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But it is too early to tell whether its security crackdown in Sinai is a one-time operation, intended to placate angry citizens, or the beginning of a serious effort to address the interconnected problems in Sinai and Gaza.
Politically, the Trump administration has already done serious damage to America’s international standing by justifying tariffs against allies’ exports on the grounds of “national security.”
When policy is required but the science is unclear, regulatory decisions are increasingly based on the “precautionary principle,” which is designed to prevent situations in which serious harm could occur.
Creating enough jobs that fast would be hard enough in the best of times; when so many of them must be concentrated in fast-growing urban hubs in developing countries, the potential for lapses is high, with serious implications for poverty reduction, economic development, and even social stability.
Preventing bank failures and stopping terrorist attacks are important goals; unless we get serious about addressing climate change, we are likely to have more of both.
Most significant, it failed to address an increasingly corrosive trust deficit that poses the most serious threat to Sino-American relations in 25 years.
Royal’s last-minute warnings that France would explode as a result of Sarkozy’s election were neither serious nor dignified.
But they amount to a serious step toward a much-needed diplomatic approach to resolving this aspect of the conflict – not least because many of the right players, from the United States and the European Union to Turkey and Saudi Arabia, are participating in the process.
As Obama understands, such authoritarian aid is a serious challenge to the West’s geo-strategic interests, including the fight against drug traffic (Guinea has become a transit point on the route from South America to Europe).
Already, robots are taking over a growing number of routine and repetitive tasks, putting workers in some sectors under serious pressure.
Given that the value of work extends beyond income, the logic goes, this could pose a serious problem.
With a presidential election in France and federal elections in Germany next year, the potential political boost to anti-European forces could have serious long-term consequences.
But, frankly, it will be easier to do this if the American public and the US Congress see that China is serious about reform and expanding access to its markets.
Once the Soviets withdrew, India could not play any serious role in shaping Afghanistan’s future.
Remarkably, Italy had twice the fall in output seen in France, another large OECD country that, like Italy, had avoided the root causes of the crisis: a housing boom-bust sequence and a serious bank crisis.
In fact, many of the promises Trump made to his supporters during the campaign are highly divisive and even dangerous, and their implementation could have serious adverse effects on the lives of ordinary Americans, triggering civil unrest.
They held more than 50 roll-call votes saying that they’d do just that, knowing that it didn’t really matter because Obama would veto any serious repeal.
If we are serious about a master plan for growth, we need to provide the necessary means.
Most serious academic research strongly supports the view that rich countries can best help poor regions like Africa by opening their markets, and by providing assistance in building physical and institutional infrastructure.
The other serious issue of a constitutional nature is that of levels of government.
The point of asking such questions is to remind ourselves that genuine constitutional politics requires serious thought and careful preparation.
Mainstream politicians will not regain lost ground until they, too, offer serious solutions that provide room for hope.
Third, where Europe has a serious internal policy, it is easier to establish a more serious external policy.
For Europe to turn down Turkey would be tantamount to writing ourselves out of any serious script in global affairs.
Apparently, fear of even more serious economic troubles – for example, further capital flight when taxes are raised – has precluded an open invasion of eastern Ukraine.
Yet Turkey is in the best position by far to demonstrate to Assad that the international community is serious about stopping the killing.
By contrast, focusing potential ECB purchases on the sovereign debt of those countries with high interest rates would have serious adverse effects.
This would obviously pose a much more serious threat, but even an amorphous, disorganized, and nihilistic insurgency can survive and block stability, democratization, and prosperity for many years.
There are, then, three paths for Iraq: evolution of a more serious insurgency, persistent violence at current levels, or resolution of the insurgency.
Indeed, the approach was tantamount to putting the cart before the horse – with serious consequences, exemplified in the eurozone’s enduring crisis.
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