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In ignoring these differences, the political elites in both Germany and Sweden are risking some of their countries’ most valuable social assets, including security, stability, equality, tolerance, and individual freedom.
This may mean dying in childbirth rather than risking the “dishonor” of giving birth in a public place, a hospital, in front of strangers.
In most of these countries, democratic development has not yet reached a point where a change in government is a routine part of political life and can take place without risking the country’s stability.
But no one has the right to complain about the central bank’s “high-interest rate, appreciated currency” policy when fiscal policy remains too lax for interest rates to be reduced without risking price stability.
They are holding their fellow citizens hostage, bringing the region into disrepute, and, above all, risking a renewed armed conflict.
In practical terms, China’s Silk Road project will create a strategic alternative to Western transatlantic structures, with Russia either accepting a role as a permanent junior partner or risking serious conflict with China in Central Asia.
Senegalese and Mauritanian fishermen and their families are also among the thousands of people risking their lives to get to Europe today.
But in practice European governments were absolutely determined not to get involved in the war; the furthest they would go in risking their troops was, at first, for humanitarian aid, and later (after some American bombing) for peace-keeping.
Iran’s leaders know that risking a war there would leave their country’s nuclear infrastructure vulnerable.
The Bank of Thailand could not raise interest rates to support external financing without worsening the loan problems of Thai banks, nor reduce interest rates without risking an external funding crisis.
A Lifeline for European SolidarityMADRID – A human tragedy is unfolding in the Mediterranean, with hundreds of thousands of refugees risking – and, in many cases, losing – their lives for the chance to find refuge in Europe.
The new policy should focus on contributing to the creation of economic opportunities in countries with large unemployed youth populations, so that young people no longer feel that risking their lives to reach Europe is their only chance at a future.
Rather than risking mockery with outlandish claims – a staple of Soviet propagandists – that Russia will one day surpass the West economically, Surkov taps a deeper and safer emotion: fear.
Using a bit of extra precaution now is obviously preferable to risking a mess that will need to be cleaned up later.
Other reports in the Times and elsewhere have vividly depicted the suffering of Aleppo’s people and the heroic efforts of the doctors and civilians, like the White Helmets, who are risking their lives to help them.
However, I believe that Stern’s fundamental conclusion is justified: we are much better off reducing CO2 emissions substantially than risking the consequences of failing to act, even if, unlike Stern, one heavily discounts uncertainty and the future.
It will be determined primarily by domestic political considerations, and will be less likely when it demands spending American dollars or risking American lives.
In Argentina, President Mauricio Macri’s administration could cut the deficit more aggressively than it has so far, without risking a return to stagnation.
But this has not deterred thousands of others from risking the same journey and putting their lives in the hands of human traffickers and criminal gangs.
One reason is that Syria has a substantial air-defense system, which would have to be suppressed by a bombing campaign – causing significant civilian casualties and risking the loss of aircraft and crews.
Risking It AllCAMBRIDGE – Those of us who are fortunate enough to live in the developed world fret about myriad minor – or sometimes improbable – hazards: carcinogens in food, air crashes, and so forth.
That is why, in order to have a chance to catch up with the rest of the free, developed world, many of them are now risking their lives to remove those regimes.
Lukashenko’s only alternative to losing sovereignty to Russia, and thus risking the wrath of his nationalist base, is to go begging to the IMF.
About 3,000 people flee the country every day, often risking their lives when crossing the crocodile-infested Limpopo River – celebrated in Kipling’s tale of “How the Elephant Got Its Trunk” – and scaling a border fence to enter South Africa.
The surge of people risking their lives to cross from North Africa has confirmed that, regardless of targeted arrangements like that between the European Union and Turkey, flows of people across the Mediterranean are set to continue.
They were pitchforked into battle in unfamiliar lands, in climatic conditions to which they were neither accustomed nor prepared, fighting an enemy of whom they had no knowledge, risking their lives every day for little more than pride.
Beyond the immediate consequences, such an incident could spur citizens to demand excessively stringent curbs on technology, risking freedom and prosperity in the quest for security.
But a gradual phase-in of an overall cap on tax deductions and exclusions (so-called tax expenditures), combined with reform of entitlement spending, could achieve the long-run fiscal consolidation that America needs without risking a new recession.
Most dramatically, more Mexicans than ever before are risking their lives and paying up to $3,000 to enter the "promised land."
The left has, of course, denounced this move as risking fascism.
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