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Most striking is European backwardness in high-tech development and innovation.
The differences between Arab and non-Arab Muslim countries are striking.
It is striking, therefore, that the Fed has made no effort to take into account the impact of its policies on emerging economies or the blowback from emerging markets on the US.
And what’s striking today is how remote the disaster of September 11, 2001, now is for most New Yorkers.
Most striking is Turkey’s renewal of relations with Russia without damaging its ties to the newly independent post-Soviet states.
Over the last 50 years, the most striking forms of inequality, including discrimination against women in access to education, health, employment, political participation, and household resources, have been largely reversed.
The anticipated increase in the fiscal deficit is striking: the central plan discussed by Bush’s Council of Economic Advisers would – according to the Council’s own estimates – increase America’s fiscal deficit by $2 trillion over the next decade.
But there are nonetheless striking similarities in the crises that have bedeviled the two African nations.
That view is backed up by the polls’ most striking results: very widespread rejection of inequality based on race, ethnicity, or sex.
The most striking change in the rankings is the rise of major Asian financial centers – and not just Hong Kong and Singapore, but also Shanghai, Beijing, and Shenzhen.
The most striking recent example is the ongoing refugee crisis: Governments in Europe and around the world still don’t fully include business in early-stage thinking about how to manage the flow of asylum-seekers.
The contrast was striking even on Macri’s first day as president-elect.
Striking such a deal will not be easy, though, as it will require Tsipras not only to overcome the resistance of radical Syriza members of parliament, but also the defiant stance of his country’s creditors.
Two features of the post-war economic recovery are striking.
Today’s global economy bears striking similarities to the immediate post-war period: high unemployment, high and rising debt levels, and a global shortage of aggregate demand are constraining growth and generating deflationary pressures.
The Internet has created a world in which strict logic is less important than the juxtaposition of striking images.
The courts have not bowed to Trump, most notably by striking down his executive order banning entry to the US by people from seven Muslim-majority countries.
With respect to the economy’s performance, the parallels between today and the Reagan era are striking.
Striking a balance between the conflicting imperatives of transparency and privacy will never be easy, especially when the political landscape is tilting toward ever-greater accountability.
Indeed, a striking feature of Latin America is that very little redistribution currently takes place.
The most striking aspect of Italy’s recent turmoil is what has not happened: citizens have not poured into the streets demanding reform.
Working in Kim Jong-un’s favor is his striking resemblance to his grandfather, Kim Il-song, who, strangely, held a certain charisma for North Koreans.
It was striking to see how often the most prosperous-looking representatives came from the world’s poorest countries.
In a globalized financial system, striking the right balance between home and host country jurisdiction, and between national and supranational oversight, is crucial.
The results are striking: in large cities, people not only walk faster (a tendency recorded since the 1960s), but they also make – and change – friends faster.
And a striking new voice has joined the fray – Kara Stein, a commissioner at the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).
But the author of the 1987 bestseller The Art of the Deal would surely agree that sound preparation is the essence of striking a good bargain.
Striking the frontrunner from the ballot for relatively minor misdeeds relating to a highly politicized case is an excessive and dubious maneuver that is likely to disappoint and even enrage the millions of Brazilians who still venerate Lula.
FLORENCE: Faced with an embarrassing strike by Air France pilots during the World Cup, the French government purchased labor peace by, among other things, offering striking pilots a big ownership stake in their company.
They prevent disease from striking, which is better than treating it after the fact.
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