of the eurozone crisis.
Such a movement must be propelled by the sense that, far from being mutually exclusive, European integration and national pride are mutually reinforcing – a perspective that presupposes strong, confident national states, as proud of their individual heritages as of their shared one.
When companies make female empowerment central to their business strategies, growth and equality can be mutually reinforcing to leave no one behind.
The city also created linkages with others nearby, with each complementing the others’ comparative advantages, thereby reinforcing collective progress.
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