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By early adoption I mean the shortest permissible period of time - two years - following a new member subordinating its monetary policy to the fiscal and monetary constraints of the exchange rate mechanism (ERM II).
Mexico continues to operate under the assumption that wages low enough to attract and sustain investment ensure the shortest route to competitiveness.
We need to rethink our city drainage systems, rework our disaster-management institutions, and ensure that monsoon rainwater can drain out of our cities in the shortest possible time.
“In strategy,” he argued, “the longest way round is often the shortest way there.”
Seeking to influence exchange rates using capital controls or direct intervention in currency markets was doomed to failure in anything other than the shortest term.
MADRID – Rex Tillerson’s tenure as US Secretary of State was one of the shortest, most turbulent, and most ineffectual in the history of that illustrious post.
Trump has the shortest time horizon (and attention span) of any president in historical memory.
But the four-month lag between the event and the committee’s latest declaration was the shortest since its founding in 1978.
While he was taking the shortest cut through the narrow paths of his kitchen garden, Deneulin was thinking of his compromised fortune, this Montsou denier, this million which he had realized, dreaming to multiply it tentold, and which was to-day running such great risks.
It was in the winter when this happened, very near the shortest day, and a week of fog into the bargain, so the fact that it was still very dark when George woke in the morning was no guide to him as to the time.
It wanted yet an hour to the termination of the shortest period that the peddler had fixed as the time necessary to effect his escape.
The shortest way to that was to go over to call on the missionary.
He knew all that part of the coast perfectly, and promised to take us the shortest way.
Yet, notwithstanding the difficulties of the descent, down steeps unknown to the guide, the journey was accomplished without accidents, except the loss of a coil of rope, which escaped from the hands of an Icelander, and took the shortest way to the bottom of the abyss.
My uncle was much disturbed by the strange loss of his valet, the more so as it was his custom to go through a whole series of washings and changings after even the shortest journey.
Gideon Spilett was one of that race of indomitable English or American chroniclers, like Stanley and others, who stop at nothing to obtain exact information, and transmit it to their journal in the shortest possible time.
It was an important question, and should be solved with the shortest possible delay.
The settlers, wishing to return to the Chimneys by the shortest way, descended towards the angle formed on the south by the junction of the lake's bank.
Their shortest way was to cross the Mercy on the ice, which then covered it.
Chapter 4It was six o' clock in the morning when the settlers, after a hasty breakfast, set out to reach by the shortest way, the western coast of the island.
The railway turned around the sides of the mountains, and did not attempt to violate nature by taking the shortest cut from one point to another.
CHAPTER 17 Candide and His Valet Arrive in the Country of El Dorado-What They Saw ThereWhen to the frontiers of the Oreillons, said Cacambo to Candide, "You see, this hemisphere is not better than the other; now take my advice and let us return to Europe by the shortest way possible."
That was the shortest way; but Macrinus and Chilo advised him not to take it.
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