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German Chancellor Angela Merkel
resisted
all proposals to provide relief to Spain and Italy from the excessive risk premiums that both countries are now confronting.
The Financial Stability Forum, created after the Asian financial crisis as an informal coordinating body – the United States
resisted
anything stronger – was renamed the Financial Stability Board.
Two other temptations must also be
resisted.
There are several reasons why Japanese governments have
resisted
the neoliberalism promoted in the West since the Reagan/Thatcher years: corporate interests, bureaucratic privileges, and pork-barrel politics of various kinds.
In the 1970s, when inflation in the advanced economies rose sharply, central banks rightly
resisted
it.
Had the ECB known this at the start of Europe’s debt crisis, it might have
resisted
taking so many risks with its balance sheet and reputation.
The UN successfully
resisted
the powerful pressures of the US to condone a war with Iraq despite repeated US claims, now known to be false, that Iraq was in possession of weapons of mass destruction.
The US strongly
resisted
the jurisdiction of the ICC, but American abuses at Abu Ghraib show why the US, should be subject to international law.
The Democrats rightly resisted; the number of jobs that would have been created was miniscule.
Of course, China’s leaders vigorously
resisted
that evangelism, especially after the collapse of communism in Europe in 1989, often berating the West for “intruding in the internal affairs of China” and clinging even more defiantly to their Leninist, one-party form of governance.
In the misguided belief that safeguarding sovereignty means acting unilaterally, governments have
resisted
an international approach to migration.
The real impediment to stability and prosperity in Italy are the powerful interest groups that have long
resisted
needed reforms.
Structural reforms are usually
resisted
because of uncertainty about the costs and their distribution.
Despite a significant slowdown, the People’s Bank of China has
resisted
across-the-board cuts in interest rates or reserve requirements.
And former Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan
resisted
any attempts to rein in the animal spirits of the wealth creators on Wall Street.
Historically, they (India prominent among them) argued that the WTO is a tool of rich countries and so
resisted
much of what it sought to do.
In the past, key G20 member states have
resisted
such commitments.
Thus, Chavez is portrayed as a return to the Latin American populist heresy, a heresy that must be
resisted
because it affects not only the country with the largest oil reserves outside the Middle East, but also because it may tempt the rest of Latin America down that road.
Meanwhile, more than two million Chinese served in the Nationalist armies that
resisted
the Japanese invasion.
Nonetheless, it has emerged, spread, and
resisted
those who oppose it.
For the first time in its modern history, Turkey not only
resisted
a serious global economic crisis, but also decoupled itself from the rest of Europe by rebounding strongly in 2010.
Moreover, Murayama’s statement referred vaguely to “a certain period in the not-too-distant past,” rather than to specific war years, and others have since
resisted
phrases – for example, “war of aggression” or “colonial rule” – that Japan’s neighbors have not unreasonably sought.
For more than six years, the government has
resisted
calls to negotiate with the FARC, rejecting the group’s requests for a demilitarized zone, dismissing overtures, and demanding the release of all hostages and a cease-fire as a precondition for talks.
The Gulf States, especially Saudi Arabia, have so far
resisted
US pressure to endorse Maliki.
Iraq’s political elites have
resisted
Maliki’s desire for a second term for two reasons.
So far, the private sector has largely
resisted
these policies.
They are probably also saying their hosannas for having
resisted
financial innovations to some degree or another, thanking that for the fact that their economies have not yet been pummeled by the unfolding crisis to as great an extent as the US.
Nonetheless, the desire of the Kurds in northern Iraq for a country of their own is mostly being
resisted.
The British have long
resisted
European integration.
Just as China
resisted
the temptation of renminbi depreciation during the Asian financial crisis of 1997-98 – a decision that may have played a pivotal role in arresting regional contagion – it must stay the course today.
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