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Third, China would need to limit severely its actions relating to reefs and shoals, never previously habitable, where it has been reclaiming land and building airstrips and other installations capable of military use, and seeking to deny others’ the use of adjacent waters and airspace.
In a worst-case scenario, falling property prices or diminishing faith in implicit government guarantees would compound the risks generated by the shadow-banking system, severely undermining China’s financial stability.
(And the Bush administration’s tax cuts for the wealthiest, unfunded Medicare prescription benefit, and debt-financed wars in Afghanistan and Iraq have severely weakened the long-term fiscal outlook.)
But the country’s decision not to join the League of Nations – based on sovereignty arguments much like those now being used to promote Brexit – led to the League’s collapse, severely weakening US security.
But, lacking sensitivity to local dynamics, the outcome is severely compromised.
The Trump administration’s recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital has encouraged the Israeli government to increase colonization in and around East Jerusalem, which severely affects Bethlehem.
Damage to the air traffic control infrastructure has severely limited flights to and from the island.
The National Assembly – the Turkish Republic’s founding institution – will lose many of its powers, and its capacity to serve as a check on the president will be severely curtailed, because the president can dissolve it at any time.
While the European Union’s national parliaments must still decide on the scheme, they essentially have no option but to assent, because to do otherwise would severely harm the ECB.
They’re the ones that most severely need the banks.
At the same time, freedom of expression and association are severely limited; criticizing government policies is deemed tantamount to high treason.
Demographic contraction on that scale will severely stress Japan’s ability to support an aging population.
In the most severely affected countries, pollution is responsible for more than one in four deaths.
Severely paralyzed, Close is confined to a wheelchair.
If we were to remove all the art from museums or galleries because we disapproved of the artists’ behavior, great collections would soon be severely depleted.
Those emerging markets that were hit severely during the “taper tantrum” episode – for example, Brazil, Indonesia, and Turkey – will certainly suffer.
After all, the Fukushima accident has severely injured only a few people – probably less than a dozen workers are dangerously irradiated.
With almost a quarter of holdout creditors refusing haircuts – a large share, compared to other sovereign-debt negotiations – Argentina’s options were severely constrained.
The region is also severely deficient in scientific and technological research.
This, together with a relatively low level of soft power, suggests that the Arab world’s ability to convince, compel, or coerce external actors is severely limited.
As depression worsens, feelings of extreme sadness and hopelessness combine with low self-esteem, guilt, memory loss, and concentration difficulties to bring about a severely painful state of mind.
Nor is it surprising that, with inadequate foreign exchange, the country is having difficulty paying its bills, or that price controls and police-state regulation have severely worsened food shortages.
To take one example, in Niger, education and improved farming techniques helped double real farm incomes for more than one million people, while restoring huge tracts of severely degraded land.
If it does, longstanding assumptions about the optimal balance of state and market mechanisms in driving economic development will be severely challenged.
By then, the social cohesion and consensus characteristic of democratic Germany for five decades will be severely strained.
The recent high rates of inflation, and the public’s memory of even higher rates in the past, have severely harmed Argentina’s economy.
Given enduring political and social fragility, a weak economy, and severely constrained finances, Haiti’s continued progress remains far from certain.
So Germany’s refusal to boost domestic demand and reduce its external surplus, along with its insistence on conservative inflation targets for the ECB, severely undercuts prospects for European prosperity and unity.
In many of the most severely affected areas, one other thing is apparent: a rapidly growing population.
Without mutual trust, economic activity is severely constrained.
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