Strain
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As the crisis deepens, even those developing countries that weathered the storm far better than most developed countries are showing signs of
strain.
Now that prices have dropped, these countries are facing huge imbalances and fiscal
strain.
This process can be visualized as a champagne coupe, with a broad, shallow bowl mounted on a long, thin stem: an ever-slimmer base of young people supports an ever-increasing number of senior citizens, placing social-security systems under growing
strain
as the ratio of pensioners to the working-age population rises.
Conflicts in the region have driven more than a million people into Uganda, and the country is feeling the
strain.
In Burundi and Sierra Leone, Liberia and Timor Leste, our resources are under
strain
because UN peacekeepers are helping nations turn the corner to peace.
As Europe struggles to prevent financial contagion and America struggles to reduce its record deficits, their dangerous debt levels threaten future living standards and
strain
domestic and international political institutions.
It would also place a massive
strain
on global water resources.
Facing the Four Structural Threats to US DemocracyBERKELEY – It has been one year since Donald Trump was elected president of the United States, and America’s democratic institutions are clearly under
strain.
The prevailing theory held a virulent
strain
of the dengue virus responsible.
The most lethal
strain
of leadership degeneration is escalating predation among the ruling elites.
While this new
strain
of global pressures on US inflation reflects the impact of aggressive trade policies on GVCs, the domestic pressures stem from a more familiar source: an extremely tight labor market.
Multilateralism Is the Only Way ForwardPARIS – International cooperation is under
strain.
Lebanon, Jordan, and Turkey have already accepted much larger numbers of refugees, despite the serious
strain
this is putting on their economies and societies.
The necessary $2.5 billion per year would amount to just 0.25% of global pharmaceutical sales – hardly a
strain
on an industry that is, by and large, in sound financial health.
Moreover, the situation inside Turkey has worsened in recent years, with Turkish society becoming dangerously polarized under the
strain
of the escalating conflicts in Syria and Iraq.
In countries like Germany, which have been on the ropes since the signing of the Maastricht Treaty, a continuation of stagnation or outright recession would deeply
strain
budgets and credibility.
Beyond having only limited economic benefits, the proposed tax cuts in Germany – like Trump’s in the US – represent a huge
strain
on public finances in the long run.
Two key elements of European integration – the euro and border-free travel within the Schengen Area – were placed under severe
strain.
On the other hand, it has put transplant ethics under severe
strain.
A thickly woven cord is needed to keep Europe reliably anchored as it points eastward, whereas separate strands would withstand only a limited degree of
strain
in the turbulent years ahead.
Currently, the US banking system looks sufficiently robust to absorb the
strain.
The
strain
on Syria’s neighbors is immense, and the conflict is inexorably seeping into the wider region.
Will we acknowledge our predicament only when our land becomes a desert, when our health systems collapse under the strain, when even the wealthy are facing food shortages, when freshwater becomes scarce, and when our national shorelines are breached?
Europe, however, will play no part in the region, simply because any attempt to do so would place too much
strain
on its reach and resources.
And they are markedly worse at lie detection when under heightened emotional
strain.
Under tremendous strain, Tymoshenko’s government succeeded in keeping the budget deficit under control.
With the dependency ratio – the proportion of children and pensioners relative to working-age men and women – set to rise rapidly in the coming years, economic growth will remain subdued, while health-care and pension costs will increasingly
strain
government budgets.
Its GDP growth has slowed, but investment remains robust, and there is no
strain
on its banking system.
But this ideology is a
strain
within Islam that represents an organized, substantial, powerful, and funded minority.
This is a function of a particularly virulent
strain
of cholera and underlying issues: a weak national health system, poor sanitary conditions, and a lack of clean water and other basic services.
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