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Right now, investors’ preference for safety makes financing additional government debt abnormally cheap, while the long-run shadows cast by prolonged subnormal production and employment make the current sluggish recovery predictably costly.
Building support for legislation to simplify the biggest banks would greatly strengthen the hand of those regulators who want to require more shareholder equity and better regulation for the shadows.
But the brighter it becomes, the more shadows it will cast.
They were just pushed into the shadows.
But the superb sunshine in Davos these days cannot avoid the shadows of the financial crisis that have enveloped the world, casting an atmosphere of gloom and doom on this year’s meeting.
It is one thing for corruption to thrive and graft to spread throughout government in the shadows of dictatorship and authoritarian rule.
Genes are one way for a person to live on: You can see shadows or glimpses of anyone in their children and other relatives.
Only by making its rule in Tibet more transparent for the rest of the world can the government of the People’s Republic of China dispel the dark shadows of suspicion that now hang over Tibet.
Even the smartest authoritarian rulers are unable to manage complexity on this scale – not to mention the corruption that inevitably breeds in the protected shadows of autocracy.
Bringing such practices out of the shadows encourages the development of measures that mitigate its associated evils.
Determined efforts such as these are indispensable to dispelling the shadows in which informal economic activity exists.
China’s political rivalries do not play out in televised national debates; rather, they play out in the shadows, leaving the public to guess what the country’s leadership has in store.
A historical wave beyond his control had lifted the former KGB lieutenant colonel from out of the shadows to the pinnacle of power.
In light of these realities, one risk of the intensified political backlash against fossil-fuel firms is that the industry could be pushed into the shadows.
So long as these dark shadows are allowed to linger, “resetting” relations between the two countries, in the manner of US-Russia relations, will be impossible.
Despite the shadows of war and terrorism, I called for a fair and free election.
China has lately taken more to the spotlight than to the shadows.
The bigger the divestment movement grows, the harder it will be to hide in the shadows, clinging to the past.
But if you find hypocrisy in the daylight, look for power in the shadows.
But the more light we can shine on their creature, the less able it will be to operate in the shadows.
Marsh birds were busy in the dew-bespangled bushes that cast long shadows beside the brook.
Levin maintained that the mistake of Wagner and of all his followers lay in trying to make music enter the domain of another art, and that poetry commits the same error when it depicts the features of a face, which should be done by painting, and, as an example of this kind of error, he mentioned a sculptor who tried to chisel the shadows of poetic images arising round the pedestal of his statue of a poet.
'The sculptor's shadows so little resembled shadows that they even clung to a ladder,' said Levin.
Other shadows rushed toward it from another side; for an instant they rushed together, but then again they spread with renewed swiftness, flickered, and all was darkness.
And you, as usual,' said he; smiling, 'are enjoying tranquil happiness outside the currents in your peaceful shadows.
He could distinguish living shadows tipping over the trains or tubs near each fire.
And from the extinguished village to the roaring Voreux a slow filing of shadows took place beneath the squalls, the departure of the colliers to their work, bending their shoulders and incommoded by their arms folded on their breasts, while the brick behind formed a hump on each back.
The rest of the vast room, like the nave of a church, was obscure, and peopled by great floating shadows.
The reddish light of three open lamps cut out great moving shadows and gave to this subterranean hall the air of a villainous cavern, some bandits' forge near a torrent.
Then behind followed the row of miners, some fifty shadows in single file.
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