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The debt crisis will end only when they have shown that they have understood this and accepted the inevitable sacrifices.
But, if they are willing to make the necessary sacrifices, they could also remain: the EFSF would protect their domestic bank deposits, and the IMF would help to recapitalize their banking systems, which would help these countries escape from their current trap.
While EU citizens are ready to accept the sacrifices needed to reinvent their economies, they need to see a payoff on the horizon.
Merkel knows that if the US sacrifices its place at the top of the international order for domestic political reasons, it will not be replaced by a new leading power, nor will a new world order emerge.
Our empathy toward them might even drive us to make sacrifices that jeopardize our individual survival, but that makes perfect sense in terms of preserving our shared genes.
The supposed threat to Russia today was underscored for the 70th anniversary of the end of World War II, with billboards springing up across Moscow to remind Russians of the sacrifices that victory required.
And it means understanding that what a daughter or granddaughter needs may not be a traditional “provider,” but a partner who makes career sacrifices to enable her to advance hers.
It is a day for young people to recall the sacrifices that their families have made for them, and consider the kinds of sacrifices they will make for their families.
This approach mirrors that of Russian President Vladimir Putin, who uses the sumptuous trappings and immense resources of his office to claim credit for restoring his country’s national pride, particularly when he is trying to persuade ordinary Russians to make economic sacrifices.
At the same time, it must convey the message that its long-standing mission there has been a success – in terms of routing al-Qaeda, increasing employment opportunities for women and schools for children, and NATO’s ability to maintain unity – despite all of the sacrifices.
As former Clinton administration official William Galston put it, “trust is never more important than when citizens are asked to make sacrifices for a brighter future.
These sacrifices have convinced many Westerners that the Middle East is not beyond redemption, and that the region’s people should be given a chance to enjoy the same liberty that they do.
Only when those loyalties are made clear will people understand the sacrifices they must make in order to realize the Union's true purpose.
But the refusal by China’s leaders to pursue export-boosting currency depreciation, even in the face of decelerating growth, suggests that they are willing to make the needed sacrifices to secure the renminbi’s international role and, with it, long-term economic growth and prosperity.
He observed that in republics, "Your representative owes you, not only his industry, but his judgment; and he betrays, instead of serves you, if he sacrifices it to your opinion."
Recently, for example, he denounced the idea that Australian sacrifices in the Gallipoli campaign of 1916 during World War I had somehow made and redeemed his nation.
It was a theory that was perfectly suited to a generation that had just endured exceptional sacrifices, for it reaffirmed a belief in our responsibility for each other.
Had they kept that pledge, the sacrifices of India’s WWI soldiers might have been seen in their homeland as a contribution to India’s freedom.
Still, the economic sacrifices imposed on the French to qualify for monetary union are so great that President Chirac cannot let the project fail.
But when such reforms involve sacrifices by ordinary citizens and benefit society’s most privileged groups, political gridlock and instability invariably follow.
With everyone accepting sacrifices, it might have been possible to reach an accord on liberalizing closed professions and on comprehensive tax reform.
If they do, Greece’s brave, beleaguered citizens can at least take comfort in knowing that many people elsewhere will be spared the same unnecessary sacrifices.
In recent centuries, the nation has been the imagined community for which most people were willing to make sacrifices, and even to die, and most leaders have seen their primary obligations to be national in scope.
It has enabled him to galvanize hardcore nationalists by seeming to act more aggressively than any previous president to “Make America Great Again” while avoiding any genuine military or economic risks that could entail serious costs or sacrifices for American voters.
But Costa Rica’s experience shows that, in the long run, what is gained far outweighs the sacrifices for all.
Democracy negotiates the twists and turns and manages the short-run sacrifices.
Liberians have made tremendous sacrifices.
People are prepared in principle to accept the sacrifices needed to streamline and modernize the present system -- provided these sacrifices are distributed fairly.
The trouble is that modernizing the welfare society demands sacrifices which are essentially unfair.
Since there is no guarantee that reforms will provide a more equitable future, unequal sacrifices now are resisted.
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