Succumb
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They may
succumb
to “group think.”
Europe and the world cannot afford to allow dynamic France to
succumb
to static France, the France that resists all change.
It is difficult to predict how Tymoshenko’s case will play out – whether Yanukovych will
succumb
to pressure from the European Union and the United States to release her, or to the forces that want to exclude her from politics forever.
Xi and his advisers should not
succumb
to the illusory belief that such a conflict would boost their standing with the Chinese public.
Davos man is not ready to
succumb.
India has never seemed likely to
succumb
to a similar tendency, but the irresponsible custodians of Indian democracy should not tempt fate.
But this rebalancing, too, has not happened sufficiently, and if the advanced economies
succumb
to recession, nobody will escape.
As the pressure on Irish regulators to relax lending rules intensifies, so do concerns that they will
succumb
to it.
Some pundits now worry that America is about to
succumb
to the “British disease.”
Conversely, the Western Roman Empire did not
succumb
to another state, but instead to internal decay and swarms of barbarians.
From the late 1980’s until 2000, many observers presented the Party as being on its last legs, certain to
succumb
to the “Leninist extinction” that began with communism’s collapse in Europe.
Indeed, in the early years of the democratic transition that followed, most post-communist voters did not
succumb
to the temptation to elect extremists who promised to end the hard times they were enduring.
Her government must not
succumb
to the temptation to accommodate the extremists in the name of good governance (or in the cause of political survival).
Armenia was the first ex-Soviet state to
succumb
to Putin’s pressure and shun the EU Eastern Partnership.
But the US should not
succumb
to this temptation.
Those who have survived conflict require help if they are not to
succumb
to disease and starvation.
Another that warrants rereading is his 1990 paper "Macroeconomic Populism", which accurately depicts a temptation to which policymakers in Latin America and other countries often used to
succumb.
But the biggest risk is to remain mired in outdated structures and to
succumb
to inertia.
The West must not
succumb
to illusions about redrawing borders or shaping new countries; such efforts will yield only disaster.
Even when rulers rant against policies that will hurt their populist agendas – like high interest rates – they typically
succumb
to pressure from financial markets.
Its robust reports on the death of Zhao Ziyang, the reform-minded leader of the 1980’s who was imprisoned for objecting to the Tiananmen Square crackdown of June 1989, ultimately forced it to
succumb
to the power of the “Golden Shield.”
Europe can either overcome them or
succumb
to them.
In this context, developing countries must not
succumb
to the temptation to try to boost demand through unsustainable means, such as the accumulation of excess debt.
We should not become so enthralled by the explanatory power of the behavioral sciences that we
succumb
to the belief that moral progress is predetermined.
But to
succumb
to it is a mistake.
They should demonstrate to their governments that they will not
succumb
to divisive ideology.
For a day, or sometimes only for a few hours, traders
succumb
to the illusion of stability, fueling a euphoric but ephemeral financial-market rally.
Kicillof’s second point was that Argentina’s businesses and consumers should not
succumb
to pessimism.
While the risk that governments will
succumb
to fiscal temptation remains, citizens’ current suffering is likely to deter future excesses.
Or it could
succumb
to the curse, which would entrench the country’s waste, nepotism, corruption, and inequality.
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