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Those who want the EU to survive should resist the temptation to assert more control.
But, while some Western feminist insights may be useful to Afghani women and other women in the developing world as they resist certain forms of male oppression, we should not assume – as Western feminists often have – that our job is to proselytize “our” feminism.
If the US can resist this trend, America's friends have reason to rejoice.
And, in a high-stakes environment, a strong leader is needed to neutralize vested interests that resist crucial reforms.
In Poland, he challenged the West to demonstrate its will to resist the impact – physical and philosophical – of its adversaries.
Although they pay lip service to a continued shedding of extraneous businesses, the chaebol still resist complete rationalization, claiming that they cannot rid themselves of excess capacity so long as they maintain excess employment.
G-20 leaders need again to manage difficult domestic pressures, overcome narrow agendas and resist populist temptations – and prove the sceptics wrong.
There are welcome signs that some Republicans in the US Congress will resist Trump’s proposed deep cuts in US aid.
Will the second Edo be able to resist Chinese ambitions?
Entrenched interests (food-processing companies, in the case of nutritional labeling) resist change with all of their lobbying efforts, but public outrage is too strong for them to win.
The “Next Eleven” and the World EconomyLONDON – On a recent holiday in Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos, I couldn’t resist thinking about these countries’ economic potential and ongoing policy challenges.
The economy recovers, the regulators conclude that they did their job well (which they have), and the regulated then resist further tightening.
It would not be easy for Uribe to resist a direct appeal from Obama to step down after two terms.
When people are distracted by mindless entertainment and piles of stuff, however, they lose their will to resist.
Forecasters find it difficult to resist superimposing the outcomes in major crisis-battered developed economies on China.
But no open economy can resist a complete shutdown of the lending markets.
Some resist appreciation actively and openly; others do so in a less visible manner.
Corporate managers, meanwhile, got the public support needed to resist many cost-of-living allowances that were fueling a wage-price spiral.
In other words, states and cities may cooperate with the federal government by carrying out federal policies; but the Tenth Amendment provides the constitutional basis for them to challenge or resist federal policies that conflict with their own goals (in this case, shielding undocumented immigrants from arrest and possible deportation).
In addition to pursuing their own environmental policies, state and local governments can also resist or undermine federal policies.
This means that producers should resist the temptation to use their higher revenues for new recurrent spending.
Some might be tempted to resist – witness the recent clashes between taxi and Uber drivers in Paris and the lawsuits against the company in many countries.
Current owners will resist to the end any dilution of their control; and no national authority is likely to admit that their national “champions” lack a plausible path to financial viability.
It is easy to feel sorry for an animal that discovers tasty food and can’t resist getting more the easy way.
Yet we can’t resist the lure of the garbage can and its delights.
The reforms will be painful, vested interests will resist, but with enough political will, you will reap the benefits.
It was the response thrown back at those who wanted the US to resist Hitler’s Germany.
Instead, let’s fund the basic research that will make green energy too cheap and easy to resist.
Corporate leaders who embrace this new reality, view it as an opportunity, and resist the inclination to “manage” or avoid issues will have a competitive advantage.
The political economy of capital markets today does not reward those who resist a regulatory race to the bottom.
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