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Even the Shia militant group Hezbollah, which caused deep fissures in Lebanon by helping to shore up Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s forces, supported the army’s campaign (though the desire to allow others to die fighting Assad’s opponents was undoubtedly a key motivation).
France has a common history and geography with the countries on the southern Mediterranean shore.
The only way for the government to shore up growth in the short run is to pursue more debt-driven stimulus, as it did earlier this year.
With its 85 million people and strategically vital location, Egypt is the most important country on the Mediterranean’s southern shore.
Between 60% and 70% of the revenue would be raised in London, yet the EU would spend most of the money to shore up eurozone finances.
With improved corporate and public governance and clear transfer-pricing policies, resource-rich countries could shore up their capacity to negotiate fair contracts with extractive industries, balance revenues and expenditures over time, and manage their natural endowments more transparently.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s suspension of arms sales to Saudi Arabia is a good start, even if it was driven largely by her desire to shore up support for her Christian Democratic Union ahead of regional elections in Hesse; so, too, is the current pushback from Washington against a business-as-usual approach to Saudi Arabia.
No matter: Zeman took the opportunity to shore up his popularity by appealing to racist and xenophobic sentiments, telling several thousand listeners (separated by police from a large counter-demonstration) that they were not extremists.
But, unlike the major economies of the advanced world, where policy space is severely constrained, Chinese authorities have ample scope for accommodative moves that could shore up economic activity.
Once we view the core of the West's model to be this system -- free enterprise to achieve growth plus markets aimed at inclusion -- we can see that economic policy, particularly on the European Continent, has been a double blunder: First, there was a gamble to disempower and bypass private capital -- to make layoffs difficult, to prop up inefficient firms, to interfere with decisions that should be made by private business and to expand public-sector jobs -- in the mistaken hope that demoting enterprise would shore up jobs and inclusion.
Despite a push by Brazil’s development bank, BNDES, to shore up competitiveness and promote the formation of larger, multinational industrial firms, Brazil’s manufacturing position has continued to decline.
At the moment, Europe’s banks desperately need to shore up their balance sheets.
The US, too, cannot afford military conflict in the Gulf, given its need to shore up the domestic foundations of its economic power.
An intractable dilemma of transitional justice is that societies ravaged by brutal human rights legacies often appeal to the law to shore up the legitimacy of the successor regime, only to see these salutary aims subverted by the challenges and compromises that are inherent to the transition itself.
But the ANC government will still have to focus on short-term measures and patronage in order to shore up its electoral support.
Efforts to shore up the banking sector in some parts of Europe are still lagging far behind.
“Abenomics” in Japan has yet to yield results, and the European Central Bank is following in the footsteps of America and Japan, pursuing quantitative easing in an effort to shore up demand.
And to that end, Macron has proposed a strategy to shore up the French railway system for the long term.
The rest of the world has begun to take heed, but Bush, having ignored warnings about Al Qaeda’s plans prior to September 11, 2001, and having not only ignored the warnings about New Orleans levees, but actually gutted funding to shore them, has not led America to do likewise.
With their traditional fishing grounds unable to deliver a decent living, they risk their lives to venture farther and farther from shore.
Given this risk, the EU should now shore up what it has left with respect to NATO and focus on salvaging its own institutional, economic, and legal integration.
The government may have to shore up the financial system if the changes in asset prices that undermined the dollar sink risk-loving or imprudent lenders.
The transactions are too profitable in ordinary economic times, and they know that, if another crisis arises, the government will again be compelled to support the market and shore up weakened financial institutions.
In short, the world should not expect China to shore up global aggregate demand in 2015.
At the same time, rusting fishing boats line the shore like beached whales.
Appearing to speak without giving the issue much thought, Sarkozy initially proposed a club of European and mostly Arab states along the Mediterranean’s shore.
By pursuing cooperation, the Indo-Pacific’s democratic powers can shore up an inclusive, rules-based order that underpins peace, prosperity, stability, and freedom of navigation in the region.
Putin is no doubt acting in Ukraine with domestic politics very much in mind, using his adventurism abroad to shore up his political base at home.
On the Mediterranean’s southern shore, a panoply of grievances, from corruption to a desire for liberty, has motivated the unrest.
And while China probably will continue to use fiscal policy to shore up demand, the extent to which it can do so will be constrained by factors like local governments’ debt burden and a consequent clampdown on so-called local-government financing vehicles.
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