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But, given the alternative – a bloodbath unleashed by Qaddafi to reestablish his control over Libya – this cannot be a serious alternative to action.
More serious is the Republicans’ proposal for an annual audit of the United States Federal Reserve.
None of these options is easy; each entails serious difficulties and great risks.
As a result, Arab nationalist governments feel justified in resisting serious political reform and vindicated in repressing all domestic opposition, particularly the swelling Islamist movements.
Those are careful estimates by serious economists.
The Changing Climate On Climate ChangeThe message, it seems, has finally gotten through: global warming represents a serious threat to our planet.
It is this policy inconsistency, more than Italy’s departure from the European Union’s fiscal rules, that is a serious cause of concern.
Ask most Catalans what independence will bring, aside from freedom from Spain, and you won’t get much of an answer: resentment at past wrongs overshadows any serious calculations about the future.
Though depoliticization and apathy have held back serious challenges to German dominance, such challenges are emerging.
By contrast, her rival, Bernie Sanders, has become a serious contender because he brilliantly composed a persuasive message for his campaign: The system is rigged and a corrupt campaign-finance regime is holding it in place.
Given these regions’ importance to upholding the liberal world order, the rise of (white) ethnic nationalism has potentially serious consequences.
Opponents of central-bank intervention are right about one thing: monetary financing carries serious risks.
“The risk of an exodus should be disregarded,” the commission says, noting that the advantages of being a global financial center have been accompanied by serious associated risks to the domestic economy.
Lacking any serious alternative to the despised political and economic program of the center and the left, right-wing politicians appear consigned to agitating on such divisive issues as pornography, divorce, and, of course, abortion.
Sex Talk in GhanaLABADI, GHANA – Education about sexuality and reproductive health is a serious political issue in many Western countries.
The reality is that recourse to easy windfalls produced through loose monetary policy could have serious long-term repercussions, especially if they are used to delay efforts to address underlying issues.
Yet serious reform was impeded by the usual disagreement about what should be done – a dispute that Emmanuel Macron, France’s new president, once described as a “holy war” between German and French elites.
If we are serious about solving the world’s most serious challenges, we owe it to ourselves to set the right priorities.
Writing is a childish profession, even when it becomes excessively serious, as children often are.
For Afghans, these concerns need to be addressed through a serious political process moderated by a neutral third party, which most agree has to be the United Nations.
For this reason, perpetrators of serious human-rights violations on all sides should be held accountable, a demand that has been pointedly ignored since 2001.
What Chinese policymakers don’t seem to recognize is that such interventions carry serious long-term costs.
This underscores an important risk that Yellen must now reckon with as she guides US monetary policy: in the longer run, the dominance of the Fed’s views in the market may cause serious economic harm.
While these principles are probably well known to serious scientists, they are often forgotten when scientific information is disseminated.
But a serious problem will arise if Trump attempts to use it to protect his family – not a farfetched scenario, given pending FBI investigations into his inner circle’s dealings with Russia.
External borrowing is becoming a serious problem – one that is likely to intensify, as continued interest-rate hikes by the US Federal Reserve raise the costs of rolling over debts.
But, behind all the smiles and banquet toasts, serious issues and perception gaps continue to divide the world’s two great powers.
Even if leaders balk at an extra half-day of meetings to address the most serious threat to NATO’s future, the Riga summit can issue a demand that its own 19 dual members, and the rest of the EU, agree to assume shared responsibility in Afghanistan.
Despite recent crises and the hard blow dealt by the Brexit vote, the EU may well be the world’s best line of defense against today’s most serious threats: isolationism, protectionism, nationalism, and extremism in all forms, all of which are once again growing in Europe and beyond.
This shift, while popular in South Korea, carries serious risks for the peninsula.
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