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India’s water supply is stretched to the limit, even as global warming is fast melting the Himalayan glaciers on which millions depend for water.
Given how financially stretched US households are, a good part of this tax rebate may be used to pay down high credit card balances (or other unsecured consumer credit) or to postpone mortgage delinquency.
The Mohamed Ali dynasty’s first six decades in power created an Egyptian empire that stretched from the sources of the Nile in east Africa to the eastern parts of Turkey, including the entire eastern Mediterranean and two-thirds of what is today Saudi Arabia.
The piece was an animal skin stretched and decorated with colored beads, and framed behind glass.
These crises have stretched the EU’s powers and institutions up to – and beyond – their limits, which is why Europe’s response has been so mortifyingly weak.
The US has a particular need for effective international cooperation now, when it is stretched militarily, economically, and politically owing to its policies toward Iraq and Afghanistan.
Emergencies are chaotic: staff and resources are stretched, the local population is very unlikely to be able to provide meaningful feedback, and pre-crisis baseline data are largely unavailable, so comparisons are complicated.
Protracted wars, environmental disasters, and state failure have stretched the international humanitarian-aid system passed its breaking point.
Funding for social programs in both countries is already stretched.
And, at the end of these implausible twists and turns, at the moment of truth in a drama that has stretched to a new limit the “willing suspension of disbelief” that Coleridge believed “constitutes poetic faith,” a young man, practically unknown a year ago, accedes to the presidency of France.
One thing is indisputable: Lee’s influence was many times greater than his actual political authority, which, to his evident chagrin when Singapore and Malaysia split in 1965, never stretched beyond the narrow borders of a small city-state in Southeast Asia.
Indonesia’s friendship with the new Australian government has already been stretched over the issue of turning back boats laden with asylum-seekers.
Afflicted by historically high unemployment, massive under-employment, and relatively stagnant real wages, while burdened with underwater mortgages, excessive debt, and subpar saving, US consumers are stretched as never before.
If he pursues the latter option, a sharp increase in the number of disputes could overwhelm the WTO’s “court,” which is already stretched thin.
Many locals are fishermen or rice farmers, and their resources are stretched from sharing their land, markets, and roads with the massive influx of refugees.
Today, more than 100,000 UN and African Union peacekeepers are stretched across struggling African states.
The monthly leasing cost of the 20-watt panel in question, when stretched over 10 years, can be as little as $1.60.
Yet another reason for the correction is that valuations in stock markets are stretched: price/earnings ratios are now high, while growth in earnings per share is slackening, and will be subject to further negative surprises as growth and inflation remain low.
First, the timing of debt payments will need to be stretched out even further in all countries, so that the panic finally comes to an end.
Indeed, around the world, from Mexico to Indonesia and even China, the social fabric is being stretched to the point of fraying.
But taxing basic foods and household items can have a disproportionate impact on lower-income families, whose limited disposable incomes are already stretched thin, and thus can exacerbate existing inequalities.
The outlook for corporate profits remains weak; the country’s equity supply is growing; and valuations are stretched.
And, as Latin American countries’ currencies weakened, its external and fiscal accounts were stretched thin, narrowing the scope for countercyclical stimulus measures.
Moreover, the reality is that the US is now too stretched economically and militarily to succeed by relying solely on its own resources.
Although the IMF is the closest that the international financial system has to such a lender, in the crises of 1997-98 its resources were stretched to the breaking point.
Worldwide, 330 million low- and moderate-income urban households either live in substandard housing or are so financially stretched by housing payments that they must forgo spending on essentials like health care and education.
In addition, animated by an abiding humanism and faithful to the spirit, as well as the letter, of the UN Charter, Annan stretched the executive authority of the organization through creative interpretations of the Charter and a charismatic personality to secure the adoption of the exciting, but challenging, “Responsibility to Protect” (R2P) principle.
At the same time, the application of risk-management technology, insurance, and finance requires little of stretched foreign-aid budgets: a relatively small number of office workers, cell phones, and computers.
It may be true that the mandate of the IMF, which is supposed to make decisions strictly on objective economic criteria rather than broader political goals, was stretched at times.
If the Muslim world is to become a center of innovation again, it is useful to recall the Islamic “golden age” that stretched from the eighth century well into the fifteenth.
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