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International-relations theorists since Immanuel Kant have held that democracies rarely (if ever) fight one another; as a result, political leaders, such as US President Woodrow Wilson, have tried to promote democracy as a means to
spread
peace.
It then
spread
to Egypt and Libya, ending Hosni Mubarak’s and Muammar el-Qaddafi’s even more repressive and corrupt regimes.
Perhaps the small
spread
reflects investors’ belief that outright bailouts are eventually coming, however much German politicians protest to the contrary.
In fact, recent scientific evidence indicates that the Neolithic Revolution – the transition from hunting and gathering to agriculture –
spread
mostly because farmers displaced hunters, not because hunters learned from them.
As the pace of globalization and technological change accelerates, extremists are finding ever more creative ways to
spread
their message.
A World Bank study estimates that the costs of implementing the measures likely to be covered by a Trade Facilitation agreement would be relatively modest – $7-11 million in the countries studied,
spread
out over a number of years – especially when compared to the expected benefits.
Regional titans like as M-Pesa, a mobile phone-based financial-services firm that started in Kenya, has
spread
throughout East Africa, and Go-Jek, an Indonesian ride-hailing and logistics company, is now expanding to the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, and Vietnam.
The average interest-rate
spread
relative to Germany of the countries protected by the new rescue package was 1.08 percentage points on May 7, when the world was claimed to be going under.
In the week ending June 18, the average
spread
had climbed to 1.1 points.
In 1995, shortly before the euro was announced, the corresponding interest-rate
spread
was 2.6 percentage points, more than twice today’s level.
But, so far, the ESM has continuously posted profits, and any loss it does suffer will be
spread
among all shareholders – including, for example, Italy.
After World War II, the US launched the first “law and development movement” to promote growth and slow communism’s
spread.
But with time, technological gains will
spread
to other countries and peoples, diminishing America's relative pre-eminence.
But the more likely outcome of Brexit would be the
spread
of financial crisis, with all of its political repercussions.
Such sentiments often
spread
and capture the public imagination at times of rapidly rising oil demand, sharp spikes in energy prices, and geo-political uncertainty.
And the recent spike in the interest-rate
spread
on Italian government bonds should remind optimists that, with sovereign debt so high, many things can go wrong at any time.
Those price declines would reduce incomes and spending in other countries, with the impact
spread
globally through reduced imports and exports.
The crisis has now reached Italy and is threatening to
spread
to France.
Overwhelmed by the Russian Army’s ruthlessness, it is said, he and his teenage brother chose to
spread
the violence to US soil.
Jews were
spread
across many countries, but to some extent shared a common language and a sense of common fate.
It then
spread
to financial institutions that could not cope with the losses associated with mortgage delinquencies, foreclosures, and the depreciation of housing-related securities.
Because African poverty contributed to the uncontrolled
spread
of AIDS, the combination of climate shocks and epidemic disease is devastating.
Land use changes, say, can amplify the
spread
of infectious diseases by changing the mix of species or the ways that animals and humans interact.
A warning system based solely on how widely a virus has spread, but that does not consider the nature and severity of the illness it causes, would classify as “pandemics” not only seasonal flu, but also the frequent but largely inconsequential outbreaks of virus-caused colds and gastroenteritis, for example.
Steam power, factories, markets, and industry quickly
spread
throughout northwest Europe and its settler colonies.
This will be good for the world because prosperity will be more widely spread, even if America's ego gets hurt in the process.
Under this framework, multilateral cooperation in combating terrorism and the
spread
of weapons of mass destruction was offered to the region’s main actors.
Neither Russia nor Iran has an interest in prolonging a war that is destabilizing the Middle East and fostering the
spread
of Al Qaeda-style extremism.
In the first Internet revolution, the acceleration in productivity growth that started in the technology sector
spread
to the overall economy only many years later, as business- and consumer-facing applications of the new digital tools were applied in the production of goods and services far removed from the tech sector.
Abolition of the slave trade, or the triumph of socialism, or the
spread
of human rights and democracy can all be deemed a national interest.
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