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And, if push came to shove, it would be good for other governments to know that the US and/or Israel decided to attack only after offering Iran a face-saving way out.
It assumes that, when push comes to shove, political leaders will indeed do what is necessary – the willingness question.
But all incomes in the candidate countries are much lower than those in the EU, and if EU membership were to give a sudden upward shove to rural incomes in Central Europe, it could be quite destabilising for social relations there.
When push came to shove, Varoufakis faced the difficult choice of going along with more of the same, despite knowing that it would fail, or trying to pivot to a new approach.
Of course, the EU has often proved that, when push comes to shove, inertia prevails.
And if we want democracy along with globalization, we must shove the nation-state aside and strive for greater international governance.
When push comes to shove, domestic politics trumps foreign creditors.
Should groups like the communists try to shove the country in a dangerous direction, large sectors in society would simply balk.
When push comes to shove, they argue, the world’s major trade powers will avoid a mutually destructive approach, opting instead for negotiations that yield a still-free but fairer regime.
Rather than shove a weak opponent into a corner and risk them lashing out, South Korea should formally request an indefinite postponement of this year’s UFG, which would be counterproductive and is not essential at this time.
Given that financial push is bound to come to economic shove once again, unconventional monetary policies, it would seem, are here to stay.
Europe and the rest of the world will have to do their part--abiding by these principles themselves, and giving each other, and America, a shove in the right direction.
Rather, the risk stems from governments’ refusal, when push comes to shove, to match aggregate demand to aggregate supply in order to prevent mass unemployment.
And, as long as there is a perceived problem with women’s leadership styles, no woman can lead a major organization so soothingly, diplomatically, and charmingly that epithets like “pushy,” “bossy,” and “Putin-like” will not follow her the minute someone wants to shove her out the door.
After all, only the ingrained habit of playing second fiddle to the US prevents EU members from clearly and loudly distancing themselves from Israel's repressive interferences on the West Bank and Gaza, even though such a stance would help strengthen the commitment of Arab states to the coalition against terrorism as well as provide a useful shove to American diplomacy.
Whenever push has come to economic shove, America’s government has even deliberately devalued the dollar in the interest of economic prosperity.
Yet, when push comes to shove, country after country is being dragged into abetting a potentially harmful outcome for the global economy as a whole.
By expanding eastward NATO would merely shove the vacuum ahead of itself.
In other words, no matter what blandishments are showered on Israel, when push comes to shove it is the ability to use power – not charm – that determines whether or not an outside power has a say in Arab-Israeli peacemaking.
Nothing enrages WTO bashers more than suspicions that, when push comes to shove, the WTO allows trade to trump the environment or human rights.
A relatively small part of it is coming from simple speed-up: in an economy where the amount of time it takes for the unemployed to find new jobs is close to a post-WWII record high, demands for speeding-up the pace of work will be met with a "Yes, boss!" rather than a "Take this job and shove it!"
When push comes to shove, they are prepared to do just enough to hold the eurozone together, even if the necessary steps are economically and politically distasteful.
US President Barack Obama’s unwillingness to stand up for Egypt’s elected leaders, or even to label their overthrow a “coup” (thereby protecting the continued flow of US funds to the Egyptian military), shows that when push came to shove, the West sided with the anti-Islamists in subverting democracy.
Can the West or the United Nations Security Council do anything if push comes to shove?
In the end, if push comes to shove, such military resources matter.
But ensuring such support requires policies that nudge (or even shove) conglomerates toward export industries that can grow beyond the limits of the domestic market – industries in which competition will encourage the discipline that they lack as a result of dominating local markets.
At a time when partisan divisions are undermining America’s economic leadership, China’s growing influence in Southeast Asia should raise a question: If push comes to shove in the South China Sea, will the US find allies in its corner, or will they just be holding Uncle Sam’s coat?
When push came to shove, with LTCM on the brink of collapse, the Federal Reserve didn't simply let "market forces" take their course.
Over the past three years, the government has started (with a shove from the IMF) to combat corruption in a systematic way, including by unifying energy prices and introducing a transparent electronic procurement system for most public purchases.
Ultimately, the euro survived, because, when push came to shove, leaders of the eurozone’s member states expended political capital to implement needed reforms – even after blaming the euro for their countries’ problems.
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