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But, while the Arab world’s governments have reached the limits of their ability to employ more people, raise public debt, and attract outside grants, members of these countries’ political and economic elite, whom the current rentier system privileges, will likely resist efforts at substantive reform.
Despite partisan bickering, the opposition will not resist the appointment of someone with both the vision and the administrative skills to act boldly.
In the words of Emmanuel Hirsch, professor of medical ethics at the University of Paris-XI, “How long can our bioethical standards continue to resist the rise of other logics – particularly financial ones?”
I couldn't resist the temptation to draw Asia into the debate between Europe and the US.
One hopes that they will continue to resist.
And with so many of their WTO partners claiming preferential status, developed-country members often resist trade concessions within the organization, preferring to conduct negotiations in other forums.
At the WTO, developed countries would like to see big emerging markets take on more obligations, while developing countries resist.
The Britain that has always championed liberty, tolerance, and social responsibility should be ready once again to lead a progressive movement, spearheading action to fight climate change, resist protectionism, and encourage sustainable growth.
Clearly, influential Tea Party supporters would strongly resist any attempt now by Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke to find unorthodox ways to run a more expansionary monetary policy.
Yet, just as West European countries have begun to resist openness, so have their Central and East European counterparts.
But Ukraine’s ability to resist, and the international community’s ability to prevent brute force from having free rein, depends on whether world leaders understand that appeasement begets only further aggression.
The Kingdom relies on the US military for protection, without which it would be unable to resist an attack by Iran.
And the opportunities for self-interested greed offered by Russia were simply too great for some to resist.
The House of Lords will also resist a Conservative-negotiated Brexit deal – not least because of May’s approach.
All that is required to revive effective bank regulation – in Europe and elsewhere – is the will to resist blackmail by the banks themselves.
The only way to resist these threats is to address their root cause: the imbalance of power at the top of the regime and within ministry staffs that is gradually robbing Karzai's government of legitimacy.
Those of us who see the potential for far more harm than good in the WikiLeaks disclosures, and refuse to join in the cheers for Assange and his colleagues, are probably trying to resist an inexorable tide.
Such impasses will lead to social tension and political crisis, or to new requests for financial assistance, which the northern countries are certain to resist.
It is time for us to stop passively sticking a fork into what lands on our plates, and use our purchasing power to resist paying the cheapest price for food.
This ignores the fact, highlighted by a recent study by Guntram B. Wolff, that Germany’s current-account surplus is the result not of aging households’ frenzied desire to save more, but of underinvestment by businesses seeking to resist wage pressure.
Online education and training has taken off in the corporate world, but universities continue to resist it.
The refugee crisis and the Brexit calamity that it spawned have reinforced xenophobic, nationalist movements that will seek to win a series of upcoming votes– including national elections in France, the Netherlands, and Germany in 2017, a referendum in Hungary on the EU refugee policy on October 2, and a rerun of the Austrian presidential election on December 4.Rather than uniting to resist this threat, EU member states have become increasingly unwilling to cooperate with one another.
Both houses are now controlled by Republicans, who tend to deride international organizations and resist offering foreign aid, even for humanitarian purposes.
The United States, the European Commission, and the EU’s main member states all agree, at least in principle, that Ukraine needs quick and substantial financial help in order to be able to resist Russian aggression.
They must resist the temptation to use official power to benefit themselves, their families, or their cultural identity group, and refuse enticements, however powerful they may be, to offer special access or protection to friends, funders, and lobbyists.
My view is that we had no alternative but to resist the Troika’s plan.
Yet Stalin’s purge of military leaders during the Great Terror critically weakened the Red Army, his signing of the Nazi-Soviet Non-Aggression Pact in 1939 paved the way for the start of World War II, and his blindness to the Nazi threat in 1941 left the Soviet Union unprepared to resist Hitler’s attack.
China’s state-owned enterprises are powerful forces in the economy, with substantial political influence; they will resist the shift from heavy industry to services.
In this context, the West would be foolish to resist Asia’s IP emergence.
Nor can austerity alone suffice, as it would require countries to make such large fiscal adjustments – 5% of GDP, in Spain’s case – that citizens would likely resist them, as the Greeks have done.
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