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When hit by them, vigorously growing economies have cushions to withstand the blows and the resilience to shrug them off.
While markets tend to shrug off localized political crises and even larger geopolitical challenges, some dramas may be set to spin out of control.
Some cynics shrug off such exchanges between candidates as typical behavior by politicians.
This is why it is a mistake for cynics to shrug off Trump’s rhetoric as simply one of the things politicians do.
Those who are not up to the new challenges are dismissed with a shrug as "leftovers from the past" and chucked onto the dustbin of history, a place overflowing with "human refuse" after years of communism.
We can either shrug our shoulders, or we can use the opportunity to revive our old values, rethink how we live, and change that projection.
The end of intervention in currency markets would allow the PBOC to shrug off the burden of sterilization and concentrate on fighting inflation.
This raises the question of how Trump will react when his tariffs start to hurt US businesses and voters, while China and the rest of the world shrug them off.
Vigorous V-shaped rebounds have a built-in resilience that allows them to shrug off shocks relatively easily.
Would the Sunni Islamists who comprise the majority of the opposition on the ground really just turn in their weapons, shrug off all that pesky extremism, and embrace life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness under a democratic government?
And technology companies shrug and claim that they are “just a platform,” while they reap profits from the traffic that fake news brings in.
For much of the world, China’s ability to shrug off the global financial crisis and maintain a strong growth trajectory in 2010 and 2011 seems too easy.
The hero, John Galt, calls for them all to shrug, to “stop the motor of the world” by withdrawing from their productive pursuits, rather than promoting a world in which, under the guise of egalitarianism, incentives have been usurped in order to protect the politically connected from economic failure.
The shrug of Rand’s heroic entrepreneurs is to be found today within the tangled ciphers of corporate and government balance sheets.
The state, in the long run, simply cannot direct entrepreneurs to lend, borrow, and invest; investment capital will inevitably shrug when faced with oppressive manipulation of free markets.
Nor can EU officials continue to shrug their shoulders and blame national politicians for failing to implement proposed EU-wide measures.
“Schengen” Europeans shrug nonchalantly; they seem to think that everyone beyond the Schengen zone is part of some low post-Soviet breed, always up to no good.
But the more probable market reaction will be a collective shrug of the shoulders, accepting permanent monetization as the only possible safe way to alleviate an otherwise intractable debt burden.
A shrug of the shoulders is well justified.
Moreover, Suga – who has long fought for progress on structural reform – doesn’t belong to any faction of the LDP, so he may be able to shrug off political resistance.
But, judging by the Trump administration’s record, it is safe to assume that the US government would simply shrug and question why I was there in the first place.
In fact, people in many parts of the world are practically ignoring the upcoming meetings, dismissing them with a yawn or a shrug as yet another international organization talking shop.
It may be factually correct to point out with a shrug of our shoulders that the UK put itself into this position, owing to the feckless behavior of its political elite.
The threat from Brussels is that the EU will shrug its shoulders and allow a disorderly Brexit, with substantial disruption to trade, transport, and so forth.
The shrug and smile did not irritate Levin.
"Come in, then," said the Levaque woman, when she had exchanged a despairing shrug with her neighbour.
Then he affected to sneer with an offensive shrug of the shoulders.
"What about the Papuans?""What about them?"Captain Nemo replied, with a light shrug of his shoulders.
So don't shrug your shoulders so blithely, and don't discount something with the feeble excuse that you've never heard of it."
I asked, despite the Canadian's shrug of the shoulders.
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