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Moreover, while America's status as the world's sole superpower is a structural fact, wise policies can soften the sharp edges of this reality.
Despite several weeks of intense US pressure to soften - or even retract - the proposed law, China’s leaders did little more than attempt to reinforce their position that “non-peaceful” (i.e., military) measures would serve strictly as a last resort - which had already been assumed anyway.
Investors may be assuming that even if a limited military exchange occurred, it would not escalate into a full-fledged war, and policy loosening could soften the blow on the economy and financial markets.
Many other central banks are nervously watching the situation, well aware that they may soon find themselves in the same position as the global economy continues to soften and default rates on all manner of debt continue to rise.
Meanwhile, Trump has implied that he might somehow soften his stance on the trade issue if Xi offers to help rein in the North Korean regime’s nuclear ambitions.
But whether a new woman will help to soften foreigners’ perception of Putin’s cynical diplomacy and increasingly brutal rule is open to question.
What lay behind the declaration was the regime’s recognition that a second-term Bush administration would not soften its demand for a complete repudiation of its nuclear program, but would instead continue to pursue policies aimed at isolating and stifling North Korea.
The Premier used this opportunity to soften his anti-Western image by re-affirming his modernist and secular position against those who sympathized with Islamic extremism.
But that attitude has begun to soften – as it must.
The announcement of the OMT scheme in July 2012 reduced interest rates for companies and governments alike and returned much-needed private capital to crisis-hit countries, thereby helping to soften the blow of the deep recession on Europe’s periphery.
When such protests have been large enough, and sustained over a long enough period of time, they have forced governments to withdraw or soften their proposals.
It worked well in the United Nations General Assembly last September, when he had something solid to offer – a deal on his country’s nuclear program – raising hopes that Iran’s hardline foreign-policy stance would finally soften.
While such demand will surely not offset the drop in advanced-country demand completely, it can help to soften the blow.
Critics who want a more activist, growth-oriented monetary policy have tried--albeit unsuccessfully--to soften up the 68-year-old Dutchman with personal attacks and degrading insults.
Despite Le Pen’s attempts to soften its tone and broaden its appeal, shedding – at least formally – its anti-Semitic elements, the party continues to be perceived as a risk by a majority of French voters.
This is why they should commit their cruelest deeds in the first year and soften up as the next election approaches.
The temptation to soften these blows by printing money as elections roll around will only worsen the financial situation.
German-imposed austerity required some Europeanized mechanism to soften it, and to make it politically acceptable.
Developments in Morocco, Bahrain, and Jordan certainly seem to suggest that this changing of the guard can help soften rigid political structures and allow for broader participation.
Or did the pattern of abuse amount to so many orders from superiors to "soften up" prisoners for interrogation?
But governments should play it safe by starting to take more steps now to cushion, soften, and shorten the period of high unemployment and slow or negative growth that now looks very likely.
As Australia, Hong Kong, New Zealand, and Singapore have shown, immigration can soften the blow from rapid aging.
Vocational training can soften these blows.
Proponents hope that this would soften the systemic cost of bank failure.
Eventually, a more balanced system emerged, based on three main institutions: health insurance, Keynesian fiscal and monetary policy to soften the impact of the business cycle, and, of utmost importance, a policy of high salaries and reduction of economic inequality in order to boost household consumption.
Anxious pessimists, often on the center left, are glummer about the future, but seem content merely to soften its hardest edges.
Faced with the erratic nature of agricultural markets, regulation is needed to soften the impact on poorer countries of volatile food prices.
As a result, there was not enough money left over to help soften budget cuts necessitated by the sudden stop in foreign funding.
Since dismantling Saddam’s version of Ba’athism, which many viewed as a cover for Sunni-minority rule, Iraq’s Shia leaders have done little to soften the blow – an approach that has not gone unnoticed elsewhere in the region.
Then the pension reform was announced, spurring a string of protests that drove Putin to pledge to soften the measure, while asking for Russians’ understanding.
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