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These arguments all have force, but the US, the UK, and France resisted debating them in the Security Council, and other Council members were never given sufficient information to enable them to be evaluated.
Like others in the region, Brazil resisted US influence but nonetheless played by the rules of the game.
But it is a malady that must be resisted if these societies are to continue to prosper and developing countries are to fight poverty and sustain economic growth.
The crisis countries in Southern Europe have been the main proponents of this approach, while Germany – along with other Northern and Eastern European countries – has resisted it.
Inconvenient as it may be, the rise of the metropolis is a fact – one that should not be resisted, because it is not a zero-sum game.
Xi’s initial proposal seemed to imply an expansion of the group, which some of the other BRICS have staunchly resisted.
The idea of a single European air traffic control area was blocked because of a dispute between Britain and Spain over Gibraltar; proposals for liberalisation of gas and electricity supply were resisted by France, which promotes the public service advantages of public sector utilities.
Similarly, renminbi internationalization should be encouraged rather than resisted.
Where China’s actions threaten its neighbors, as with its territorial claims in the South China Sea, they should be strongly sanctioned and resisted.
So far, Europe's politicians have resisted reform, and scarcely an opportunity went by that Wim Duisenberg didn't scold Europe's politicians for this failure.
Though the US resisted at first, and has still refused to join, that decision was lent some nuance in a later conversation between Chinese President Xi Jinping and US President Barack Obama.
The EU’s Eastern European members initially resisted taking their share of the 120,000; but, dependent on fiscal transfers from the EU’s wealthier members, they fell into line after diplomatic arm-twisting similar to that administered to Greece.
But when a currency’s appreciation is triggered by capital inflows that represent the asset-diversification preferences of advanced-economy investors, it can and should be resisted.
In particular, politicians need to be willing to confront teachers’ unions, which have traditionally resisted reforms that introduce competition and accountability.
For five months, as the ECB’s noose tightened, we resisted German and IMF demands for further austerity.
If he succeeds, Macron will need to deliver the political and economic shake-up that he has promised, in a country that has resisted reform for decades.
Although some countries have resisted the trend, inequality has been increasing over the last 30-40 years in the world as a whole.
But inflation has its own adverse distributional and efficiency implications, and would be fiercely resisted.
Thus, anything that may distract China from its focus on peace, stability, and development has been strongly resisted.
Germany discovered this during the 1960’s and 1970’s, and resisted the Deutschemark’s trend toward becoming an international reserve currency.
China made a number of proposals that, had we not resisted them, would have allowed its army to sweep into Hong Kong well before June 30, 1997, the agreed handover date.
Here, perhaps, we learned something for which the US government deserves credit: it has resisted that suggestion.
Like China and unlike Japan, India resisted changes in its ancient beliefs about the way the world works (and should work) which modernization entails.
For starters, the specialist who in the 1960’s originally recognized social anxiety (London-based Isaac Marks, a renowned expert on fear and panic) strongly resisted its inclusion in DSM-III as a separate disease category.
Because reform threatens their privileges, it must be resisted.
This is why multiculturalism is so often resisted.
Germany resisted the euro, arguing that full political union should come first.
Our critics also resisted envisioning a longer-term arrangement before the details of the divorce were settled.
As the Princeton University historian Harold James has pointed out, the tables had turned: the US had taken up Keynes’s arguments, but creditor European countries, along with Japan, successfully resisted them.
We were attentive to the politics of poverty, but we resisted political lobbying.
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