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Leaders of the world’s democracies must resist the illiberal assault on independent news organizations, and that means rethinking loosely crafted content laws that are vulnerable to abuse.
Indeed, it is when democracies abandon their ethics and fail to resist the authoritarian temptation that they become weaker.
Indeed, religions do not resist the pressures of economic change well.
They are able to resist all meaningful reform that could really change their compensation schemes.
Such moves are egregious, and companies must resist taking advantage of them, even if they seem to benefit the company in the short term.
But this might bring with it social problems, as Europeans resist an influx of foreigners, owing to fears about jobs, security, or cultural differences.
Still, the temptation to square the budgetary circle with this claim may prove too strong for Trump to resist.
They might be able to defy the European Commission, but they would be hard-pressed to resist the views of the bond markets.
It has pursued manifestly expansionist territorial claims, most notably in the South China Sea, and shown a clear determination to resist the indefinite continuation of American dominance in the region.
While the women around me kept cheering, I resolved that from then on I would resist the practice with all my might.
Once educated, these girls may decide for themselves – as I did – to resist mistreatment at the hands of their family and neighbors.
But it is important to resist this urge.
This does not mean that they should resist surrendering sovereignty to supranational agencies at all costs.
To achieve this, he must rally the positive energies that brought him to power, without inflaming the negative energies that will gather to resist change.
After all, taking the initiative to boost trade and other commercial contacts is the best way to resist a trade war.
Moreover, Obama should resist the urge to approach the bilateral relationship purely in transactional terms, but instead should seek to strengthen India’s long-term capacity to be a productive partner with the US.
On one hand, it is important to resist Putin’s challenge to the fundamental principle that states should not use force to violate one another’s territorial integrity.
In general, Western powers should resist the temptation to intervene at all.
In poor countries, by contrast, powerful vested interests often resist higher taxes on the wealthy, and widespread poverty makes it difficult to impose universal consumption taxes on the poor.
So however much Brown wants to resist obeying European rules, he cannot long delay raising taxes (or cutting spending) without breaching his own Golden Rule and undermining his personal credibility.
Does it matter that the states bordering Iraqi Kurdistan might use force to resist secession?
Interestingly, one of the reasons given for retaining Article 9 was that it would better enable Japan to resist American pressures to engage in military “coalitions of the willing” far from Japan’s shores.
So it is little wonder that the Saudis, Jordanians, Egyptians, and the Gulf states are seeking to resist Iran’s hegemonic ambitions in the region.
Lifting the veil on the bloodbath is long overdue, but those with a past to hide seem bound to resist this.
Those who would resist populism must come to terms with the fact that truth is not enough.
As China’s animal spirits are channeled, they will increasingly test the authorities’ resolve to resist price intervention, instead allowing market forces to propel the business cycle.
And, indeed, Mohammad Shtayyeh, a member of the Fatah central committee, has already pledged that the Palestinian leadership, in coordination with Jordan and other Arab states, will resist the dictate.
Of course, large multinational banks, which have long benefited from the perception that economies need savings, are likely to resist such reforms.
Hundreds of Kurdish fighters have already deserted the fight against ISIS in northeast Syria, journeying to Afrin to resist the joint assault by Turkey and a splinter group of Syrian rebels.
From the judiciary to the electoral commission, the regime’s control of the state became total and uncompromising – an outcome that Venezuela’s Latin American neighbors did nothing to resist.
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