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In the 1990s, ailing state industries and the Asian financial crisis risked dragging down the country’s economy.
Harvard’s Lawrence H. Summers got a lot of attention for his argument that the world risked sliding toward “secular stagnation,” because the interest rate needed to bring desired investment in line with desired savings was below zero.
Consider the World Food Program, which announced in July 2015 that it had no choice but to reduce aid to Syrian refugees in Jordan and Lebanon – a move that risked leaving 440,000 refugees without food, thereby spurring yet more perilous voyages across the Mediterranean.
The conventional view, then as now, was that unilateral action risked unleashing a wave of protectionism.
Similar questions surround Hezbollah’s reasoning in unleashing large-scale action that risked sectarian warfare and jeopardized its moral high ground.
Countries recognized that without reserves, they risked losing their economic sovereignty.
US Senators Ron Wyden and Mark Udall have risked much, including potential accusations of releasing classified information themselves, by warning that NSA surveillance of Americans’ emails was occurring under secret interpretations of “secret law” and criticizing the NSA for violating court-ordered privacy protections “thousands of times a year.”
A Safer Path to AsylumLONDON – In 2014, more than 190,000 people risked their lives crossing the Mediterranean Sea from North Africa to Europe.
Hard Truths About Europe’s Soft PowerLONDON – In the run-up to last December’s European Union defense summit, British General Nick Houghton warned that the United Kingdom’s armed forces risked being “hollowed out.”
So, after a totally flawed plan that would have given money to Greece too late – only when the country risked a refinancing crisis – and at market rates that would make its debt unsustainable, the EU regained its senses and designed a new scheme that is closer to typical IMF conditionality: tranched support with some early front-loaded support and a semi-concessional interest rate.
The party of Nelson Mandela risked succumbing to internal rot – and taking the country down with it.
So prevalent is this “little England” mood that Prime Minister David Cameron’s government is now tempted to hold a referendum to ask the British whether they want to remain within the European Union, a vote that even that arch euro-skeptic, Margaret Thatcher, never risked.
Economic globalization risked provoking a backlash by provincial populists, while the external enemy – the glue that held the neo-conservative movement together – had disappeared.
In a randomized trial, 30% of those who risked a penalty for failure achieved their goal, compared to only 5% in the control group.
Second, the business community has filled a gap in the response that the public sector risked overlooking.
In doing so, Bush has risked America's long-term economic health and social stability.
Whoever refuses to make a public case for what he or she intends to do when in power, or lies about it – as Ukraine’s current president, Viktor Yanukovych, did during his campaign against me last year – is no supporter of the democracy that citizens risked their lives to establish.
Concerns that some of Hazare’s proposals risked creating a large, omnipotent, and unaccountable supra-institution that could not be challenged, reformed, or abolished were overlooked in the desire to appease him.
Deng, who risked his authority and that of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) to break with Maoist convention and launch China’s economic revolution, died in 1997.
Argentine leaders were repeatedly warned that keeping the exchange rate constant and fixing the peso's value against the US dollar risked sending the economy into recession if the dollar gained value.
Welcoming crowds have lined streets and filled train stations in German cities, offering drinks, food, and clothing to the exhausted refugees, many of whom have walked hundreds of miles and risked their lives to get to safety.
The US military is more faithful to the Kurds, who have courageously risked – and often lost – their lives in the fight against the Islamic State.
Webster and Taft, like the six others that Kennedy examined, risked political and reputational ruin to take difficult decisions, because they believed themselves to be defending the best interests of their country.
The heroes of China’s response, of course, are the frontline medical personnel who risked their lives – and, in some cases, died – to protect their fellow citizens.
The Bank of England has not risked raising interest rates since August.
They risked their careers by going before the committee.
But never, at least in recent times, have Americans faced the realistic prospect of the incumbent rejecting the outcome, and rarely have partisan divisions risked escalating into armed conflict.
Beginning with the brave Chinese doctors and nurses who risked their lives and were muzzled by local political bosses when they tried to sound the alarm, we have seen similar examples of professional courage everywhere.
Solidarity was founded in the country’s factories, where workers risked life and limb to participate in strikes that eventually broke the will of the communist rulers.
Resisters risked death, and their hands would be severed – while they were still alive – as proof of punishment.
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