Starters in sentence

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For starters, high levels of private and public debt are constraining spending – especially growth-enhancing capital spending, which fell (as a share of GDP) after the global financial crisis and has not recovered to pre-crisis levels.

For starters, it should focus on maintaining appropriate monetary conditions and get out of the business of negotiating policy conditionality with governments.

For starters, we are again moving into what Henry Kissinger called the realm of “constructive ambiguity.”

For starters, it remains unclear whether the Federal Reserve will begin to “taper” its open-ended quantitative easing (QE) in September or later, how fast it will reduce its purchases of long-term assets, and when and how fast it will start to raise interest rates from their current zero level.

For starters, the government has intensified its censorship of the Internet, rendering popular portals and sites – including Google, Facebook, and the New York Times – all but inaccessible.

For starters, it is not a national homeland, a characteristic that keeps many failing states from actually failing.

For starters, it means that not only NATO’s military resources, but also its human capital and practical knowledge in combating many different kinds of threats are available globally.

For starters, new and emerging technologies can be leveraged to design more cost-effective solutions at scale.

The main question now is whether the leaders who emerge in November will be firefighters or fire starters.

For starters, the government has failed to create a tax system to mobilize resources for public investment in health and education.

For starters, central banks cannot deliver the structural components – for example, infrastructure investments, better-functioning labor markets, and pro-growth budget reforms – needed to drive robust and sustained recovery.

For starters, we should focus on where medical training happens.

For starters, a “recovery trust fund,” much like the one established in Syria, could help to keep more Venezuelans in their homes, while protecting them from the regime’s efforts to worsen their plight.

For starters, there is rollover risk.

For starters, it fails to recognize the changing composition of the population; the household of today is quite different from the household of 30 years ago.

For starters, zero inflation and persistent periods of deflation – when the target is 0% and inflation is below target – may lead to debt deflation.

For starters, given the eurozone’s huge trade surplus, doing so would incur strong international resistance.

For starters, we have to educate voters, and keep the spotlight on policies that are against their interests.

For starters, the removal from Syria of the Assad regime’s stockpile of chemical weapons shows that joint efforts can yield positive results.

For starters, efforts to fight AMR should be incorporated into broader economic-development strategies, including the implementation of the UN Sustainable Development Goals.

For starters, price unpredictability makes it virtually impossible to detect the depletion of natural resources merely by looking at short-term changes in value.

For starters, countries should limit when they can be called (say, only with regard to constitutional amendments), establish a minimum threshold for turnout, and require a supermajority.

For starters, the lack of capital makes it difficult for women to buy quality seeds and fertilizer, or even to access farmland, which in turn reduces agricultural productivity.

For starters, Latvia, like the other Baltic states, was running an enormous current-account deficit when the crisis started.

For starters, parties on all sides of the fight have disregarded international human-rights law and violated basic humanitarian norms.

For starters, there is the claim that natural gas can be a “bridge fuel” to a stable climate even though its climate impact often equals that of coal – or worse.

For starters, it should be emphasized that Singapore’s education system was not designed de novo by Lee Kuan Yew and his colleagues.

For starters, the country needs to develop modern mechanisms for resolving civil disputes arising from unclear property rights or rules for market transactions.

For starters, hurrying the process is certain to lead to a result that serves the interests of neither the UK nor the EU.

For starters, contrary to popular belief, world growth hasn’t been especially disappointing so far this decade.

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