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The EU's smaller countries, in particular, are furious with France over its stubborn refusal to play by the EU's deficit spending rules.
Liberalization of agriculture – long a stubborn holdout in international trade negotiations – is noteworthy.
And yet, as reflected in the stubborn persistence of the pay gap, barriers to women’s progress remain.
It took stubborn insistence to hang in, fight, and make EMU happen.
The BoJ and the BoE are following suit, putting even more pressure on the eurozone, where a stubborn ECB would rather kill any chance of recovery for the PIIGS than do more QE, ostensibly owing to fears of a rise in inflation.
7.Policymakers are more stupid (stubborn) than you think - They persist in their mistakes.
In 1965, when the North Vietnamese were proving to be stubborn enemies, LeMay threatened that they would be “bombed back into the stone age.”
But the stubborn truth revealed by the US diplomat emerges every day, despite the impact of drug kingpins who are arrested, the number of weapons discovered, or the amount of cocaine seized.
The US has taken a similarly stubborn line.
It seems repression does not work; either that or I'm very stubborn."
It was about standing up to the Zionist enemy, the high-tech crusader whose military superiority can be defeated only by stubborn resistance.
Rather, the stubborn complexities of the situation are reduced to a stark struggle between absolute power and absolute powerlessness, the archetypal oppressor and archetypal oppressed.
Economists are a fractious lot, but they are also stubborn investigators, so the controversy prompted new research into the effects of budgetary retrenchments.
Since then, however, a long, stubborn “tail” of infection has persisted, mainly in remote, poor regions and conflict zones.
Woodrow Wilson broke with America’s hemispheric traditions by sending US forces to fight in Europe; but where Wilson made a bigger difference was in the moral tone of American exceptionalism in his justification of – and, counterproductively, his stubborn insistence on – all-or-nothing involvement in the League of Nations.
But neither Khrushchev, nor Mikhail Gorbachev, nor Boris Yeltsin were able to uproot Russia’s stubborn culture of indifference and subordination, precisely because they insisted on top-down change and expected that the Russian people would simply acquiesce en masse.
After all, modern economies are stable and stubborn things.
But they all spring from the same source: an entrenched elite’s stubborn refusal to craft a viable system of governance that recognizes new and rising segments of society and reflects their interests in government policy.
Worse, by maintaining that stubborn position, eurozone negotiators have ensured that the eventual write-offs will be even larger.
Bronek was proud of Poland’s stubborn will to freedom, its achievements, the democratic transformation which, thanks to the compromise reached at the Round Table negotiations, allowed for a bloodless end to dictatorship.
In fact, the agreement, which alleviates much of the economic pressure on the Iranian regime, is a result of Russia’s success in delaying international sanctions against Iran and its stubborn refusal to tighten them further.
But increasing individualism – a focus on one’s own ambitions and economic prosperity – in many countries poses a stubborn obstacle to realizing this vision.
But he has encountered stubborn resistance from key elite groups, who regard his agenda as a threat to their vested interests.
The merits of this “community” approach – which reflects a more Eastern perspective than the backward-induction approach – cannot be overestimated, especially in a highly fraught situation like that with Iran, where the consequences of stubborn silence could be catastrophic.
Welfare-state elites typically get the best doctors, the best concert seats, the best flats in the best neighborhoods, and so on, because of Europe’s stubborn refusal to use prices and the market mechanism to allocate key goods and services.
Yet, from another point of view, dialogue prevails over war and the stubborn defense of what one believes to be his identity, because it brings us closer to the vocation of humanity.
Seldom do they note the disastrous consequences when the Party applies its power in stubborn pursuit of a brutal and destructive objective.
Poor productivity growth and stubborn unemployment are evidence that their economies require comprehensive transformation.
But the stubborn disinflation of the 2010s was unlike the major deflationary episodes that followed the Napoleonic wars and World War I.
They should recognize that a major sticking point in 2000 was Israel’s stubborn refusal to accept responsibility for the refugee problem.
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