Strain
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They would obtain timely warning of the existence of an H5N1
strain
that is transmissible from human to human, but would focus the vast majority of their funding on parallel, low- and high-tech approaches – vaccines, drugs, and other public health measures – that would primarily benefit themselves.
But, if we’re ready to rush the pandemic
strain
into an emergency program to manufacture vaccine, we could possibly blunt the second wave.
Furthermore, most textbooks of the time ignored the financial sector; thus, they ignored the fact that capital flows to the periphery would be channeled via banks, and that when the capital stopped flowing, bank crises would
strain
peripheral members’ public finances.
Extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis (XDR-TB) is a difficult to treat
strain
of TB which, attacks where health systems are historically weak, especially in areas of high HIV prevalence.
More alarmingly, 53 of the 221 had a
strain
that was also resistant to the two most clinically useful classes of second-line TB drugs.
For starters, the Sprague-Dawley
strain
of rats that he used is naturally prone to tumors.
In this age of globalization, failure to make viral samples freely available risks allowing the emergence of a new
strain
of influenza that could go unnoticed until it is capable of exacting the sort of toll taken by the pandemic that killed tens of millions in 1918.
The Italian government is on the verge of collapsing; the Greek government is under intense
strain
as it seeks further budget cuts; and the Portuguese and Spanish governments are having a hard time achieving even the looser fiscal targets set by their creditors, while political pressures mount.
The Eclipse of British ReasonBERLIN – When placed under too much strain, chains tend to break at the weakest link.
But without an alternative to the nation-state as the basis of citizenship, the legitimacy and effectiveness of EU institutions have come under growing
strain.
Prolonged periods of
strain
tend to weaken the fabric of institutional cooperation.
That said, these high-use but low-availability US assets remain under severe strain, especially in Afghanistan, the Middle East, and the Persian Gulf.
Such a policy may
strain
US-Russia relations further.
Others
strain
to produce complicated models, according to which investors might have been able to foresee the Depression, or ponder the likelihood of protectionist reactions in other countries to the American tariff act, though the US legislation had not yet even been finalized.
Even Saudi Arabia, despite its vast oil and financial reserves, has come under strain, owing to a rapidly rising population and higher military spending associated with conflicts in the Middle East.
Moreover, cutting birth rates, which are very high in many LMICs, would help to reduce the
strain
on these countries’ health-care systems by diminishing the costs of maternal and newborn care and immunization.
As Australia’s relationship with the United States comes under increasing strain, its political dynamics are becoming increasingly complex and perilous.
China’s financial sector is now increasingly feeling the
strain
of this rapid credit growth, which has led to overcapacity in favored sectors and mounting debt problems for local governments, SOEs, and banks.
We can begin by avoiding any new
strain
in relations between Iran and the United States and, at the same time, endeavoring to eliminate inherited tensions that continue to mar relations between our countries.
The UK will remain torn over its relationship (or lack thereof) with the EU no matter what comes of Brexit; and it is entirely possible that a post-Brexit UK might come under serious
strain
itself, given renewed calls for Irish unity and Scottish independence.
Europe in the Time of TrumpBRUSSELS – The transatlantic alliance – which for decades has underpinned global stability, fortified democracy, and safeguarded the West as we know it – is under severe strain, and risks terminal decline.
China is accused by the USTR of sponsoring a unique
strain
of state-directed, heavily subsidized industrial policy unfairly aimed at snatching competitive supremacy from free and open market-based systems like the US, which are supposedly playing by different rules.
As Financial Times columnist Philip Stephens put it, “the present global order – the liberal rules-based system established in 1945 and expanded after the end of the Cold War – is under unprecedented
strain.
The result is a highly fragmented landscape of digital solutions – one that, in some cases, can add extra
strain
to existing health systems.
It is a
strain
to think that governments have the same motivations as private citizens.
Participating in these write-offs would put huge
strain
on the Eurosystem (the ECB and the central banks of the eurozone member states), which has only around €500 billion in equity capital.
The Zika virus is not new, but the
strain
that entered Brazil in 2013 is more dangerous than any known variant.
Excessive emphasis on fiscal rigor, unaccompanied by measures to stimulate growth, has reinforced recessionary trends, placing additional
strain
on national budgets and debt/GDP ratios.
And the problem is not just a particular
strain
of violent revolutionary Islam, but Islam itself: “If you want to compare Islam to anything, compare it to communism or national socialism – a totalitarian ideology.”
If this continues, the
strain
on the international monetary system will only intensify.
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